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The number 1 swim team among all age groups, all experience levels in Northwest Pennsylvania Most
experienced coaching staff Get the new USA Swimming
mobile app which allows swimmers to connect and share their achievements: DECK
PASS. Track your best times, set goals, and earn digital patches for your
achievements. You can also connect it with your facebook account. Access
Deck Pass online or download the free app for iPhone or Android at www.usaswimming.org/DeckPass
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 achieve 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. |