Swimming is the best lifetime carry-over sport of all.

People who swim three times per week are very fit; but elite competitive swimming is for the very few! Everyone's cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, and flexibility benefit from competitive swimming exercises. People talk about swim team participation, but many children shy away because they do not care for competition. Whether from our emphasis or from wide media coverage of professional sports, many children perceive parental expectations based on the adults' need to win. If you lose, oh, oooh! However, Swim Gym balances the need to compete with a healthy perspective on its importance. Because periodic performance assessment to evaluate swimming improvement must be done, we created Day at the Races, an internal "Our Team Only" event. Swimmers do timed demonstrations of strokes they practiced during the previous six to ten weeks. All advanced and beginner swimmers are encouraged to attend. Beginners learn from more advanced counterparts, while role-modeling advanced swimmers display leadership skills to younger or less experienced team members. Parents are encouraged to attend (with their video camera) to watch the children. As parents time and officiate, racing dives quickly improve and open turns and flip turns become smooth. In short, the styles start to look like the "Olympics." Often, young swimmers decide they do want to race in bigger races for which they need to train harder.

Vision:
Make Swim Gym Swim Team a place where athletes age 6 and older can grow and mature, learn to train and to race, develop good sportsmanship and strive to reach their potential.

Values:

• To respect and cooperate with all around you
• To learn to loose with dignity and win with humble pride
• The success of the program is everyone's job


• "Please" and "thank you" - the magic words

Mission:
To foster the development of team members as sports men and women who become resourceful, self-disciplined, perseverant and well aware of the importance of team and safety first and fast times next. Sharing & caring about friends, brothers & sisters who treat others with fairness and vow never to discriminate; staying in line with our vision and values.

Objectives:

• We do not make champions; we provide a friendly environment of equal opportunity for development in the sport so every member is empowered to become a champion
• We commit to provide knowledgeable and caring professionals that set the example to the team members into becoming citizens of the highest level of integrity
• We challenge our students to achieve outstanding educational levels and to make a sounding contribution in the development of their community
• We believe that our athletes prove to be winners when they set out to do their utmost best in any endeavor they undertake and not only with the acquisition of medals