Welcome to the home of The Firebirds swim team!
Team Mission
Our mission is to provide the Black, BIPOC, and underserved communities a safe space to learn how to swim and compete in an aquatic environment.
Team Purpose
Though our primary purpose is to encourage the Black/BIPOC communities to compete, we believe everyone deserves to learn the art of competitive swimming. We hope to create a safe place where all youth of varying ethnic backgrounds can come together and enjoy being in the water. We also want to introduce the possibility of swimming as an alternative sport that can lead to many diverse opportunities to get ahead in life.
Swim Team History
We started on August 20th, 2023, to support the remaining athletes of a swim team that had abruptly disbanded that very same day. Although, we were not yet recognized as an official swim, thanks to the determination of the parents, athletes, and the now head coach, the athletes were able to come together to practice as an organized group.
A few months later, Champion’s Coaching Inc. was formed as a non-profit to help fund the athletes’ needs for lane space, which slowly began to branch out to other causes such as raising awareness in the BIPOC community about the purpose of water safety, helping to provide a safe space for people of the BIPOC community to gather to learn how to swim, and so much more!
Thanks to the help of friends and the swimming community, we have been able to progress into the swim team that you are signing up for today. We are now flourishing and are excited to see what the future holds for our athletes. We celebrated our first birthday in August 2024, barely a year old, and yet we already have so much rich history. We are excited to be able to add more stories to this part of the document with you being a part of them! Let’s grow our history together!
Interested? Visit our swim team’s website at https://www.firebirdsswim.com.