Practice Schedule
RHS Practice Groups
G1 Elite Monday 5:30-7:30 RHS
Group 2 Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday 5:30-7:30, and Friday 5:00-6:30 RHS
NPHS Practice Groups
Group 1 Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30NPHS
Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 5:30-7:30 NPHS
Practice notes:
I will be attending NP on Tuesday this week. The RHS Group 1 will practice on Wednesday this week. No practice on Thursday at Riley due to a high school girls meet.
There is an away meet for NP on Thursday and since there are no other activities going on the building that night our club does not have access to the pool. Coach Ashley and I are working on finding a solution for this and we will keep you updated as soon as we do. All of our NP swimmers are always welcome to attend practices at Riley when scheduling conflicts arise with the pool or when it is more convenient for their families schedule.
Group 2 swimmers need to bring dry-land clothes (running shoes, shorts, T-shirt) to practice on Friday.
SWAC Pre-lims Finals Meet
Here are the pertinent times for this weekend's meet
Friday (Events #1-#6)
Warm-ups 4:00-4:50-our swimmers need to be on deck by 3:45
Meet starts 5:00
Saturday and Sunday Prelims (for swimmers 11 and over)
Meet Starts 8:30
Saturday and Sunday afternoon session (for all swimmers 10 and under)
Warm-ups 12:00-12:45-our swimmers should be on deck by 11:45
Meet Starts 1:00
Saturday and Sunday Finals Session (for the 11 and under swimmers who qualified from the preliminary sessions in the morning)
Warm-ups 3:00-3:45-our swimmers should be on deck by 3:00
Meet Starts 4:00
Meet notes: I have attached the meet letter to this email to help answer any questions you might have. All swimmers who qualify for finals are expected to compete in finals. We do not scratch events unless there is a legitimate medical reason. Coach Ted will be the coach on deck for this meet. His phone number is (574) 360-9187. If for any reason you are running late and are unable to have your swimmer on deck at the times listed above please call or text Coach Ted to make sure your swimmer does not get scratched from the meet.
The Joy of Being on Time
As a someone who truly enjoys the solitude and the quiet of the morning being early to practice or meets has never been much of a challenge. In fact, I take quite a bit of pride on being the first coach of any team to nearly every meet we attend. (In swimming everything is a race, right?) The first 15+ years of my coaching career I only had to worry about getting myself up and ready to leave as early or even earlier then needed. Once my own children started competing it presented a completely new set of challenges. Trying to get two ten and under swimmers (who are most certainly not morning people) ready to leave for an earlySaturday morning meet warm-up brought me more frustration then I could have ever imagined. So please believe me I understand what most of you go through as you try to get your own kids out of the house on time.
Some of the many great things about our sport is teaches include time management, how to prioritize, and how to prepare and plan ahead. Sometimes even with the best laid plans things can go wrong. Power failures, inaccurate directions to the pool, multiple start times listed in the meet letter, forgetting to set alarm, etc. etc. While these things may happen meet hosts will not delay the start of the meet. If these do happen to you it is imperative you call or text the coach on deck for that meet. If the sign-in sheet is pulled prior to your swimmer signing in they may not get put back in the meet. If they are put back in they may only get put back in events with open lanes in the first heat. Or they may even get put in the opposite gender's event if space allows. Both of these situations are less then ideal. It call can be solved with a text or a phone call. Please, lets give our swimmers every opportunity for success and if your running late please call or text
Dual Meet Vs Irish Aquatics January 16thRolfs Aquatic Center
Irish Aquatics has invited us to compete in a dual meet against their club. This will be unique for all of our swimmers as the pool will be set-up a little differently then we are accustomed to seeing it. Prior to our dual meet, Notre Dame will be competing in a their own dual meet vs. Northwestern starting, I believe, at noon. The pool set-up for the varsity meets has the 25 yard competition set up in the middle of their 50 meter pool. Our warm-ups will start as soon as possible after the conclusion of the college meet. Hopefully we can get our entire team watching the college meet so our young swimmers can see where their swimming careers can take them. The plan is to have the meet last a maximum of 2 hours. After the meet we our planning something social for both teams and their families to do together. I will share more details as they become available.
The meet declaration function for this meet has been turned on. The deadline for opting out of this meet will be Sunday January 10th
Parent Shirt Order
A few parents have asked about another shirt order or the possibility of ordering a sweatshirt. We would need a minimum order of 15 items to be purchased. If you are interested in this please let me know by the end of the week
SBSC Requirements
Our registration platform includes documents that you were required to digitally sign for your swimmers membership to be approved. In those documents the two items that carry significant financial implications are the birth certificate requirement and the auto-pay requirement. We still have a few outstanding birth certificates and we also have a few new families who have not yet set up some sort of automatic payment. Swimmers who have not turned in a birth certificate and those with out auto-pay will not be entered in any future meets until those requirements are met.
We also had a few families whose credit card's have expired and the transactions were unable to process. Before I will be able to enter the swimmers of those families in any future meets those cards will need to be updated as well.
CON IMX Meet 12/4-6
Our entry has been sent. You can view your swimmers events by logging into our site or by using the OnDeck Parent app. I will include all the time information in an upcoming weekly email
LaPorte Swim Club's Maple City ClassicDec 12th & 13th
The deadline for opting out of this meet is one week from today, Sunday November 22nd. This meet has provided us with some very good competition from the northwest Indiana clubs. It also is a very good meet for less experienced swimmers. This meet is not typically full so our new swimmers can get some racing in an environment that does not feel so overwhelming.
IA Meet January 8th-10th
I spoke with the IA head coach and he is going to allow us to send our entry a little later. Our new deadline is Sunday December 6th. I would like our high school athletes to attend this meet so they may swim their best non high school events. It is a pre-lim final meet which will give them a little more experience with the meet format that is used at the state championship.
MSC/GSI January Meets
I am sure most of you have noticed there are two meets on the same weekend. The MSC meet is for our 11 and over swimmers with a minimum of at least one Divisional time standard. The GSI meet is for our 10 and under swimmers and those 11 and over swimmers that have not yet met a Divisional time standard. The deadline for opting out of these meets is Sunday December 20th. On the 21st if you have not opted out or declared for either meet I place your swimmer in the meet that is most appropriate.
Upcoming meet & dates/location/deadline to decline attending
HOT MC Classic Saturday & Sunday 12-12&13/Laporte High School/Sunday 11-22
IA TW Invite Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 1/8-10/Rolfs Aquatic Center, Notre Dame/Sunday 12-6
GSI Invite Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 1/22-24/Goshen High School/Sunday 12-20
MSC Winter Invite Friday & Saturday 1-22&23/Munster High School/Sunday 12-20
NCISC Winter Championship Saturday 2-13/Riley High School/TBD
Divisionals Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 3/4-6/Northridge High School/TBD
Senior State Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 3/11-13/Pike High School, Indianapolis/TBD
Speedo Sectionals Thursday-Sunday 3/31-4/3/Geneva, OH/TBD
Club Advertising for Account Credit
Our website allows for local merchants to advertise and offer coupons/specials directly on our site. Here is a link to the information page. We will credit your account 50% of any money the club receives from companies that you have sold advertising space to on our website.
Thank you to those families who have been able to find places to hang our team recruiting posters. I have credited the accounts of those who have sent me photos. If you have placed a poster in the community and have not received credit on your account please let me know and I will take care of that immediately.
Every poster displayed in a business, school, or church will earn a $5 credit for your club account. You could earn up to $50 of credit this way. For every poster displayed over 10, families will have their name entered for a $50 Visa gift card drawing. We will hold that drawing on December 1st
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me
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