Are there any summer swim programs to supplement summer swim?

[Anonymous]

I was interested in signing up my DC (age 10) for a program over the summer to supplement their summer swim team practices. It doesn't need to be anything too intense or heavy on the instructional aspect of it, even 60-90 minutes of swimming a couple of times a week would be fine. Is there anything like this in Montgomery County?

[Anonymous]

Club swim is at our pool from 5:00-7:00 am. Call around to you local clubs

[Anonymous]

Our pool offers both morning and afternoon practices. Swimmers who want to do more attend both practices. The other swimmers who do more than summer swim in June/July are the ones signed up for year-round who attend practices for both teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in signing up my DC (age 10) for a program over the summer to supplement their summer swim team practices. It doesn't need to be anything too intense or heavy on the instructional aspect of it, even 60-90 minutes of swimming a couple of times a week would be fine. Is there anything like this in Montgomery County?

Curious -- why add more swimming when I assume he is swimming 5 days a week with his summer team?

[Anonymous]

My kid did club swim for 2 years but didn’t want to this year. She still likes summer swim though so does stroke and turn thru moco rec once a week to keep her skills up.
Summer swim is every day so not sure why you want extra summer swim time?

[Anonymous]

FINS has summer programs

https://finsswimming.com/summerprograms/

[Anonymous]

Check out USA swimming (either Potomac Valley Swimming, Maryland Swimming, or Virginia Swimming) clubs in your area. Many will offer developmental programs.

https://www.usaswimming.org/find-a-team

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pool offers both morning and afternoon practices. Swimmers who want to do more attend both practices. The other swimmers who do more than summer swim in June/July are the ones signed up for year-round who attend practices for both teams.

^^ This is the correct answer - she can just attend both morning and afternoon practice a couple of days a week. You can also ask your coach or around the team if anyone is giving private lessons. Some of our swimmers who swim year around would also give 1 on 1 lessons to the younger kids. A couple of years ago there was a girl who is now swimming D1 but was a senior at the time who worked with my 7yo daughter a number of times over the summer which really worked out well and helped speed up her learning curve.

[Anonymous]

City of Rockville has had stuff in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool offers both morning and afternoon practices. Swimmers who want to do more attend both practices. The other swimmers who do more than summer swim in June/July are the ones signed up for year-round who attend practices for both teams.

^^ This is the correct answer - she can just attend both morning and afternoon practice a couple of days a week. You can also ask your coach or around the team if anyone is giving private lessons. Some of our swimmers who swim year around would also give 1 on 1 lessons to the younger kids. A couple of years ago there was a girl who is now swimming D1 but was a senior at the time who worked with my 7yo daughter a number of times over the summer which really worked out well and helped speed up her learning curve.

We are in Virginia - our team offers morning and afternoon practices, but you are only allowed to attend one or the other due to lane space. Also, for a 10 year old two practices a day is the way to burn out. You would be better off doing private coaching once or twice a week at that age - perfect technique instead of garbage yards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in signing up my DC (age 10) for a program over the summer to supplement their summer swim team practices. It doesn't need to be anything too intense or heavy on the instructional aspect of it, even 60-90 minutes of swimming a couple of times a week would be fine. Is there anything like this in Montgomery County?

Curious -- why add more swimming when I assume he is swimming 5 days a week with his summer team?

To clear a few things up, my pool does not allow kids to attend both the morning and afternoon sessions. Also, my DC will be at camp some of those weeks and can only attend the afternoon practices those weeks. There is no Friday afternoon practice, so we're talking 3 practices a week since the B meets are Wednesdays. Not only that, but the afternoon practices are very crowded and from past experience there hasn't been a whole lot of continuous swimming in them. So I would just like to be able to add a couple of practices to the 3 very basic practices.

To the person who suggested Fins, thank you, I will look into that.

[Anonymous]

Aren’t 5 practices and 2 meets enough for a 10yr old?

My 9 yr old supplements summer swim with general conditioning 1-2x a week September- December, adding 1 day of stroke and turn Jan-May.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t 5 practices and 2 meets enough for a 10yr old?

My 9 yr old supplements summer swim with general conditioning 1-2x a week September- December, adding 1 day of stroke and turn Jan-May.

Read the OP's follow up post.

OP, seconding the recc for FINS. They were great for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t 5 practices and 2 meets enough for a 10yr old?

My 9 yr old supplements summer swim with general conditioning 1-2x a week September- December, adding 1 day of stroke and turn Jan-May.

My kids still practice with their club a few days a week in summer. They have goals and want to make all stars. the summer swim practice are only an hour and not very challenging

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in signing up my DC (age 10) for a program over the summer to supplement their summer swim team practices. It doesn't need to be anything too intense or heavy on the instructional aspect of it, even 60-90 minutes of swimming a couple of times a week would be fine. Is there anything like this in Montgomery County?

Curious -- why add more swimming when I assume he is swimming 5 days a week with his summer team?

To clear a few things up, my pool does not allow kids to attend both the morning and afternoon sessions. Also, my DC will be at camp some of those weeks and can only attend the afternoon practices those weeks. There is no Friday afternoon practice, so we're talking 3 practices a week since the B meets are Wednesdays. Not only that, but the afternoon practices are very crowded and from past experience there hasn't been a whole lot of continuous swimming in them. So I would just like to be able to add a couple of practices to the 3 very basic practices.

To the person who suggested Fins, thank you, I will look into that.

We do camps that start late morning or in the afternoon only so we can do morning practices.