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1. What is a Swim‐A‐Thon®? Swim‐a‐Thon® is a fundraiser in which participants earn money for their team by swimming lengths of the pool. Swimmers have a two‐hour period to swim a maximum of 200 lengths. Participants get pledges from businesses, family, neighbors, etc. prior to swimming. Some choose to get pledges and money prior to swimming while others get pledges per length and collect the money following the Swim‐a‐Thon®. With over 500 Swim‐a‐Thons® conducted each year, this program has proven itself over and over again as a successful method...
Dear AAAA Parents and Families, AAAA will be running a SWIM-A-THON® to help raise money for the club. USA SWIMMING sponsors the SWIM-A-THON® and will help us throughout the process. I have attached an informational PDF that explains all of the details. This is not required, but is an event not just about fundraising. It includes 6 weeks of team bonding, intra-team competitions, and personal incentives. There are even national SWIM-A-THON® records that can be broken. A SWIM-A-THON® is where each participant earns money for their team...
Our TeamUnify site works for us! It is a great tool for our team. I want to make everyone aware of the Tutorials under My Account > My Tutorials. To learn more, please click the link below. LEARN MORE HERE This week I suggest watching the brief 2:00 minute video on signing up for an event or swim meet. It is the second option from the side pull screen. Let us know if you have questions. AAAA Staff
Dear AAAA Families, We received word from SPA that their meet has to be moved a couple of weeks later due to a facility issue. While this has been a meet that we have planned to attend, the rescheduled date puts it on the same weekend as our Swim-A-Thon. Due to these circumstances, we will NOT be attending the SPA meet this year. We have added a replacement meet in Kansas City on that original weekend. The BWST Blue Wave Invite will be held at Henley Aquatic...
Dear AAAA Families, For those of you that have not purchased a racing suit or a practice suit, we are now offering team suits to be purchased through the team website. It is being offered at a team discount. This is not required and is just available for those who want to purchase a suit. You can view the suit on the website by clicking the team store on the home page. For those that are interested in purchasing a suit and want to order the correct...
Get your AAAA Gear Today! Forms will be handed out at practice or you can print order forms from online. Click Here- Order Forms- (You must be logged on to view order form) THERE IS A 8.85% SALES TAX for each order form. (Please include this in your total cost) Checks written out to: Ad Astra Area Aquatics Please mail order forms and payment to: Katie Price 424 Doolittle Way Lawrence, KS 66049 DOWNLOAD ORDER FORM HERE
Dear AAAA Families, After meeting with the city and Lawrence Indoor Aquatic director, the following is the schedule that we will use for the first two week of practices for all AAAA groups. The first week (Aug 20-23) is for asteroids, eclipse, and elite only. We are also running our new swimmer clinic that week. All AAAA Squads start back on August 27th. The evening practices during the week of August 27th-August 31st resembles how the fall and winter practice schedule will look.This schedule is prepared by considering...
It was such a great pleasure to come back to my home pool in my home town and see such fast swimming by AAAA swimmers in a setting where I used to train and compete myself. In short, we rocked at this meet and truly capped off the Summer season in prime form. The following swimmers helped Missouri Valley to a 4th place finish out of 8 LSCs. Way to go AAAA! Claire Campbell 50 Free - 28.48 2nd 100 Free - 1:03.39 10th 200 Free - 2:22.92 18th...
