The Millcreek Swim Team
The Millcreek Swim Team welcomes you to what we believe is the best athletic activity for youth based on the fitness it builds, the coordination it fosters, the safety it ensures, and the lessons it teaches. Requiring the use of upper and lower body in an environment which provides resistance and limits the frequency of breathing, swimming develops high quality aerobic endurance. In other sports, one hour of practice may yield as little as 10 minutes of meaningful exercise. MIST practices provide fun, continuous aerobic conditioning. No other sport achieves proportional muscular development like swimming, which works all the body's major muscle groups. Swimming enhances a child's natural flexibility by exercising all their major joints through a full range of motion. Swimming develops superior coordination because it requires combinations of complex movement of all parts of the body, enhancing harmonious muscle function, grace and fluidity of movement. Swimming is the most injury free of all children's sports. It is a sport which provides fitness and enjoyment for life. Masters swimmers train and race well into their eighties. Swimmers soon learn that their performances in meets are a result of their own work in practice. We learn to take ownership of failures without blaming others, and we learn from those failures without dwelling on them. We believe all successful people (in all fields) were those who failed the most but kept striving and improving. Swimmers also learn that to perform at peak levels, they must take care of their bodies through proper nutrition, sufficient rest, and avoidance of hazardous substances. Finally, swimmers learn the value and necessity of time management. Children with no activities typically squander their after school time because they have so much of it. Swimmers learn they cannot delay homework and other responsibilities because of their practice schedule and their need for enough sleep.
This section introduces you to MIST's History and Values, our Professional Affiliations, our Training Groups, the Types of Competition, and our Coaching Staff.
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