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Summer is just around the corner, and we’re making a splash with announcing our 2025 LLD coaching staff! We’re thrilled to welcome new faces and celebrate the return of familiar ones— Head Coaches: Dylan Humbert and Cassidy Wildasin Assistant Coaches: Samantha Bennett, Jackie Cole, Matthew Graminski, Mia Otto and Alex Powers Coaches-In-Training (CITs): Elizabeth English, Sofia Johnston, Suhaas Mandava, Killian Payne and Zara Stephens, Jordan Swann They're all ready to bring energy, enthusiasm, and guidance on all things summer swim to our team/preteam. Whether it's refining strokes, building confidence, or...
Lake Linganore Dolphins Swim Team and our Coaches are largely supported by our volunteer "CITs." These Coaches in Training are crucial to the success, safety and fun our team experiences each summer! Each year, we are looking for the best group of CITs to ensure our swimmers are surrounded by great role models and individuals who exemplify what it means to be a Dolphin. There are often far more applicants then positions available making it a hard decision every season because we have amazing young leaders on our team! We...
Tomorrow morning at 10am, returning families may register their swimmer(s). Any swimmer who was on the team/pre-team last season may click the registration link on our website and complete the registration process. If you have a new swimmer within your family who will be joining LLD this summer, you may also sign them up at this time. Priority is given to our returning families until we open sign ups for new families in a few weeks. While there is no reason to race to your phone or computer (as there...
We're excited to announce Returning Swimmer Registration will open up on Friday March 14th via the Registration link on our website. All families who wish to return as members of LLD should register their returning swimmer(s) (and any new swimmer within their family to be added to swim evaluations) beginning next Friday. There is no mandatory meeting for returning families, however, we encourage any family with questions or in need of a refresher on how swim team operates/what to expect in the summer swim season to plan to attend the...
The Lake Linganore Dolphins 2024 season is in full swing and we are having fun inside and outside of the pool! Please read carefully about our upcoming social events and mark your calendars so that your family can join in and get to know more fellow teammates and families. We pride ourselves on being a "swim family" as the Lake Linganore Dolphins Swim Team focusing on not only swimming techniques, times and personal bests, but also fun and connection outside of our practices and meets. We hope our new and...
Tomorrow is Picture Day for LLD and with that comes a modified practice schedule as well as a lot of swimmers at the pool at the same time. Please be mindful of swimmers and families walking in the parking lot/into the pool house and patient with the process as we work to get every swimmer's photo taken as well as our team photo taken in a timely manner. Picture day volunteers should report to the pool deck at 7:30am and receive instructions from a Board Member. Picture Day Schedule: 7:30am-...
Hi Dolphins, this is a friendly reminder to sign up for volunteer jobs and declare your swimmer this evening. You will need to DECLARE your swimmer for each meet to let the coaches know that they will be swimming in the meet. Directions on how to declare your swimmer can be found here. Coaches are unable to get your swimmer into a meet if they are not declared by the Wednesday morning before each meet at 7:30am. Thank you in advance for declaring your swimmers on time! Volunteer Job Signup-...
Good Afternoon New and Returning LLD Families! First, I want to remind everyone that being a part of our swim team comes with a lot of emails and updates as things go very quickly in our short season. Information comes from many places including: FSSL, our HOA, the lifeguards at the pool, and so on. As many of you saw with the severe weather this week, we can/do have last minute changes to our swim practices. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we get information out to you...
Just a reminder that there is no practice this evening for Lake Linganore Dolphins Swim Team. Evening practice will resume as scheduled tomorrow June 7th. Morning practices for both Team Members and Pre-Team Members will begin on Monday June 10th. 7:30am-8:30am: 13+ 8:30am-9:15am: 10-12 9:15am-10am: 9 and under 10am-10:30am: pre-team All swimmers should report to their assigned swim time unless previously discussed changes are approved by coaches. This is to ensure that these changes do not disrupt the flow of swim practice and/or cause too many swimmers to be in...
We are asking all Returning Dolphin Swimmers and Parents to please check the "Ribbon Bin" for any 2023 ribbons or awards you may have missed picking up at the end of last season. All items inside this bin will be discarded after Friday June 7th so that our Ribbons Lead can prep for our first meet and all swimmers can receive their new ribbons/awards earned beginning the week of June 17th. The bin is located in the lobby of the Oakdale Town Center pool house in the lifeguard cabinets. Please...