Are you looking to renew your membership at the Green Mountain Swim Club next year? If you are, don't miss out on the opportunity to save $50 and renew at a rate of $425 if you pay in full by January 2, 2018. Refer to the attached membership letter and 2018 membership application for more details.
The Holiday season is upon us. The weather is starting to change and it will be Christmas before you know it. There are 49 days until Christmas. I am here to help provide you with great gift ideas. If you purchase a gift for your swimmer through Swim Outlet you are getting them something they will love and can use all year long. You will give it to them in December and they will love it and will continue to love it again in the summer when they can wear it around the pool.
Visit the Gator Store on Swimoutlet.com to view some amazing apparel and accessories
This is a reminder that our Sunday indoor clinics will begin this Sunday. If you haven't signed up yet it isn't too late. Please sign-up here.
All clinics will be held at the Green Mountain Rec Center
All swimmers will practice from 5:00-6:00pm
We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!
Hello swimmer families,
I just wanted to remind you of opportunities for your swimmer to continue to swim outside of the summer season. The Green Mountain Gators host a Sunday night swim clinic at Green Mountain Rec Center. This is a 10 week session that will help swimmer stay in the water and work on stroke technique. Please click here to register for this. Visit the Gator Blog for the clinic dates and times.
We were also informed about another opportunity for kids in 8th-12th Grade. Please see the details below. Please email or call Tim with any questions regarding this program.
Does your swimmers want to be back in the water? Do they need a little extra help with stroke technique? Do you know of a kid that would like to join swim team? Well the Gators are here to help with all of the above. We will be starting our indoor fall swim clinic at the end of September. These clinics will run for 10 weeks and will work with swimmers to help them develop and/or strengthen their strokes. Register your swimmer here
Lost and Found
We have accumulated a few items over the summer that belong to swim teams kids and/or families. If you can claim any of these items please comment below or send an email to gmstgators@aol.com and we will coordinate a time to get these back to you.
Thank you again for a wonderful summer!
Are you wondering what to do this weekend? Trying to find a fun way to end summer? Sign-up to camp out at the pool. This Saturday night the Green Mountain Swim Club will be hosting their 3rd annual camp out. You will need to sign-up to participate for a night under the stars, late swim and family fun! Please visit the Green Mountain Swim Club website for additional information.
Camp Out sign-up
We hope you all have had a great start to the new school year. Please watch for the indoor Fall swim clinic date and registration to be posted soon.
It is always bittersweet when swim team ends. The summer swim season is amazing and seems to go by so quickly, as these 2 months are very busy. Then comes the end of the season when summer finally starts and things slow down a little (just in time for school to start). Thank you to the parents and swimmers for a wonderful 2017 summer swim team season.
If you didn't pick up all the contents from your swimmer files these will be at the pool in the lifeguard office during normal business hours. If you need to make other arrangements to get these please email and we will coordinate something.
We would also like to share a few events happening the remainder of the summer:
Well Mother Nature is now following our normal Wednesday summer swimming weather pattern and is planning on raining tonight. (I guess we should be fortunate that the weather has been great up until recently).
But don't worry, we are still going to have the banquet tonight. It might be a little wet and a little chilly so plan accordingly. If your family has a pop-up tent please bring this to help provide shelter from the rain. Bring umbrellas if you need and we will see tonight to end our swim season.
I am hoping by sticking to our original plan and having the necessary items we will be blessed with a few hours of no rain (keep your fingers crossed).
See all of you at the pool tonight at 5:30pm.
If you ordered swim team pictures this year I will have these at the banquet on Wednesday. Please come find me and I will make sure you get these. They turned out great. If you didn't order pictures you still have an opportunity to order the team picture and/or age group pictures online. I am sure once you see these you will need to get one :) (If you order online these will be sent to your house)
Link to purchase team/age group pictures
Please let me know if you have any questions about this.
