Swimming

The Ridgewood Gators Swim Team is a summer sports program for children up to the age of 16. Our goal is to provide a supportive environment and a true team experience for all those involved. Joining the swim team is a great way to make new friends, learn about the sport, and have an exciting and productive summer.

Our season runs from the last week in June through the first week in August.

 

Practice

• Practice will be held Monday through Thursday. Practice will NOT be held on Swim Meet days (night or morning) or July 4th.

• Practice starts June 20th, 2016 and will run through July 28th, 2016.

Ages 11 & Over: 9:00am-10:15am
9-10: 10:15am-11:15am
8 & Under: 11:15am-12:00pm

Meets

• Meets will either have an 8:30am warm-up and a 9:00am start or a 4:30pm warm-up and a 5:00pm start.

• All swimmers are expected to report 10 minutes prior to the start of warm-up.

• If you cannot attend a meet, you must sign the poster in the pool entrance as soon as possible.

• You may contact Nick Miller, at [email protected] with any questions pertaining to swim team.

• Schedule will be released via email blast early June.

Stateline Invitational Meet

• Date and location to be announced at a date in June.

• Warm-up times for each age group will be announced with the swim team schedule.

• The Invitational is for swimmers who qualify in events during the regular swim team season.

Swim Suit Sale

• Wednesday, June 23rd

• Metro Swim Shop will be at the pool from 12:00pm-2:00pm selling the team suit, goggles, caps, and practice suits.

• If you cannot attend the sale at the pool, please complete the attached order form and return to Metro Swim Shop to purchase your child’s team suit.

Team Suit: Speedo Pulse
Female Suit: $51.75
Male Jammer: $32.95

Parent Volunteers

• Our summer swimming league is possible through the efforts of all of our parents. At Swim Meets, parents serve as:

• Timers: Keep time of the swimmer in your lane. We provide you with a stopwatch, clipboard and pencil and the swimmer in your lane (or the coach) will give you an event card. When the whistle blows you start timing, when the swimmer touches the wall stop the watch, and record the time on the card.

• Runners: Collect the event cards from the timers in each lane. After every event you will collect the cards of each swimmer in the race from the timer in their lanes and bring them to the score table.

• Scorekeepers: Keep score of the event based on the place of each swimmer as provided by the official of the meet.

• Ribbon writers: Write out the ribbons for every swimmer in every race and file them into the appropriate family ribbon mailbox.

• Once the swim meet schedule is finalized, our parent volunteer coordinator will be contacting the parents of registered children regarding volunteering at the meets. All families will be expected to volunteer and help at meets throughout the summer. Your help is greatly appreciated and necessary. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Team Trip to Lake Compounce

• Date : TBD

• Must be aged 9 or older and have a signed permission slip in order to attend.

• Departure and arrival time will be announced at a later date (check the pool entrance for details).