Year Round Swimming with Decatur Aquatics Club

While many in Decatur consider swimming a sport only for the hot summer months, the Decatur Aquatics Club swim team offers a fun alternative for swimming all year long.

Not only is swimming great exercise, but it is a lifetime sport that benefits the body and the whole person!  Swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardio-vascular fitness. It is a great cross-training element for other sports as well.

Studies have shown that swimmers develop life skills such as sportsmanship, time-management, self-discipline, goal-setting, and an increased sense of self-worth through their participation in the sport. Swimmers seem to do better in school, in general terms, than non-swimmers as a group. 

Additionally, the Decatur Aquatics Club is a great social outlet for your child. Exchanging stories at practice, challenging each other, sharing in the hard work, and competing in swim meets make swimming a rewarding experience. 

The Decatur Aquatics Club practices during the fall, winter, and early spring at the Aquadome in Decatur.  During the late spring and summer months, the team practices at the Aquadome, Carrie Matthews, and Point Mallard.

Many athletes on the swim team compete throughout the year at local and regional USA sanctioned swim meets in Huntsville, Madison, Brentwood, Nashville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Auburn.  Additionally, during the summer months, the swim team competes in numerous fun competitive inter-team meets with other community swim teams in North Alabama.

The Decatur Aquatics Club is organized into several groups of swimmers based upon swimming ability to provide the best experience for each swimmer:

• The novice group focuses developing proper stroke techniques in freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, and backstroke.  These swimmers will compete in some local competitive events as well as the summer inter-team meets. The main emphasis on this group is stroke technique, developing a love for the sport of swimming and having fun!
• The intermediate groups continue to work on perfecting stroke technique and are introduced to some aspects of conditioning.  When the swimmer is ready, an emphasis is placed on developing the swimmer’s skills, techniques and conditioning in preparation for competition.
• The advanced groups focus on the continued physical and mental development and conditioning required for more demanding races and competitions. These groups are introduced to dry land and weight training in addition to swim training.  These groups train at the highest level to achieve their competitive goals and many swimmers from this group will progress to compete in Southeastern Championships and be ranked in the Southeast.

For more information about the Decatur Aquatics Club, call Andrea Percle at 256-341-4952.

Decatur Aquatics Club Master Swim Team

Gail Reinecke continues to coach our adult master’s program. This team meets 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Monday through Friday.

We offer several levels of work-outs tailored to each master’s needs/abilities.  Some of the master participants compete in offered meets. Some swimmers will train for triathlons and some participant for the workout only.  We are here to have fun and enjoy each other, our time in the pool and improve our skills.

Gail Reinecke has been with the Decatur Aquatics Club and Swim team for almost 10 years.  She is a certified USA Swimming Coach.  She has coached over all for about 20 years. 

For more information contact Gail Reinecke at 341-4952.