[Contact information for Piranhas Swimming Coach Bryan Coleman was inadvertently omitted from our print edition. For more information or registration forms for the Piranhas, Coach Coleman can be reached at 910-986-6508 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and at PO Box 534, West End, NC 27376. Seven Lakes Health & Fitness is located in Seven Lakes North at 114 Edgewater Drive.]
Year-round competitive swimming for youth is coming to Seven Lakes Health & Fitness Center under the direction of Lead Coach Bryan Coleman.
The PAST Piranhas [Pinehurst Area Swim Team] will kick-off in early November for the first of four twelve-week sessions which allows for flexible enrollment so children may also participate in other sports and activities throughout the year. Swimmers may commit for one session or participate year-round.
“Our goal is to be family-friendly, fun for the kids and affordable,” Coach Coleman said.
A drop-in registration and team assessments will be conducted October 24, 25, and 26 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Seven Lakes Health & Fitness Center. Please bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate. Early registration forms will be available by email if requested and will also be on-hand. Potential Piranhas must be able to swim one pool length freestyle and one pool length by backstroke.
“It doesn’t have to be pretty, but they do need to be able to swim at this level to enroll in the program,” Coleman explained.
The Piranhas Winter session will run from November 7 to February 11; Spring session runs February 13 - May 19; Summer session runs May 21 -August 11; and the Fall session will run August 13 – November 9. Weekly practices will be divided into three levels based on age and ability, with options for beginning, intermediate and advanced swimmers.
Younger swimmers will meet up to three times a week for forty minute practice sessions [3:20 pm – 4 pm], intermediate swimmers will meet for one hour, four times per week [4 pm – 5 pm], and advanced swimmers will practice five to six days per week for 1.5 hour sessions [5 pm – 6:30 pm]. All practices will be held weekday afternoons at the indoor 25’ four-lane pool facility at Seven Lakes Health & Fitness, which also serves as a regularly scheduled bus stop for Moore County Schools.
“Seven Lakes Health and Fitness is very convenient and can also provide an afterschool activity for working parents,” explained Coleman. “We’ll practice a lot, but they will be having fun too. I want the kids to say, “Yes, I want to go practice!”
Sanctioned by USA Swimming, membership in the Pinehurst Area Swim Team [PAST] Piranhas is open to all interested families – you do not have to be a resident of Seven Lakes or a member of Seven Lakes Health & Fitness to participate. The registration cost per child is $65 which covers administration, insurance and an official USA Swimming cap. Team dues are tentative, but will be affordable and a multi-child discount will be offered for family memberships.
A native of Rochester, NY, Coleman has extensive coaching and swim teaching experience. Earlier this year he relocated to Moore County to work at CCNC as pool manager and oversaw their Summer recreational swim league team. Coleman began competing at the pool at the age of seven and later swam on his high school varsity team for four years, serving as captain, before accepting a four-year scholarship with the Division 1 program at Niagara University.
For more information or registration forms, Coach Coleman can be reached at 910-986-6508 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and at PO Box 534, West End, NC 27376. Seven Lakes Health & Fitness is located in Seven Lakes North at 114 Edgewater Drive.
