Swimming Team Center
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Recreational Swimming |
| Home of the Hogs Springbrook Pool is home of the Springbrook Hogs, a recreational swim team where kids learn to compete and families come together to have fun and enjoy the variety of activities the swim team has to offer. The Springbrook Hogs are one of sixty recreational teams throughout Contra Costa County whose swimmers range from 4 to 18 years of age. As part of the Walnut Creek Swim Conference, we swim each of eight other teams in our conference once during a season, plus several non-conference and invitational meets, including the Lafayette City Meet, Walnut Creek Swim Conference Championship Meet and Contra Costa County Championship Meet. The swim team consists of six different age groups: 6 & Under, 7/8’s, 9/10’s, 11/12’s, 13/14’s and 15/18’s, broken down into boys and girls groups. Practice begins early May with our first meets in early June. Our official season ends in mid-August with a two-day Walnut Creek Swim Conference Championship Meet. Several of our swimmers go on to participate in the Contra Costa County Championship Meet at the end of August by achieving qualifying times. |
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Team Goals and Philosophy Recreational swim teams can be fun, exciting and rewarding. Many children improve rapidly and it is not unusual to see big time improvements during this phase. Children are learning and growing at a greater rate than any other time in their lives. It is difficult to avoid the tendency to push young athletes at this stage. Although a child of eleven or twelve can handle the physical demands of serious swim training, most coaches feel that the workload should not be too great until a child reaches puberty. For youngsters, the emphasis should be placed on improving stroke technique. Swimming, especially at the youngest levels, should be fun and relatively pressure free. |
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