About CUSD Summer League



About CUSD Summer League

Summer League is a short summer swim season that happens in the first part of the summer break of CUSD. This Summer League is designed to introduce children to the sport of swimming. Swimming is a sport that is different than many sports as it is not a game, it is an athletic event. A sport where the clock is the objective determinate of placement. We emphasize improvement through the season, but mainly to have some fun racing the competitive strokes.

More about the Summer League

        Our coaching staff is made up of mainly high school and college students that want to help young kids learn about the sport of swimming. We introduce mechanics and develop skills at practice while also throwing in a game on occasion. We then promote going to the swim meets to get the experience of a swim meet (please see swim meet page under Events about our meets).

          Our Goal is establish foundational skills for the sport of swimming, and help young kids to be more comfortable in the water. While doing this, we encourage our coaches to make this a fun and enjoyable experience for the swimmers.

          This program is not swim lessons, so we do require those entering the program to already know how to swim freestyle (front crawl) and backstroke (back crawl). These are skills typically taught in swim lessons. Higher levels of swim lessons also teach breaststroke and butterfly, so it is beneficial to have been introduced to those strokes in swim lessons, but we do not expect them to know the foundations of these strokes from learn to swim lessons alone.

         We hope you enjoy our Summer Swim League with Clovis Unified School District.


USA Swimming vs. CUSD Programming

         USA Swimming is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of swimming in the USA. It is in charge of putting together the National Team for the United States. USA Swimming has developed a grassroots system that is huge (over 400,000 member swimmers in the USA) that has developed the US into the powerhouse of Swimming at the International Level. No country has come close to the medal count of the US in the Olympics.

        Clovis Swim Club has been a member club since the inception of USA Swimming as the NGB and actually began when the grassroots system was ran through the AAU. In the 80’s, Clovis Swim Club became a program ran through the CUSD Sports and Recreational Department and has since became in its own department in the district. Clovis Swim Club has been the best swim club in Central California Swimming for years and continues today to dominate the area. Clovis Swim Club has also developed athletes that compete at the national level including the Olympic Trials where less than 1% of the USA Swimming Membership qualify to compete.

         The Aquatics Department also operates the CUSD Summer League. We do not require Summer League participants to be members of USA Swimming which means that Summer League swimmers may only compete in events that are CUSD Events. The times swum at these meets are all exhibition, and cannot be used for USA Swimming Meets to enter or qualify. If a swimmer wishes to compete at the Age Group Championships (AGC) (Previously known as Junior Olympics), or any higher level competitions, they would need to be a USA Swimming Member and attend a USA Swimming Sanctioned Event to make a qualifying time. AGC is ran in February of each year for short course (25 yard length) and in July for Long Course (50 Meter length).

         Clovis Swim Club now also offers an Academy Program year round, that is a CUSD Swim Program that does not require a USA Swimming Membership, and offers CUSD Events occasionally throughout the year.


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