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YWCA Barracudas Swim Team

The Barracudas Swim Team is a year-round program featuring three seasons, Fall Training, Winter Warmup and Summer Swim Team. 

 

 

Click the tabs below to find out about each season!

 

The purpose of the YWCA Barracudas Swim Team is to improve swim knowledge and ability, and to encourage an atmosphere that promotes fun, teamwork, and friendship!

We are looking forward to seeing returning Barracudas as well as welcoming new Barracudas that are ready to feed on the competition!

Register for Aquatics Programs Online

Important notes about online registration:

If you are currently or have been a YWCA Member, do not create a new membership account. Instead, try to access your old account. If you are having difficulties, please email pool@ywca-lowercapefear.org and we will assist with retrieving your password.

If you are not currently a member, please select an “Aquatics” option. If you are unsure of the best membership option for your household, contact the YWCA Pool Front Desk to discuss membership options. Please note, membership alone does not include use of the pool outside of program times.

Still having issues? Call the Pool Front Desk at (910) 799-6820 ext. 109

Barracudas Swim Team Schedules

Fall Training

There are two sessions in our Fall Training program, a mini session that runs from mid-August to the end of September and the regular session that runs from the end of September until the first of February. There are no swim meets during fall training, but the team meets to build endurance, gain skills, and have FUN!

Registration opens at the end of July for the season.

Keep and eye here for registration dates! This program fills up quickly!

All requests to “swim up” must be approved, in advance, by the Aquatics Director.

Not sure your child is ready for swim team? Contact us today and we can talk about it and schedule and evaluation as needed!

 

Winter Warmup

Click HERE for the Winter Warmup 2024 Brochure

New for 2024! We have adjusted Tuesday/Thursday swim times and groups to have fewer swimmers in each group but overall still have the same number of swimmers in our program.

If you would like to request your swimmer to “swim up” please do so prior to the first day of registration by emailing pooldir@ywca-lowercapefear.org

Registration opens Monday, December 11th at 9am – in person, online or by phone

If you choose to register in person please – wait outside so our lobby is clear for pool patrons.

If you choose to register by phone please – if you get our voicemail, leave a voicemail and we will return those messages in the order we receive them. Please do not continue to call as this will make it difficult for us to call out. In your voicemail please leave your swimmers name and preferred swim time/group to help facilitate the registration process.

If you choose to register online – this is the easiest and fastest way to register! We encourage you to access your account prior to the day/time of registration to make sure everything is in order. Please review the instructions below if you are a new member.

 

f you are currently or have been a YWCA Member, do not create a new membership account. Instead, try to access your old account. If you are having difficulties, please email pool@ywca-lowercapefear.org and we will assist with retrieving your password.

If you are not currently a member, please select an “Aquatics” option. If you are unsure of the best membership option for your household, contact the YWCA Pool Front Desk to discuss membership options. Please note, membership alone does not include use of the pool outside of program times.

Winter Warm up is a 10-week jump-start to summer swim team. It allows all levels of ability to strengthen their stroke technique, starts, turns, muscle strength, endurance, and race strategy in a fun and positive atmosphere. The goal of this program is to promote the sport of swimming as fun, healthy, disciplined exercise and an activity to enjoy throughout life. Swimming has the added benefit of being a team and individual sport. Working together as a team in a relay or measuring one’s personal improvement is the diversity the sport of swimming offers. There are no swim meets in this program but there are time trials within the practice times. 

 

What a great summer 2023 season! We are so proud of the 230+ summer swimmers who participated in the Barracudas summer swim program. Thank you to all the parents, volunteers and swim coaches!

2024 season information will be available in March of 2024. Check back here regularly for information on the season and for registration information.

The summer season typically runs mid-May through mid-July with 5-6 meets and championships. We kick off the season and end with season with a pool party. Feel free to reach out for more information.

swim fast barracudas!