Swimming with MESA Swim Team
Have a question about joining MESA Swim Team? Email our Registrar!
MESA is a Summer Swim Team - our season runs from late May to late July. MESA swims in the Boulder Valley Summer Swim League (BVSSL). Our team consists of 140+ swimmers from 90+ families. Practices are weekday evenings. We have swim meets on Saturday mornings in June and July. Special meets also occur through the season and there is a League Championships to wrap up the season.
Main Team Requirements
The “Main Team” is the official swim team, where swimmers compete at BVSSL meets within their age groups. To swim on the main swim team, swimmers must be able to swim front crawl with rotary breathing and swim backstroke and breaststroke for 50 yards each, and have a basic knowledge of butterfly.
We have limited spots in each age group as we have limited pool space for practices. Thus, we ask that if you register for the team and take a spot on the roster, your swimmer attends at least 3 practices/week (out of 5 available practices/week) and a minimum of 3 meets/season (out of 7 available meets/season).
This is a self-enforced policy, but we are a small community and appreciate families and swimmers' positive contributions.
Main Team Training Plan
The summer swim season is short! In just 10 weeks we have a lot to get done – so get your swimmers to practice and let the coaches do their jobs!
- Weeks 1-3 – Good Habits and Strength
- Stroke technique
- Starts & Turns
- Conditioning
- Weeks 3-8 – Endurance vs. Speed
- Focused conditioning
- Personalized stroke technique and tune-up
- Practice different race strategies
- Weeks 9-10 – Putting it all together
- Decide / Practice race strategy
- Fine-tune technique
