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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

7 days ago
2 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Zoe is one of our coaches at Sigma Swim School Fort Worth Central (TWU). Today we interviewed her focusing on coaching and motivation. Zoe swims for Boswell High School, and recently competed in the 5A State Swimming Championships, representing Boswell. Q: How and why did you become involved in the sport swimming? A: I actually used to do soccer and gymnastics, but I had an injury to my Achilles tendon and this is why I started swimming and I fell in love with it!! Q: What do

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Sigma Swim Offering Swim Lessons At Forest Park Pool And Walsh

Feb 8
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Sigma Swim Offering Swim Lessons At Forest Park Pool And Walsh

Spring and Summer swim lessons are just around the corner. We will begin taking early sign-ups and reservations for our Summer 2021 swim lessons that will begin in June. Sigma Swim will be offering its highly rated swim lessons at three outdoor pools this summer: Fort Worth Central Forest Park, Fort Worth Central Marine Park, and Walsh Athletic Facility (for Walsh residents). This summer, if you're a Fort Worth resident who lives near the Forest Park Pool, make Sigma Swim Sch

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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Feb 2
2 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Edgar is one of our coaches at our Sigma Swim Fort Worth South location. Today we interviewed him focusing on coaching, motivation and how to prepare a swimmer for his/her first swim meet. Q: How and why did you become involved in the sport swimming? A: Self-improvement and growth of the youth. Q: What do you hope your swimmers will learn from you? A: Dedication, perseverance and compassion. Q: What does coaching the sport of swimming mean to you? A: To overcome and adapt to

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Jan 28
2 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Katie that swims at our Sigma Burleson North Brick location under Coach Wendy. She attends Arlington Heights High School. Q: How and when did you decide to become a swimmer? A: My grandparents have a pool and I loved to swim in it all the time and so that sparked my parents to put me in swim lessons and I haven’t stopped since. Q: What does the sport of swimming mean to you and what would you say if you were told that you can’t swim anymore? A: It’s a passion and a drive that

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Sigma Swimmers Heading To High School Regionals

Jan 24
2 min

Sigma Swimmers Heading To High School Regionals

With the District swim meets completed many of our Sigma Swimmers will now compete this weekend at Regionals to swim for their High Schools. They had a blast at Districts in Keller, Mansfield, and Rockwall and collected over 40 individual medals with our swimmers from Aledo, Burleson, Cleburne, Fort Worth, Keller, Midlothian, Saginaw, and Waco winning their District. Congratulations swimmers! For more photos of our district swimming finalists and Sigma Swimmers, check out a

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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Jan 20
2 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Carter is one of our coaches at Sigma Burleson THR location. Today we interviewed him focusing on coaching and motivation. Q: How and why did you become involved in the sport swimming? A: My best friend grew up swimming and so that is how I was introduced to it. Q: What do you hope your swimmers will learn from you? A: I hope that my swimmers will learn that hard work and effort really pays off. Q: What does coaching the sport of swimming mean to you? A: Coaching swim to me m

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Jan 18
2 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Sophie Dupre is a 7-year-old swimmer that swims at Sigma Swim’s Cleburne location and swims under Coach Amber. Q: Why did you decide to become swimmer? A: I began with summer swim lessons at Splash Station. I loved it so much that I wanted to join Sigma when I learned they had a Cleburne swim team. Q: Are there any swimmers that inspire and why? A: I am inspired by other Cleburne Sigma swimmers. Rene Wisenbaker, Julie Hall, Matthew Harman, and Clarice Hunsinker all work hard

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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Jan 13
2 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Cat is one of our coaches at Sigma Swim's Dallas Duncanville location. Today we interviewed her focusing on motivation, athletic inspiration and family involvement. Q: How and when did you become involved in the sport of swimming? A: Growing up I was always in the water but never knew swimming was a sport until one of my friend’s moms was a coach, so I decided to give it a try. I was eight years old when I started swimming. Q: What does coaching the sport of swimming mean to

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Jan 11
2 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

KaiLi Hall is an 18-year-old swimmer at Sigma Swim’s Cleburne location under Coach Tiffany. She is a senior at Cleburne High School. Q: How and when did you decide that you wanted to be a swimmer? A: I was playing soccer and swimming at the same time when I was in 3rd grade. I wasn’t very good at soccer because I was not aggressive enough. I decided to quit soccer because I was better at swimming. Q: Are there any swimmers that inspire you the most and why? A: Missy Franklin

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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Jan 6
2 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Jim is one of our coaches at our Sigma Cleburne location. Today we interviewed him focusing on motivation, injury prevention, and accomplishments. Q: How did you become involved in the sport swimming? A: In college I was a Triathlete and I needed to find a place to swim, to swim at one pool, I was required to help coach their swim team, so I did. Q: How many years have you been coaching? A: Almost 50 years and still loving it. Q: Growing up were swimmers that inspired you a

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Jan 4
1 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Emily Huff is a 10-year-old swimmer at Sigma Swim's Fort Worth Northwest (TCCNW) location under Coach Brian. She attends Greenfield Elementary in Fort Worth. Q: How and why did you decide to become a swimmer? A: Started out just learning to swim but the longer I swam the more I loved it. Q: What do you like the most about swimming? A: Swimming all year round. Q: What did like the most at your recent first USA Swimming sanctioned meets? A: Hanging out with my swim friends.