It has come to that time of the swim season that we get all swimmers together to recognize them for an amazing season and share our thank you's. We would like to invite all the swimmers and their families to our end of season banquet. This banquet will be at Green Mountain Swim Club and this event will begin at 5:30pm. The Green Mountain Swim Team will provide pizza and water/lemonade. We are asking families to bring a side dish and/or dessert based on Last Name to share in our potluck style dinner.
If your last name begins with A-L you are asked to bring a dessert to share
If your last name begins with M-Z you are asked to bring a side dish to share
We look forward to seeing our swimmer families on Wednesday!
Practice this week will only be for swimmers who will be swimming at the State Meet this weekend.
Practice times have CHANGED:
Upper division (13&up) practice from 7:00am-8:00am
Lower division (12&under) practice from 8:00-9:00am
Good luck and swim fast this weekend!
What an amazing weekend for the Gators! The Green Mountain Gators placed 2nd at the 2017 League Meet. We are looking forward to our end of season banquet and the State Meet.
Here is the schedule for this week:
Practice this week is only for swimmers swimming an event in the State Swim Meet this weekend.
Practice times have been changed for these swimmers:
13&up practice 7:00-8:00am
12&unders practice 8:00-9:00am
Wednesday, July 26th: End of season banquet at 5:30pm at GMSC
Another post will be coming about information about the banquet
Friday, July 28th-July 30th: State Swim Meet at Splash (3151 Illinois St.)
Friday: 400s (meet starts at 3:00pm)
Saturday: Lower division, 12&unders (meet starts at 9:00am)
Sunday: Upper division, 13&up (meet starts at 9:00am)
We hope to see you all Wednesday.
Upper division swimmers (14 and up): practice time change for Friday morning. Swimmers will begin practice at 7:00 tomorrow on Friday 7/21. Enjoy your additional 30 minutes of sleep.
This post is for parents of League swimmers
If your swimmer is swimming at League we need you to volunteer. The parent volunteer sign-up needs to be filled. Thank you if you have already signed up. Please continue to check back as parents may need to sign-up more than one volunteer opportunity.
The Data Verification and Card Running responsibilities are essential (and easy).
Attention swimmers swimming the 400 at League:
Practice on Friday will be at 9:15am (not 6:30am) if you are swimming the 400
We wish you the best of luck on Friday night!
It is hard to think that we are almost done with swimmer of the week as we will be done swimming soon. We have amazing kids on our team!
Here is a reminder that we will have our swim team movie night tomorrow. We will be watching Moana. Parents please drop your swimmers off at the pool around 8:00pm and pick them up by 10:00pm. There will be popcorn and water available for all the kids and they are welcome to bring their own snacks if they want as well. They are encouraged to bring something to sit on (blanket/sleeping bag/chair) as we will be sitting in the grass.
Note: no swimming allowed tomorrow night and this event is for swimmer only
It is crazy to think that 56 days ago we started swim practice for the summer swim season. It is sad to think that some of our Gators are done swimming for season. We have had a great season and many kids made huge accomplishments. These accomplishments include kids swimming on a team and in a meet for the first time, meeting a new friend, swimming a new stroke, being a big/little buddy and getting qualified for the League or State meet (these are just a few examples). Great job Gators!
The schedule this week will be as follows:
Practice this week will only be for swimmers who are swimming in the League meet this weekend.
There will be no upper division night practice this week
If swimmers are needed for relays in the League meet they will be contacted on Monday and can begin attending practice on Tuesday. Thanks in advance to any swimmer who participate in relays as the team appreciates your support.
We hope all swimmers will attend movie night on Wednesday, July 19th. We will be watching Moana on the grass at the pool. The movie will begin a little after 8:00pm and kids will need to be picked up by 10:00pm. This is a drop off event so parents don't need to stay. There will be popcorn and light snacks available and water will also be served. Kids are welcome to bring additional food and/or blankets, sleeping bags or pillows. This event is for swim team kids only and there will be no swimming during this time.
League meet is this weekend. Good luck to all the swimmers swimming at this meet! Parents please see the sign-up genius to volunteer to help at this meet.
