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Show Your Support for CVST! Join us Tonight at Glory Days! Today's Practice Schedule Bronze Group - 4:30-5:30 pm Sliver & Gold - 4:30-6:00 pm Senior 1 & Senior 2 - 4:00-6:00 pm (Dryland 5:30-6:00 pm)

How to Deal with Slacking Off Teammates It’s the most painful practice of your life. We’re talking a 10,000-yard shoulder killer. We’re talking a four-hour holiday marathon that makes you want to become a curler, a volleyball player, or a ballerina, or something — anything — but a swimmer. And, to make things worse, there they are. Your slacking off teammates. Laughing. Snorting. Making water balloons out of their swim caps and throwing them at each other. You’re about to pass out from working as hard as you possibly...

Blow Out Sale at CCC Pro Shop The CCC Pro Shop, at the main clubhouse, is having an "End of Summer Blowout Sale". They are marking Carrollwood logoed shirts at rock bottom prices. They will have Footjoy, Adidas, Under Armor, Travis Mathiew, Fairway & Greene, Cutter & Buck and many more. Titleist 915 Drivers $100 off, Titleist 915 Fairways $50 off. All Cobra Woods $50 off. Don't miss out on a great opportunity to renew you golf wardrobe or upgrade you equipment. Don't forget Christmas is just around the corner, let them help...

5 Reasons You Should be Working on Your Underwater Fly Kick If you’ve seen top level swimmers live, you know just how extraordinarily powerful they can kick underwater. Swimmers like Michael Phelps, Florent Manaudou, and Tom Shields perform the undulating dolphin kick so fluidly and powerfully that it seems superhuman. Trying to mimic their grace and power can leave us feeling more like a salmon in its death throes than the dolphin for which the kick is named after. But before you toss the notion of improving...

Unofficial Rules for Being a Swim Parent Being a swim parent can be more arduous than being a swimmer. Ten hours a day of waiting, biting fingernails, patiently scouring heat sheets, squinting onto the pool deck for any trace of your young swimmer, endless chatter about the novel you’re reading or that show on Netflix so-and-so “just loved and you have to watch,” aching backs, hot, humid pool decks, squished and cramped seating for hours on-end, all for sixty seconds of splashing, dashing, and racing. When you are...

Happy #ThrowBackThursday CVST Happy #TBT to #CVST! Anyone remember Regions, Team Jerseys, Team Trips or the Mark Spitz Statue at the Swimming Hall of Fame! #FunnestTeam

Psych Sheets & Estimated Timelines Available for CFM Meet The host club, Central Florida Marlins (CFM), has released the Psych Sheets and Estimated Timelines for this weekend's meet at Central Florida State College, in Ocala. Please be sure to check out the Psych Sheet and see where you stack up to the competition! Also, remember that the Estimated Timelines are just that, an estimate. Make sure you are not late for your assigned warm-ups. Heat Sheets will be available at the meet. Warm-up Info: Senior 1 Group -...

CVST Adds FNR on November 11th CVST has added a Friday Night at the Races Swim Meet to the schedule on Friday, November 11th, to make up for the FNR missed last week due to Hurricane Matthew. As always with CVST hosted events, this meet is an Autoimatic Sign-Up Meet, All eligible CVST are signed up for the meet, so if you will not be able to attend, be sure to remove your swimmer from the meet so you will not be charged the entry fees. Parents, we will also...

Swimming Stars to Descend on Times Square on Monday, Nov 21st Please join us for the 2016 Golden Goggle Awards in New York City Please join us as the United States Olympic Swim Team is honored during the 13th annual Golden Goggle Awards on the evening of Monday, November 21st at the iconic New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The annual Golden Goggle Awards not only honors and celebrates our U.S. National Swim Team, it serves as an important fundraiser for the USA Swimming Foundation. Proceeds from...