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The Power of Belief - The Journey of A Sigma Swimmer and Her Coach

Jan 1
2 min

The Power of Belief - The Journey of A Sigma Swimmer and Her Coach

On December 27, 2018, I attended the wedding of Kira Schlosberg, Sigma alumnus and one of the original 40 swimmers who helped start Sigma in 2009. This wedding marked the beginning of a new chapter in Kira's life and prompted me to reflect on the journey that we had together. Through our journey together as swimmer and coach, we both grew; Kira as an athlete and me as a coach, both of us grew as people. The Journey Is Rough When Kira came to swim for me in 2008, I was coachin

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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Dec 30, 2020
4 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Coralee is the site coordinator at Sigma Burleson North Brick and Sigma Burleson South Texas Health (THR) locations. Today we interviewed her mainly on drowning prevention because Coralee is an advocate for drowning prevention in Burleson and Tarrant County. Q: How did you get involved in the sport of swimming? A: We lived in Lander, WY. My kids were 3 & 6 they joined the Lander Swim Club and had taken lessons as part of PE. Nicolaus swam his first swim meet in October at t

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Dec 28, 2020
2 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Madeline O’Neill is a 10-year-old swimmer that swims at Sigma Swim's Fort Worth Central TWU location under Coach Bekah and Wendy. She attends Fort Worth Country Day in Fort Worth. Q: How and when did you decide that you wanted to be a swimmer? A: I decided I wanted to be a swimmer about 2 years ago. The reason I decided to swim, is because I swam at my country club and that was not enough for me. Q: Are there any swimmers that inspire you the most and why? A: Katie Ledeck

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Testimonials: Sage V.

Dec 21, 2020
1 min

Testimonials: Sage V.

This review comes from one of our Sigma Swim School parents. Sage's daughter has been in our lessons program for three weeks. Here's Sage's testimonial: I just wanted to drop a quick note about Eleanor and her progress with Coach JoJo. I am so impressed with JoJo's patience and kindness towards Eleanor. She has made so much progress in the three weeks we have been attending, going from crying before AND after every lesson to jumping in with a smile :) Please tell JoJo that I

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Major Smith is a 15- year old swimmer that swims at Sigma Swim's Fort Worth North (TCCNW) location under Head Coach Andrew. Major is a sophomore at Decatur High and swims for his high school team. Q: How and when did you decide that you wanted to be a swimmer? A: I was racing my brother in a lake in Pennsylvania. He got a head start but I ran him down pretty quick and that is when I told my Dad that I wanted to be on a swim team. I started to swim about a year ago. Q: Are the

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Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Dec 15, 2020
2 min

Sigma Featured Staff Member Of The Week

Bekah is the head coach and site coordinator at our Sigma Duncanville location. Today we interviewed her focusing on drowning prevention, mindset and motivation. Q: Growing up in the sport of swimming, who was your greatest inspiration, and why? A: My dad. He was my biggest supporter. For years, he would watch all of my practices and go to all of my meets. I also had great coaches in age group who never settled for anything but my best every day. Q: What does coaching the spo

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Staying Motivated

Dec 13, 2020
3 min

Staying Motivated

We all have days when we have problems staying motivated for many reasons such as a bad race or not improving the way we wanted. Without motivation there is no goal reaching or moving forward. So, what can we do to find motivation? First, we must realize that swimming is a very mental sport, especially at the elite level. You have to set realistic goals that you are able to achieve and have a positive attitude, which does not mean being cheerful, it means a willingness to wo

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Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Dec 10, 2020
1 min

Sigma Featured Swimmer Of The Week

Ava Curnutt is a 9-year-old swimmer who swims at Sigma Swim's Fort Worth North (TCCNW) Swim School location under Coach Taylor and Coach Brian. She attends Walsh Elementary in Aledo. Q: How did you decide to become a swimmer? A: I’ve just always loved to swim! Q: Do you have any favorite swimmers and who are they? A: Michael Phelps because my Dad said he’s the best swimmer ever, and I’ve seen him swim and he’s really good. Q: What do you like the most about swimming? A: Com

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Becoming A Swim Parent

Dec 8, 2020
3 min

Becoming A Swim Parent

With the recent large number of drownings of children and the campaign to end childhood drownings, many parents are taking their children for swim lessons. Many of those go on to become competitive swimmers. Some children, especially the very young, are afraid at their first lessons. They cry, scream, and do not want to put their face in the water. This may be hard on a parent, but here at Sigma Swimming we will encourage the parent to leave the deck, so mom or dad are out of

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