100 Percent Swim

Hey Gator Families. If you have a 12 and older swimmer that is looking to swim but doesn’t want to join a year-round club, we have an alternative for you. Please read below….

100 Percent swimming was created as an alternative to a full commitment and higher costs that comes with some club swimming. We will practice 3 days a week at the Green Mountain Rec Center on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Practice will start on Monday Sept 8 and go through the last week of October. The purpose of this is to keep swimmers in shape and focus on technique over typical non-swimming months. The design is a no nonsense practice with no commitment to weekends. There are no expectations of practices you need to make, but hopefully you make the commitment to make a majority of the practices. There will not ever be more than 5 swimmers per lane which means that this will be capped at the first 20 swimmers on a first come first serve basis so if you are interested please contact me soon. Cost is 250 covers 24 practices with coaching.

Practice starting on Monday Sept 8th – Thursday Oct 30th. Times are TBD but it looks like it could be from 4 – 5.
Strong swimmers age 12 and up with the expectation that a swimmer is comfortable with swimming roughly 1600 meters in one hour.
Swimmers must have swim experience. We will practice technique, but this is not a learn to swim setting
Knowing all strokes is a benefit, but not required
The cost includes facility rental, coaches pay and insurance. 250 dollars is a non refundable fee regardless of how many practices you can make per week

Coaches – Tim Campbell, Ryan Adams and Jim Murphy

Please feel free to contact me or coach Adams with any questions tbcampbe@jeffcoschools.us or rjadams@jeffcoschools.us

Movie Night – Survey

Our final team event will be a team movie night on Wednesday 7/30 from 8:30pm – 10:15pm-ish for team movie night. This is a non-swimming event and is for our swim team only + siblings and/or parents. Swimmers are encouraged to bring blankets and pillows for a cozy night. – Please do not show up before 8:15pm. The lifeguards need time to clear the grounds and pick up before we head in. – Parents are welcome to stay or drop off and return around 10:00pm.

Want to help choose the movie! Click here for the survey: https://forms.gle/hxFCePwS2TQJTsbN8

Team Banquet + State Meet

Week of 7/21 (as we wind down and also ramp up!) Congrats to our League Swimmers! Our team placed 2nd this year right behind Applewood Knolls.

Summary:
Monday: State Meet Practice Times (see below)
Wednesday: Team Banquet @ 5:30pm
Fri-Sun: State Meet

Details:
State practice this week:
7:00-8:00 am: 13 and older
8:00-9:00am: 12 and under

Banquet: – Wednesday 5/23 @ 5:30pm: We have our end of the season Team Banquet on Wednesday night (rain or shine). This is a wonderful time to honor all our swimmers and reward them for their hard work this season. We will have awards, certificates, ribbons, trophies, medals and more! The team will provide pizza and water/lemonade. Each family should bring a dish to share….
Last Names A-L: side dish / Last Names M-Z: Dessert.
The coaches will be dressed to impress and many of the swimmers like to dress up too. For everyone else, flip flops and t-shirts are excellent choices. Please bring your potluck item and a chair, then sit back and enjoy. This is a non-swimming event.

If you cannot make the banquet, stop by the Guard Shack at the pool to look through the Swimmer File box. It will be updated with any awards your swimmer might have won, ribbons from previous meets, an individual times report for the season and whatever else might come up.

State Meet:
The side bar has been updated with information. Please check the blog this week for updates on warm-up times, parking information, team tent area, etc. We will get it out to you as soon as we have it. Our team is responsible for the Heating Shed and the Boyz can’t do it alone. We will not have any timing shifts, only Heating shifts. Please volunteer here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090D4DABAC28A1FF2-57603523-state#/

League Week!

What a great end to our regular home season at Golden on Saturday. We especially love the Gary the Gator made an appearance! For those of you that are not swimming at League, we look forward to seeing you at the Team Banquet on 7/23. (details below for your calendars)…

League Updates:
Friday 400s @ Stingrays
open warm up at 5:30pm / start @ 6pm

Saturday @ Wheatridge Anderson Pool
warm up – lower division – 6:15am @ Anderson Pool
warm up- upper division – 6:00am @ GMSC 
meet start – 7:15am

Volunteer Sign up- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090D4DABAC28A1FF2-57535212-league#/

Order of Events – please note that the order of events is slightly altered for League. Everything stays in its normal order, except the Free Relays are moved to the end of the meet. 

Parking – there is a map on the side bar, but street parking is your best option (please be mindful of houses and no parking signs)

Team Tent- We will be tight with other teams and have a very specific area in which are team can set up. Please do not wander to another location because it looks better. You will be encroaching on other teams, who also have limited space. You’re stuck with us for the day. We will have two team tents for kids/parents and will be happy to make a tent village within the capacity of our space. Please share all space/tents with our gator families. 

League Caps: Your swimmer will be given their League Cap at the meet on Friday or Saturday. Please have them check in with the coaches upon their arrival. Please note: league caps are given to swimmers who both qualify for League AND swim at the event. All swimmers must wear the team cap during the meet. This is a League rule.

— Team Banquet Info —
Our Team Banquet will be at the pool on Wednesday 7/23. This is a non-swimming event and the pool will be closed for us. The team will provide pizza and lemonade and all families will bring a potluck item to share. This is a really fun event that honors all of the swimmers achievements over the summer and we hope your family can join us.

Last Chance Meet

Your swimmer might have the option to swim in the Last Chance Meet on Sunday. This meet is only for swimmers that have “B” times and are trying one last time to qualify for League. Note: Swimmers are not allowed to use this meet to better their League or State times.

Please talk to your Coach on Saturday at our Golden meet if your swimmer wants to swim at the Last Chance Meet.

Sunday 7/13 @ AKST
11520 W 32nd Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
warm up: 6:40am
start: 7:10am