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Information regarding summer swim team and Spring Swim clinics

 We are starting to prepare for our 2016 summer swim team season and would love for you to join us. In the next few weeks registration for the summer swim team will be available on the blog.
Please sign up and let us know if you have any questions.  We are excited to announce our coaches for the summer will be Porter Bennett, Ethan Schick, Inez Moore and Dylan Jacobs. 

    To help prepare swimmers for a great swim season we will continue to offer our Sunday night swim clinics. These are held at Green Mountain Rec Center from 5-6pm for 12 and under swimmers and 6-7pm for 13+.  Please help us welcome our coaches for the Spring session Olivia Moore, Dylan Jacobs and Quinn Trussell. They would love the opportunity to help your swimmer with their stoke technique and endurance. Please register for Spring session.

Please continue to check the Gator Blog as summer is quickly approaching and we will post important information and announcements.

Thank you,
GMST board members
Dave, Jennifer, Danielle (correction from email), April and Jen

Calling all officials old and new

Officials Clinics-mark your calendars! Please remember that all new officials must attend the in water demo on Wednesday May 25th

Sunday April 24- 4:30pm at Green Mountain Rec. Center

Sunday May 15- 4:30pm at Green Mountain Rec. Center

Wednesday May 25**at Applewood Knolls. Lecture 6pm, in water demo 7pm.

Sunday June 5- 4:30pm at Green Mountain Rec. Center (for returning officials only!)

Please direct any and all officiating questions to Jim Fernald, jimfswim@comcast.net

Warm weather=swim team

What beautiful warm weather we are having! 

 What does this make you think about? Swim Team? 

That's right we will be back in the pool before you know it. Please help your swimmers get ready for the summer by participating in the Spring swim clinics.  These will start February 28th.  If you haven't already signed up please do so with the form on the right hand side.

Spring Swim Clinics begin in February

We hope your family holidays were wonderful.  Happy 2016 to our swim families!
We are starting to think swimming again as our Spring swim clinics begin in February.  These clinics allow the swimmers to start preparing for summer swim team.  These clinics will continue to work on stroke refinement and endurance.  Each week will focus on different strokes.
Please sign-up on the link to the right side of the blog.  Also please bring payment on the first swim session.
Please email with any additional questions GMSTGators@aol.com

Indoor swim clinic starts

We would like to welcome all Gator swimmers and new swimmers to join us for our Fall indoor swim clinics.  The swim clinics will be a 10 week session where the swimmers will learn stroke technique and continue working on their swimming skills.  These sessions are for swimmers of all ability.  All clinics will be held at Green Mountain Rec Center from 5-6pm for ALL SWIMMERS.
Swim Clinics begin this Sunday, September 27th.
Please register online and bring payment the first clinic.
We would like to welcome the new coaches for this session:
        Ben Munster with FST
        Olivia Moore an old Gator
        Dylan Jacob a current Gator
 We hope to see you on Sunday! 

Rock the Mountain-TONIGHT

Party at the Pool tonight with music and food!
Tonight let's Rock the Mountain at GMSC...live band, food and fun! Hope to see you, your friends and family 21+ for an evening of dancing and socializing. See the GMSC event page for details and hope to see you tonight. Thank you!

Swim Clinics start September 27th

Green Mountain Swim Team will starting our Sunday night swim clinics beginning Sunday, September 27th.  These clinics will be held at the Green Mountain Rec Center (13198 W. Green Mountain Dr.).  The swim clinics will be held from 5-6pm for kids 12 and under and 6-7pm for kids 13 and up.  The price for these swim clinics is $80.00 per swimmer (this can not be prorated).  Payment is due on the first swim clinic and we can accept cash or check (made payable to GMST).  Please see the following dates for each session.
Fall Session-10 weeks
9/27
10/4
10/11
10/18
10/25
11/1
11/8
11/15
11/22
12/6

Spring Session-10 weeks
2/28
3/6
3/13
4/3
4/10
4/17
4/24
5/1
5/8
5/15
These clinics are for all swimming abilities.  These clinics are intended to help with stroke work.
To sign-up for these swim clinics please complete the online registration on the right hand side of the Blog.  If you are a new swimmer (didn't swim with the Gators this summer) you will need to complete the Emergency Contact and Liability forms for each swimmer. 
Hope to see you in a few weeks.

Thanks for your support

We would like to thank all of those swim team members that participated in the swim/dive-a-thon on Saturday.  It is wonderful to see the kids fundraising for something they can participate in and see their money being used.  We hope we can provide the club with the funds to make improvements around the pool.

Please remember to turn in all pledge money by Saturday, August 29th.  Please turn this into the club during their school business hours (Friday 4-8 and Saturday 10am-8pm).  If you are unable to turn in your pledges during these times please make arrangements with Jennifer Friedrichs and other arrangements will be made.   

