**Registration NOW OPEN for the 2024 - 2025 Highlands Winter Swim Program**

Welcome to the Highlands Swim Team Winter Program Registration for the 2024-2025 season!

Highlands Winter Swim will be run at Marymount University’s Lee Center Pool on Sunday evenings. The minimum age is 5 years of age (by September 1st) and swimmers must be able to swim 25 yards in both a recognizable freestyle and backstroke. The program is not intended to be “learn-to-swim lessons,” but will be competitive swim training and stroke technique instruction. You must be a Highlands member to participate. Swimmers on swim team, whompers, or advanced swim school during the 2024 season will be eligible.

The program will allow swimmers to focus on technique, learn new skills, build team spirit, and allow for those swimmers who participate in multiple sports to stay active and in the water year round.

Once again, we are very fortunate that Coach Kelli Morris Larkin will serve as Head Coach of the Highlands Winter Swim Program. Coach Kelli is the current Developmental Swim Director at Highlands, managing our Whompers program and the Highlands Swim School. Coach Kelli is also a longtime NVSL and USS swim coach, and current Operations Manager of The Machine Performance Center (Machine Aquatics’ swim school). Kelli is a trained educator and mother of four, including two of our current Highlands swimmers / coaches. We are thrilled to have Coach Kelli leading our winter swim program. At each practice, Kelli will be joined by many familiar faces from our terrific staff of Highlands Assistant Coaches.

Swimmers will be assigned to a practice session by our coaches based on age and current swim level. Sessions will run on Sundays from 4:30 - 5:30pm and 5:30 - 6:30pm. The cost of the program is $795. The program will run from September 15, 2024 until May 4, 2025. Please note that we will not be able to offer refunds after September 1.

There will be no winter swim on the following dates: October 13, November 24, December 1, December 29, February 9, April 20. Due to anticipated conflicts with Potomac Valley Swimming and college meets, there will be 1-2 additional NO swim dates (most likely in February/March). These additional NO swim dates have already been built into the fee and we will email those dates out to all participating families in advance when they are confirmed. 

This program has run a waitlist in the past. Please register your swimmer asap to ensure their space in the program. If you have any questions about the program and whether it is right for your child, please feel free to email Highlands Winter Program Parent Rep, Gillian Russell, [email protected].

HOW TO REGISTER:

Registration will be through our website on July 19 at 8am - HERE. If you have any questions regarding the registration process, please contact Gillian Russell at [email protected]

Once online registration is completed, the Whomping Turtle Team Administrator must approve your registration. We look forward to having you join the Highlands Swim Team Winter Program and are excited for our fourth winter season at Marymount to begin!

*Highlands reserves the right to cancel the program before September 1, 2024 if we do not meet the minimum number of swimmers threshold required to run the program. If you are considering registering, please do so right away.

For other third-party lesson, developmental swim schools, and competitive swim team options for the 2024-2025 school year, please see this LIST. Let's keep our turtles swimming this winter!