Nitro News
Nitro is proud to be the Home Pool of Special Olympics, Central Texas!
On Sunday Sept. 17, 2017, more than 200 athletes living with intellectual disabilities participated in the regional Special Olympics Texas aquatics competition at the Nitro Swimming facility in Bee Cave. Swimmers from ages 8 to 78 competed in traditional races like backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, as well modified events. Check out the whole story here!
Nitro Wins 2017 Long Course TAGS – Update from Coach Mike
We did it again! Nitro captured another Texas Age Group Swimming team championship! That makes 12 titles for Nitro! When the dust finally settled down at the University of Texas Swim Center Sunday night, 72 teams had scored points, several more than that were represented at this state championship meet. Here’s what the top 10…
Nitro’s Sean Grieshop Selected to represent Team USA at World University Games in Taipei
Every once in a long while (if you are lucky) a super special athlete will show up at your doorstep and will represent your program. Every once in a longer while, this particular super special athlete will also be a super special human being full of kindness. We’ve been blessed on both of those with…
Nitro Swimming Voted Best Place to Learn Swimming – 2017 Austin Family Readers’ Poll
For the 7th year in a row Nitro Swimming has been voted the Favorite Place to Learn to Swim in Austin! We would like to thank all of the families who voted for us and more importantly to thank you for being part of our family! You can check out the winners of other categories…
Nitro Swimmer of the Week for April 24–30, 2017
Intro to Nitro Cedar Park: Blake Mezger Blake is always ready to go when practice starts. With a huge smile on his, he races his teammates during our kick set everyday. This week Intro worked on Individual Medley and Dives. Blake did an awesome job with his four strokes and really improved a lot…
A Fun Way to Practice Streamline at Home
“Streamline!”, shouts the coach and for good reason. The moment right after diving in the water or pushing off the wall is very important. Starts and turns generate a great deal of momentum for the swimmers and maintaining that energy going into the stroke can give the them a big advantage over their competitors. For…
April is Adult Learn to Swim Month
Summer is fast approaching, and this means it will be perfect weather to go hang out at the pool! This may sound enjoyable to some but to those who don’t know how to swim, it might seem like a daunting task. Well guess what?? April is Adult Learn to Swim Month! Nitro would love to…
Nitro Wins 11th TAGS Championship
CONGRATULATIONS once again to all of our Nitro Swimmers, Nitro Families, Nitro Coaches and Support Staff on another Texas Age Group Swimming Championships (TAGS) WIN!! It is always a TOTAL TEAM Effort, and this short course championship was no exception. There were 68 different teams represented at the fastest age group meet in Texas, and…