If you were not able to participate in this fundraiser you can still make a donation.  Please feel free to drop off your monetary donation to the club during the hours mentioned about or online at http://www.greenmountainswimclub.org/events.html using your PayPal account.

Thanks and we can't wait to see some of the changes next year around the pool. 

Swim and Dive-a-thon fundraiser

I hope everyone had a great first day back at school.  It is hard to think that swim team has been over almost a month now.  Now is your chance to get back into the pool.  The Green Mountain Swim Club is hosting a swim and/or dive-a-thon.  This event is Saturday, August 22nd from 8am-8pm.
We are asking all swimmers to participate in this event as all money raised will go to capital improvements.  Each person that participates will ask for pledges for either laps swam, dives completed or a flat rate.  The swimmer or diver will have 60 minutes to complete as many laps or dives as they can in this time period.  You must supply your own counter.  1 lap = 25 meters.  You are asked to sign-up on the following link for the time slot that you are available to participate http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0548ada822a20-gmscgmst.  Also the pledge form to collect donations is on the right hand side of the blog.  If you have additional questions regarding this fundraiser please email Jennifer at cjmfriedrichs@aol.com or see the Green Mountain Swim Club website http://www.greenmountainswimclub.org/.


Thanks in advance for your participation.  We all love the pool where we spend our summers and would love to see come improvements happen.  Let's help the swim club raise this money!

Swim and Dive-a-thon

On Saturday, August 22, 2015 from 8A - 8P, Green Mountain Swim Club is hosting a Swim/Dive-a-thon! Funds raised will go towards capital improvement and used towards repairs needed at our swimming pool. Each pledge will have 60 minutes to complete as many lengths of the pool**, or dives off the low dive as possible. Please bring your own counter or partner up with a fellow swimmer to keep track of your laps and/or dives. Please click here: Sign Up Genius link to reserve a lane and low dive time. To access a pledge form, please visit the left column of the GMSC Eventspage. A goal of $100 per swimmer/diver will help make this GMSC’s main fundraiser for the year! Prizes for the Top 3 pledges; and, over $75 collected in donations gets a GMSC branded item. Please use an envelope or ziploc to collect donations after the swim/dive-a-thon is completed. Turn donations into GMSC Guard Shack or Swim Team to Jennifer Friedrichs by Saturday, August 29th. Unable to participate it the swim/dive-a-thon? You are invited to make a donation to GMSC. A check made payable to Green Mountain Swim Club can be mailed to PO Box 150352 Lakewood, CO 80215 or dropped off at the pool; or, you can use PayPal on our website. We appreciate your support! Thank you, GMSC Thunderstorm make-up date is August 23rd. **1 length - 25 meters

State Ribbons

Attention Swimmers: all State Meet ribbons and medals are at the pool. Please stop by the pool and check the guard shack as the swimmer folders are with them.  Great swim season!

Thank you Green Mountain Gators for your support

GREEN MOUNTAIN GATORS DONATE TO GMSC!

Thank you to the Gators for making a generous donation to the Green Mountain Swim Club!! The funds provided will be used to fix the parking lot with the remaining put in the capital improvement fund to be used towards any additional repairs. THANK YOU GATORS!

Camp out at Green Mountain Swim Club

This Friday, August 7th the GMSC is hosting a camp out at the pool to help raise funds for improvements around the pool.  Please see the flyer below for details and sign-up to attend on the following sign-up genius link

Congratulations again to the team for placing SECOND at State, and to all the new Gator record holders:

Age Group	Event	Name	Time
Boys 9-10	100 Free	Ryan Skrzekut	1:15:35
Boys 9-10	50 Back	Ryan Skrzekut	40.60
Boys 11-12	50 Back	Zach Outcalt	35.91
Girls 11-12	100 Free	Samantha Skrzekut	1:09:34
Girls 11-12	200 Free	Samantha Skrzekut	2:29:36
Boys 13-14	400 Free	Ben Hofstra	5:07:71
Boys 13-14	100 Fly	Alex Granquist	1:10:30
Boys 13-14	200 Medley Relay	Andrew Penn Quinn Meinert Alex Granquist Ben Hofstra	2:08:19
Girls 13-14	100 Free	Amanda Ballard	1:03:32
Girls 13-14	100 Back	Emma Neuroth	1:17:09
Boys 15-16	100 Breast	Tristan Gess	1:11:80
Girls 15-16	100 Free	Anna Granquist	1:05:08
Girls 15-16	100 Back	Kaylyn Schull	1:14:18
Girls 15-16	100 Breast	Sydni Sich	1:19:08
Girls 15-16	200 IM	Sydni Sich	2:42:04
Boys 17-18	200 IM	Ethan Schick	2:24:02
Girls 17-18	200 Free	Lilia Kerski	2:19:16
Girls 17-18	400 Free	Lilia Kerski	4:58:78
Boys 15-18	200 Free Relay	Ethan Schick Dylan Jacob Tristan Gess Quinn Trussel	1:41:34
Boys 15-18	200 Medley Relay	Dylan Jacob Kevin Kruse Ethan Schick Quinn Trussel	1:57:00
Girls 15-18	200 Free Relay	Tess Hofstra Anna Granquist Ianna Debrunner Sydni Sich	1:58:42
Girls 15-18	200 Medley Relay	Kaylyn Schull Sydni Sich Lilia Kerski Ianna Debrunner	2:12:63

A special shout-out to Lilia Kerski-her time in the 200 free beat a record that has stood for 28 years!

