Pacific Dragons Swim Team Mission Statement

PDST (Pacific Dragons Swim Team) is a competitive swim team seeking to enable all of its swimmers to reach their highest potential as an athlete and as a person through excellence in its coaching, training, and caring.

Vision Statement

To create a challenging and nurturing environment in supporting our swimmers to achieve the excellence in competitive swimming and translate the learning experience in swimming into real life. The experience at PDST will build a lifetime-enduring ethic for our swimmers and enable them to succeed in their future endeavors.

Culture

We seek to create a respectful and vibrant culture for all of our athletes and athlete’s families. Win or lose, a high respect and caring are fostered for our teammates, for our competitors, and for ourselves.

Code of Conduct

All members of PDST, from our Coaches, Swimmers, and Parents are expected to follow the code of conduct of US Swimming.

Go, Dragons

The dragon is a symbol of luck, virtue, peace, and longevity. Dragons are confident, idealistic, passionate, brave, and generous. A dragon will do everything to make his or her dreams come true. 

Swimming is A Winner:

With all the sports and activities that children have to choose from today, why select swimming?

First of all, the USS age group swimming program is America’s largest program of guided fitness activity for children. Age group swimming builds a strong foundation for a lifetime of good health by teaching healthy fitness habits.

Secondly, many pediatricians recommend swimming as the VERY BEST developmental activity for children. Why do doctors like it so much?

  • Swimming develops high quality aerobic endurance; the most important key to physical fitness. In other sports, an hour of practice may yield as little as 10 minutes of meaningful exercise. Age group swimming teams use every precious minute of practice time developing fitness and teaching skills.
  • Swimming does a better job in proportional muscular development by using all the body’s major muscle groups. No other sport does this as well.
  • Swimming enhances children’s natural flexibility (at a time when they ordinarily begin to lose it) by exercising all their major joints through a full range of motion.
  • Swimming helps develop superior coordination because it requires combinations of complex movements of all parts of the body, enhancing harmonious muscle function, grace and fluidity of movement.
  • Swimming is the most injury free of all children’s sports.
  • Swimming is a sport that will bring children fitness and enjoyment for life. Participants in Master’s Swimming programs are still training and racing well into their 80’s.