Team Principles
The Manchester Marlins Swim Team was founded on three basic principals. To foster friendships within the community, to teach children a healthy lifestyle and to teach them how to swim efficiently and effectively.
With the multitude of options in Wake County for schools, our first goal is to create an environment for kids to meet other kids their age and develop friendships across the community. It can be a challenge here for kids to meet others in the neighborhood when they likely attend different schools, are on different tracts, or different calendars all together. Participating on the neighborhood swim team gives them a chance to meet other kids within the community and to build lasting friendships.
Second, with the abundance of technology today, we aim to give children the opportunity to learn some valuable life skills which promote a healthy lifestyle. Not only is a swimming a sport that you can participate in your entire life, but we reinforce that with healthy options at our concession stand during meets.
Finally, our goal is to teach kids to swim and go beyond what is taught in lessons so that they have deeper knowledge of swimming that could one day save their life.
A byproduct that has been seen and felt by the families that participate is that the friendships formed include the whole family, not just the kids that swim. The parents and grandparents that volunteer form strong bonds as well. The Manchester Marlins Swim Team is a uniting force within our community.
