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2013 Meet Bid Forms are now available on the Forms / Docs page here. The completed forms are due by March 24, 2012.

The hotel information for the All-Star Meet in Ft. Pierce has been updated. The new flyer can be found on the All-Star Team Page here.

Calling all athlete members! We need your talent and vision! Bring us your original poster designs. The poster must be about safety in the pool (competition or training) or open water (competition or training) or dryland (training), the rest is up to your imagination. The objective of the Safety Poster Contest is to build awareness for safety in the competitive swimming environment. Each Local Swim Committee (LSC) gets to pick its winner. From the LSC winners the Safety Education Committee will pick 10 posters to be displayed at Olympic Trials....

Florida Swimming Coaches, The weekend of April 28, 29, 2012 there will be a “Special Meeting” of the FL House of Delegates (HOD). This meeting will have one topic on the agenda: To Award the 2013 FL Championship Meet Sites. This Special meeting of the FL HOD will immediately follow the scheduled FL Board of Directors (BOD) meeting on that weekend. This will be a face to face meeting and only FL Chartered Clubs present at the meeting site will be allowed to vote. There will be no call ins...

TO: Florida Swimming Clubs: USA Swimming has posted all the documents from the Athlete Protection Training course in the Safe Sport section of the USA-S website, www.usaswimming.org. USA-S has also updated the Educational Resources links with Praesidium’s power point presentation, anti-bullying resources, and prevention and warning signs tip sheets from Stop It Now! The tip sheets are downloadable and particularly good.Please feel free to share the link and the materials with your club members. Thank you Florida Swimming, Inc. http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1960&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US

The lead went back and forth, and in the end the Sarasota YMCA Sharks (SYS) won the 2012 Spring Florida Age Group Championships in a hard fought battle with the Bolles School Sharks (BSS). Finishing 3rd was Tampa Bay Community Aquatics (TBAY). Elise Haan (T2) broke the 13-14 Girls 100 Yard Backstroke Meet Record with a 54.74. Nancy Hu (SYS) broke the Meet Record in the 13-14 Girls 200 Yard Fly with a 2:00.52. Kaitlyn Cronin (GSC) broke the 10 & Under 50 Yard Free Meet Record with a...

The Officials Page has now been moved under the LSC Info tab on the front page menu bar along with the Athlete's Page, and the Coaches Page. We have now added our Vision, and Mission Statement as required by USA Swimming.

The application form for the Florida Zone Team is now posted on the Florida Zone Team Page here. The team will represent Florida Swimming at the Southern Zone Age Group Championships at North Texas.

Coaches, please find attached an updated Events file for the Area 3-5 Meet on March 23-25, 2012 at the Sarasota YMCA pool. The changes to the file were made to allow teams utilizing the Team Unify platform to enter swimmers into the Open age group in the 500FR and the 400IM. Prior to this update, if a team utlizing Team Unify had a swimmer that had a faster time than the standard for one of these events, because of the way Meet Manager format's multi-age events, that swimmer could...

The application has now been posted for the Florida Swimming All-Star Team that will compete in Ft. Pierce, FL against the Florida Gold Coast. The completed application must be turned in at the end of finals on Sunday night at FLAGs. The application can be found on the Event Page here or the All-Star Team Page here.


