Meet Information: 2024 MSL Dual Meet Season Week Four Marinwood Waterdevils at Strawberry Seals (Tam High Pool) Saturday, May 18, 2024 I am extremely excited for our first home meet of the 2024 Marin Swim League dual meet season. After three meets on the road, the Seals will be hosting weeks four through seven. During our home stand the Seals will face four strong teams, giving our swimmers great opportunities to achieve many best times. Every best time is significant because it represents an individual swimmer achieving a higher level...

Meet Information: 2024 MSL Dual Meet Season Week Three Strawberry Seals @ Novato Riptide – Saturday, May 11, 2024 For week three of the Marin Swim League dual meet season, the Seals will visit the Novato Riptide. The meet venue will be the Miwok Aquatic Center, a state-of-the-art competition pool that was completed in 2022. It is one of the best competition pools in the Bay Area so this meet will be an excellent opportunity to create new best times. It will also be the venue for the Marin Swim...

Seals Families! Do you like music? Free stuff? PIZZA?! Well, we do, and we bet your kids do, too, so it is time to GET PSYCHED UP for our Lap-a-Thon NEXT WEEK, Wednesday, May 15, 4-6pm! Note that this is during our regular afternoon practices, so there will be NO practice (note also that we did not lump in the “no practice” teaser at the top up there with the pizza, but we were not born yesterday, and yes, that could be a draw for your swimmers too)! Anyway, our...

Meet Information: MSL Dual Meet Season Week Two Strawberry Seals @ Terra Linda Orcas – Saturday, May 04, 2024 Tomorrow the Seals will travel to sunny Terra Linda to compete with our friends, the Terra Linda Orcas. The Orcas have a fantastic eight lane pool with overflow gutters which make the water smooth and fast to swim in. It will be a very exciting meet as the Seals and Orcas are well-matched. When there is parity in competition, the more motivated team prevails. To compete with a very strong ORCA...

Dear Seals Families: Week one of the 2024 Marin Swim League (MSL) dual meet season begins tomorrow. The Seals will be visiting the Lightning at the Lucas Valley Homeowners Association Pool, an excellent six lane pool nestled between the beautiful hills of Lucas Valley. This will be our first of seven dual meets. Each dual meet is an opportunity for swimmers to hone their racing skills in preparation for our most important meet, the Marin Swim League Championships (June 29, 2024). There are 185 swimmers entered in this meet so...

Dear Seals Families: The 2024 Marin Swim League (MSL) meet season will begin tomorrow with our intra-team Time Trials meet. After this weekend we will have meets every Saturday until our Championship meet at the end of June (No Meet Memorial Day Weekend). Every meet we swim will be with the goal to prepare our swimmers for June 29, 2024, the day of our Marin Swim League Championship. Time Trials will serve two main functions for our swimmers. It will provide a low stress environment for new members to experience...

2024 Strawberry Seals Time Trials Meet - April 20, 2024 - Tamalpais High School On Saturday, the Marin Swim League (MSL) competition season will kick off with the Time Trials weekend. The Time Trials will be an intra-team meet with only the Seals in attendance. This meet serves two main functions for our swimmers. It is a low stress environment for new members to experience their first swim meet and an opportunity for all our swimmers to establish baseline times for the season. For many of our swimmers this will...

Strawberry Seals Fundamentals Technique Clinic “Fundamentals of Race Dives” This clinic is for beginner and intermediate level swimmers interested in learning the fundamentals of race dives. Swimmers do not need to know how to dive to participate in this clinic. We be using USA Swimming Race Start Diving Certification protocol and swimmers will receive a dive level certification. As swimmers move through the five levels we will update their certification. Any swimmer acheiving a level one certification (Seated Dive) will be ready to dive at that level in competition. Levels...

Dear Seals Families: On behalf of the Strawberry Seals coaching staff, I want to thank you for joining the Seals for our 2024 Marin Swim League (MSL) season. This year the Marin Swim League season will be 18 weeks, starting Monday, February 26, 2024, with our first practice of the season, and culminating on June 29, 2024, at the Marin Swim League Championship meet. Our goal is to see every swimmer on our team build confidence by learning and refining competitive swimming skills through the process of deliberate practice. Another...

SAN RAMON VALLEY AQUATICS PACIFIC SWIMMING SHORT COURSE C/B/BB+ MEET Dates February 17-18, 2024 Location Dougherty Valley Aquatic Center, 10550 Albion Rd, San Ramon, CA 94582 (Dougherty Valley High School) Team Warmup Time 8:00 AM (8 and Unders warmup 8:45 - 8:55 AM) Team Meeting 8:40 AM Job Signup Deadline February 16, 2024 Meet Information Meet Sheet This weekend our team will be attending a Zone 2 meet in San Ramon for our eighth meet of the 2023-24 USA Swimming competition year. This is the first time our team will...