Please continue to check the blog/Facebook as there will be information soon about the end of season banquet on July 26th
We have made the decision (with the support and cooperation of the swim club) to move the Intrasquad meet to tomorrow night. We weren't positive on what the weather was going to do so we played it safe and changed our plans. We hope that everyone can still make this meet tomorrow.
We are really hoping the weather will cooperate with us tonight. We are just asking for a few hours of nice weather between the hours of 5:00pm and 8:00pm (that doesn't seem like a lot :)). Please watch the blog and/or Facebook for updates. We will post any changes (cancellations or later start time) as soon as a decision is made. Hope to see you all tonight and do a little rain dance for the Gators!
Attention upper division swimmers and parents
Night practice is canceled tonight due to weather. Let's hope Mother Nature gets it all out tonight so we can have good weather tomorrow for the Intrasquad.
We are excited to announce the swimmers of the week.
Male Swimmer of the week: Jakey Skimel
Jakey qualified for league in his 100 freestyle this past weekend. It was the first time Jakey has swam the race this season. In practice, he is one of the most focused swimmers on the team. He is always eager to start on the next part of the set and gives it his all each time. He is also very good at finding any mistakes in the sets for the day, providing both humor and relief for the coaches. Jakey is a great example in our 8 and under group and we look forward to seeing him continue to improve the rest of the season. Good job Jakey!
Female swimmer of the week: Jensen Wehri
This past weekend Jensen qualified for league in her 50 breaststroke! Jensen has been targeting the league qualification time in the 50 breaststroke all summer. Her constant effort in practices and her ability to stay focused and committed is clear everyday. She continues to demonstrate the attitude and sportsmanship we look for in all Gator swimmers. We're very excited to see Jensen compete at league. Great job Jensen!
On Sunday our swim team will host the Last Chance meet. The Last Chance meet means just what its name says....this is the swimmers last chance to get qualified for League. If a swimmer is within a few seconds of qualifying for League and they want to try to get qualified they can swim in this meet. If swimmers want to swim in this meet please click here to sign-up. Swimmers must sign-up by Saturday at 5:00pm.
This week the coaches will begin getting swimmers signed up for the League meet if they qualified. Here is a list of swimmers who have qualified for League (as of July 8th). Swimmers still have a chance to qualify on Wednesday at the Intrasquad, Saturday at our meet against WheatRidge and also on Sunday at Last Chance.
This week will be the last week for regular morning practice and night practice.
Monday-Friday: regular morning swim practice
Wednesday: Intrasquad meet (warm-ups at 5:00pm and meet starts at 5:30pm). Parents please sign-up to volunteer. Swimmers will sign-up at the pool by the end of practice on Wednesday. They can swim 2 events (or 3 if they are trying to qualify for League/State). This night will end with our coaches relays.
Tuesday and Thursday night 8:00-9:00pm: night practice for upper division (and parents). This will be the last week for these practices. Please let Porter know if you plan on attending.
Tuesday and Wednesday stroke clinic 9:45-10:15am: freestyle and backstroke clinics for swimmers who have already signed-up
Saturday: meet vs WheatRidge (warm-ups at 6:00am and meet starts at 7:00am). Swimmers will need to sign-up for this meet by the end of practice on Thursday. Swimmers will sign-up for 3 individual events and indicate if they can participate in relays. Parents need to sign-up to volunteer.
Sunday: Last Chance meet at GMSC (warm-ups at 6:00am and meet starts at 7:00am). More information about this meet to be posted.
The 2017 State swim meet will be hosted by our Foothills Swimming Association. This meet will be held at Splash in Golden. We would like to support any family or local businesses by encouraging them to advertise in the State meet program. If you are a swim team family and have or know a local business that would like to advertise please complete the following form.
Thank you for your support in this meet
It is sad to think that we will be swimming our last Intrasquad meet of the season on Wednesday, July 12th. This meet will begin at 5:30pm with warm-ups starting at 5:00pm. Swimmers can sign-up for 2 individual events (or 3 if they are trying to qualify for League and/or State).