Congrats all!  

Thank you for eating at Chipotle

Thank you for showing your support at our Chipotle fundraiser last night. GMSC is happy to announce we raised $980.44 towards our capital improvement fund!

We appreciate all of you standing in what we heard was a long line. Thanks for your continued support to the pool our swim team needs.

Movie Night

Movie Night at the pool
We would like to celebrate our successful summer swim season with a movie night.
What:  Movie Night showing Shark Tales
Who:  Gator swimmers only
When:  Tuesday, July 28th 8:30-10pm
Where:  Green Mountain Swim Club
Why:  celebrate summer swim team 

This movie night is open to only Gator swimmers.  Parents feel free to drop your kids off as we will have adult supervision for the duration of the movie.  Swimmers you can come in your pajamas if you would like.  We will be showing Shark Tales a Dreamworks movie.  The swim team board will provide water/lemonade, popcorn and some additional snacks.  Please feel free to bring something to snack on during the movie if you choose.  Also please bring a blanket or sleeping bag as we will be in the grass.

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight.
Please note this is no swimming allowed tonight. 

State and Team Movie Night

Hello Gators!!

Today marked the last day of racing for the summer, and I can't even begin to express how proud I am of everyone who swam this weekend. Last year at State we got third place overall, which I believe was the best the team had ever done. After League this past weekend, I felt very confident in our swimmers going into State, but this weekend exceeded all of my expectations. This weekend our Gators came ready to race; we had lots of huge time drops and best times, several new Gator records, some outright unbelievable swims, but most impressively, the team came together to place SECOND out of 51 teams in the state. I am so, so excited and so, so proud of you all!

I also want to give a special thank you to Porter and Ethan. They both did an outstanding job this season, and I really couldn't have done it without them. Porter was a great help during the early morning practice, and did an excellent job running the middle practice every day. He helped keep practices fun and kept everyone smiling. Once again, Ethan did an amazing job working with the 9 and unders during the last practice. He brought a great energy to the pool each morning and all of the swimmers loved him! I saw huge improvement in all of the swimmers that Porter and Ethan worked with, and I am both impressed by and proud of both of them.

My last announcement for the evening is about our celebratory MOVIE NIGHT! The movie night will be held at GMSC this Tuesday, July 28. We will plan on getting to the pool around 8 or 8:15pm, and the movie will start at 8:30. We will have snack food available, but please feel free to bring your own food as well. Pick up time for parents will be around 10pm once the movie is done. I'm really looking forward to another fun night with the team! See you all then!

Excellent job this summer! Jaimie

State Stuff

Hi Gators! I can't believe the State meet is already here!! Here is the information about warm ups this weekend. The lower parking lot (closest to the pool) will be reserved for coaches and officials, so please plan accordingly so your swimmers are able to be behind the blocks ready for warm up on time. Thank you!

Saturday (12&Unders): Warm up will be from 6:40-7:00am. Please do your best to arrive by 6:30am. We will be doing our full warm up during this time and it is very important to be there so the kids are ready to do their best in their races. There will be starts/turns/sprints lanes from 8:40-8:55 right before the meet starts. These lanes will not suffice for a full warm up, but will be available for a little extra practice. 

Sunday (13&Up): After talking to the Upper Division swimmers, they have decided that they would rather warm up at GMSC and then head over to Splash. Upper Division warm ups will be at GMSC from 7:10-7:45am. We will then head over to Splash and practice starts and turns in the sprint lanes from 8:40-8:55. 

If you made a shirt this week at practice, make sure to wear it to the meet to show our Green Mountain spirit!

Good luck swimmers! I know you'll all do great :)

State 400 Swimmers

Hi Gators, I forgot to announce this morning at practice that swimmers who are going to swim the 400 tomorrow at state can come to practice at 7:30am tomorrow morning. We will do a long warm up and some pace work, which seemed to work great for the 400 swimmers at League. Open warm ups at the meet will start at 2pm, with the 400s starting at 3:00pm. On Friday, there will be no parking restrictions in the lower lot, so go ahead and park close, but keep in mind that Saturday and Sunday the parking lot will only be open to 2 coaches per team and officials, so those days you will have to park a little farther away. 

I will post more information about Saturday and Sunday warm ups later tonight or tomorrow morning!

I'm looking forward to seeing you all swim fast! :)