Good evening all!  Just wanted to firm up plans on our 10 & Under (this includes 9-10's and 8 & Under) evaluations.  If you didn't swim for SWSR last summer, and you are between the ages of 5 and 10, we need to complete an evaluation prior to your first swim practice.  

Evaluations for 9 and 10 year olds are on Thurs May 26th during the 9 -10 practice time.  Evaluations for 8 and unders are on Fri May 27th during the 8 & Under practice time. ** Practice times listed at swsr.swimtopia.com BUT we are adjusting slightly and those will be posted soon, and emailed out, but that is the best close ballpark of times at this point.  We understand many families go on vacation right after school gets out, so if your swimmer can't make these dates, please email me and we'll get another date figured out.

Evaluations are held for every new SWSR swimmer to our team (even my own kids went through it :) so that we can proceed slowly and carefully to ensure that we keep each swimmer safe and can focus on each swimmer for their evaluation.  We evaluate one swimmer at a time, so please be patient.  The kids don't have to know or swim any strokes, but they do have to be able to keep themselves up and/or moving independently.  If they can do that, we'll ask them to swim as far as they can and see how they do.  If they get nervous or don't make it, we will offer them to sit aside for a few minutes, and they can try again.  We can do that a few times to give them a chance to get more comfortable or watch others, and gain some confidence.  Please be sure to bring them in a suit and have goggles and a towel.  They don't have to wear a team or competition style suit for this.  We want to be sure they make it through evaluations prior to purchasing anything.  Once they complete their evaluation, they are done for the day.  We'll let you know if they are able to remain on our team and swim with us this summer, or if it might be better to wait a little longer and/or get some lessons first.  We are a competitive team, and unfortunately at this time we don't offer lessons, so in this environment, we do need them to be able to swim independently when we start.  If they complete it well, we will let you know, and then they can begin practicing at the next practice.  

If you have any questions about this, please let us know.  And as I said earlier, we'll get that finalized practice schedule out very soon!

Thank you, and see you soon!

Coach Jodi, 207.8878