McKinney
Quality training programs for youth and adults in a welcoming environment.
Please look around and learn all about the Metro McKinney experience. We work hard to provide a swim program that enforces strong stroke mechanics and discipline. This combination allows swimmers to progress through high school and into college. We look forward to enhancing your family’s swimming experience.
A few important notes about our McKinney location:
- McKinney swimmers must be issued an Apex Centre ID to go on deck. Follow these instructions: Apex ID
- Once you have joined the team, make sure to join the Metro-McKinney Facebook group! It is a closed group for Metro-McKinney swimmers. If you are not yet on the team, please join our Metroplex Aquatics Facebook group in the meantime.
- The Apex Centre only allows Apex Centre members on the pool deck. This means parents and guardians who are not Apex Members cannot come on the pool deck but can wait upstairs in the lobby. The only exception is for swimmers 9 and under whose guardians fill out required paperwork. If your swimmer is 9 and under, contact Tania Korman at newcomersmckinney@gmail.com to get this set up.
McKinney Pool Locations
The Apex Centre
3003 Alma Road
McKinney, TX 75070
Metro McKinney practices at the Apex Centre in McKinney, Texas. The facility contains a 25-yard by 25-meter competition pool, 11 lanes, a three-meter diving board and is 6 feet to 12 feet deep.
McKinney Tryout Information
The swimmer must be able to do 1 length freestyle and 1 length backstroke to join the team
Things to know about joining Metroplex Aquatics:
➟ Swim group schedule and monthly fees are found under the McKinney Schedule page
➟ Financial Policy includes
- Dues for that month
- Swim meet charges
- Donations (example Hospitality Dollars)
- Event charges (such as awards banquet)
- Metro registration ($200 billed per family every November)
- Spirit Wear (Spiritwear shirts, parka or warm-ups, team suit, and team bag)
- Service hour charges ($500 billed per family every January if hours not met – see Service Hour Policy)
- USA registration ($100 per swimmer, paid directly to USA Swimming when joining the team and every fall for the next year)
➟ Service Hour Policy
- Each family has a 20 hour service commitment for the team each calendar year
- If a family chooses, they may pay $500 in lieu of this service commitment
- Hours are pro-rated for families joining the team mid-year
- Families joining in January through March have a 20 hour per year commitment.
- Families joining in April through May have a 15 hour commitment.
- Families joining in June and July have a 10 hour commitment.
- Families joining in August and September have a 5 hour commitment.
- Families joining in October through December have no service hour commitment.
McKinney Swim Group Schedule
Fall / Winter schedule beginsn Monday August 11th
A few facts about the groups at Allen/Lovejoy and McKinney
- If you or your swimmer have any questions about the group they are in or changing groups, please contact their coach.
- The order of groups from beginning to most advanced is Intro, Blue, Orange, AG4, AG3, AG2, AG1, Senior 3, Senior, 2, Senior 1, and Senior Elite.
- Some pools have additional senior groups that you can speak to the coach about.
- All the Intro groups at a location are the same level, this is also true for all the Blue groups at a location and the Orange groups at a location. Groups denoted as early or late are also the same level (AG4 early is the same level as AG4 late).
- Your swimmer cannot rotate between different groups of the same level.
- Your swimmer can swim every day their specific group is scheduled to swim. For instance, an Orange 2 swimmer can swim all 5 days the Orange 2 groups swims at that location. They will get out of it what they put in. The monthly rate is the same regardless of how many times they attend.
- A coach uses their knowledge of your swimmer's technique, speed, maturity, and effort to determine when a swimmer should change groups.