Cassel Hills Piranhas

Evening Practices & Assisted Swim Evaluations - May 11th through May 21st

Our practices start this season with two weeks of evening conditioning and pool practice at the Cassel Hills Pool. New for 2026: We will also be conducting evaluations for Assisted Swim registrants May 11th, 12th, and 13th. Read more about this here. Evening practices start on Monday, May 11th, going through Thursday, May 21st, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm, with the first hour being for swimmers 10 & under and the second hour for 11 & up. Mini-Bites are not included in these practices. We will hold a Mock Meet on Tuesday, May 19th, with Thursday, May 21st as the rain date, which will consist of a series of swimming events that will allow new families to see how a meet is run, and to give everyone an opportunity to see how the different volunteer positions work. Read more about the mock meet on our Mock Meet page.

A word about practice groups:

Starting in 2026, our coaches will be grouping our swimmers slightly differently than in previous seasons, as a safety measure and also as a means to ensure each swimmer gets more direct attention. We will be grouping swimmers into one of three different groups: Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginner. Broadly speaking, these will typically align to ages, with the oldest swimmers being in the Advanced group, those in the middle/younger ages with prior swim team experience in the Intermediate group, and our youngest/least experienced swimmers in the Beginner group. There will likely be some overlap in ages with the other two groups at the top and bottom of the intermediate group, and the coaches may talk to some families about moving up or down in practice groups as the season progresses and swimmers improve, but by moving to three groups of swimmers instead of two, we will have more eyes on the swimmers during practices, which increases safety as well as the coaches' ability to provide personalized coaching to each swimmer throughout the season. All families will be notified of which practice group their swimmer(s) are assigned to by the end of evening practices on May 21st.

Morning Practices - May 26th through July 10th

We skip Monday, May 25th, for Memorial Day. Starting on Tuesday, May 26th, we begin pool practices in the mornings from 8:15am - 11am.

Practice times for each group are as follows:

Advanced: 8:15am-9:15am

Intermediate: 9:15am-10:15am

Beginner: 10:15am-11:00am

Assisted Swim:10:15am-11:00am

Mini Bites: 9:30am-10:00am TUESDAY & THURSDAY ONLY

There is NO PRACTICE on July 3rd.