What is PIPELINE?

Our swim team was a vision born over 49 years, and we didn't even know it! When this swimming journey began with Coach Piper's mother (1929-2018) who grew up and swam in Hawaii and was introduced to Coach Soichi Sakamoto (The Three-Year Swim Club: Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids). He was not only Coach Piper's grandfather's best friend, he was also her mother's 6th-grade teacher and eventually her swim coach! When Coach Piper was just 5 years old, she met Coach Sakamoto and their training and 30-year swimmer/coach relationship began. The individual cards that Coach Piper sends out to each of her swimmers were a tradition that Coach Sakamoto used to do for his swimmers. After swimming and into adulthood, Coach Piper wrote letters back and forth to her coach until he died in 1997.

The lessons we can teach through the sport are one of the greatest gifts we can give, and we feel blessed to be able to pay it forward each and every day! Swimming requires discipline, hard work, dedication, teamwork, intelligence (swimmer IQ), motivation, integrity, sportsmanship, and time management! These character traits are built through being a part of the team and being held accountable for the commitment each athlete makes when joining PIPELINE SWIMMING. These learned skills will be used in every aspect of our athlete's academics, and eventually at their jobs and relationships. There is no negative to joining a youth sports organization such as swimming and joining PIPELINE SWIMMING in instilling the values and hard work that is necessary for swimming.

We are in the business of helping to mould our young athletes and hold them accountable, if even for just a few hours each day, and our dream is to build productive young adults who are proud of their team, and their sport, achieving their goals, and having fun along the way!
If you have any questions about how PIPELINE SWIMMING can help your child, please feel free to reach out to Coach Patrick,
at (941) 288-9777.