January 9, 2018

Happy New Year Swim Club Families,

I hope everyone had a nice break.

I just wanted to send a quick reminder that Ladue Swim Club will resume tomorrow night Tuesday, January 9th, 2018. We also have practice this Thursday and there is no scheduled practice this coming Saturday.

Because of a high school swim meet tomorrow afternoon, it is highly likely that we will need to start swim club late tomorrow evening.  We will plan to start each group 20 minutes late.

Age group 5 to 7 will begin at 5:50 PM

Age group 8 to 10 will begin at 6:40 PM

Age group 11 & up will begin at 7:30 PM and go until 8:20 PM

Over winter break the pools HVAC units were successfully replaced and a new heat exchange unit was installed.  We also had a pump replaced that helps circulate water through the heating units.  I'm happy to report that as of this afternoon the pool's water temperature is much more comfortable for our swim club members. 

I hope to see everyone at the pool tomorrow.

Coach Miller

Swim Club and the Ladue Pool

Good Afternoon Swim Club Families,

Here is the upcoming schedule for Ladue Swim Club:

Saturday, December 16, 2017 Practice at normal times: 10 AM, 10:45 AM, and 11:15 AM.
Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 Practice at normal times: 5:30 PM, 6:20 PM, 7:10 PM.  We'll give the kids some play time at the end of each group.  This will be our last practice prior to winter break.  We had a practice scheduled for Thursday, December 21 but we are going to cancel this practice because of some maintenance that is occurring in the building beginning on the 21st after school lets out. I'll explain in more detail below.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Resume practice for swim club following winter break. There is a high school swim meet scheduled for this day, so our practice times may be delayed by 15 to 20 minutes.  We'll plan on beginning at regular times but we may have to push them back just a bit if the meet runs long.

Starting on December 21 in the afternoon, the pool's HVAC units are being replaced.  The contractor that is replacing the units plans to cut heating service sometime on Thursday the 21st in preparation to remove the rooftop units and place new ones on the roof on Friday the 22nd.  There is a very large crane that is scheduled to make the move on the 22nd and the units need to be prepped in order to remove the old units from the roof and place the new units on the roof.   The reason we are opting to not to practice on the 21st in the evening is because we can not be sure that we will have well conditioned and heated air for the pool area. Without heating, the air temperature could drop substantially by the time that are practice starts at 5:30 PM.
This is all very exciting and when we come back in January we should have a brand new HVAC system in place.  While the pool itself will not look any different, hopefully we are able to condition the air more efficiently.  In addition, we are having a pump replaced and a new heat exchanger installed that will help us to keep a more consistent water temperature for the swimmers.  The contractors only have limited time over the break to complete the project so they are starting as soon as they can after the school day. The pool will be closed from December 21 to January 7 to give them time to complete the project and condition the water for swimming. 

In other news, Coach Andrew, who started the season with us, moved home to Ohio to be with his family for month. Sometime after the new year, he will be moving to New Zealand to play professional water polo in the New Zealand league.  We are actively looking for a replacement coach for Andrew and hope to have a new coach in January.  Coach Salman and I have been filling in for Andrew until we can find a replacement  coach. 

I hope you have a nice break and happy holidays,
Corey

Swim Club Meet

Good Morning All,
Just a reminder that we have our meet with the CSP Tideriders tomorrow evening March 7th.  All age-groups will begin warm-ups at 5:30 PM and we anticipate starting races at 6 PM.  There will not be regular practice tomorrow evening.

Important meet and other information

Good Afternoon All,

I am just going over some dates for upcoming Ladue Swim Club events and the end of the winter season.

There is swim club tonight (Thursday, February 16th, 2017) at normal times.

Swim club is not scheduled to meet on Saturday, February18th, 2017.

On Thursday, February 23rd we would like to have an inter-squad swim meet.  We would like all age groups to meet at the pool at 6 PM for warm-ups and then we will swim a mock meet in preparation for an upcoming meet with the CSP Tideriders team.  We will start the mock meet at 6:30 PM. Groups will not meet at the normal times.  All groups should meet at 6 PM and we anticipate being finished by about 7:30 PM.  We hope all the swimmers can make it.

On Tuesday, March 7  we will have a meet with the CSP Tideriders team.  The warm-up time for all age groups will be at 5:30 PM.  The meet will begin at 6 PM.  We anticipate the meet taking between 1 and 1.5 hours.  Each swimmer will have the opportunity to swim a race in their age group in each of the four strokes.  It is a fun event and we do not collect times, we just race. 

The last scheduled winter swim club will meet on Saturday, March 11th. 

I plan to open the registration window for the spring swim club on Friday, February 24th. This session will fill very quickly.  The spring swim club will begin on Tuesday, March 28th and run through May 18th.  I will send out additional information about this.

Also, the Ladue Swimming Pool will be closed this summer due to high school renovations and building construction.  Our close date is still to be determined, but we anticipate closing just after school is out this May.

I hope everyone has a nice President's weekend and we'll see you at the pool.

Ladue Swim Club Winter 2016-2017 has been filled

The Ladue Swim Club Winter  2016-2017 has been filled and the registration page has been turned off.  We appreciate all of the enrollments and support and are amazed that it has filled in record time once again.  If you would like to be added to the wait list, please send your name and your swimmers name and age in an email to Corey Miller at cmiller@ladueschools.net  If an opening becomes available, I will notify you.   Swimming will begin in November. Thank you for your interest in the program.

Enrollment Page

The enrollment page is now up and running.  Please make sure to go through all of the enrollment until you get to the submit button and then to a confirmation page.  Have a great weekend!

Winter 2016-2017 Swimming

Hello All,
I hope you have had a great summer!  We are currently putting together our winter 2016-2017 swimming program.  Registrations will be open in mid-September and swimming will begin in November.  We will post a note when the registration page is up and running.