Blue Dolphin Swimming offers a variety of services to our swimmers that you simply do not get ANYWHERE else. Just another reason why the Blue Dolphins are the Team that can't be Beat!

FREE ACADEMIC TUTORING

Blue Dolphins puts a high emphasis on Academic Excellence for all of our athletes! We recognize the importance of good grades and we know that it is often hard for parents and children to balance a demanding sport and their schoolwork. To assist our athletes in reaching their highest academic achievement, we provide free homework study groups and free supervised tutoring to all of our members. Anyone wishing to participate may simply show up at 6:00 on Wednesday. Additionally one on one tutoring is available for free on the weekends by appointment only.

Team Practice suits are provided free of charge to all swimmers and may be replaced for free up to 4 times per year. This can amount to a savings of over $240 per swimmer every year! We currently supply FastBack suits for girls and SpeedLine Briefs for boys. This material is designed to last a year or longer, but we will gladly replace your suits for free every three months as warranted.

Our club offers instruction to the swimmers using an underwater speaker. This system allows our coaches to give immediate feedback to swimmers while they are practicing rather than waiting for the swimmers to finish an entire set. The result is significantly improved stroke technique which results in significantly faster swimmers. In addition our team utilizes an underwater video system for analyzing stroke technique. This is the same system used by Olympic caliber training camps. Our coaches are specialists in video stroke analysis and can use these tools to improve your swimmer's abilities to their fullest potential. No other club can offer a program like this!

DOLPHIN FUN POINTS

One of the biggest problems in swimming is that we tend to reward 8 year olds exactly the same as 15 year olds, we give them a medal or a ribbon. While this is very exciting when you are young, this can get old hat by the time you get to be a bit older. Blue Dolphin Swimming offers a fun program for our kids that allows them to choose their OWN rewards! Each time a child receives a ribbon or a medal at a meet, they earn Dolphin Points. These points may be traded in for prizes ranging from an iPod for teens to action figures for younger children. The point is, the individual child decides what prize they want based on their own earned points.

As part of our commitment to academic as well as athletic excellence, Blue Dolphin Swimming encourages all of its athletes to read! Simply bring your book to practice to have it approved, then read the book and present an oral report. You will earn a credit for the number of pages you read that may be redeemed at a practice of your choice. Simply inform the coach that you are using your "book yards" and you may choose what you do during any set, up to the number of earned yards. This is great to use on a Friday fun day so that you can choose the activity!

Blue Dolphin Swimming promotes its unique brand of swimming instruction across the United States and across the world. We encourage our swimmers to see new places and experience new cultures as often as possible. To help make this a reality, Blue Dolphin Swimming will pay the FULL trip price for international meets for qualifying swimmers based on attendence.

For example, Each year we have an annual trip to compete against our sister team in Aruba - the Aruba Dolphins. Any swimmer that has a 100% attendence record for 5x days per week pays NOTHING for a one week trip to Aruba in early November. Swimmers who have a perfect attendece of 3x per week will pay only 60% of the travel costs, 2x per week would pay 40% and so on.

In addition we teach other coaches and swim teams around the world our unique swimming methods. Swimmers are encouraged to come along to these clinics whenever possible.

Some restrictions may apply.

We know that a lot of kids have more team spirit than they know what to do with. In an effort to pay them back, Blue Dolphin Swimming will cover all costs of any swimmer that decides to support the team by getting a "Blue Dolphin" mohawk, including approved travel and out of state clinics. And what is a Blue Dolphin Mohawk you ask? Simply shave a dolphin into each side of your head, then completely remove the rest of the hair on each side leaving a single line of long hair down the middle from front to back. Spike that up in the air and dye it blue and there ya go - a "Blue" - "Dolphin" mohawk. We've had so many kids take us up on this over the years that we've actually written it into the By-Laws! You swim free for as long as you keep the mohawk.