End of Season Wrap Up
Enjoy this amazing video of our 2026 season: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jsUqVJROMK2VPMh0CBZz6k2aykOzzzC-/view?usp=sharing (thank you Coach Sarah!)
What an amazing season we had this year! We welcomed several new coaches (Jimmy, Lucki, and Lilli) and were happy to welcome back our returning coaches Rebekah, Liam, Sarah, Rachel, Alex, Halle, Emily, Elizabeth, Adrian, Margaret, Rohan, Benjamin, Bobby, Ava, Maggie, Jacquie, and Sofia. Our coaches all did such a great job, and we want to thank them all for their hard work for our team and our kids. Their dedication, positive energy, love of this sport, and encouragement for every swimmer on the team truly set a wonderful example for our kids.
We said good-bye to 10 seniors: Jimmy Carrico, who will be attending Indiana University; Daniela Elias-da Silva, who will be attending Smith College; Charlotte Fedewa, who will be attending the University of Florida; Olivia Herndon, who will be attending TCU; Alex Juline, who will be attending IE University in Spain; Cannon Martenson, who will be attending and swimming for Yale University; Rohan Morel, who will be attending the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Elizabeth Nilson, who will be attending Dartmouth; Halle Prevost who will be attending UNC Chapel Hill; and Emily Shull, who will be attending Georgia Tech. Congratulations seniors!! Best of luck as you head off to college this fall! (and hope to see you back at the pool next year!)
We set 4 new team records this season (wow!):
- Nico Rodriguez, Quentin Zertuche, Owen Platek, and Gaines Psiaki - Boys 7-8 Free Relay - 1:08.52 (broke the old record of 1:09.20 from 2012)
- Parker Wheeler - Boys 13-14 100 Free - 48.29 (breaking the old record of 49.91 from 2014)
- Parker Wheeler - Boys 13-14 50 FL - 24.16 (breaking the old record of 24.20 from 2012)
- Cannon Martenson - Boys 15-18 100 Free - 45.41 (breaking his own record of 45.97 from 2025)
I've attached a top times report, showing the Top Ten All-Time Cool Sharks Times for each event (note that this report only goes back to 2006 when we started keeping electronic records - we have some older paper times for our team records but they are not included here). Many of our swimmers broke into the top ten this season and earned a spot in Cool Sharks history!
We had an amazing 5-0 record this season (undefeated five years in a row!) and then came back to DOMINATE at Championships, defending our title as the 2026 ASA Division 2 Champions! Overall, it was another remarkable season! We had lots of great parents who volunteered lots of hours, lots of great coaches who really worked hard with our kids, and most of all lots of great swimmers who improved their swimming and had great fun being part of our team. We hope you enjoyed this season as much as we did!
Please be on the lookout for our 6th Annual Swim Across America Swim-a-thon on August 16th! This is always a super fun event for our Cool Sharks swimmers (and parents too!) to swim laps to raise money for this wonderful organization!
Don't forget to check your ribbon boxes at the pool - there are still a lot of awards (incl. championship ribbons and medals, team awards, etc.) waiting to be picked up.
We also have a large lost and found pile under the ribbon boxes, with books, t-shirts, shoes, goggles, towels, water bottles, etc. (lost-and-found stuff will be donated if not picked up by July 4th). Stop by anytime the pool is open!
Finally, if you're not ready for swim season to be over and want to keep swimming, we have a great Fall Swim Team! This is a developmental team for swimmers ages 4-18 (based on age as of 8/1/2026). Practices begin August 3rd and end September 10th, with an end-of-season meet on Saturday morning September 12th at 9:00 am (six weeks of practice, one meet). Fall season is a smaller, more laid-back version of summer season, and is perfect for younger swimmers and beginners, as well as non-year-round swimmers who want to extend their swimming season a little longer or even high school swimmers who want to stay in shape before the high school season begins. See the Fall Swim Team tab on the coolsharks.org website (or click HERE) for more information. Registration opens July 15th at noon - this program is very popular and tends to sell out quickly so don't wait to register!
Go Cool Sharks! Hope to see you all next year! See the bottom of the page for next year's dates - mark your calendars! Please try to schedule camps, vacations, and other activities around our meets if you can (especially Championship week). July is the perfect time for beach trips and sleep-away camp :).
Thanks for a great season! Go Cool Sharks and keep swimming!
Cool Sharks Team Leaders and Coaches
2027 Summer Swim Team Dates (tentative):
- March 1 - Summer Team priority registration
- March 5 - Summer Team open registration
- April 12 - May 1 - Spring Clinic
- May 3 - first day of practice
- May 25 - Time Trials Meet
- June 1 - Meet
- June 8 - Meet
- June 15 - Meet
- June 22 - Meet
- June 28 - Meet (Monday evening)
- June 30 - ASA Championship (Wednesday afternoon)
- July 1 - End-of-Season Team Party (Thursday evening)