The 4MSC “Yj” MASTERS 

The 4M Swim Club's (4MSC) “Yj” MASTERS is an adult competitive swim team. The team is African-American owned, operated and is US Masters Swimming registered. The expectation of each swimmer is continuous growth and advancement along the swimmer to competitive swimmer continuum. Your coach (Mr. Thorpe or Coach CC) facilitates your progression regardless of your starting point. Please know that you are always being prepared for a competitive swimming scenario.

The Benefits of Swimming:

  • Helps Maintain a Healthy Weight (lose weight), Healthy Heart and Lungs

  • Improves Muscle Flexibility, Tones Muscles and Builds Strength

  • Full Body Workout Improving Coordination, Balance and Posture

  • Low-impact Therapy for some injuries and conditions

  • Builds Endurance and Cardiovascular Fitness

  • De-stressing, Relaxing form of Exercise

With these benefits all awaiting you, it is important for you to know some things about your 4MSC “Yj” MASTERS Swim Team.

4MSC “Yj” MASTERS are the best swim mates! You will enjoy a consistently caring yet competitive, supportive, encouraging and nurturing swim environment. Swim practices are engagingly fun and enjoyable, instructional, structured yet personal. As you continue to swim routinely, you will experience an improved level of comfortability in the water, helping you overcome your fear (if you have one) of the water. You will have a comfortable place in your swim community where you feel you belong, spurring your swim growth. You will experience camaraderie between swim mates but rest assured, your teammates have a genuine interest in your swim progress as well as their own.

Mr. Thorpe or Coach CC will guide you through your swim practices/workouts. With a results driven teaching and coaching methodology that shows results quickly, your coach will display an appropriate level of compassion with expectation for those swimmers who need it. Be mindful that swimming requires a collaboration of thinking and breathing while getting a complete full body yet different kind of workout. See you in the water!