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In the News this Month:
Non Summer Hours: September 28 – May, 2010 Lap Swimming Open Swimming Family Swim
New! Camp Menlo – Spring Break Hey parents, are you trying to find something for your kids to do while they are off of school for spring break? Well we are proud to announce Camp Menlo Spring Break. Let your children have a fun and constructive spring break at aquatics day camp. Get a jump on spring with swimming, water games, and land activities for ages 5-12. Skill-appropriate instruction, confidence-building, and fun are offered at our new Camp Menlo Spring Break. Three week-long camps at the Burgess Park Pools, 8:45am-2:00pm. Camp Menlo Spring Break is unique in that it offers campers the chance to focus on swimming and significantly improve skills before summer arrives. Led by Menlo Mavericks coach and Menlo Swim School instructor Mike Moritz, and staffed by Menlo Swim School instructors, this camp provides high-quality instruction that builds a strong foundation in aquatics for a lifetime of safety, health, and enjoyment. With the addition to Camp Menlo Spring Break, Menlo Swim and Sport is happy to announce that we are currently accepting on-line registrations for the summer. The camps are one week in length. Camp Menlo Aquatic will be offering 10 one week camps, with the first week of camp starting on June 14th. Due to the success of Camp Menlo Aquatic in years past and to popular demand, we will be offering two camps daily at the Burgess Pool. The Camp Menlo Aquatic morning camp will run from 9am – 2pm. The cost is $250 per week. The Camp Menlo Aquatic afternoon camp will run from 2pm – 6pm. The cost is $200 per week. If you choose for your child to attend both daily camps, the cost is $400 per week. The Camp Menlo program will offer your child a diversity of activities while cultivating water safety skills and building a strong foundation for a lifetime of physical safety, health and personal enjoyment. >more
Are your little swimmers looking to improve their technique and looking to do something fun and constructive on a Saturday morning, well we have some good news to share with you - The Menlo Mavericks coaches will be offering clinics for those swimmers who wish to have more intensive and specific coaching. There will be strength conditioning, followed by the techniques/focus. The coaches are gearing these clinics specifically for those swimmers who wish to improve their technique and speed within a small group setting. Register now as there will only be 6 spots available for each coach for each clinic. The clinics will be held on Saturday mornings from 9:30am - 11:00am. The cost is $70.00 per clinic. Coach Juliette Applewhite will be leading the advanced swimmers and Coach Mike Moritz will be leading the beginner/intermediate swimmers. Saturday, March 13: Breastroke Each clinic will include the specific skills for each stroke. The coaches will provide training and technique for starts, turns, kicking, pulling and breathing. >more
Hey kids; are you looking for a high paying job for the summer? Menlo Swim and Sport will be offering an American Red Cross Lifeguarding course this spring. This is the perfect opportunity to get trained to become a lifeguard so that you will be certified and ready for summer employment. Menlo Swim and Sport offers some of the highest paying job in the aquatic field in the Bay Area. The course will be held over two weekends, starting on April 3. Register now as there are only 10 spots available for this course. Read the Water Safety page for more information and to register. >more
February Can-Do Fitness Challenge The Menlo Masters, along with Menlo Swim and Sport would like to thank the 225 swimmers who participated in this year’s Menlo Master's Can-Do Challenge for February's American Heart Month. Everyone’s time and hard work produced 3,200 of cans of food and over one thousand dollars for the Menlo Park Senior Center’s Brown Bag Lunch Program. There were 10 swimmers who swam more than 100 miles. There were over 20 swimmers who swam more than 100,000 yards and 105 swimmers who swam 50,000 or more yards. This year's top achievement goes to Menlo Masters swimmer Mitchell Johnson. Mitchell swam 365,000 yards. Way to go – what an achievement and inspiration!
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The annual Menlo Masters and Rinconada Masters meet will be this Saturday. Every year these two teams come together for the Blue and Gold Intramural meet. The meet is a friendly competition for adult swimmers of all ages and abilities. >more
Team Sheeper will be spending an invigorating spring weekend filled with fitness, fun, and camaraderie at a Spring Triathlon Training Camp held in Santa Barbara the weekend of Friday April 9th through Sunday the 11th. >more
You have received this newsletter because you have participated in or inquired about programs with Menlo Swim and Sport, including Team Sheeper and Menlo Masters. Let us know what you think.
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