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2007 Practice Times


Practices are at the SAIT Aquatic Center.

There will be no practices on days that fall on holidays.

SAIT Aquatic Center Practice Schedule for 2008:

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Black

5:00–7:00 swim

5:00–6:00 swim
6:00-7:00 dryland

5:00–7:00 swim

5:00–6:00 swim
6:00-7:00 dryland

5:00–6:30 swim

Green

5:00–6:00 swim
6:00-7:00 dryland

5:00–6:30 swim

5:00–6:00 swim
6:00-7:00 dryland

5:00–6:30 swim

5:00–6:30 swim

Red

5:00 – 6:00

6:00 – 7:00

5:00 – 6:00

6:00 – 7:00

5:00 – 6:30

Orange

6:00 – 7:00

5:00 – 6:00

6:00 – 7:00

5:00 – 6:00

5:00 – 6:30

Gold

6:00 – 7:00

5:00 – 6:00

6:00 – 7:00

5:00 – 6:00

5:00 – 6:00

For dryland please bring clothes, like a gym strip, and clean runners to wear on the pool deck.

Parents: If your swimmer is unable to attend their own practice they can swim with the group down, but you cannot swim up. This means swimmers from the black squad can swim with green, green can swim with red, red can swim with orange and so on.

 

Practice Expectations

The Calgary Swordfish encourage and RESPECT the athletic endeavors of our members and we have never threatened or punished our members for participation in other activities.  On a provincial level, we promote summer swimming as the perfect sport to provide summer conditioning to athletes who have chosen another sport as their main interest.  Dave Johnson, Canada's national coach, had his children swim with our club precisely for the reason the kids can do a variety of sports including summer swimming until they are mature enough to pick one sport an commit to it.

Our experience is that the pool will regularly have 5% of our members attend every practice and approximately 60% attend nightly.  Parents with work commitments will get their kids to the pool as soon as they can, and often not on time.  We RESPECT the effort parents put in, not only to get their kids to the pool, but volunteer time for meets and fund raising.

We look forward to your motivational and inspirational leadership in changing our participation in all practices and particularly on Fridays, which are often poorly attended especially on meet weekends.