1) We all work out at Heather Farm Pool in Walnut Creek at any one of five different practice times. (I, myself, make use of many different times with three kids at home, etc...)
2) We all share the same three coaches who are present at any of the said workouts.
3) Most of us travel together to meets (car pool, book the same airline reservations, eat and room together...)
4) We have many team functions (parties, swims, awards, clinics, dinners, etc.)
5) We support each other during practices with good examples and encouraging words.
6) We actively recruit "old" swimming friends to join our team. Most of the people on our team have age-group experience.
7) We have team apparel and caps.
8) For the most part we all get along really well.
9) Most of all we have fun. Because if it's not fun it's not Walnut Creek Masters swimming.
10) When we signed up for Masters we joined Walnut Creek Masters, an individual club team.
However, I pondered the whole SUPERTEAM earlier. Maybe WCM should mean West Coast Masters- we can have all of the teams in CA join together. You think it's not fair that Walnut Creek does well at Nationals as a club team, how do you think the state of CA would do? No other state, region or LMSC would ever win another Nationals.
As Brenda Blue in Jay Jay the Jet Plane would say, "Something to think about."
1) We all work out at Heather Farm Pool in Walnut Creek at any one of five different practice times. (I, myself, make use of many different times with three kids at home, etc...)
2) We all share the same three coaches who are present at any of the said workouts.
3) Most of us travel together to meets (car pool, book the same airline reservations, eat and room together...)
4) We have many team functions (parties, swims, awards, clinics, dinners, etc.)
5) We support each other during practices with good examples and encouraging words.
6) We actively recruit "old" swimming friends to join our team. Most of the people on our team have age-group experience.
7) We have team apparel and caps.
8) For the most part we all get along really well.
9) Most of all we have fun. Because if it's not fun it's not Walnut Creek Masters swimming.
10) When we signed up for Masters we joined Walnut Creek Masters, an individual club team.
However, I pondered the whole SUPERTEAM earlier. Maybe WCM should mean West Coast Masters- we can have all of the teams in CA join together. You think it's not fair that Walnut Creek does well at Nationals as a club team, how do you think the state of CA would do? No other state, region or LMSC would ever win another Nationals.
As Brenda Blue in Jay Jay the Jet Plane would say, "Something to think about."
