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| What to bring to Practice Swimsuit Goggles, extra goggles swim cap towel water bottle good attitude |
| Swimmers will be assigned a practice squad. This is based on the swimmers abilities with each stroke, their times, their age and their attitude. Swimmers can change practice squads through out the season based on the criteria. These practice squads will be posted in the pool area, along with the criteria for each group. If your swimmer is not proficient in all four strokes they will most likely be in the green practice squad. |
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| Practice Information Stroke development All swimmers, including advanced swimmers are encouraged to join us at stroke development practices. We will alternate breaststroke and butterfly between Monday and Wednesday; that way if you can only attend one night you can work on both strokes. We are planning on having two coaches so advanced swimmers can work on the finer details of their strokes. Stations practice Fridays we once again doing stations practice. Now that we have our new home and some new training equipment we will be doing some different things then in the past. We also hope to do much more videotaping and review of swimmers at this practice. We also were able to begin this practice earlier in the season so please try to attend. Sunday Practices We kept the Sunday practice from our displacement last year since it was usually well attended. We changed the practice time so it fits in before dinner and late enough for other early afternoon activities. Advanced practices We have advanced practices beginning right way this year. We are hoping swimmers take advantage of thee practices so we are able to keep the pool time. There is an activity bus that will be coming from the White Bear middle and high schools. We have quite a few Mahtomedi students who are qualified for these practices so I am hoping some of our car pool skills acquired last year can be put to use to get kids to thee practices from Mahtomedi and other districts. |
| Fall/Winter Swim Times (See practice squads to determine what time you should swim) Mondays 4:15-6:45 - Advanced Practice (4:15-5:15 studio/ 5:30-6:45 swimming) 5:30 - 7:30 - Red & Above swimmers 6:00-7:30 - All Swimmers (6:00-6:30 studio/ 6:45-7:30 swimming) Tuesday & Thursday 3:30-5:30 - Advanced Practice 5:30-6:30 - Mini Mariners 5:30-6:45 - Green swimmers 6:15-7:45 - Red and above swimmers Wednesday 4:15-6:45 - Advanced Practice (4:15-5:15 studio/ 5:30-6:45 swimming) 5:30 - 7:30 - Red & Above swimmers 6:00-7:30 – Green and above (6:00-6:30 dryland/ 6:45-7:30 swimming) Fridays 3:45-4:45 - Studio (6th grade & above) 5:00-6:30 - Green and above practice Sunday 4:00-5:30 - All Mariners **Make sure to wear tennis shoes on studio/dryland days** |
| PRACTICES We offer many practices times during our winter programs. We have no practice requirements. We hope swimmers will come to as many practices as their other activities allow. We understand that families have many things going so we leave it up to them to decide a swimmers level of commitment to the sport. We offer practice Sunday – Friday. |
| In order to move up to a higher practice squad you must meet the practice squad requirements for the next level. |