Hey Walden families,

As the first week of practice winds down, I wanted to get the promised morning practice schedule shared with everyone. After watching practice this week, and looking at our numbers, we will run two practice sessions this season as follows:

Starting June 19, all swimmers ages 11 and older will practice from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. and all swimmers 10 and under will practice from 8:45 to 9:45 a.m. 

I know several families are trying to get swimmers in the pool before heading off to camps, so if you have a younger swimmer that needs to attend the 7:30 practice, that is ok. Let Coach Chas know and the coaches will adjust practice for younger swimmers. Even if they can't stay for the entire practice time, please feel free to attend practice for as long as you can, our goal is to get swimmers in the water as much as possible, however we can.

Additionally, since we are no longer running a late morning practice, the coaches would like to run skills clinics on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. These clinics are open to any swimmer and will focus more on technique. These clinics will be run by Coach CJ and Coach Luke (with Coach Chas supervising), and will allow them to build their skills as coaches and provide more targeted instruction to our swimmers. There will not be a sign up for these sessions, just come to the pool ready more swimming!

On another note, we will have a Ledo's Pizza fundraiser night for the team on Tuesday, June 23. So instead of cooking that night, plan on pizza as a portion of all sales that night will be donated back to the team. See the attached flyer for more details.

It's been a great first week and our first meet will be here before we know it. As always, if you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].

See you on the pool deck,

Jim Higgins