WEST Weekly

Dear West Swim Folk,

 

The end of April is approaching and May is almost here and long course season is about to start!

 

McCollum & Practice Schedule Change UPDATE

We just received word that McCollum will NOT be ready to open this Monday (4/24). We are aiming for starting next Monday (5/1) and will update everyone as soon as we know. Next week, Senior Elite will continue to practice at WEST and Senior will continue to practice during the later time slot. Sorry for the confusion.

 

Weight Room Renovations

Thank you for your patience as we continue to make improvements to our facility. We have updated some of our most frequently used equipment and are now working on reorganizing, cleaning and painting. We are excited about the changes and feel good about the increase in safety during dryland.

 

Swim-A-Thon Recap

Thank you to everyone that participated and those that volunteered to help make this year’s Swim-A-Thon event so successful. We had a huge pizza party paid for by USA Swimming on Friday night and a team breakfast put on by the WEST Hospitality team. Kara Lynn Joyce was back in town and got to   connect with many of our swimmers on a more personal level.

 

New Coach & Lessons Manager

As most of you know, we have a new coach that recently joined us. Coach Tim is now the lead coach on the Accelerate group and is also managing the Lessons Program. Please welcome him to the WEST community and click here see his note posted to the news section of the website.

 

New Home Meets @ WEST

We’ve added a couple meets and invited other teams to join. Both will be minimal on the need for volunteers but it will serve as another opportunity to satisfy the volunteer requirement.

 

May 6-7 - Double Header Meet – 13&O Saturday / 12&U Sunday (All Groups)

This is going to be a fun training meet where swimmers are forced to race events back-to-back. The days will be split up by age groups, so swimmers swim either Saturday OR Sunday. 13 & Over swimmers will be on Saturday and 12 & Under swimmers will be on Sunday.

 

May 12 – Friday Night Distance Meet (Select Challenge, Accelerate, Senior & Sr. Elite swimmers)

We will be offering a 1650 and 400 IM. 4pm warm-ups. Click Here for more info.

 

Travel Meets – Responses Needed

We sent out a couple emails regarding travel meets for the summer. If you plan to participate, please see what is needed from you so we can move forward with the planning process.

 

Futures – Qualified Swimmers – I forgot to include this in my earlier email.

Current individual event qualifiers: Nicole Limberg, Kelly Morgan, Elli Straume, Heidi Ly, Megan Black, Jon Cook, Alejandro Flores, Justin Limberg. Current relay qualifiers: Max Fang, Ryan Price, Carter Walles.

 

Summer Team – Registration OPEN

Tell your friends, we are restructuring our Summer Team this year and lowering the price! We are splitting the practice sessions by age groups (13&O @ AM, 12&U @ PM) to try and get more high school swimmers involved. WEST Summer Team is a great way for High School swimmers to gain a competitive advantage through refining stroke mechanics and proper technique instruction. We’ve also added optional Saturday practices for Summer Team!

 

Happy Swimming,

Coach Nick