Swim clinics begin Sunday

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!

Opportunities for swimming outside of summer swim team

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.

High School Swimmers and Parents

• Are you planning on swimming and representing your High School?
• Do you hope to earn a Varsity Letter or maybe swim on an “A” relay?
• Do you want to help your team score more points at the League or possibly even the State swim meet?
• Would you like to be in great shape on the first day of practice, and maybe even set a PR in your very first meet of the season? YOU CAN!

TEAM SWIMMING WANTS YOU!

• One hour, Intense, Intent driven, No-nonsense practices.
• CHSAA Certified High School Coaches.
• An ENVIORNMENT that promotes successful, fast, and competitive High School and Summer Club swimming. You WILL get FASTER and BETTER!
• Designed specifically to allow young student athletes to participate in other High School Sports or activities while continuing to swim year round. Year round training without the expense or commitment “Club” swimming requires.
• Four practices per week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• NO weekend commitments, NO extra fee’s, NO Pressure!!
• OPEN TO ALL 8^TH -12^TH GRADERS WHO MEET QUALIFING STANDARDS.

FALL SESSION: September 11- November 2, 2017.

7:30PM-8:30PM

Green Mountain Recreation Center

(WINTER and SPRING SESSIONS TBD)

Contact: Tim Horne, 843-267-0086, tim@100percent.us

$250.00 covers 32 practices and a “TEAM SWIMMING” T-shirt.

Fall clinic registration now open

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

All clinics will be held at Green Mountain Recreation Center (13198 Green Mountain Dr.)

Clinic times are as follows:

Swimmers 12&under:  5:00-6:00pm

Swimmers 13&up:  6:00-7:00pm

These times and age groups may change depending on the number of swimmers registered. Final practice times will be communicated by September 17th.

Fall clinic dates

September 24th

October 1st

October 8th

October 15th

October 22nd

October 29th

November 5th

November 12th

November 19th

December 3rd

Fall indoor swim clinic sign-up here

Please plan on bringing payment (cash or check payable to GMST) to the first session.  Also, if your swimmer wasn't on swim team this summer we will need the following forms completed.  Please print these (Emergency Contact Form and Liability Release) and submit them with your payment.

Please email any questions/concerns to gmstgators@aol.com
 

Did you lose something? Lost and Found

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!

Camp Out at the pool - this Saturday

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.

End of season and things to do at the pool

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:

• if you still want to go to Water World discount tickets are still available.  Click here for the link to purchase tickets (password:  GMGators1)

Things happening at the pool.  Fun to be had by all!

• Friday, August 4th from 8:00-10:00pm:  Friday Flick and Late Swim
• Showing Finding Dory
• Join the members of the swim club for a movie under the stars and an evening of late swimming.  
• This event is free to swim club members and $5.00 per non-member
• Bring your blanket or floatie and watch a movie under the summer sky.  Drinks and popcorn will be provided
• Sunday, August 6th from 9:00am-12:00pm:  Flippin Flapjacks Fundraiser
• Tickets are $10.00 per plate.  Includes unlimited pancakes, sausage, coffee/orange juice
• Tickets are available at the door with cash, check or credit card.  You may also purchase tickets in advance online
• Open swimming to the public (today only) for $3.00 per non-member
• Sunday, August 13th from 6:00-8:00pm:  Teen Night (Luau theme)
• Food, games and swimming for kids ages 12-17
• Cost is $7.00/member and $10.00/non-member

We hope you all enjoy the rest of summer and wish all the swimmers a successful school year.  For more information about the swim club events please see their website or call them for details.

We hope to see some of you in the Fall at our indoor swim clinics and we look forward to summer 2018!

Banquet tonight is still on

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.

Swim Team pictures

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.

End of season banquet: Wednesday night

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!

State swimmers practice

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!

Schedule 7/24-7-30

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 practice time change Friday

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.

Parents of League swimmers please volunteer

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).  

Data Verification:  Work with coaches to verify qualification times for any swimmers who fail to make the league qualifying time in any race.

Card Runner: Collect timing sheets from the timers and deliver to data entry

We need to make sure we are completing all of our team responsibilities at this meet.  Please make sure you sign-up soon.  Thank you for your support.

League 400 swimmers

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!

Swimmers of the week

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!

Male Swimmer of the Week:  Conor Sharpe

Conor qualified for league in the 25 free for the first time this past weekend!  This came after a real tough week in practice but that didn't phase him.  Conor has been the chief negotiator for his lanes in practice, making sure to keep us coaches on our toes.  With his quick wit, Conor is routinely a joy in practice.  The coaches are very excited to see Conor swim in his first league meet, where we know he's gonna do great.  Good job Conor!

Female Swimmer of the Week:  Rachel Bakkum

Rachel qualified for league after she dropped a ton of time in her 25 fly at the Intrasquad.  Rachel loves to compete both in practice and in the meets.  In practice she's always gunning to lead the lane and to complete each set first.  She has no fear of any of the strokes or races.  She is a bundle of endless energy that is willing to try hard in any set and also encourage others in her lane to do the same.  Great job Rachel!  

Movie Night tomorrow: Moana

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

Schedule 7/17-7/23

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

Intrasquad meet--RESCHEDULED until tomorrow

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 will still start with warm-ups at 5:00pm with the meet starting at 5:30pm.
• The coaches will still swim a relay at the end of the night (we gave them one more day to prepare)
• If your swimmer CANNOT swim tomorrow evening please let Jennifer or a coach know at practice tomorrow and we will revise our entries. (original individual entries)
• If parents are no longer able to volunteer as originally planned please delete your sign-up and we will have other parents fill-in where needed.
• Pizza meals will still be served and Gator apparel will be available for purchase for the last time this season.

We also understand that swimmers planned on picking the events for Saturdays meet after they swam tonight.  Swimmers will have until the end of practice on Friday to pick their events for our meet on Saturday.  We will get the results from the Intrasquad posted as soon as we can on Thursday night.

Thank you for understanding that we don't have total control and Mother Nature won today :)  Please email any questions you have to gmstgators@aol.com

Intrasquad meet tonight

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!

Night practice canceled tonight

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.