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Stingers team website |
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The
Burke Centre Swim Club (BCSC) is comprised of two teams; the Burke
Centre Penguins and the Burke Centre Stingers. Each team has
approximately 200 swimmers. Neither team has a dive team.
Both teams are considered equal (there is no “A” or “B” team). The
Penguins & the Stingers exist under a single charter, but they
operate completely independently with individual team presidents and
boards. The Burke Centre Conservancy maintains
five pools throughout the Burke
community. The home pool
for the Penguins is the Landings pool. The home pool for the
Stingers is the Ponds pool.
Visit both teams'
 websites
(at right) to
learn more. When
you register to swim, you may request a particular team. Once
swimmers are assigned to a team, they remain on that team.
Every effort is made to honor requests, but know that the club also attempts to balance the
total swimmers, age-groups, and abilities of both teams. For this
reason, it may be necessary, on occasion, to
move a swimmer to a
particular team. To keep the teams balanced, changing teams is not
permitted. The Burke Centre Swim Club (BCSC) participates in
the Colonial Swimming League (CSL)
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Registration for the 2011 season is closed.
Registration for the upcoming 2012 season will begin in
early April of 2012. If
you need additional information, contact BCSC President,
Janine Canty,
(703-250-0196)
(Stingers) or
BCSC Vice-President
Mary Mulvenon
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Registration process
for the Burke Centre Swim Club
- for the 2011 season
As in the past, registration for the Burke
Centre Swim Club (both Penguins and Stingers) is done online.
Please read the information below before proceeding with your online
registration.
Online registration is currently open. Final team rosters must
be submitted to the league by the second dual meet of the season
(toward the end of June). Registration will continue until
that date unless team numbers become too difficult to safely manage.
For that reason, families are urged to register early.
Early bird registration continues until April 30, 2011. The cost for
early bird registration is $105 per swimmer for the first two
swimmers and $80 for each additional swimmer. Registrations
completed after April 30, 2011 will be automatically charged a $30
late fee (per family). If a swimmer withdraws from the team for a
reason not related to the swimmer evaluation (see below), they will
be refunded the registration fee minus a $10 non-refundable processing fee.
NOTE: If
a swimmer has swum competitively in the past, they will be asked to
provide their best times as part of the online registration.
Please have that information available before beginning the online
registration process. Be reminded that
swimmers must also
be members of the Burke Centre pools to participate on the swim
team. Go to
www.burkecentreweb.com for pool membership information.
Information for
families new to the Burke Centre Swim Club - for
the 2011 season
All new swimmers (age 10 & younger), including siblings
that have not previously participated on the team, will be required
to pass a swim evaluation. The evaluations will be held
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 from 4-7pm
(you can come any time during that three hour window) at the
Commons pool. Swimmers will be
evaluated to ensure that they meet the
Red Cross Level III
performance criteria, which essentially requires swimmers to swim 15 yards
(front and back) and float & tread water for 30 seconds. Swimmers
do not need to know all competitive strokes. If your child does not
pass the evaluation, they may practice (independently) and retest.
If a swimmer does not pass the evaluation, and chooses not to
retest, they will receive a full refund of registration
fees.
Families who have not swum for either
team will be assigned to either the Penguins or Stingers team at the
draft meeting held in mid-May. As explained above, efforts will be made to honor requests, but preferences are NOT
guaranteed. After the draft, families will be notified of their team assignment prior
to each team's parent meetings toward the end of May.
Applicants who register after the draft will be assigned to a team
based on team preference and/or team availabilities. New
swimmers that register after the evaluation day, will be assigned to
a team and will be evaluated at the first team practice attended.
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2011
Burke Centre Pools and Swim Team Registration
BCSC Swim Team Online Registration
- June 1, 2011
Online registration link disabled. Registration for 2012
season will begin in early April 2012. Contact BCSC President,
Janine Canty,
(703-250-0196)
(Stingers) or
BCSC Vice-President
Mary Mulvenon
(703-250-6566) (Penguins) with questions.
Burke Centre Pool Membership Applications, Pool Locations, & Pool Rules
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