Bend Team News
Good Day Bend Swim Family!
With the school break right around the corner is a good time to count our blessings and begin to look forward to 2026!
The theme of the year is “You can get there from here”
Last week we had Swimmers Maddie Thornton, Emma Bronson and Brecken Egeland racing at USA Swimming’s Junior Nationals in Austin. All 3 swimmers made finals and they set new team records. Making finals at Junior Nationals represents a high-level achievement and all of Bend Swim Club should feel that you can truly achieve world class swimming in our program. Special recognition to Maddie as she made finals in all 6 of her races (5 of them in the Championship Final) and she set a new Oregon State Record by over 2 SECONDS in the 200 IM!!!
This week we finish the 2025 racing season at our pool with some great team racing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Please read below for some important info.
Very Important – please review your entries and if you have questions, you MUST contact your coach today (Tuesday) as we have been working on the entries for over 2 weeks and the meet programs will be done and information sent to Oregon Swimming tomorrow.
Parents – we will need some help timing and officiating the meet so the times count. Please signup on the web site later today!
Heat Sheets and timelines will be on the website Wednesday evening
Thursday:
Warm-up Groups Red-Blue-Orange-Bronze 4:00 PM
Warm-up Groups Silver-Apex-High School D-Senior 1- Gold- Senior E 4:20 PM
The meet will start at 4:55 PM and be over by 6:30
Coaches will have cookies for the swimmers Thursday!
Dolphin Groups will practice normal Thursday - all other groups will have the racing instead of practice.
Friday:
Warm-up Groups Dolphin-Red-Blue-Orange-Bronze 4:00 PM
Warm-up Groups Silver-Apex-High School D-Senior 1- Gold- Senior E 4:20 PM
The meet will start at 4:55 PM and be over by 6:30
Swimmers – please try and bring a dozen cookies to share and the team has a holiday gift for the swimmers!
All groups will have the racing instead of practice.
Saturday:
Warm-up Groups Orange-Bronze- Silver-Apex-High School D-Senior 1- Gold- Senior E 6:00 AM
The meet will start at 6:45 AM and be over by 8:00 AM
We will have some updated information Thursday this week on racing opportunities (A follow up to the situation in Washington) in January and Sectionals for the Senior Swimmers.
Holiday Training and Team Break: We return for a great week of practices during the holidays – try and make the practices to launch into a GREAT 2026!
The team has a few days off starting Monday through Thursday next week with group-by-group details sent out and posted on the web site.
https://www.bendswimclub.com/page/swim-resources/2025-26-practice-schedule
Traveling Practices: We know swim families travel during the swim season and we want to help make sure we support our swimmers at all times. We are working on a project regarding travel, finding pools, finding teams and having some practice sessions to do when on your own. Look for this info by weeks end!
More info as we go through the week – See you at the pool!~Coach Jim
