Benefiting the North Carolina Children's Hospital
Be sure to register for the 6th Annual Swim for Smiles Youth Triathlon before Sun. April 1, 2012 (we’re not fooling 
)
After Sunday, the pricing goes up!
Click here to register.
Remember, if you’re worried about being able to afford the registration fees, read our post on how we can help.
You already know that our motto is “Kids Helping Kids.” At the end of the day, that’s our number one goal — it doesn’t stop at triathlons and races, but it does start with YOU.
That’s why we want to make sure that if you want to participate in triathlons, race fees aren’t an inhibiting factor. We have programs in place so that it’s easier to afford to participate in our races — up to 50 percent off the normal racing fees for kids who qualify. Just contact Gary Kayye for more details — that’s gary@swimforsmiles.org
Interested in registering for the 6th Annual Swim for Smiles Youth Triathlon? Click here!
Right of the bank I want to thank our savvy supporters and commenters who have contributed valuable suggestions and insight about the new Swim for Smiles site! We want this to be the go-to place for not only Swim for Smiles-related events, but for youth triathlons, in general.
New on the site you’ll find more prominent links to register for the 6th Annual Youth Triathlon and you’ll also find archived results from past races. Both the home page and Races and Events tab have prominent green buttons directing you toward registration. To access archived race results, just click the Races and Events tab and look for the long blue bar in the Annual Triathlon section that says “Click to View Archived Triathlon Results.”
Thanks again, everyone, and keep the constructive feedback coming!
It’s time to sign up for the spring season (March-May) season of the Triangle Multisport/Swim for Smiles youth triathlon team again! We’re excited about the new year as we have a couple of great new coaches to compliment the returning staff, fun and informative speakers such as the owners of Fleet Feet Sports, Carrboro, and a fantastic group of both new and returning kids.
The new online registration form can be found here, along with additional information about the team. After you fill out the registration form, you’ll get an invoice from Swim for Smiles within 48 hours.
The schedule can be found here. In addition, we’ve also set up an interactive calendar on mytrainlocal.com that will be linked to both the trianglemultisport.com and swimforsmiles.com sites. Each member is invited to go to www.mytrainlocal.com and subscribe to the swim for smiles calendar after registering. You can register through Facebook or set up your login info yourself. The calendar will be updated throughout the season and members can choose to have the updates emailed to them, and also the members are encouraged to mark whether they will attend the workout or not so that the coaches have an idea of what to expect.
Spots are already quickly filling up so don’t hesitate. Please pass the word around to anyonethat you think may be interested as well. We hope to see everyone in March!
The 2012 season is set to start for the Triangle Multisport/Swim for Smiles youth triathlon team in March and we’re excited to get back on the road/pool. This season promises to be a lot of fun for all involved, while being educational and getting the members faster and more skilled at the same time. The emphasis will be on teaching and perfecting appropriate skills that will then be engrained the rest of their lives. In addition, we’ll cover topics such as goal setting, how to handle winning/losing, team camaraderie, as well as having guest lectures. Competing in the Swim for Smiles youth triathlon in May will be a big team race and we encourage everyone that can to participate. We look forward to welcoming you to the team and hopefully seeing everyone on the first Sunday in March!
David Williams
Head Coach
We are incredibly proud of the work that has been done, on a volunteer basis, by Nkechinyere Nwoko of rAVe [Publications] here in Chapel Hill, NC. She spent two weeks both mapping out and re-programming a totally new website for the Swim for Smiles Foundation to officially launch our 2012 events.
In addition to a layout that allows us to better categorize what we do as a foundation, this new site also makes it easier to find ways to volunteer for Swim for Smiles events and planning in addition to integrating our Social Media better – like the new Facebook Friend Feed and Twitter Feed on the left – this is something that kids who participate in our races have been asking for.
Also, we added a section just for Education. We plan to post a lot more there in 2012. Right now, it houses our six-part video series on “How To Do a Triathlon” that’s been used by over 50 different kids’ triathlons across the country to educate their own participants on how to complete each part of a youth triathlon. We’ll eventually include a pre-race triathlon training schedule, a 5K primer (since we’re adding a 5K to our Events in 2012) and nutritional information on how to stay hydrated during a race and pre-race training.
