Merritt Athletic Swimming - Year Round Swim Team

Congratulations to Jessica Long! Named Female Swimmer of the Can-Am championships July 11-13, 2008! Jessica broke the World Record in the 100 meter FLy -S8 class.

Practice Groups

Coaches
Swim Team Records

Manta
For swimmers eight and under who can swim 25 yeards of freestyle and backstroke. Swimmers will continue to work on freestyle and backstroke fundamentals and be introduced to breaststroke and butterfly. The focus of this group is on developing basic introductory skills.

Junior Marlins
For swimmers seven to ten years old. Stroke development in all four competitive strokes is the purpose of this level. In addition to stroke technique, swimmers work on turns and starts.

Marlins
For swimmers eight to twelve years old. At this level swimmers have an understanding of good practice habits and are capable of swimming all four competitive strokes legally. Swimmers continue to focus on stroke technique while starting to work on harder training sets.

Junior Rays
For swimmers ten years old and up. Swimmers have a strong stroke technique base to build form. Swimmers are challenged in this group with harder training sets that continue to refine their stroke while exposing them to interval and longer distance sets.

Rays
For swimmers twelve and older. Swimmers are expected to show a high level of commitment to their training. Swimmers continue to progress through repetition of training drills and interval main sets. Swimmers have embraced core training habits to be successful.