Hello! Hope this finds everyone having a great week. I just have a few items to go over with everyone this week.
Schedule Update.Following are the Saturday practice times for the month of February.
*Saturday, Feb. 9th Practice=11:30a.m.-12:30p.m. (Even though we do have 16 Swimmers going to the Phil Levine Invite, practice as usual for everyone else.)
*Saturday, Feb. 16th Practice=11:00a.m.-12:00Noon
*Saturday, Feb. 23rd Practice=11:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
*Saturday, Mar. 1st Practice=11:30a.m.-12:30p.m. (This is the same weekend as the Arizona Regional Meet, but practice as usual for everyone else)
Swim Meet Schedule.Following is the schedule for the remaining meets for the short-course season.
*Saturday, Feb. 9th=Phil Levine Invite. We have 16 Swimmers entered. The meet entries are posted on the age group bulletin board. Swimmers were only entered if you notified Coach Jennifer that you wanted to attend. (This is per the info given out to everyone a few weeks ago.)
*Friday, Feb. 29th-Sunday, mar. 2nd=Arizona Regional Swim Meet. There are no Starfish Swimmers who have qualified for this meet. We do have 14 Rising Star Swimmers who are. Those swimmers will be receiving meet info later this week in their mailboxes.
*Friday, March 28-Sunday 30th=Season Finale Swim Meet. EVERYONE in both the Starfish and Rising Star groups are eligible and recommended to attend!! This is the final meet of the season!! More info will follow in the nest week or two.
New Time Standard Sheets.Yesterday, in your mailbox was a new time standard chart. The one that I handed out has several mistakes on Regional cut times.
*There are NO known mistakes on any of the 10 & Under times standards.
*In the 11-12, there are 2 mistakes on the girls Regional times (100 Fly should be 1:26.79 & 200 Fly should be 3:05.39)
*In the 11-12 boys, there are 3 regional times listed wrong. (50 Free should be 34.69; 50 Back should be 44.49; 50 Breast should be 50.49 and 50 Fly should be 38.29)
Parent/Coach Conferences Information.The informational flyers were placed in everyone's mailbox yesterday-Tuesday, Feb. 5th. Hopefully, if you were at practice, you picked those up. This flyer explains all about the upcoming opportunity for parents to set up a brief conference with the coach to gain more insight into their own swimmer's swimming and progress.
*The actual sign up sheets will be posted tomorrow-Thursday, February 7th for parents to begin signing up for a conference time. *
Please remember, if you would rather do it by phone, please indicate so and leave your number for me to call you at the designated time.
*The time line for conducting these conferences begin the week of February 18th.
End-of-Season Group Celebration.In last week's blog, I indicated many upcoming dates for you. One that I had listed was for our end-of-season- celebration party for the two groups. I listed it incorrectly! The party date that I am looking at is SATURDAY, MARCH 8th. I have an idea already. If any Moms would like to help with this, I would love to hear from them! I really want the opportunity to celebrate a great season and provide some social time for the group to be together away from the pool! Stay tuned.
Enjoy your weekend! -Coach Jennifer
