Swim Team Registration Night - June 2, 2016

Woodstock Swim Team Registration Night will be held next Thursday, June 2 from 5-7 p.m. at Woodstock Rec. Come in and get registered, try on and order your team suit and cap, and learn more about the team - new and returning swimmers welcome!

If you try on and order your suit at registration night, you should receive your suit in time for the start of the season.

Questions? Email the coaches at wstcoaches@gmail.com. 

Stroke & Turn Officials Needed - Clinics Offered

Stroke and Turn

As always, we are looking to train new Stroke & Turn officials to help out at meets. 

Experience as a former (or current) swimmer is NOT necessary; anyone can be trained and contribute significantly to our team!  

As a team, we have the obligation of training at least 2 (hopefully more!) new S&T officials each year, so please let us know if you are interested or have any questions/concerns regarding the training. There are 3 stroke and turn clinics offered this summer (see schedule below). We are also offering a starter clinic at the Woodstock Rec, so if you're interested in learning how to be the driving force behind running the races this is your chance! We cannot run meets without S&T officials, so please consider taking the leap and getting trained! We need to submit lists of names prior to each clinic, so let us know ASAP.

Clinic #1 - Wednesday, May 18, 2016

STROKE AND TURN - Brattleboro, VT -  5 pm to 7 pm @ Marlboro Graduate Center, 28 Vernon Str., Brattleboro, VT.

Clinic #2 - Wednesday, May 25, 2016

STARTER CLINIC - Woodstock, VT - 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm @ Woodstock Recreational Dept or Little Theater.  

Clinic #3 - Wednesday, June 1, 2016

STROKE AND TURN - Manchester, VT - 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm @ the Park House (at the pool), 340 Recreation Park Road, Manchester Center, VT  05255.

Clinic #4 - Monday, June 27, 2016

STROKE AND TURN - Quechee, VT - 5 pm to 7 pm @ The Quechee Club, 3268 Quechee Main Str., Quechee, VT, in the conference room of the Clubhouse.

2016 Meet Schedule

2016 Southern Vermont Swim League - WST Meets

Weekday meets generally start at 5pm. Home meet WST warm ups are at 4pm, WST away warm ups often start at 4:30pm. 

6/28 Tuesday @ Manchester

7/5 Tuesday @ Woodstock

7/9 Saturday @ Rutland

7/12 Tuesday @ Rockingham

7/19 Tuesday @ Woodstock

7/16 Saturday Optional Invitational Meet* @ Rutland

7/26 Tuesday Optional Last Chance Meet* @ Rockingham

7/30 Saturday (Sunday Rain Date) Southern Vermont Swim League (SVSL) Championships* **

8/6 - 8/7 Vermont Swim Asssociation (VSA) State Championships* ***

* Asterix indicates there are fees associated with the meet. Meet fees are not included in your registration fees and can range anywhere from $5-10 per swimmer for Invitational meets up to $5 per event for the VSA Championship meet. Swimmers are limited to 4 individual events and 2 relays for all meets. 

We wish to make sure all who have interest in participating may do so. Please feel free to contact Gail about scholarship assistance available to eligible WRC swimmers.

**SVSL Championship is a fee-based meet open to all registered swimmers who have competed in at least TWO SVSL regular season meets. Fees are usually $15-20 per swimmer.

***VSA is a fee-based meet and is open to all registered swimmers who have competed in at least THREE SVSL meets and who have met or exceeded the posted qualifying times. The Rec Center covers the cost of relays ($20 per relay entered). The maximum per swimmer fee would be $20 for the Championship meet, but may be less depending on how many events a swimmer enters.

Head Coach Announcement

HEAD COACH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations, Coach Alex! Coach Alex is graduating summa cum laude from Simmons College with a BA in Psychology in just a few short weeks. Wow! Coach Alex has also secured an exciting research position at UVM, and therefore, sadly for us, plans to move to Burlington this summer. Please join me in thanking Alex for everything she has given to the team and wishing her much success. Thank you so much, Alex. We will miss you very much and we hope to see you on the pool deck sometime this summer!

Alex's departure of course meant we needed to find a coach to lead the team for summer 2016.

We are therefore pleased to announce that Maddie Gilbert, a longtime WST swimmer and former Head Coach, has just accepted the WST Head Coach position for the 2016 summer season. Maddie recently returned from Brazil where she was teaching English as a Fulbright scholar. Coach Maddie will be once again joining WST for the summer before she heads to NYU for graduate school this fall.