Stratford Sea Otters

Coaches fun at Divisionals!

Come one come all...please share with friends and family!

1st practice of the 2021 season tonight! Welcome to our new families and welcome back to the old! 10&U 5-5:30pm, 11-12 5:30-6:15pm and 13&O 6:15-7pm.

This is from the league...I am so sorry! The season has been cancelled this year.
Dear ODSL Swimmers & Parents,

It is with deep regret that I inform you that we will not hold ODSL Sanctioned meets this summer.
We arrived at this decision on Friday May 1st during a WebEx call where a majority of the team representatives who were on the call voted to cancel the 2020 Season.

Over the past couple of weeks, the ODSL Board have been reviewing the most up to-date information provided by Virginia Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Governor Northam’s Phased Reopening Plan.

A few things became clear.
1-Social distancing guidelines are here to stay.
2-Face masks are a recommendation
3-Group size limitations. The current limit is a group size of 10 people, this could be increased but not enough to conduct a swim meet.
4-This virus KILLS (although the percent to total population is relatively small)
5-The way that this virus is spread is not conducive to conducting a swim meet
• Respiratory Transmission (how many of our swimmers whether sick or not cough, sneeze in the team area)
• Contact transmission. (Think about the amount of paper and items that we all must handle timer sheets, stop watches, DQ slips pens, pencils…etc. that would have to be sanitized prior to handing off to another person)
6-Putting 1 of our 3200 swimmers and 6000 parents at risk of catching this horrible virus far outweighs the benefit of conducting summer swim meets which, currently, we ALL need.

On behalf of the ODSL Board please stay safe, keep your families safe and we will come back stronger and better in 2021.

Otter Cam | Live Webcams | Clearwater Marine Aquarium

Fun stuff at the Clearwater Aquarium...Otter Cam! https://www.seewinter.com/animals/we**ams/otter-cam/

Otter Cam | Live Webcams | Clearwater Marine Aquarium Live otter we**am video of Clearwater Marine Aquarium's North American river otter habitat, Otter Oasis. Walle is a rescued river otter at CMA.

Paper plate playing!!! Otter❤️

Go Sam, Julia and Gavin!

Can't wait!!! Results will be here...https://www.fastswimresults.com/

Sea Otter Sox’s!!!

A collection of mugs from around the team!

Platos papel!!!

A little Otter love!

Time trials Otters 2018!!!

Practice is canceled tonight because of the rain and thunder and lightning see you on Tuesday

Blue Devil Swimmers Round Out Action at U.S. Open

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211660154&DB_OEM_ID=4200&_ga=2.125784776.319847489.1502111483-618201491.1499438260
Some news on Coach Kylie! Go Duke...Go Kylie!

goduke.com Current and Former Blue Devils in Action Last Week at U.S. Open

Stratford Sea Otters's cover photo

Team pics and more

Workin the dives!!!!

Coaches returning that I know of so far....Sam Presgraves, Jake Yeager, Stuart and Sam Pliuskaitis, John Rossbach, Julia Calvert and Molly Kennedy!!! The planning begins...

Getting ready for summer!!! Have you registered yet?

Rocking the mixed age at Greenway!!!!

USA Swimming - TV/Webcast Schedule

Watch Coach Kylie at Olympic Trials Sunday!
Here is the USA Swimming link for the Trials. Prelims will be live-streamed. At the bottom of the page is info on Olympic Trials streaming--
http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=2022

usaswimming.org

Details on the schedule for this year....
8:30-9:30am 11 and up
9:30-10:15am 10 and under

Mini’s 10:15-10:45pm (starts 6/20)
Make up sessions @ River Creek 7:30-8:15pm (starts 6/20)

Time Trials during morning practice 6/16

Stratford Sea Otters :

Registration Opens March 1, 2016!! https://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=recodslssova

teamunify.com

Coach Michael and Coach Carrie are in Greensboro at the USA Swimming Futures Championship!!! Link http://www.greensboroaquaticcenter.com/race-results?race=2015USASFutures

Coach Kylie is in San Antonio for JR nationals...Swimming World Magazine featured her as the cover for the day! Follow her results here
http://omegatiming.com/Competition?id=00010F020AFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF&sport=AQ&year=2015

Go Otters!

Nora wanted a selfie with her coaches at the meet this morning!

Friday morning fun day! Marco Polo and some team cheers!!!! Go otters! So glad we had a bye this morning..this weather is for the ducks!

Lookin iffy for practice at river creek tonight. I'm at Claude Moore. How is it looking out there?

Swim meet tonight!! Come cheer on the otters!!! Pool closes at 5:00 for the meet. We will begin set up at 4:30!

AWWWWWWWW!

Just try looking at this baby photo of Oscar without smiling…we bet you can’t!

Registration for the 2015 Season opens Monday, March 2nd online at stratfordseaotters.org!

Swim Happy!