You won't want to miss this night. Swimmers will be swimming fast, parents will be helping time, pizza will be served and coaches will be swimming. Everyone is going to want to stay until the end of the meet to witness our coaches swim. The Gator coaches will swim in a medley relay against swimmers in each age group (as well as parents). We will put together relays that night but parents please come prepared to participate.
Please let me know if you have any questions. We will plan to see you all on this fun entertainment filled evening.
This Saturday will be the Gators last away meet for the season (that is hard to believe). If your swimmer is swimming in this meet they need to sign-up today. If they didn't sign-up at the pool today during practice please send an email to gmstgators@aol.com. This applies to swimmers who were on vacation this week but will be at the meet on Saturday. Please include in this email the three individual events they want to swim and also if they can participate in relays.
Parents we need your help timing. There are still slots available so please click here to sign-up. If your swimmer is swimming the IM we need you to sign-up for third shift timing. Thank you in advance for your help.
We hope you all enjoyed your swim free weekend. Here is what this week looks like.
No morning practice Monday or Tuesday
Regular morning practice Wednesday-Friday
Wednesday, July 5th: Starts/Turns stroke clinic 9:45-10:15 (swimmers must already be signed-up to attend this clinic)
Thursday, July 6th: Evening practice 8:00-9:00pm for upper division and parents. Please don't forget to let Porter know if you will be there.
Saturday, July 8th: GMST vs Applewood Knolls (meet starts at 7:00am and warm-ups begin at 6:30am). Swimmers need to sign-up for their events at the pool by the end of practice on Thursday. Parents please see the volunteer sign-up to help out during this meet. Many families are still on vacation so we need your help.
Thank you and have a wonderful July 4th!
Happy July 4th to all of our swimmer families! Please note there will be NO swim practice on Monday, July 3rd or Tuesday, July 4th. (This includes morning and night practice.)
Fridays practice wasn't highly attended and we heard a lot of swimmer having weekend plans. We anticipate the number of swimmers to be light on Monday so we have decided to cancel practice.
We hope all families have a great holiday weekend! We will see you all Wednesday morning.
I am publishing a revised swim buddy list as there were a few adds. Please let me know if you have any questions about this. Thanks for all the swimmers for supporting each other. Don't forget to check your swimmer files as I have seen some notes in there. (Highlighted names have changed)
| Male Swim Buddies | |
| Little Buddy | Big Buddy |
| Jack Donati | Alex Granquist |
| Conor Sharpe | Nathan Whittenburg |
| Jonas Belcher | Kaden Fuller |
| Nick Langan | Brett Edwards |
| Jake Swanson | Ben Hofstra |
| Charles Wahlberg | Isaac Perez-Williams |
| Jakey Skimel | Jaimen Whittenburg |
| Elias Hutchison | Marc Felton |
| Owen Berg | Spencer Coffey |
| Everett Tompkins | Jackson Voss |
| Dominic Anderson | Evan Neuroth |
| Kai Langan | Connor Brauch |
| Michael Skimel | Harry Wahleberg |
| David Neuroth | Mason Friedrichs |
| Ben Swanson | Ethan Ballard |
| Sonny Donati | John Neuroth |
| Justin Collins | Beck Nicholson |
| Patrick Davis | Eli Sammon |
| Noah Slowey | Carder Berridge |
| Female Swim Buddies | |
| Little Buddy | Big Buddy |
| Teagan Fuller | Anastasia Davis |
| Lucy Bell | Katy Haerbig |
| Whitney Price | Lucielle Wright |
| Lexi Ballard and Charlize Smith | Kati Livingood |
| Delaney Lucero | Opal Perez-Williams |
| Anisa Valdez | Alex Gibbons |
| Lily Strong | Lexi Merrill |
| Leah Felton | Kayli Langan |
| McKinley Longley | Elisa Pickett |
| Norah Belcher | Kylie Knutson |
| Sophia Coffey | Taryn McGraw |
| Scarlett Baker | Rachel Warren |
| Alex Strong | Madison Merrill |
| Taetum Fuller | Lexie Lamping |
| Addy Berg | Sammy Skrzekut |
| Maddie Friedrichs | Emma Neuroth |
| Taylor Guenther | Megan Cooper |
| Kiana Good | Emma Forney |
| Rachel Bakkum | Megan Snelling |
| Mia Slowey | Emily Ballard |
| Tenley Fuller | Anna Granquist |
| Brooke Tompkins | Sidney Tonkin |
| Isabel Ballard | Ianna Debrunner |
| Makenna Maloch | Emma Berg |
| Lucy Voss | Emma Phillips |
| Jensen Wehri | Marie Handy |
| Lily Bell | Taylor Haerbig |
| Allison Duong | Elsa Debrunner |
| Neva Nicholson | Lily Sharpe |
We would like to recognize our swimmers for this week.
