Due to continuing construction at the Northwood High School Pool, some of the Northwood High School aquatic activities are TEMPORARILY hosted at the Portola High School Pool. Because of this, the Irvine School District has TEMPORARILY moved our practice start time from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. All practices will start in the water at 7:30pm. This means that all Learn-to-Swim Classes will also start at 7:30pm. Note: This is a TEMPORARY schedule change. We will return to our normal 5:30pm start time in a few weeks. Thank your for your understanding!...

If you've been around Age-Group swimming for even a short period of time, you've probably heard about swimming time standards! We are going to try and take some of the confusion out of the time standard discussion...but first, some basic terminology! SCY - Short Course Yards (based on a 25-yard pool, which we normally swim at practice) LCM - Long Course Meters (based on a 50-meter pool, this would be our pool in the LONG direction) SCM - Short Course Meters (based on a 25-meter pool, I only know of...