Hello WEST, Hooray for the summer schedule beginning on this historically hot week! We hope everyone has been able to stay cool at the pool these past couple of days. Read on for important information: July Billing Summaries have been sent out Please check your statements - this includes Colman bus billing. Parent Volunteering hours are still being calculated and will be adjusted accordingly with how many opportunities have been available. For any questions regarding billing, please email Coach Nick directly at [email protected] Lap Swim - Additional Morning Hours Added...

WEST Weekly Hello WEST, Read on for some important information: Senior Invite Meet this weekend! Accelerate will also be swimming with the seniors in Session 1. Please visit the Event page here to learn more, or email Coach Bryan for any questions! Summer Schedule - Starts June 28th (NEXT WEEK) Please review the schedule here. *NOTE: There was a discrepancy for Explore & Embark practices on Friday evenings. The correct time is 6:30 - 8:00pm for both Explore & Embark. (The Excel Spreadsheet was correct) I have edited the News...

Hello WEST, Below are links to our finalized summer schedule. These schedules reflect the same information, just in different ways and should coincide with eachother (which is useful depending who you are withion our organization.) As always, any changes will be announced weekly by WEST Weekly. Summer Schedule Excel Sheet: A weekly visual representation of lane usage. In-Depth Program Overview: Goes over our complete schedule, sorted by program or training group. Notable additions since the last posting are in RED Summer Program Overview: Displays all of our programs and when...

Hello WEST Families, Read on for this week’s news: Practice Changes: As a reminder, there is no swim meet this weekend. Below is the practice schedule: Senior: 7:30 - 10:30am Lake Swims for Accelerate & Challenge: Any Accelerate or Challenge swimmer with a wetsuit that would like to do an open water practice - we will meet at Martha Lake swimming dock (near the public beach) this Saturday June 19, 9:30 - 11:00am. Please sign up prior to Saturday by clicking here. Swimmers MUST have a wetsuit. We do have...

We are excited to announce this year's Colman Bus schedule. Long Course training is vital as w e do much of our year-over-year endurance building during the summer, taking advantage of the time when swimmers are out of school. We find that swimmers tend to progress considerably following summer training and as a program we work hard to maintain Long Course opportunities for our swimmers. Our team prioritizes Long Course training because it is something that not many teams have access to and it gives our swimmers a distinct competitive...

Hello WEST Families, June is speeding up as we head into our summer season. I know many families may be sending inquiries into WEST - we appreciate the patience as we handle the high volume of emails regarding summer! - please read the following announcements carefully: Senior Meet THIS WEEKEND Volunteer sign ups are open. With the addition of Accelerate, Challenge, and Disco swimmers, meet timeline is currently being assessed. Contact Coach Bryan at [email protected] for any questions. Age Group Meet Next Weekend: CANCELLED Coach Nick sent out an email...

Our planned meet for June 19-20th is struggling to find enough officials and unfortunately we must cancel it. Being Father's Day we expect some scheduling conflicts but the real problem is we don't have enough new officials coming up. We continue to rely heavily on officials who no longer have swimmers in the program and its understandable scheduling conflicts are more common. If we do not get more officials trained, we will lose out on meet opportunities for our swimmers. We need people to commit to becoming officials when the...

Hello WEST Families, I hope everyone has been enjoying the warm weather recently! We have a lot going on around the pool so read on to stay up to date with all our information! Olympian Clinic with Ella Eastin We are incredibly excited to have Ella Eastin in person with our team swimmers this weekend! Here is the breakdown of practices this weekend with the clinic times in blue. PreComp, SwimFit & Swim Lessons will continue to meet at their regular times. Friday, June 4 Accelerate: 3:30pm - 5:00 Challenge...

Interested in giving your swimmer the swim team experience this summer? Summer team is a fun way to get group lesson swimmers excited to join Pre-Comp, SwimFit, & other training groups at WEST and our local area! It’s also great for high schoolers who are interested in training through the off season! This year, swimmers will learn proper stroke technique consistent with our year round club team, which ranked 58th in ASCA’s Top 100 Age Group Programs in the country in 2020! Summer Team is a great introduction to competitive...

WEST Families, We wanted to touch base with all our swim families regarding some commonly asked questions in hopes to help answer many of them. Please read below and let us know if you have further questions - we’re happy to help! Importance of Long Course training at Colman Pool The summer season is short but can be the most crucial to year-over-year training. Swimming is one of the most demanding sports and developing into a high caliber athlete takes upwards of a decade. Long course training, specifically at Colman...