Swim Team for 7 year old boy

[Anonymous]

I am not really familiar with swim teams. How people get into them?
My boy loves to swim.
He is in the 2nd Grade, we live in Falls Church.
Thank you in advance!

[Anonymous]

http://www.pvswim.org/pvs_club.htm

Here are the lists of clubs in the Potomac Valley swim league. You can start from your location and check out what's nearby.

Generally the youngest swimmers are 6, 7, 8, can swim a 50 of free and a 50 of back, practice 2x a week for a long hour. It quickly gets more intense.

[Anonymous]

My 7 y.o. did this this past summer in PG County, and loved it. One caution, though: Even though the coaches were very good with the kids and laid back, my son is wired in such a way that he got very anxious and put a lot of pressure on himself, so we cut his attendance at practice to no more than twice a week. The coaches were fine with it, and he relaxed a lot, had a blast competing, and he got to be a really good swimmer.

[Anonymous]

Google the Potomac Marlins. Fantastic, kid-centered team, and they have a lower-key "mini-marlins" program that your son would likely love.

[Anonymous]

I checked into swim teams for my daughter recently and was shocked at how expensive they are.

[Anonymous]

My DS joined the Sea Devils for 2 years, but it really was way too expensive and we're not doing it anymore. You should look into your local public indoor pool for swimming programs.

[Anonymous]

We just joined Curl-Burke swimming. They meet in Vienna at the Tysons YWCA once a week. It's a stroke development school that trains for competitive swimming. They started earlier this month but are still taking kids. The child needs to be able to swim 2 laps freestyle using proper breathing and then 1 lap backstroke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I checked into swim teams for my daughter recently and was shocked at how expensive they are.

I think it depends on where you look. Our little community pool (PG Pool) was relatively cheap, but there are probably programs that are much pricier. On the upside, the equipment is much less of an investment than, say, hockey. A swimsuit, swimcap, and some googles will do you.

[Anonymous]

The JCC of Northern Virginia has a bunch of programs for different levels and it's also where the Potomac Marlins practice. My son is currently on the Galim team, a non-competitive training program the JCCNV has, and I've been impressed with it so far. Not at all the harsh, barking coaching of my own youth swimming experience.

[Anonymous]

My son has been swimming competitively for several years, and has been with both AAC (Arlington Aquatic Club) and with FISH. AAC swims at Washington Lee and Wakefield, and FISH (for younger swimmers) primarily Spring Hill. I think FISH does a better job with developing younger swimmers, as their coaches get in the water with the kids and demonstrate the strokes. The AAC coaches (where he currently swims) spend a lot of the time chatting at the side of the pool while the kids swim laps. That said, it is significantly cheap than FISH, which is about $2000 per season. Yeah...shocking...