Finally, we’ve added more information about our nonprofit youth triathlon team. It’s one of only two USA Triathlon sanctioned youth teams in North Carolina and has produced both top-3 national championship finishers as well as top-3 at World Triathlon Championship finishers, too. We have world-class coaches who are specifically sanctioned for coaching triathlon for kids and the team is open to kids 6-12 years old.
We hope you take a few moments to peruse the site and let us know what you think – and while you’re here, take a moment to register for our new monthly eNewsletter by clicking on the “Subscribe to Newsletter” links.
As you can see, you are on a totally NEW website for the Swim for Smiles Foundation. Thanks to a volunteer member of our SFS team, we’re up and running with a site that’s not only easier to navigate, provides more information about our foundation, but also integrates our Twitter and Facebook presence – something that kids who participate in our events have been asking us to do!
But, we’ve got other new things planned for 2012 as well. In addition to bringing back the USA’s largest youth triathlon back to Chapel Hill this May (May 6th to be exact), we’re gearing up for the 2012 Wacky Relay Day and SFS Summer FUNdays in July, the Greensboro Swim for Smiles @ GAC youth triathlon in September and a totally new event in December: our 1st ever 5K that’ll raise money for the Children’s wing of the NC Burn Center at UNC Hospitals.
So, we need your help. We need you to get involved. We need event “evangelists”, event ambassadors, planners and people who want to help us grow in 2012. So, if you’re interested in getting involved and being a volunteer, please contact me at: gary@swimforsmiles.org or call me at 919-868-3358. We’re 100% volunteers, so the pay’s not good, but the feeling you’ll get from becoming part of our youth-based events that raise money for the NC Children’s Hospital is simply amazing!
And, we’ll give you free SFS gear for helping!
I look forward to hearing from you,
The Swim for Smiles Foundation is proud to announce that registration for our 6th Annual Youth Triathlon is OPEN. The 2012 race will return to Chapel Hill, NC on May 6th.
Last year’s event drew over 800 participants and was the largest kid’s triathlon in the USA. In addition, for the 2nd year in a row, we won the Endurance Magazine Award for the Best Kid’s Race in North Carolina. We are ready to accommodate over 1000 kids this year with a new course and even more fun activities pre- and post-race.
Open to kids from ages 5-18 (yes, now 5-year olds can participate), the Swim for Smiles Youth Triathlon is a USA-Triathlon sanctioned event and includes two courses for ALL levels of participants. In addition, we have a limited number of relay teams made up of kids of any and all ages (one kid will swim, another bike and the third will run the course — all relay participants and teams will do the Long Course).
Beginners should consider our Short Course triathlon that includes a 100-meter swim (in a heated pool), a 2.5-mile bike course and finishes with a short 1K (0.6miles) run. Long Course participants will begin with a 300-meter swim (in a heated pool), transition to a 5-mile bike course and then finish with a 3K run (1.8 miles). The Swim for Smiles Youth Triathlon starts at 8am and is considered an easy triathlon and it designed for all levels of youth participants.
Every finisher receives a medal and the top three finishers of each age group will receive prizes!
Swim for Smiles wants to give all our supporters, volunteers and participants in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community a BIG thanks and well wishes for the holidays. Swim for Smiles recently participated in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Holiday parade to raise awareness about what Swim for Smiles does for the N.C. Children’s Hospital and within the Triangle area.
If you participated in the holiday parade, we took tons of pictures and video. Just go to our Facebook Page! Find yourselves, tag yourselves in the photos and see all the fun we had building the float and marching the parade.
Interact with us! We are encouraged by your ideas, support and good cheer, not just during the holidays, but all year round. Watch the video from Gary Kayye below following the Holiday Parade.
If you’re interested in volunteering or keeping up with what’s going on with Swim for Smiles, check out our website and fill out our volunteer form!
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