Columbia Masters Swim Team

1st Grown Up Swim meet in the books for Columbia! The Irmo Manatees were the winning team for this one. Lots of fun! Don’t forget that we have three more meets this summer and registration is still open if you want to join in the fun!

South Carolina Current featured in Swimming World Magazine article

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/masters-nationals-a-personal-narrative-from-swimmings-biggest-reunion/?fbclid=IwZnRzaASWldtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe9zTcptU3aAkQeN_Bex-MUh-emTSyRVymWa4xvny0zW63wPNqMJwvtGYpf0o_aem_5wJliwBPkIBVelip97weMA

Masters Nationals: A Personal Narrative From Swimming's Biggest Reunion Swimming World senior writer David Rieder narrates his experience at this year's U.S. Masters Nationals in Greensboro.

We were spoiled and got the whole pool! The other teams had a meet. Great practice to our Saturday crew- 11 total! We even got in my favorite playful sprint exercise which works on reaction time too- partner races!

We had 8 brave souls come on our Saturday morning. Thanks to Coach Heath for sharing the big pool! I changed our practice and challenged them with the main set of 6 x 150’s- 50 build, 50 fast, 50 smooth.
200 swim, 200 kick, 200 pull
8 x 75- kick,drill,swim by 25 IM order
6 x 150 with 20 sec. Rest in between
100 easy
2 x 25 sprint from blocks
150-200 cool down

It was fun filling in coaching our morning workout at Columbia College. Everyone worked hard this morning!

Come check out the launch of Grown Up Swimming on May 9th after our practice at Blatt.

We had a great morning crew at USC today! Remember next Saturday they have a meet there so we will be doing an open water swim instead. More details to come later this week.

Shoutout to Patty Graham for qualifying for the National Senior games when she participated in the South Carolina Senior Games last weekend!

Our stroke clinic went swimmingly today! So appreciative to the Cola Tri Club for promoting it and to Drew Wellness Center for letting us host it there. We had 17 people come and it was a wide range of abilities;however, everyone learned several tidbits to help their freestyle body position and stretching out their strokes! We hope to host more clinics in the future!