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Economic Impact Forms, Heat Sheets & Timelines for GCST Meet Economic Impact Form Dear Teams - Below you will find our hotel economic form from Lee County Sports Organizing Committee. We ask that you please forward to all families attending our meet this weekend. By having each of your families fill out a form, Lee County Sports Organization will give back a percentage to Gulf Coast Swim Team. In order for the sports organization to give back the percentage, they need to verify each reservation that is submitted on our...

How the Snowplow Parenting Trend Affects Kids On the surface, snowplow parents may think they're paving the way for their kids to succeed. But this style of parenting can actually prevent children from developing critical coping skills. Here's experts want you to know. Read more...

Twenty Survive CVST's Mystery Week This Year! This year's CVST Mystery Week is in the history books and the team had twenty of the toughest survive to make all eleven days of practices! Congratulations to all those Swimmers (and CVST Parents) who made the week. You swimmers will be receiving one of the World Reknown and Famous CVST Mystery Week T-Shirts! The shirts are now being designed and the Mystery Week Poem, for the backs of the shirt, is being written. They will be available as soon as the poem...

NEWS FLASH - This Sunday, June 5th, is Crazy Cap Day Tomorrow, for the last day of this year's Mystery Week, we will be having our first CRAZY CAP DAY! For one day only, at practice tomorrow, you can wear any cap you want! Funny, Silly, Fishy, Bubbly, Flowery, Just About Anything! There might even be a prize for the CRAZIEST CAP!

CVST's Holiday Training - Mystery Week Begins Thursday! Here are the Mystery Week Schedules once again. Remember even if you can't make all of the practices (to earn that Mystery Week T-Shirt), you should still try to make as many as you can! This training can really benefit you over the course of the season! Hope to see everyone beginning Thursday, December 26. Be sure to check the practice times as thay are different from our normal School Year practice times. Have A Great Christmas & Hanukkah and we will...

CVST First Quarter Swimmer of the Month Award Winners September 2019 - Charley Johnson The Carrollwood Village Swim Team has named Charley Jonnson as the September 2019 Swimmer of the Month. Swimming in two meets the 11-year-old Silver Practice Group member raced to 9 personal best times. At the CVST Friday Night at the Races, Charley swam to best times in the PBT’s in her 50-yard Backstroke (1:01.20), 50 Breaststroke (55.43), 50 Butterfly (1:12.00), and 100-yard Individual Medley (2:12.24). Three weeks later swimmer at the Florida Gulf Coast University Aquatic...

CVST Parent's Holiday Cocktail Party at Michael's Grill It's time for our CVST Parents to have their own event, so we are having a post Holiday get together at Michael's Grill, located at 11720 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33618, on Monday, December 30th, from 7:00-9:00pm. We hope you will all attend it should be a great night for all of our CVST Parents and Coaches to get together and have some fun away from the pool. CVST will also provide some hors d'oeuvres during the evening and Michael's...

CVST Name Caps Being Ordered It's time for a CVST Custom "Name" Cap order. Please click the link below to enter your order. If you need multiple names please just submit additional orders. Please note that the prices have gone down again! Orders are due Friday, January 3rd. All items will be billed to your CVST account. Please note that personalized caps will come in a two (2) pack. We only order caps once a year so don't miss out! If you need multiple packs with different names please submit...

CVST Swim Gear 2019 - Round 2 It's time to Re-order your CVST Swim Gear, or just order what you missed in our first round of orders for the 2019-2020 CVST Swim Gear Order. We typically only place an order on clothing items once a year, but here is a second chance, so don't miss out on this one!. All orders are due by Friday, January 3rd. Click the link below to place your electronic order. If you need to order multiples of items please place a second order. All...

CVST Swim Shop Holiday Clearance - UPDATE We've cleaned out the Team Gear closet and are offering you a great deal on retired team gear styles...first ones to respond to Allison (allison@cvst.org or 813-731-9370) will get the item. Some items have the CVST at Emerald Green logo and some have the CVST Swimming logo. All sales final. Items will be dropped off to your swimmer at the pool. Updated Quantities are listed below: White CVST T-Shirt with Navy Writing - $5 each Youth XL - 2, Adult Small - 3,...