Please review the 2012
Swim Meet Schedule
 

17th Annual September Splash Bay Swim 
 Was Saturday, September,24 2011
This years' swim was a great success

Click Here for Pictures  l  For race results go to www.lmsports.com
 

Come Join the Swim Team
New Members Being Accepted

Prospective team members should come prepared
to jump in the pool for a placement review.

Come Join the Swim Team
Call Gina McNeal at 884-4362
Click here for Registration Info
E-mail her at:  ginaandbill@comcast.net

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 2011 Registration Forms
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PLEASE BRING THESE FORMS WITH YOU TO THE POOL.

BLUE ( 8 and under) $230
WHITE (9-12)  $260
ORANGE (13-up)  $290

Dear New Swim Parent,

WELCOME TO OUR SWIM TEAM!!  We’re sure your child(ren) have been enjoying the swim team so far.  It is very satisfying to see their smiling faces.

We would like to take this time to make you familiar with team policies and other helpful information.  We are not a township team; we rent this pool.  We are a private, not-for-profit organization, with a board of directors (swim moms and dads) who volunteer their time in different capacities to keep this team afloat.  From time to time, we will need your help.  We have one fundraiser each year, September Splash, which is an open water swim in Sunset Lake.  This year we had 220 swimmers, swimming three different races:  ¼ mile, 1 mile and 2 miles. It was very successful, thanks to all of our parents and volunteers.

When dropping your child off for practice, please make sure they go right inside the doors.  When picking your child up from practice, we ask that you be on time.  We are mindful of the parking lot.  Our insurance does not cover parents on the pool deck, so we ask that if you are going to stay, please go in the Parent’s Room.  With the younger swimmers, we know that parents might need to go to the locker room to help after practice, but that usually doesn’t last too long before the little independent swimmer doesn’t want help anymore.  But it is certainly okay to help your child in the locker room, even if he or she doesn’t want it. 

We will try to get a fall, winter, and spring event together. This is usually a swim meet that is held at our pool that is less of a competitive event, but more of a way for the parents to see their child’s progress and to get the children ready for “real meets”.  The coaches will inform you when your child is ready for meets. Our coaching staff has been doing this for years. They are knowledgeable, dedicated, and love the sport.

Swimming is a great sport.  Besides the physical training, your child will learn many other lessons in life throughout their swim years.  They love the social part of swimming and that only gets better.  They will learn self discipline, to work hard and they will see the benefits (and so will you).  They encourage other swimmers and learn team work.

 If you are reading this, then you know about our e-mail system of communication.  We also use the bulletin board in the parent’s room to post information.  These two methods are our main source of communication to you.  Our website www.wwcswim.org has news, contact e-mails, by-laws and other pertinent information.  We also have a phone call system in place that we use when necessary.

If you have any questions, now or in the future, please ask any board member or coach.  We are always happy to help.  We all were new to this team once and know it can be overwhelming.

Again, “WELCOME ABOARD”.  Thank you for your time and dedication.

Sincerely,

 Wildwood Crest Dolphin Swim Team Board

Gina McNeal, Co-President

Barry Gehring, Co-President

Peggy McCann, Secretary

Sue Maxwell, Treasurer

Jill Redmond, Parent-at-Large

Barbara Kelleher, Parent-at-Large

Cathy Driscoll, Parent-at-Large

Written by Brian Cunniff   
Friday, 03 September 2010 17:24

Chris Gamble has been on the beach patrol in Wildwood Crest for 23 summers. He is also a renowned local swim coach.

But despite his years of service to Wildwood Crest and his dedication to coaching swimming, Gamble is better known to some people for his singing ability – or lack thereof.

Gamble, along with Matt Johnson, is one of two lifeguards who appeared on a recent television commercial promoting tourism in the Wildwoods. Gamble and Johnson sang a verse of the song “Wildwood Days” on camera in the commercial.

So when he was approached about being profiled, Gamble smiled and said, “Oh great, my picture in the paper. This’ll be another ‘Wildwood Days.’”

In all seriousness, though, Gamble, 41, has been a loyal foot solider and popular lifeguard for the Wildwood Crest Beach Patrol since he was a teenager. He sits with Johnson on Primrose Road, near patrol headquarters, guarding the town’s surfing beach.

A graduate of Hatboro-Horsham High School and Drexel University, Gamble was a top-notch high school and college swimmer who represented the patrol in lifeguard competitions for the better part of 10 years. He swam for Wildwood Crest in the South Jersey Championships 10 times, mostly through the 1990s.

His days as a competitor are pretty much over, but he has found a new niche in the world of swimming as a coach. For the past three years, Gamble has served as the head coach of the Crest Dolphins youth club swim program and Wildwood Catholic High School’s varsity swim program.

Add in his days serving on the beach patrol, and the year-round Wildwood Crest resident spends an awful lot of time around water.

“I like being in and around the water as much as I can possibly be,” Gamble said. “I like helping other people enjoy it and be safe in it. I feel like it’s sort of what I was meant to do.

“As a young swimmer, I had coaches who were such a positive influence on me, and they were the ones who pointed me in this direction. I enjoy helping people learn the sport that has given so much to me.”

Gamble also serves as a coach to the current Crest lifeguards who compete in beach patrol events.

“We’ve been able to pull together a nice swim team the last couple years here, so it’s been fun,” he said.

While there is a certain monotony to sitting on a lifeguard stand day after day, Gamble said something new comes up virtually every day.

“Every day on the beach is its own unique adventure,” Gamble said, “and that’s what pretty much keeps me coming back. Every day is different. Every day presents its own challenges. It’s nice to be down here by the water’s edge doing my thing.”

Gamble said he has no plans to quit working as a lifeguard anytime soon.

“I’ll do it until I can’t do it anymore,” he said. “Hopefully it’s another 23 years.”