TIMBERWOOD PARK TIGER SHARKS

• We strongly encourage swimmers to attend practice as much as possible if they wish to truly improve throughout the season. The more they come to practice the more they will learn and have time to work on their strokes. If swimmers cannot make it to practice every day, that’s okay.
• Please do not talk with the coaches during a practice. If you need to speak with coaches send them an email to schedule one on one time away from a general practice. Coaches want all their attention for the swimmers during practice time.
• Please do not talk with your children when they are practicing. We have only a small amount of time to work with your children.
• Children are allowed in the swim team portion of the pool only at their designated practice time. If not practicing, they need to stay off the deck where the coaches will be walking and working with swimmers.
• Swimmers are to practice only in their designated age-groups unless other arrangements have been made with prior coach's approval. Siblings may have different practice session times.
• We will have practice if there is a light rain. If it is thundering or lightening, practice will be cancelled. Please download the Swimtopia app to receive text updates.
• If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to talk with the coaches; after practice or through e-mail is always best. Coaches are open to all feedback and suggestions!

Each swimmer is hand placed by the Head Coach into a session based on age and skill level.

Please understand that a lot of planning has gone into choosing these session times, and we have many factors to consider including other uses of pool lane space, times that our coaches and volunteers that are in high school are able to be in attendance to help the youngest kids, size of the different age groups, water temperature, etc. We know that for many of you the session times are not the most convenient, with your kids in separate sessions, and perhaps starting at times that don’t work well with your schedule. However it’s important for safety to keep kids of like ability and age together and we hope you can adjust as necessary to make sure your child can attend their scheduled practice time.

Your kids will be placed with other kids of a similar age and ability level but even within each group there is a pretty broad spectrum. We have many lanes and coaches and the kids will be further streamed within each group and our hope is that they will get the best and most individualized coaching possible. Once practice starts we may consider moving swimmers to different session times if it seems another group will be a better fit.

*Ages are a guideline, swimmers are placed by Head Coach based on what is best for all swimmers in a group.