Registration for Girls Swim & Dive is now closed. Our season runs from March 8 through April 9, and we are offering varsity competition only. All home and away meets will take place at the City of Tukwila pool on the campus of Foster High school (even if the schedule says otherwise).

The head coach for Swim & Dive is Carlos Palacian. He may be reached at palacianc@kennedyhs.org.

Please read important info about the season from Coach Palacian:

0ur first meet will take place on day 7, and everyone who competes on that Tuesday will need to have attended 5 practices minimum per WIAA rules. That is 5 practices out of 6.

The season will go by quickly. It is only 5 weeks long, so we need everyone to attend most practices.

 

Practice

Practice starts on Monday, March 8. We are once again sharing pool space with Foster High School, and this creates some unique challenges.  We will have two training groups. One will swim and dive from 3:30-4:00 and another will swim from 4:00 - 5:00. We will let you know what group you are in before the first practice. Everyone should aim to be at the pool 15 minutes before the practice begins. Late arrivals will be very disruptive to practice, and time and space is very limited so late arrivals may not be allowed to get in.

On-campus learners in the early training group may catch the Renton/Rainier route school bus to Tukwila Pool. It leaves promptly at 2:55pm by the field. Remote-learners and those in the second training group are expected to provide their own transportation to the pool. Everyone needs to provide their own transportation home.

 

Swim Meets

Swim meets this year will be virtual. I am hoping to add a head to head meet on Saturday April 10th as a "senior night", but as of now, that has not been scheduled.

For most meets, we will have diving take place the day prior to meet day, and we will have swim compete the day of. We will start warm up at 3:15 and hopefully be done by 5:00. If we see that we have plenty of time to include diving on meet days, we will make that change.

All meets, home and away, will be held at Tukwila Pool.

There will be no spectators allowed in the pool. To run the meets we will need some parent volunteers. I am still trying to figure out how many we are allowed. I will give preference to parents of seniors and will try to rotate through other volunteers as well, so you all have an opportunity to see your daughters in action.

 

Spring Break

As you can see on the calendar Spring Break will happen the last week of the season. Student-athletes are expected to practice and compete on the meets that week. If anyone has to travel, and they leave the state or whatnot, Covid protocols set by the school, will be enforced in terms of quarantining. This means that if your family travels for a long weekend during the season, your season could be done.

 

Here is a calendar of the year as far as we know right now. Important things to know are:

 

• Athletes must attend 5 practices before being able to participate in a meet.
• First practice is March 8th.
• Quarantine due to travel means no team participation during that period of time.
• I believe there are a couple of Thursdays that Foster has meets at our pool, and those days we may do team building activities elsewhere.

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1-Mar	2-Mar	3-Mar	4-Mar	5-Mar
		Tryouts	Tryouts	Team Meeting
		3:30 - 5:00	3:30 - 5:00	3:00 - 4:30 pm
		Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Kennedy HS
8-Mar	9-Mar	10-Mar	11-Mar	12-Mar
Practice	Practice	Practice	Practice	Practice
3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00
Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool
15-Mar	16-Mar	17-Mar	18-Mar	19-Mar
Practice	Meet vs KW	Practice	Practice	Practice
3:30-5:00	3:15-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00
Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool
22-Mar	23-Mar	24-Mar	25-Mar	26-Mar
Practice	Meet vs KM	Practice	Practice	Practice
3:30-5:00	3:15-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:30-5:00
Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool
29-Mar	30-Mar	31-Mar	1-Apr	2-Apr
Practice	Meet vs MR	Practice	Meet vs KR	Practice
3:30-5:00	3:15-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:15-5:00	3:30-5:00
Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool
5-Apr	6-Apr	7-Apr	8-Apr	9-Apr
Practice	Meet vs KL	Practice	Meet vs TH	Last Practice
3:30-5:00	3:15-5:00	3:30-5:00	3:15-5:00	3:30-5:00
Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool	Tukwila Pool

 

 

Different Expectations

This year, Swimming and Diving will look different, meets will feel different, expectations will be different, and isn't that how this year has gone so far?

The great news is that we WILL have a season, and I cannot wait to see what we can do with this opportunity.

 

We will rise and be stronger and better for it next year and beyond.

 

Go Lancers!

 

Coach Carlos

 

 

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