Sarasota YMCA wins FLAGS.    Place Team Points 1 Sarasota YMCA Sharks Sarasota YMCA Sharks 2,573. 50 2 Bolles School Sharks Bolles School Sharks 1,871 3 Tampa Bay Community Aquatics Tampa Bay Community Aquatics 1,089 4 Gator Swim Club Gator Swim Club 1,068 5 Swim Florida Swim Florida 1,007 The 2013 Florida Age Group Championships results are posted on the  Event Page. 10 Records Broken   Event  #22   Daugherty, James M ‑ Male ‑ Age: 14 ‑ Bolles School Sh ‑                ...

  USA Swimming is now providing a free BoardSource organizational membership to every head coach and every LSC/club board member. The purpose of this email is to ask you to help distribute this information to each of the clubs in your LSC. The attached letter includes the link for individuals to sign up for their free BoardSource membership. This is a tremendous resource that we can now offer every club and their board members. Thanks for your help. The attachment is also going out this week in the blast email to...

  Growing the Business of Swimming Wednesday, March 6th at Noon pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT With Mike Koleber, Owner & Head Coach of Gold Medal Club, NITRO Swimming Listen to Mike Koleber, Owner and Head Coach of NITRO Swimming, one of the country's most successful swim programs both competitively and as a business model. This webinar will benefit any program whether it's coach-owned, board or institution run. 2001: 70 kids. Parent board, rented 3' deep outdoor pool.  2013: 1500+ kids. Coach owned. Gold Medal Club. Two indoor 50...

The warm up schedule for FLAGS has been revised as of 3/4/13. The new warm up schedules can be found on the Event Page.

The Florida Swimming Office will be on reduced hours from March 5-8, 2013.   The office will be open at 8:30 AM, and close at 1 PM each day.

  Florida Swimming will present two $1,000.00 awards to one male and one female Florida Swimming/USA Swimming athlete member, in 2013. If you know of a student/athlete  member you believe deserves and meets the criteria please have them fill out the enclosed  form and return it by Monday, July 15, 2013. The FL awards committee will review the  applications and announce the recipient Saturday, July 27, 2013, during the “2013 Florida  Swimming Long Course Senior Championship”, held at Indian River State College, Fort Pierce, FL.   Bud & Irene Hackett...

    Coaches: USA Swimming’s Operational Risk committee is sending out a reminder about the necessary criteria for racing start progressions. The criteria for racing start certification can be found on the  USA Swimming website.  What are the criteria for racing start certification?  Answer: In order for swimmers age 10 years and under and/or swimmers with less than one year of experience to be certified, the swimmer must have satisfactorily completed the racing start learning progression set forth in the American Red Cross Safety Training for Swim Coaches Manual also...

Psych sheets, times needing proofs, and team / swimmer counts are now posted.   Times Needing Proof -  updated! -  Coaches, please verify times as soon as possible, athletes will not be seeded/allowed to swim unless the times are proven! Psych Sheet Team List/Athlete Count

Information is now available for the 2013 Total Team Wares Spirit Award to be presented to the team with the most spirit at the Florida Age Group Championships (FLAGS).     Judges will be watching for the following: 1. Team Spirit – Overall energy displayed throughout meet 2. Originality and Use of Theme throughout meet 3. Athlete Sportsmanship – behavior in and out of the water 4. Team Sitting Area Clean-up – preliminaries and finals 5. Parent Sportsmanship – behavior on and around the spectator viewing area   Selection Committee:...

  BY MIKE GUSTAFSON//CORRESPONDENT The other day, a small blonde-haired boy burst into tears near my lap swim lane. He shouted, cried, screamed, and pouted. Maybe the water was too cold, or the pool was too noisy, or he swallowed too much water during his swimming lesson. His father held his hand and told him, “Everything is going to be OK,” but this didn’t matter to the boy; he kept crying. He was probably four-years-old, and he made it audibly clear that he never wanted to return to the aquatic...