GLSS Great Lakes Sailfish Swimming

GLSS@Gilmour Academy

We want YOU!  Join us for tryouts on Saturday, April 9th from 9:00 am-noon. Tryouts will allow you to meet our coaching staff and help determine what group is right for you.

GLSS is a USA swim team run by Gilmour Academy. Great Lakes Sailfish Swimming provides developmentally progressive opportunities for its members. Its goal is to deliver a safe and positive environment in which to build champions in all aspects of the sport of swimming, in addition to inspiring and enabling swimmers to achieve excellence in the sport of swimming and in life.

GLSS is a year-round USA Swimming program that offers a guided age-group program for children ages 5 and older, from the beginning swimmer to the most skilled and competitive swimmer.

Great Lakes Sailfish Swimming offers a variety of programs for swimmers of all ages and ability levels. Its goal is to provide a program that teaches and trains all levels of swimmers, emphasizing individual progress, team unity and family participation in a safe and positive environment.

COMPETITIVE TEAM

GLSS competitive team is a year-round USA Swimming program that competes in both the short course and long course season. The goal of this team is to empower its athletes to develop to their fullest potential in and out of the pool. Below is a basic description of each level.

 

Bills-High School Swimmers

Senior swimmers are expected to train year-round in order to improve and excel. There will be a continued emphasis on technique along with significant training and conditioning. Doubles and dry-land are an important part of the program.

Fins 

 This group is for advanced year-round Age Group swimmers. Emphasis of practices will be learning how to improve by training and conditioning while maintaining proper technique.
  • ●  Must be able to read a clock to send-offs and knowing times
  • ●  Have achieved at least one A time standard
  • ●  Be proficient in all strokes and turns
  • ●  Understand the concept of race strategies and how to incorporate them into daily practice
  • ●  Must be able to make 10x100 on 1:30

Tails 

 Practices will continue implementing skills and proper technique. Develop good practice habits with increasing interval training, and start building endurance and introduce effort levels and race strategies
  • ●  Must have the ability to maintain proper basic interval work in practice
  • ●  Be proficient in starts and turns
  • ●  Expected to participate in competitive meets

Gills 

 This is the first level of competitive swimming in which stroke instruction is emphasized and interval training is introduced
  • ●  Must have the ability to focus for length of practice
  • ●  Legal in 3.5 competitive strokes with times achieved in meets
  • ●  Understand basic drills and swim terms
  • ●  Have a desire to participate in meets

High School PreSeason ONLY

 This is for high school swimmers looking to get in shape during the fall only. Some attention will be paid to stroke and turn technique. But the emphasis will be on conditioning. This program runs September - November 3.

College Swimmers

 College swimmers looking for a place to train during the summer and/or over breaks. This program is a year round - membership.
 

 

A general rule- the more an athlete attends practice, the more benefit and enjoyment the athlete will receive.

These are guidelines used in structuring the Age Group and Senior Group programs for long-term development. All group placements are done at the coach’s discretion.

    

GLSS Fall/Winter 2021 Pricing*

Bills $150 per month
Fins $130 per month
Tails $115 per month
Gills $105 per month
Gilmour Student $75 per month
  *This is the pricing for the summer session 
  ** There is a $80 USA registration fee for all new members, or members that are not currently USA registered that will be added on upon registration. 
 
 

GLSS 2021-22 Schedule*

Bills 

M/W swimming, T/TR/F Lifting

M-F Swimming

Saturday

6:00-7:00 am

7:00-8:30 pm

6:00-8:00 am
Fins

Monday-Friday

Saturday

5:30-7:00 pm

10:00-11:30 am
Tails

Monday-Friday

Saturday

5:30-7:00 pm

10:00-11:30 am
Gills

Monday, Wednesday

Saturday

5:30-6:30 pm

10:00-11:00 am
  
 

These sessions are subject to change.  For up-to-date calendar coverage, please visit our calendar.  

For more information or to register for GLSS, please visit us at www.greatlakessailfish.com

To sign up for text or email alerts for last minute closures, events and updates, please register at https://www.remind.com/join/gaglss  You may register as a parent with the class code gaglss. You may also sign up for alerts by texting "@gaglss" to the number 81010. 

 

Gilmour will now be offering a more comprehensive Jr. Sailfish program.  The goal of these lessons is water safety and swim team preparation.  These lessons will help build the foundation for a love of swimming.  Lessons will be tailored to feed into competitive swimming.  Once at a competitive swimming level, participants can transition directly onto the swim team.  

We are excited to announce that there will be three (3) levels of  Junior Sailfish  lessons offered.  Lessons will resume in September.

Level 1-Beginner -no prerequisites

  • Basic water adjustment.  Learning to float on their belly and back.

  • Paddle on belly, back and side

  • Learn the arms for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke

  • Blowing bubbles

Level 2-Intermediate -Must be able to swim 5 yards unassisted on belly, back and side.

  • Learn the legs for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke

  • Start putting the strokes together

  • Treading water

  • Work up to swimming a length of the pool

  • Do glides and kneeling dives

Level 3-Advanced -Prerequisites-Can swim a length of the pool using correct arms with an understanding of the legs for each freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke.

  • Work on coordination of strokes

  • Work on building endurance to 2 lengths of the pool.

  • Learn to dive from side and from the blocks

Classes begin November 3rd and will run weekly until December 17. Each class is 45 minutes in length, there are six (6) weeks of classes per session.

Classes are offered on Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30-4:15pm

Tuesday Level 1 and Level 2

Thursday Level 1, 2 and 3  

  • Swimmers will change into a bathing suit at the Lower School, and will be bussed to the pool.  All other swimmers will arrive in a bathing suit

  • Aquatic staff will meet them at the door and escort them to their lesson.  

  • Parents/guardians should be ready to pick up their swimmer at 4:15 pm outside the Athletic Center.

  • Swimmers will be brought to their car by aquatic staff. Due to COVID19 protocol parents/guardians will not be permitted in the building. 

Cost for the one day per week, six week session is $75 for Gilmour Students, $85 for the general public.

There is a yearly registration fee of $40 per child.

Registration for lesson is at   https://www.teamunify.com/ team/leglsoh/page/team- registration

SPACE IS LIMITED

To sign up for text or email alerts for last minute closures, events and updates, please register at https://www.remind.com/join/galessons  You may register as a parent with the class code galessons. You may also sign up for alerts by texting "@galessons" to the number 81010.                                                                 

 The primary concern of GLSS is the health and well being of all swimmers. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all summer practices will be limited to ensure all regulations are met. Swimmers will be assigned a practice and will only be permitted to attend that practice. They are to arrive and leave in a bathing suit. Locker rooms will be closed. It is highly recommended that swimmers use the bathroom prior to arrival, but a restroom will be available. All levels with the exception of Gills may attend daily practices.  Gills will be offered practices three times a week.