SwimFest

SwimFest 11 - May 20 - 22

Come share the deck with some of the world’s top Masters swim coaches in Atlanta, GA at the Steve Lundquist Aquatic Center. Join us for a weekend of interactive clinics and instruction in a friendly, non-competitive environment. For swimmers, whether you are looking to learn the basics, hone your skills or become a more efficient athlete, SwimFest is for you. All levels and abilities are welcome. For coaches, SwimFest is our interactive education platform. You receive classroom instruction from Mentor Masters coaches and the opportunity to put into practice what you learn in supervised on-deck coaching sessions. Friday, May 20 is a coaches-only round table. Saturday, May 21 is focused on pool swimming and Sunday, May 22 is open water swimming at Lake Peachtree.
New for SwimFest 2011, we will be teaching USMS/ASCA Masters Coach Certification Level I and Level II....Read more

Practices and Workouts.

Let Team ZILA help get you ready for the tri season!  Our swim team has coached and organized practices that will help melt time off of your swim.  Below is our schedule for the coming months.  Take special notice of the June and July practices at the Wood River pool.  This will be great training for the Wood River Triathlon.

April- Organized Practices at Edwardsville YMCA- Thursday Evenings 8-9 and Monday Mornings 5:30-6:30 or 6:30-7

May- Practice at LC M-Th 6:00-7:00am

June&July- Practice at Woodriver Aquatic center M-F 6:00-7:30

April workouts will be posted under the individual training tab if you would like to swim on your own.

To sign up for coached practices please email teamzila@gmail.com

Doug and Grant swimming at Lewis and Clark

Check out videos of ZILAs swimmers at LCCC.  Under water video captures of your stroke is a great way to find errors in your stroke and help you understand a proper stroke. You should be able to see an efficient push off the wall (Grant) as well as some side by side swimming.  Thanks Jim for video taping!  Hopefully more members can benefit from your awesome camera in the future.

Your Videos: 100_0080.MOV [HD] Doug and Grant at Lewis and Clark

Your Videos: Champion Swimmers Doug and Grant [HD]

USMS Features

USMS Features

It's nice to see people you know who expend a lot of their time and effort to help people recognized. For that reason I was very excited to see this featured on the USMS.ORG website while searching for events today.

If you are a USMS Swimmer in Ozark area, then Hap Gentry, helped you get there as our registrar.

I've seen a lot of people whom he has helped learn to swim at his Sunday 8am swim at Ladue High School.
Hap goes the extra mile to demonstrate how to swim. He has pulled me out of the pool and had me out lying down on the deck to demonstrate exactly what I should be doing. Then as I would progress, he'd be on the deck (fully dressed) at the end of each length to make sure I got it.

If you ever have time on Sunday mornings and $6, you will receive an excellent workout and instruction.

Hap is also a ASCA Level 5 Masters coach and USAT coach. Hap was unanimously voted the OZARK LMSC service award for 2011.