WHEN: Sunday April 6, 2025 to Saturday, April 12, 2025
WHERE: San Juan, Puerto Rico! All workouts will be at the Encantada Sports Center (Rio Park, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976). The official camp hotel is the Embassy Suites in San Juan (8000 José M. Tartak Ave, Carolina, San Juan 00979).
WHAT: LGBTQ+ Swim Camp is an opportunity to spend a week developing your swimming skills and endurance in a fun, welcoming, and social setting with a bunch of LGBTQ+ swimmers and allies in Puerto Rico.
Swim Camp starts on a Sunday, April 6th with a 2-hour “warm-up” and calibration workout from 3pm to 5pm. Over the next six days, we hold two, 2-hour short course workouts per day, one from 8am to 10am and another from 3pm to 5pm, led by our team of four experienced coaches.
The morning workouts are aerobic; the afternoon workouts are divided between a specific clinic (one for each of the four strokes, plus starts/turns) and a themed workout for those who would prefer to just do another swim. Afternoon training will be preceded by dry land exercises.
Campers will get Wednesday afternoon off to relax or enjoy various tours of San Juan or nearby national parks (more details to come!). Dinner will be provided each day other than Wednesday and Friday. And there will be plenty of informal social occasions, including happy hours and island excursions, throughout the week!
For more details about Camp, check out our full brochure for the camp here!
COACHES: Michael Kerr (he/him) will be serving as head coach of Swim Camp. Coach of the Chicago Smelts, Mike is a Level 3 USMS certified coach with twenty years experience in swim education. He’s worked with Olympians, Trials qualifiers, Masters State Champions and even established learn-to-swim programs. Having started Masters programs in both NJ and IL, he is well versed in creating safe and welcoming communities on the pool deck and beyond. Mike’s coaching philosophy is focused on creating a space where a swimmer can set goals, shatter expectations and work with him to ensure a lifetime of successful swimming.
Mike will be joined by assistant coaches Connor Rumpit (assistant coach at NYU) and TNYA’s own Kar Nowakowski and Emily Fogle.
WHO CAN ATTEND: Anyone over age 20 with sufficient swimming proficiency. You do not need to be a member of TNYA, or any masters team, or USMS, to take part in Camp. Camp is designed for a wide range of swimming proficiencies; see the brochure for more details.
ACCOMMODATION: The official camp hotel is the Embassy Suites and can be booked at the time you register for camp. Accommodation is optional; campers are welcome to make their own accommodation arrangements via AirBnB, VRBO, or similar services.
COST: The early bird rate for Camp for full TNYA members is $495. The non-member rate for Camp is $595, although anyone can join TNYA, even if they don’t live in NYC, and benefit from the lower rate. Registration covers all workouts, clinics, dinners (except Wednesday and Friday nights), and transport to and from the pool.
After January 15, the rate will rise by $100 for both TNYAs and non-TNYAs, to $595 and $695 respectively. You may cancel without penalty before March 1, 2025; after that date, we cannot refund you as we ourselves cannot be refunded for your spot in Camp at that point.
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