Swim Lessons!

Every year, during the Walla Walla Public Schools' spring break, the Whitman Swim Team offers swim lessons to the general public.  The week of swim lessons is an opportunity for us to raise some funds to put towards our winter training trip and a chance for our swimmers to put their knowledge of the sport to good use and to gain some perspective.
In a sport that so often boils down to 100ths of a second and the details of hand-entry, head position, and body alignment, it's easy to forget that at some point all of us were being told by an exasperated swim instructor to put our face in the water.  All of our swimmers have moved past holding onto the wall with both hands and blowing bubbles under the water, but there's something unique and awesome about getting a five year old to have a break-through in freestyle by telling him or her to imagine that he/she is swimming in ice cream and that he/she has ice cream scoops for hands.