The Nelson Neptunes dove into their summer season achieving many best times and a lot of improvement in all the swimmers.
“We have a lower enrolment than we usually do, but we’ve been able to work it out and are having a great season so far,” said Rebecca Afford, one of the coaches.
The Neptunes have about 50 swimmers between the ages of three and 20.
“The younger swimmers are usually newcomers and then the older swimmers, they usually stick with swimming or quit, so we have quite a few veteran swimmers,” said Afford.
The team is currently in the middle of an intense training period, which Afford described as “hell week.”
“It’s two weeks of intense training including dry land times, practices and we ran up Pulpit Rock,” she said.
“The beginning of the season was a lot of technique work and drills, and now we are working on speed and endurance. We are really focusing on races.”
The Neptunes have been busy with meets in Creston, Trail, Colville and Grand Forks. Their next meet is in Castlegar this weekend.
“There are seven teams in our region, and we’ve even had teams from the Okanagan come to our meets to compete,” said Afford.
The main goal for the Neptunes now is the regional swim meet at the beginning of August in Castlegar.
“We also really enjoy the fun meets like the one in Colville and the one coming up in Kimberley,” said Afford.
The Neptunes will be in Kimberley the following weekend.