Travel Meets

A few concerns that I have is that a lot of families are choosing to opt out of the travel meets. For some in the senior development group the travel meets are a few of the only chances to race long course this season if you have not qualified for meets. We just did goal setting and I know that these swimmers want to improve their times but to reach these goals they need to race!

This is what I have told the swimmers:

What You can do to Maximize your Swimming:
1. Come to Practice. You can't learn swimming skills by not being at the pool. Be on time as best you can.
2. Come to meets. As many as possible. The only way to learn to race is by RACING.

Also there have been comments about team travel. We can not offer team travel if we do not have a good size of swimmers committed to attend the meets. A half empty bus just does not work. We are looking at changing the meet sign up process for next year to hopefully allow team travel to be an option next year.