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Welcome to Our Team!!
The Jasper County Killer Whales (JCKW)
wish to welcome you and your child to the wonderful and rewarding
sport of competitive swimming. By joining the Killer Whales
your child is now a member of USA Swimming, one
of the largest and most unique youth sports organizations in the
world.
In addition to the obvious rewards of
one of the most beneficial forms of exercise for cardiovascular and
overall fitness, your child will also develop life skills such as
time management, self-discipline, and sportsmanship. These
benefits will be reaped long after their participation in the sport
ends. Through a gradual commitment to practice, each child is
taught to work hard to achieve goals. Through positive
encouragement and an occasional stern push, a child will learn to
push themselves toward testing their own limits each and every
day. Hard work leads to achievement and success, and success
is fun!! When your child is done with the sport of swimming,
be they 9 or 90, we hope that he/she is a better person for having
been a Killer Whale.
This page of the site is designed to
help parents to get acquainted with the practice to practice, meet
to meet operations of JCKW and USA Swimming. We hope it will
explain some of our policies and a few of the general swimming
concepts you need to know so that this experience can be as fun and
rewarding as possible for athletes and their families. Please
do not be afraid to ask questions of your coaches, board members,
and other team parents. We are all here with the same goals and we
are all here to help each other.
We
are the Killer Whales
The Jasper County Killer Whales (JCKW)
are a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization, incorporated in January
2000. We offer a guided age-group youth competitive swim
program, developing athletes from the novice beginner to the elite
national levels. We work with local summer and high school
teams throughout the four-states area to help athletes find their
best competitive level and foster the best athletic
experience. Your journey with JCKW will begin with a focus on
preparation, and will take a natural progression toward competition
only when your child is ready. We realize that every child is
different, and hopefully by providing a caring, considerate, stable
environment and enthusiastic, quality coaching we can allow each
athlete to develop as far as their dreams, talents and efforts will
take them.
Our
Mission
Our mission is to bring all members
together in one effort and purpose to achieve a consistent
environment and stable program so that each athlete can reach his
or her potential. We respect the systematic "process" of becoming a
great swimmer, and the natural progression from the novice to elite
levels of competitive swimming. We are part of a uniquely
individual sport, motivated by a team concept, and dedicated to
"the dream."
At Jasper County Aquatics we focus on
developing the "whole athlete." We share a commitment to long term
goals in USA Swimming competition. Building and maintaining a
consistent work ethic, self discipline, self motivation, a healthy
lifestyle, time management skills, goal-setting, and responsibility
for our own actions and attitudes... these are the things that
bring us success in our wonderful sport, and these are the skills
we hope all of our athletes will carry over into their daily
lives. We are the Jasper
County Killer Whales. We believe that if we can all come together
under the same philosophy, with the same goals, we will always be
successful.
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