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The Bella Casa Barracudas Swim Team was founded on three basic principals: To foster friendships within the community, to teach children a healthy lifestyle and to teach kids 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 for kids to meet others in the neighborhood when they likely attend different schools, are on different tracts, or different calendars all together. Participating in the neighborhood swim team gives kids 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 that promote a healthy lifestyle. Not only is 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 Bella Casa Barracudas is a uniting force within our community.

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Why Swim Team?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 37 percent of American adults can’t swim the length of a pool, which puts them at risk of being 1 of the 10 people who drown every day in the United States. Of these 10 people, 2 are children 14 or younger. Drowning is the 5th leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States and the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States for children 14 or younger.

With young children and beginner swimmers, both swim teams and swim lessons are primarily focused on teaching swimmers how to swim, and those children are going to learn to swim no matter which path they choose. 

The primary purpose of swim lessons is to teach swimmers how to be safe in the water and become proficient enough to survive in a life threatening situation. With a swim team, swimmers learn to become strong, confident swimmers by repeatedly practicing and correcting stroke technique and specific skills necessary to gain efficiency in the water.

In swim lessons, the goal is ultimately learning survival techniques for the water. On a swim team, the goal is to perfect swimming skills over many, many years. For a young child, what we do will not be that different, but the way that we do it will be.

This pursuit of improvement is what separates swim lessons from a swim team, and in turn has many other positive effects for the participants in the sport. The traits and qualities that swimmers develop by constantly pursuing improvement are the same characteristics that help children and people succeed in school, in work, and in life. Because we are teaching, constant reinforcement of those skills is critical to success.

We are firm believers that every child should learn to swim. Knowing how to swim is a lifelong skill and it saves lives every day. Swim lessons serve a very important purpose but so do summer swim teams. The friendships that are built in swimming can last a lifetime. Swimming is not only a sport but a lifelong skill that helps everyone become a better person.  

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