Our practices take place at the Friends Select School located at 16th and Race Streets in Philadelphia, except for weekend practices during the summer months, when practice is held at Kelly Pool in Fairmount Park!
To sign up for a lane, swimmers must be current members of the Philadelphia Fins Aquatics Club or be doing a free trial week. Non-member guest drop-ins are also welcome. The Club Assistant links for new membership, membership re-registration, a free trial week, or guest drop-in can be found on the "Swim with Us" page of our website at philadelphiafins.org.
All swimmers must also be currently registered with USMS or doing a free trial month with USMS, both registrations available at USMS.org. Please be sure that both your Fins Club Assistant and USMS member registrations are up to date prior to practice!
- Sign up for a slot is first come, first serve - by signing up for practice, the swimmer also electronically signs and dates waiver - details here: USMS updated waiver
- Each lane now has its own signup spots - the 100 pace for each lane is as follows:
- Lane 1: 2:00 | Lane 2: 1:15 | Lane 3: 1:20
- Lane 4: 1:25 | Lane 5: 1:35 | Lane 6: 1:50
- Drop-ins are allowed again, please use this site to sign in for practices
- Enter Friends Select through the parking lot at the 16th street entrance.
- Swimmers must provide their own equipment (kick boards, pull bouy, fins, etc.)
- Under no circumstances are Fins members permitted to enter the boys or girls locker rooms at FSS.
- Swimmers must use changing rooms located on the pool deck.
- Swimmers may use all gender bathrooms located in the hallway outside of the boys and girls locker rooms, as well as the bathroom inside of the changing room adjacent to the mechanical room near the stairwell.
- If your usual lane is filled up, you can still sign in another lane. The coach will sort swimmers out by pace. There is no capacity limit at this time