Douglas Dolfins Swim Team
2011-2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Thanks to the hard work of our athletes, and the generous support of our team parents, coaches, partners and sponsors, the Douglas Dolfins Swim Team had a very successful 2011-2012 season. Among our many activities we:

1. Directly involved about 140 youth ages 5-18 from our local community – some via scholarships – in Carson Valley’s only nationally-accredited USA Swimming program.
2. Imparted life-long skills and benefits to all participants such as fitness, sportsmanship, water safety, teamwork, time management, physical and mental discipline, scholarship, and competitive swimming techniques.
3. Hosted three large 3-day swim meets and several smaller competitions, bringing about 1000 competitive swimmers and their families to our community from all over northern Nevada and California.
4. Brought 48 Dolfins athletes to Nevada State Swimming Championships, where we placed 3rd among 9 northern Nevada teams and 5th state-wide, with 1 State Champion, 4 top-3 finishers, and 11 individual finalists.
5. Took 11 Dolfins athletes to Junior Olympic Championships, 2 athletes to Pacific Zone All-stars, and 4 athletes to Far Western Championships.
6. Took 6 athletes to national Sectional Championships (a Dolfins record), and qualified 3 athletes for International Grand Prix competition (a Dolfins first).
7. Nine individual and 22 additional relay swimmers broke Carson Valley swimming records 93 times in various age-groups and events, some going back at least 18 years.  Of 379 possible records, 72 (19%) are now from the 2011-2012 season.
8. Four Dolfins athletes clocked top-25 Pacific Swimming performances for their ages, with three in the top-10, among over 13,000 Pacific Swimming athletes.
9. One Dolfin clocked a National Top-10 performance by age and event, and another Dolfin was accepted to the USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Team.
10. The Dolfins contributed to another undefeated Douglas High School Tigers swimming and diving team for 2012.
11. Two Dolfins athletes were selected to compete at Western Zone Age Group Championships in Colorado, and both came home with individual and relay gold.
12. Positioned some of our top graduating Seniors for college scholarship support.