Great Mills Aquatic Club

GMAC practice is cancelled this Friday & Saturday.

Good luck to swimmers in the FSC meet.

Link to meet documents:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sBA8rors7WXbhJIJT7a4c0szEreRaOPL

Please make sure to review site addendum and warm-up times. Swimmers should arrive 15min before warm-up times.
It’s a long way to travel and show up late or unprepared!

Reminder no parents on deck and bring plastic bags for your mask.

Coach line-up:

19-Mar
Sr B: Max
Sr A: Max, Meagan
Jr A: Mindy
10&U: Meagan, Mindy, Emily

20-Mar
Sr B: Max
Sr A: Max, Meagan
Jr A: Liz
Jr B: Liz, Meagan

21-Mar
Sr B: Max, Mindy
Sr A: Max, Meagan
Jr A: tbd

GMAC

Email info@swimgmac.org or bemily@vt.edu to schedule an evaluation and get the registration link.

Practice times below:

Level 1: FULL
M/W/F 6-8p (45dry,75wet)
Tu or Th: 430-6p (90wet) – Coach will assign group (Half will swim Tu, other half Th)
SAT: 645-9a (15dry,120wet)

Level 2: 2 spots
M/W/F 5-645p (30dry,75wet)
SAT 830-1030a (30dry,90wet)

Level 3: 5 spots open
Tu/Th: 630-8p (30dry,60wet)
SAT: 830-1030a (30dry,90wet)

Level 4: 1 spots open
Tu/Th: 545-7p (15dry,60wet)
SAT: 1015-1130a (15dry,60wet)

Level 5: 1 spot open
Tu/Th: 530-630p (60wet)
SAT: 1030-1130a (60wet)

In order to keep our swimmers safe we will …
1. Continue to check athlete temperatures before practice begins.
2. Do our best to keep consistent lane assignments
3. Do our best to keep swimmers wearing a mask on deck and distanced 6ft apart at all times.
4. Continue to only allow parents on deck with children 8under or for specific medical or behavioral reason.
5. Limit locker room use as much as possible (come dressed with suits).
This is a team effort, please continue to stress the importance of COVID guidelines to your children.

Looking forward to another successful swim session at Great Mills.

Hello,

Here are the Time Trials results for this past Saturday. Thank you SO much to all of the coaches, parent volunteers and athletes who participated. It was so exciting to see our athletes swim and set new personal records!!!

Thanks and have a great week!!!

Coach Liz

Level 1-here is the article I mentioned during practice for those who are interested:

https://swimswam.com/what-is-the-best-streamline/

In order to test which streamline was the best, a device was used to measure the amount of frontal drag force on a swimmer while holding various types of streamlines. The hyper streamline position was found to be the most effective at reducing frontal drag. Right now there is no hard evidence (scientifically proven) that contradicts this concept, so until there is, I would say it is safe to say that hyper streamline is the most effective streamline body position.

Remember, don’t always do something just because someone tells you to! Question what you know and why it makes sense. Do some research and then make an informed decision.

-Coach Max

Our winter session January 11, 2021- March 13, 2021 is now open for registration.
Email bemily@vt.edu or info@swimgmac.org to schedule an evaluation and get the registration link.

Updated practice times below to maximize our lane usage and groups.

Level 1: FULL
M/W/F 6-8p (45dry,75wet)
Tu or Th: 430-6p (90wet) – Coach will assign group (Half will swim Tu, other half Th)
SAT: 645-9a (15dry,120wet)

Level 2: 1 spot
M/W/F 5-645p (30dry,75wet)
SAT 830-1030a (30dry,90wet)

Level 3: 2 spots
Tu/Th: 630-8p (30dry,60wet)
SAT: 830-1030a (30dry,90wet)

Level 4: FULL
Tu/Th: 545-7p (15dry,60wet)
SAT: 1015-1130a (15dry,60wet)

Level 5: FULL
Tu/Th: 530-630p (60wet)
SAT: 1030-1130a (60wet)

In order to keep our swimmers safe we will …
1. Continue to check athlete temperatures before practice begins.
2. Do our best to keep consistent lane assignments
3. Do our best to keep swimmers wearing a mask on deck and distanced 6ft apart at all times.
4. Continue to only allow parents on deck with children 8under or for specific medical or behavioral reason.
5. Limit locker room use as much as possible (come dressed with suits).
This is a team effort, please continue to stress the importance of COVID guidelines to your children.

Looking forward to another successful swim session at Great Mills.

Be safe, see you on deck.
Coach Emily