Male Swimmer of the Week: Harry Wahlberg
Despite the challenging circumstances of the sub 60 degree weather Saturday morning, Harry had some fantastic swims. It is no easy to swim fast when you're freezing, but Harry managed to drop time in several races. He decidedly trounced the competition in everyone of his heats, always giving his full effort. Harry's focus and drive are always prominent in practice, and we as coaches have no doubt more time drops are in Harry's future. Great work Harry!
Female Swimmer of the Week: Marie Handy
Marie had some great swims this past weekend at Ken Caryl. She won the 200 IM and the 100 Fly, ultimately winning the High Point award for the 13-14 age group. Ken Caryl is a very competitive meet, so being the top scorer in one of the most competitive age groups is quite a feat. Marie has been working hare all season and has been working hard all year and has exemplified much of what we look for in our Gator swimmers. Great job Marie!
Here is the schedule for the upcoming week 6/26-7/2 (Please check your swimmer files on Tuesday at practice for the picture order form, Chipotle flyer and any ribbons)
All swimmers please read:
There will be NO practice tomorrow for upper division swimmers (13-18). The Gators wish fast swims to any swimmers swimming at the Ken Caryl Invitational.
Practice will be normal schedule for the 12 & under swimmers
10-12 year olds practice 8:00-9:00am
9 & unders practice 9:00-9:50am
What overwhelming feedback we have gotten about our swimmers of the week. It is great to see the positive messages on Facebook to remind these kids they are doing a great job. Our swimmers are amazing!
Week 2 Male swimmer of the week: Kai Langan
Kai is our male swimmer of the week for his excellent attitude and work ethic in practice. Kai saw his hard work pay off this past weekend when he qualified for State in his 50 breaststroke, something he has been working toward the past two summers. Every morning Kai comes to practice in a great mood with a positive attitude, something we as coaches love to see. Keep up the great work Kai!
Week 2 Female swimmer of the week: Emma Berg
Emma is the female swimmer of the week for her tenacity in leading lanes in practice and her support of other swimmers at this past meet. Emma continues to be an excellent role model for our younger swimmers, both in her attitude in practice and her support for others. In addition, Emma saw a 5 second drop in her 100 breaststroke this weekend, qualifying her for League. Well done Emma!
I just wanted to pass along a few friendly reminders (and some new information):
This week is full of practices and this weekend is busy with different meets for swimmers who are eligible to participate.
Here is some important information about our next Intrasquad meet.
Here is the moment that you all have been waiting for....swimmer of the week (week 1)
Male Swimmer of the week: Eli Sammon
Eli is our male swimmer of the week for his excellent work ethic in practice and drive to compete in meets. Eli came to practice ready to swim and put his full effort into every set. Despite his goggles falling off during (most of) his races, Eli put his head down and put everything he had into finishing strong. Now that he's got new goggles, the coaches are looking forward to seeing the impact of his hard work in practice on his time during meets.
Female Swimmer of the week: Taetum Fuller
Taetum was the 8&under winner for the first ever Freestyle Frenzy this past weekend. She came out fast in the 100 free and didn't look back from that, dropping time in several races during the meet. Taetum has a good attitude in practice and makes sure to complete each set in its entirety. The coaches are excited to see Taetum continue to complete throughout the rest of the season.
Congrats Eli and Taetum!
