1. Appreciate what you do have.

2. Make it Happen.

3. Listening and Change are Essentials.

4. Be Authentic. Be YOU.

5. Give Love.

6. Improve your productivity. 

7. Give energy to your Hopes and Dreams.

8. Make feeling good your priority.

9. Character Counts. Go where the Fun is!

10. Be the Fun. Be the Leader. Achieve the GOAL.

2023 Purpose & Goals

Captains for Season 2024 (must be a Senior graduating 2025)

Purpose: 2023 TBD by Captains and Coaches

Goals: 2023 TBD by Captains and Coaches

1.       Be kind/Give Love.

2.        To help as many team members as possible have a joyful daily experience, improve our Conf Standing and increase the number of girls on the All-Conf List and to have peak performances at JV Champs, Sections, Sections Finals, and State.

Team Agreement Collaboration. We will work on this together  and the results will be posted to the website in the weeks to come. We  will focus on..

1.       Vision

2.       Roles

3.       Commitment

4.       Time & Value

5.       Measurements of Success.

Captains 

Note: Coaches & Leaders listen and are open to positive change.

All Seniors are Leaders and Role Models for our younger athletes. All Seniors (soon to be Juniors) of the Graduating Class of 2025 are candidates for Seasons Captains 2024.  Both your input and Coaches discretion will be used in the selection.   Announcement of Captains will take place at the close of the 2023 Banquet.

Qualities of a Captain: Royal Pride Captains

P- Perseverance

R-Respect

I-Integrity

D-Determination

E-Enthusiasm

Roles of a Captains: Top 5

1.       Attendance & Present. Reads the weekly in season Newsletter. 1st on Deck, Lane Lines, Meet Set Up/Clean Up , Willing to Lead Stretches,  Locker Room Clean Up, Bus Clean Up.  A Captain is in good standing academically and adhears to the Team Handbook, Woodbury High School Handbook and MSHSL Rules. 

2.       Cheering & Motivating others at both practices and meets.

3.       Communicates well with and supports the Coaches & Team’s Purpose, Goals and Agreement.

4.       Focuses on Team Unity, is Approachable and Inclusive.

5.       Hardest Worker Daily. Is present and gives it their all during practice, sets, water x, dryland, yoga/pilates, visualization, dream journaling, and MEETS.

Captains/Leadership Training Program Opportunities and assignments for each month leading into the season. "Laying the foundation" " Setting the Stage"

Chloe Carlson

“Just Keep Swimming” -Dori

Heeryung Choi

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth 

Ava Hacker 

“ Practice like your not good enough to win. Race like your too good to lose.” - Katie Ledecky 

Lucy Jacobson 

“Nothing will work unless you do.” - Maya Angelou 

Lydia Jang

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela 

Eva Nohner 

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you belive, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -Winnie the Pooh 
 

Sophia Peterson

“ Those who are wise, see their lives like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are.”- Colleen Houck 

Ava Reich

“No matter how slow you go you are still lapping everyone on the couch.” - unknown 

“Swimming is a sport. Everything else is just a game.”

”When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.”

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”-Norman Vincent Peale

“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” -Matt Biondi 

“You are only confined by the walls you build around yourself.”

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at it. It matters that you don’t just give up.” -Stephen Hawking