HaPpY NeW yEaR SwiMmeRs!

Dear Swim Families,

We are back in the pool and our ES Swim Team and our MS/HS Swim Club are practicing hard. This week we continue to focus on developing stroke technique and building stamina and will also focus on learning to do (or improve) racing turns and starts off the blocks.

Behind the scenes, some of you may have noticed that we have updated both our Short Course and Long Course Records boards located in the hallway between the pool changing rooms. I am long overdue for creating the SAISA Swim photo board...It has been fun sorting through photos and reliving some exciting moments! If you have photos from the SAISA meet and are willing to share, send them my way...we had lots of parents at the meet and I am sure their are many gems in YOUR photos that would be great to highlight on the bulletin board----that is going up this week! I can't wait for you to see all the fun moments captured at the SAISA Swim Competition at Lincoln School in Nepal of our SAISA Swim Champions! I am also working on identifying new photos to replace the photo boards above. The photo boards we have now are GREAT and quite old so its time to do an update to reflect our current swimmers. :-) Just a few of the fun projects I am working on between practices, LTS and my HS teaching responsibilities.

Here are some other noteworthy things going on in the world of TAISM Aquatics:

Learn to Swim
Session 1 is wrapping up on February 1st and the Registration morning for Session 2 will be on February 15th. Our HS Instructors are doing an amazing job teaching our developing swimmers with enthusiasm and skill. We have a small group of MS swimmers who are volunteer instructors as well. I am very proud of TAISM's LTS Instructor's dedication, positive attitudes and care they provide as they connect with each of their students and strive to provide them with specific feedback to help them progress as swimmers. Our LTS Instructor's are improving their instructional capacity AND our swim students are growing in their swimming proficiency and they are all having fun in the process. Yay!

ES Swim TEAM SUIT Order
If you are interested in buying a team suit, please place your order by Thursday, January 23rd at 6:00 PM. We have a quick turn-around time on the order so that we can get the suits from the U.S. to Oman. Please note-purchasing a team suit is optional. TAISM Swim caps are REQUIRED for competitions (4.400 OMR). GIRLS SUITS COST 29 OMR and BOYS SUITS COST 22 OMR.
For more information, please see the ES Team Suit Order Form.

Upcoming Events
We have 11 swimmers who have qualified and signed up to swim at the upcoming BSM Open Swim Meet on January 24th. It will be a fun day for these swimmers to set personal goals in swimming and challenge themselves.

ES Swim Team families and MS Swim Club swimmers who are 12 and under, mark your calendars, we have a dual meet with ABA coming up that we will be hosting here at TAISM on February 11th.

We have our annual TAISM Relays Meet (for ES/MS/HS swimmers) coming up on March 3 at TAISM. There are several local teams invited to the TAISM Relays and we often hear that for many, it is the event they look forward to most in the Swim event line up for the year.

Finally, there is another long course competition hosted by Nautilus coming up on March 13-14 at the Sultan Qaboos Stadium which should prove to be excellent competition and lots of fun!



Thank you for your continued support of the Aquatics program at TAISM.
Question? Please ask. Send me an email (leec@taism.com) or stop by the pool or my office.

Swim Hard. Dream BIG!

xx Ms. Cori