Last day of the fall season

After signups yesterday I realized that I had never posted about our last day of fall swim. We combined the first and second practice together since numbers have dwindled as our season wore on...typically the colder it gets, the less motivated the kids are to come. Go figure, huh? ;) The kids had lots of fun doing silly strokes as a warmup. We also did partner pulling which is a favorite of the kids. We'll usually conduct a relay or just a heads race amongst the lanes. They enjoy working together to get across first.

We ended the practice with a game of underwater hockey. It's one of their favorites, although they can get rough and we have to watch them pretty closely. All in all the season ended the way it started...loud, happy and full of fun.

March Clinic

I got this pic in an e-mail but I'm sure it's all over now...

So, March Clinic starts tomorrow.

I'm way excited to meet our new Stingrays and help them catch the swimming bug! But I'm also kinda sad our big kids won't be there. They'll be off making their high schools proud, I guess. We'll be doing just stroke and turn stuff but I'm real interested to see what our kids remember (and have forgotten) from last season.

I'm also outfitted and ready for the upcoming summer. New swim suit, goggles and a coaches bag. I pick mine up tomorrow but I found a few pictures here to give you all a sneak peek. It'll be purple (of course!) and have Coach Steph embroidered on top. LOVE it! (By the way, for anyone looking for new one-piece practice suits - they had a bunch at the Nike Outlet in Folsom for about $20.00. A steal if you know anything about buying practice suits...)

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In other news, we've finally unveiled our new team website. Lots of Black and Gold just the way I like it! If this doesn't get you pumped for swim team, I don't know what will!

Stingray Sign-ups - Part 1

This picture was taken Fall 2007. It's one of my favorites.

I can't believe it's here already? We're at the very tip of the starting point of Stingray Season 2009. It feels like August was just here, and the season just ended (that could also be because Fall season did just end but, whatever). We had our first day of sign-ups a couple of weekends ago, and I think it went really well. We had a lot of new faces wanting to become Stingrays and so far the season's looking like it'll be tons of fun.

There are so many fun things planned for our swimmers this season. We have parties and movie nights and camp outs (that's what I'm looking forward to the most) not to mention all our swim meets and championships.

Everyone seems real glad the season is finally starting. After all the rainy days we've been having the kids are dying to get out in the fresh air...I even saw some in the pool today! Taking advantage I guess...

We have one more weekend of sign-ups - March 7, and I'm excited to see who'll show up to that one. Let's go for another undefeated season, Stingrays!