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Safe Sport Game Night - Join The Fun! Sunday, September 18 at 6 p.m. ET (REGISTER) Target audience: Athletes 12 and older Description: Recent Olympic medalists Lilly King and Annie Lazor join a free zoom to showcase the importance of Safe Sport and a positive team culture. This game night will be held on Kahoot!, a free game-based learning platform where athletes will be able to answer questions.
Safe Sport Newsletter - August 2022 Reporting Reporting can be difficult, but it is vital to providing a safe and healthy environment for our athletes. Pursuant to federal law, all adults authorized to interact with minor or amateur athletes, who learn of facts that give reason to suspect that a child had suffered an incident of abuse, including sexual abuse, must make a report of the suspected abuse to law enforcement and/or your state's designated agency within 24 hours. Read below to learn more about physical and emotional misconduct and...
CVST Bring A Buddy Week Click Here for Practice Group Criteria & the Bring A Buddy Registration Form
Annual CVST Green Goggles Awards & Banquet Registration Deadline: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Download Flyer Here Registration Deadline: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
The Benefits of Sports Drinks: Are They Needed or Not? (From the August Issue of Swimming World Magazine) The sport drink got its start in the 1960s by Dr. Robert Cade. He wanted to create a beverage that would help the Florida Gators football team minimize sluggishness in the heat! Along came Gatorade. Since that moment, the sports drink industry has become a billion dollar business with many more brands entering the market. COMPOSITION Sports drinks are largely comprised of carbohydrates, electrolytes and water. The amounts and types of each...
15 Things Swimmers Are Tired of Hearing 1. I never see you. You’re always at practice. I’m not always at practice…just about 10 times a week with sessions of dryland, lifting and stretching thrown in. Okay, so I’m there a lot, but it’s only because of how dedicated swimmers are to their sport. How many other sports do you see people training this much, morning, noon and night, just to cut .1 off their time at championships? 2. You smell like chlorine. That might have to do with something about...
Here are 48 surefire ways to tell you’re a swimmer. 1. Your hair’s almost always wet, and your hairstyle of choice is a swimmer bun. 2. You carry around the smell of chlorine as if it were perfume. 3. Showering seems like too much of an effort, especially when you’ll be in the water in seven hours. 4. You’re always thinking about food: what you’ll eat after practice, what you’re eating for lunch, what you’re eating now, and what you’ll eat next. 5. You go through a bottle of lotion...
15 Truths About Swimming Swimming is a sport like no other. You learn a lot about yourself throughout your years as a swimmer and the sport inherently instills valuable life lessons in you. Even when your time as a competitive swimmer is done, you still continue to learn more about the sport and have time to reflect. Here are 15 very real and very honest truths about swimming: 1. Swimming isn’t like any other sport, so don’t expect it to be. Swimming is unique for many reasons and is truly...
From USA Swimming, Safe Sport and Florida Swimming - Cameras & Phones at Swim Meets No cameras (including cell phone cameras) or other recording devices are allowed behind the blocks at any time. If you see a camera you should: Inform the camera user of the policy and request that it be put away. Inform the Meet Director or Facility Manager of the camera use. Do this even if the camera user puts the camera away when asked. (From USA Swimming and Safe Sport) Dear Parents, No cameras, cell phone...
