End of Season Announcement
The end of the 2020-21 Season is here and summer is flying by. We appreciate everyone’s support and cooperation as we navigated the challenges of the past year. Our team is very fortunate to be able to withstand such hardships, especially with the added responsibility of owning our facility. We appreciate all the families that stuck through last minute changes and communication failures as circumstances were changing rapidly. We feel our team is now stronger internally than we were before the pandemic and we are optimistic about the upcoming season and years to come.
We want to recognize that after training straight through 13 months, we all are due for a break. We encourage everyone to spend time with loved ones during these next few weeks, stay active and get recharged.
Billing Reminders
As a reminder, the club team bills 11 months out of the year, collecting no training fees in August. Accounts have been billed for meet entries, unfulfilled volunteer hours and any past due balances, so please check your accounts. We will open registration soon for next year and all outstanding balances must be taken care of. Please double check your account and reach out to Coach Nick with any questions or issues.
2021-22 Season Start Dates:
Senior Groups: Aug 23rd
Challenge & Accelerate: Aug 30th
Discover, Embark, Explore: Sept 7th
Lessons, Precomp, SwimFit: Sept 7th
Changes for next year:
Fees: we will be adjusting Team Training Fees to stay current with increased costs of doing business and to reflect practice time changes.
Meets: with many PNS pools continuing to be unavailable, meets are going to be set up by individual teams. We are working closely with other teams to find new and different opportunities for our swimmers. We anticipate more meets being offered as more pools become available again. We are also looking into more travel opportunities and hope to include a greater number of kids.
Practice Time Changes:
Senior Group: will be moving from late evenings to early mornings with a separate dryland double practice. There will be two double in water practices per week on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Senior Elite: swimmers will be assigned to morning double practices either Mon, Wed, Fri or Tues, Thurs, Fri. Afternoon practices will include dryland and in-water; and will be shortened by 30min to end at 6pm.
These changes will more effectively use our water time and allow Senior and Senior Elite to train together more frequently. Which, in turn, will lead to more consistency and a smoother progression between groups. All other practice groups will return to their historic evening times. There are some minor adjustments where we tried to increase time and improve the overall progression through the program. Full schedule details will be released when we send Registration information.
Coach Changes: we are excited to announce the hiring of a new Head Age Group Coach. Carlene Takaki will be joining us in the fall and comes to us from Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics. Click here to read the News article from when we announced her hire. Coach Carlene will be directly coaching the Accelerate Group and Coach Tim will be directly coaching Discover Group. Tim has moved into our General Manager role and will continue to work closely with Nick on day-to-day operations of the organization. We are also excited to announce the hiring of Andrew Winquist who joins us from Marysville Marlins. He will be coaching the Challenge Group and helping manage our Lessons Program.
We are very excited to get back to more “normal” operations with a strong team of coaches leading us forward. Please enjoy your break and keep a lookout for when we open registration for the 2021-22 Season.
Go WEST!
