Safety Committee Meeting – 2 pm, October 4, 2014 – All interested American Red Cross instructors wishing to serve on the safety committee are invited to attend this meeting.  Focus of this meeting is to create a master training calendar throughout the LSC for access to the necessary coaches credentials.  Questions?  Please contact Cori Welbes at [email protected] if you are interested.

ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER WITH CORI WELBES NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 29TH TO ENROLL IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES!  THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO ON-SITE REGISTRATION.  Friday, October 3rd  7 p.m. – CPR Only Skill Session Saturday, October 4th  8:30 a.m. – CPR skill session                                 10:30 a.m. – Safety Training for Swim Coaches Skill Session  Coaches need to check their current certification status prior to enrolling in the skill sessions.  If your Safety Training for Swim Coaches is current through 2015 and your CPR expires in 2014 you will need to enroll...

  Application Deadline:  Sept. 24   The  2014 National Select Camp Assistant Coach application is now live on usaswimming.org. The camp will be held Oct. 23-26, 2014 at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. Three assistant coaches will be selected by an application process. Applicants must be the coach of an athlete at the current U.S. Open or Junior Nationals. Apply  here.

Congratulations to the following Florida LSC swimmers that qualified for the USA Swimming Scholastic All-American list.   Last Name First Name Gender LSC Club Zone Yrs 4.0 Aitchison Alexandra F FL Clearwater Aquatic Team Southern 2 Yes Andrews Parker M FL Bolles School Sharks Southern 1 Yes Barrena Javier M FL Bolles School Sharks Southern 2   Batista Caio M FL Bolles School Sharks Southern 1 Yes Boehm Brian M FL Sarasota YMCA Sharks Southern 1 Yes Bowser Savannah F FL Gulf Coast Swim Team Southern 1 Yes Brent Kendall...

  2015 Registration Forms are now available here.

2014 FL CONVENTION & FL HOUSE OF DELEGATES MEETING – OCTOBER 4-5, 2014: The FL Convention and FL House of Delegate meeting is being held at the Rosen Centre Hotel, 9840 International Dr., Orlando, FL 32819. BOOK YOUR ROOM NOW, 1-800-204-7234 and mention the Florida Swimming group! *Hotel room reservations must be made by September 12, 2015, call 1-800-204-7234, to receive the convention rate of $109.00.

Florida Swimming office hours changes for September, 2014. Closed:   Sept. 1 Part-Time Hours 8:30 to 1:00:  Sept. 4,5 & 8, Sept 16 to 19, while attending USAS convention and Sept. 25 to 29.

  Register now for the USA Swimming Foundation's Fantasy Camps before time runs out! Fantasy Camp - Youth October 9-12, 2014 Cost: $2,000 Registration Deadline: September 3 Featuring: Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin Three-time Olympic Coach David Marsh U.S. Olympic Swim Team Asst. Coach Todd Schmitz Olympic gold medalist Mel "Gold Medal Mel" Stewart Two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton  Fantasy Camp - Adult October 18-19, 2014 Cost: $2,500 Registration Deadline: September 10 Featuring: Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian Olympic gold medalist and NBC Analyst Rowdy Gaines 2014 "Coach of the Year" Bruce Gemmell Olympic gold medalist Debbie Meyer  Participants at the USA Swimming...

Florida Swimming Coaches and Officials, We are in the 3rd year of getting the Florida Swimming Hall of Fame established and we are looking for more nominees to announce at this year’s House of Delegates. Your help would be appreciated.  We are sending you a nomination form (see attached), please get it in as soon as you can so it can go to the HOF Board for voting. Deadline: September 1, 2014. Send to [email protected]. Thank you for your help! Here is who was Inducted 2012: Bud and Irene Hackett Harry Meisel Tom Lamar Brook Bennett Sam Griner...

Dear Coach, I will be teaching a Club Leadership Business management School 201 on Wednesday, August 20th from 6:00 pm- 10:00 pm.   You would need to take the CLBMS 101 on line here. http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1619&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en I will not be teaching this class again in Florida this year. Here is the correct address for the class taught 6 pm -10 pm.    It is still free and you might want to take the one hour 101 class before.  Here is the link for that class.  http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1619&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en Courtyard Orlando International Drive/Convention Center  8600 Austrian Court •Orlando, FL 32819,...