Mark Saturday June 13th on your calendar for the year end party!  Party starts at 6pm.  Please RSVP Carmen (as per address in club e-mail) and let her know if you plan on attending and if your bringing a guest as well, if you would like a lobster(s) ordered for you.  It will be approx. $10 per 1.5 lb lobster.  Carmen is collecting money for the lobster at practices.  (Last practice is Thursday June 4th)  Please bring a dessert or salad for the buffet table. 

Bill and Lori are hosting the party at their home on Crichton Ave. in Dartmouth.

The Sportsplex is CLOSED on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's day, there are no practices on the Thursdays, Dec. 25/2008 or Jan. 1/2009.  The Sportsplex is open during the entire Easter weekend. All other practices are not affected and will run as normal.

Last practice of the season is Thursday June 4th.  It's a fun night so don't miss out.

The DWMSC offers coached swimming for recreational and fitness swimmers, triathletes, and competitive swimmers 19 years of age or older.  The club swims (September to June) three times a week at  the Dartmouth Sportsplex (Tuesday & Thursday from 8:30 - 9:30 pm, Sunday 8:15 - 9:30 pm).  Tuesdays and Thursdays are full workouts that include an interesting mix of aerobic and anaerobic sets.  Sundays usually consist of a long warm-up followed by a choice of drills that focus on a particular theme (stroke improvement, starts, turns, etc.) or, alternatively, an aerobic workout.  Our members range in ability from IronMan Triathletes and national calibre competitors to recreational fitness swimmers. You only need to be able to swim at least 4 lengths non-stop. Competitions are optional.  Our club membership is restricted to 65 members. 

If you are interested in swimming with the Dartmouth Whalers Master Swim Club, please contact our registrar This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . 

Our executive for the 2008/2009 swim season is...

Jenn Nearing - President

Steve Hurlbut - Registrar

Tami Mosher - Treasurer

Carmen Lefort - Socials

Phil Duggan - Equipment

Conrad Nadeau - Fundraising/donations

Bill Collins - Meet Manager

Blair King - Secretary

Debbie Liebrock - past President

Dan and Neal - Coaches

At the beginning of every month the lanes rotate so the same swimmers aren't always swimming in the wall lane.  To make it easier for the coaches, they need the grouped lane swimmers to stay together; not be at opposite ends of the pool.

Lanes 5, 6, 7 and 8 are in one group.  They will continually rotate each month.  Lane 5 moves up to lane 6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8 and lane 8 moves to lane 5.  This is done the first practice every month.

Lane 3 and 4 are grouped together and lanes 1 and 2 are grouped together.  To ensure that each lane gets the wall lane every 4th month these lanes flip one month, then rotate the second month.

ie: on Oct. 2, Lanes 1 and 2 should have flipped/switched (1 to 2 and 2 to 1) with each other and Lanes 3 and 4 switched.

On Nov. 2,  the current lane 1 moves to lane 3 and lane 2 to lane 4.  Lane 3 goes to one and Lane 4 goes to 2.

On Dec. 2, lane 1 and 2 flip (1 to 2 and 2 to 1) and lanes 3 and 4 flip.

On Jan. 4 (no practice on Jan. 1) lanes 1 and 2 rotate with lanes 3 and 4. (1 to 3 and 2 to 4)

It continues in this method through to June.