Timberwood Park Swim Team

Kids can go to any of the high school camps! Support the school teams by attending their summer camps! Pieper is our attendance zone school but SV down the road also has camps. I’m posting information so you are aware of the swim camps … not on the same days. SV also has a water polo camp .

Smithson Valley Sea Dragons is with Maverick and they cap quickly but cover the Bulverde and Spring Branch areas.

Home - Smithson Valley Sea Dragons HOW LONG IS THE SEASON? Practices begin at the beginning of May. Our meets begin the last week of May/beginning of June and run through the beginning of July. (See the Meets tab for our meet schedule)

Another Lone Star swim team that takes residents from anywhere.

Home - Hollywood Park Hammerheads Our team is a member of the Lone Star Summer Swim League, an affiliation of 22 neighborhood swim teams divided into 4 divisions. Our team is in Division B.

Since we are not allowed to have a swim team this year we will be sharing some local teams that are allowing nonresidents to their team.

Maverick Summer Swim League and Lone Star are two of the local summer s leagues.
One of the teams in Lone Star is the Vineyard Vipers. They opened registration today. There is an additional $50 fee for nonresidents.

https://vineyardvipers.swimtopia.com/register/100382/sign_in?fbclid=IwRlRTSARA_yJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeM-FUbguIt7DBebRCT0FNlyyKqVw53-clfnavqMf3FqsHhJQgnWhCNIgsa0A_aem_z3XQUbEyrSKKLzYcdtbWtA

Registration Form - Vineyard Vipers Swim Team Welcome to Viper Registration for the 2026 Summer Swim Season! Before you begin, please review the instructions at our Registration Instructions and Registration FAQ webpages. This form is only for NEW Viper families! If you are a returning Viper family, please use the linked form in the email y...

2026 Summer Swim season cancelled.

It is unfortunate that it has come to this. We have been asked to post emails by many but didn’t feel this was the place to do that. Well now that it has come to this, we are sharing just this one from one of our parents because it describes how many of us our feeling . It states how much this team offers to our neighborhood. This team is why TWP is as close as it is. We aren’t an outside organization as it’s been stated. We are the biggest family living in Timberwood Park. This is our home and the visiting teams were our guests.

This is an open letter to the Timberwood Park HOA from a father, long‑time resident, and committed supporter of the Timberwood Park swim team. Although I am posting it here, I feel compelled to express my frustration with the inconceivable behavior the HOA is exhibiting. After reading and hearing the Board’s recent public statements and meeting‑forum comments about the Timberwood Park swim team, I felt obligated to respond to the rhetoric and share my perspective. The increasing obstacles being placed on this program are disappointing, frustrating, and difficult to reconcile with the values this neighborhood has always upheld.

The HOA invests in community‑building events like Music in the Park, the Easter Egg Hunt, and Halloween around the lake because they strengthen neighborhood spirit — and our dues fund those efforts. For more than twenty years, the swim team has embodied that same spirit.

My family moved here more than two decades ago because this place represented something meaningful: community. Not just a collection of homes, but a neighborhood where families raise their kids together, where neighbors support one another, and where children learn responsibility, teamwork, and pride through shared experiences. That sense of community is why we have traditions and events. They exist because they bring people together, strengthen bonds, and create memories that last. The HOA supports those events because they reflect the involvement and connection that make Timberwood Park special.

For over twenty years, the swim team has been one of the clearest expressions of that same spirit. Every summer, more than a hundred kids learn commitment, discipline, and how to support one another. Teenagers earn their first summer jobs as coaches. Parents volunteer. Families gather at meets and cheer for kids who are learning not just how to swim, but how to work hard, how to show up, and how to be part of something bigger than themselves. Michael Phelps began on a community swim team — just like this, surrounded by parents, volunteers, and neighbors who believed in giving kids a place to grow. That is what programs like ours do: they create confident, supported, resilient kids who discover what they’re capable of when a community stands behind them.

What has been especially disappointing is seeing the swim team described in the Board’s public statement as an “external organization,” as if it were some outside group trying to use the neighborhood for its own benefit. That description is not only inaccurate — it feels disrespectful to the families, volunteers, and children who are this community. And when that label is paired with the new stipulations and restrictions being placed on the team, it comes across as biased and dismissive of the very people who invest their time and energy into making this neighborhood stronger. These requirements undermine the volunteerism, commitment, and goodwill that parents and residents have poured into this program for more than two decades.

The swim team is made up of the families who live here, raise their kids here, and volunteer here. It represents far more than pool usage or logistics. It embodies neighborhood pride, friendly competition, and the kind of community spirit that connects families across elementary, middle, and high schools. It brings people together in ways no contract or policy ever could. The swim team has never asked for much. It doesn’t drain HOA resources. It doesn’t create problems. It gives back. It builds camaraderie. It teaches life skills. It creates memories. It strengthens the fabric of the neighborhood. And through pool passes and increased facility use, it even generates revenue that helps support the amenities we all enjoy — all while causing minimal wear on the facilities.

Yet the new contract stipulations now being imposed threaten to jeopardize everything that makes this program meaningful: the summer jobs for neighborhood teens, the end‑of‑season gatherings, the awards, the ribbons, the trophies, the sense of accomplishment, the team‑building, and the lifelong lessons these kids carry with them. A contract can absolutely serve a purpose — it can protect the neighborhood and the investment we all make through our dues — but using that process in a way that restricts or undermines a long‑standing, positive program feels completely out of step with what a community should be.

This isn’t just about logistics or paperwork. It’s about what kind of neighborhood we want to be. A community should support the things that bring people together. A community should encourage volunteerism. A community should create opportunities for kids to grow, learn, and belong. A community should protect traditions that strengthen the bonds between neighbors. And the lessons our children learn through these programs — teamwork, responsibility, showing up for others — are the same values they will carry forward when they raise their own families. What we model today becomes the foundation they build on tomorrow.

As a father and a long‑time resident, I am deeply disappointed that the HOA would choose a path that undermines a program so central to the identity and spirit of this neighborhood. The swim team has strengthened Timberwood Park for more than twenty years, and it deserves to be treated as the asset it is — not as an inconvenience to be managed.

Signed
A Tigershark dad

Interested in water polo?
Come check out the sport!!

Sharing more amazing updates on what our Tigersharks have been doing: Maddie has been a Tiger Shark since she was 5 years old. But when she isn't swimming or playing volleyball or softball, she is pursuing her other passion - music. Maddie is an avid clarinetist and plays with the Youth Orchestra of San Antionio, San Antonio Youth Wind Ensemble and the Mini Pears Clarinet Choir besides her school band. This year, Maddie competed in TMEA 6A Region 12 on her bass clarinet and placed 2nd in District, 2nd in Region and 6th in Area.

She is an amazing musician! We are so proud of her!

Hello neighbors! Please share this with anyone you think would be interested!
Our amazing Tiger Sharks swim team is looking for sponsorships to help with our 2026 season. Would love for any families with a business to partner with us this year to help make it a success. We have sponsorship levels from $150 and up. Please message or email for more information. We really appreciate the support of our neighbors!
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If you are attending the TPOA meeting tonight in support of the swim team, be sure to wear your Tiger Shark shirts! Let's show the POA board how important the swim team is to this community!

Last year’s graduating senior Eric is finishing up his first year swimming at Adams State University in Colorado.

He learned to swim as a Tiger Shark at age 15!!!! This kid took to water like a real fish!

He proved it is never too late to pick up the sport and excel!

We are so proud of you Eric!