Hi Swimmers and Families,

As today would be our first day of swim season I want to reach out to all of you and let you know that the coaches miss you and we are thinking about you! I hope you all are doing well and staying safe.

The Board, John, and I want to reach out to all of you and let you know that we are doing all we can to get a few things together and plan for a tentative schedule for the summer. We are working with the guidelines the state is sending out and what the pool is looking at with those circumstances. We will also be closely reviewing information from USA swimming.

Looking at Phase 1, expected to begin May 29th, the pool is planning on opening up the upper pool for lap swimming purposes. Swimmers can sign up for a time slot and go swim during that time (this is open to every member not just swim team). Due to restrictions on the number of people allowed on the property. I will not be able to coach you during this time but I will be able to provide practices to those who want to go swim including dryland workouts and swim workouts. As of now, this phase is expected to be in place until mid-June.

Moving to phase 2 we are planning on holding traditional practice times with proper social distancing guidelines in place. We will likely split up the practice groups so half will be working on a dry land workout while the other half is swimming and will switch halfway through. The coaches will be there to work with the swimmers and put practices together. During this time I will continue to provide practice plans for swimmers who want to keep their distance and work on their own. We want to try and keep this as structured and normal as possible but will be open to conversations or ideas if needed. This phase may take a little getting used to for the swimmers and the coaches but we will try to get all the swimmers back to the pool as soon and as safely as we can.

Our goal is to keep all of the swimmers engaged and working out as much as possible. Even if you cannot participate in our practice times we want to promote swimming within our program. John and I are here if anyone wants to check-in or if anyone has other ideas to keep things moving forward.

We will be together as soon as we can! Go Seals!!

Coach Alex