2025-26 Pre-Season Swimming Options~Boys & Girls Team

For those interested in pre-season for both Girls and Boys High School Swim Teams, we have taken the time to break down different options that work best for you in your individual situation. The unlimited Pre-season option would be for those athletes who will be signed up through Valparaiso Swim Club and USA Swimming (there is a fee and volunteer requirement for club option) for the Fall/Winter season. This allows us not to be limited by a number of practices throughout the week. The practice schedule can be found on the calendar on the website www.valposwim.com. If you are not interested in signing up with Valparaiso Swim Club, you will fall under the IHSAA Limited contact pre-season option. This group will start on Tuesday, September 30th. We will follow the IHSAA Limited Contact policies, limiting us to meeting no more then 3 times a week for no more then two hours each meeting. The only requirement is you MUST have a physical on file with the VHS athletic office to participate. We will continue that until each IHSAA official season starts for both Girls (October 27th) and Boys (November 10th), at which point we are no longer limited in our practices. Limited contact schedule can be found on the calendar on the website www.valposwim.com. If you are not interested in pre-season, then the 3rd option would be to report for your respective teams' first official day of practice.

3 Pre-Season Options

1. Sign up with Valparaiso Swim Club & USA Swimming, allowing you to start on Monday, August 18th, with no practice restrictions. We are allowing a 1 week grace period to swim and get signed up. If you are not signed up by August 25th, you will not be able to participate in senior club until it is completed. You can find registration information here

   https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/isvsc/page/team-registration

   Your registration group will be "Senior Group". I do want to make sure everyone is aware that the fee ($200.00 for club and additional fee for USA swimming) and volunteer session (Yes, this is new this year but it is only 1 required session) is part of the unlimited practice option. with signing up through Valpo Swim Club, the cost and volunteer session number requirements are discounted to reflect how you only swim pre-season and post High School season (through spring break). The requirement for fundraising will be waived for this Fall/Winter season for our senior group. If you would like to do pre-season through Valparaiso Swim Club, but financially it is something that might be difficult, please see coach Nellessen, and we will set up a meeting with the club board to work something out. Also note that practices are run by the high school staff and will not run during night club times, they are run before School and right after school. Schedule is on www.valposwim.com

2. Follow the IHSAA Limited Contact pre-season program. Due to not being registered with VSC and USA Swimming, we are limited to the IHSAA rules on practice times. Therefore we will only be meeting 2 times a week for no more than 2 hours each session. Currently, we have it set up for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays starting in October. This will be the schedule until the season officially begins for each team, at which point the practice time restrictions are lifted, and we will go to a more traditional 5-6 days, possibly multiple practices a day schedule. All schedules are on www.valposwim.com.

3. No Pre-season at all. We will see you on the first official day of the season, Girls (October 27th) and Boys (November 10th), at 2:45 pm in the aquatic center.

Please Note

*Physicals are required no matter what for the first official start day of season Girls (October 27th) and Boys (November 10th) . Only option that needs to have physical before official season starts is Limited Contact. Physicals are all completed on final forms (please see post on final forms)

*Pre-season is not required to be on the swim team. However, like everything else, the better prepared you are, the easier things will be. If you are new to swimming or joining the swim team for the first time, we recommend that you do the limited contact schedule so you are not overwhelmed. You can always sign-up for Valparaiso Swim Club if you choose once you start to get in shape.

If you have any questions, please contact Boomer at adamnellessen@valpo.k12.in.us