Practice Schedule
RHS Practice Groups
G1 Elite Monday 5:30-7:30 RHS
Group 2 Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday 5:30-7:30, Friday 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM RHS
NPHS Practice Groups
Group 1 Monday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30NPHS
Group 2 Monday and Wednesday 5:30-7:30NPHS
Practice notes:
I hope to attend NP on Monday this week. The RHS Group 1 will practice on Wednesday this week. The NPHS Group 1 will practiced Monday and Wednesday. No practice on Tuesday at NPHS due to a high school meet. No practice on Thursday due to Thanksgiving.
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.
Thank You!!
I would like to thank the Kaiser family (Natalee and her parents Jeff and Kim). They were our first family to procure an advertiser for our website. The company isCreative Colors International. They specialize in leather, vinyl, plastic, and fabric repair. They can recondition or upholster. If you click here you can go to our website to print off their coupon. This business chose the premier ad plan. Business make a direct payment to Team Unify (our website host) and then Team Unify sends our club a check minus their fee. The Kaiser family received a $241.99 credit on their account, 50% of the money we received!! That works out to almost 7 months of training fees for Group 2 or almost the same as five-3 day weekend meet entry fees.
The company is owned by Natalee's uncle. He was looking for ways to help expand his company's footprint and find a way to give back to the community. When asked if he would be interested in advertising with us he jumped at the chance. Nothing could be easier. Thanks again to the Kaisers!
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.
Meet Declaration
Our policy is all swimmers will be considered swimming in meets unless families choose to opt out. This is having the outcome I was hoping for. We have had more swimmers attending every one of our meets. Our participation at each of these meets has increased by an average of nearly 50% of athletes attending. While this has created a little more work on my end it has been more then worth it to me to have such a huge presence at the meets we are attending. There has been an unforeseen hurdle for me with this new policy. It has proved a little difficult to find time to do all of our entries of the swimmers who had not committed prior to our deadline and still get our entry out to the meet host in a timely manner. In a few instances this season I have moved over 40 swimmers from the "undeclared" list to the "committed" list. I am asking that if you know you are attending a meet please commit your swimmer as early as you can. This will alleviate some last minute work for me and also give me an opportunity to discuss with our coaches and your swimmers their event selection.
Group 2 Day at RHS Thursday December 3rd
Every year we invite our Group 2 swimmers to experience one of our high school meets. This year it will be on Thursday December 3rd when Riley's boys and girls teams hosts Clay. Our Group 2 swimmers will serve as timers for the meet and the club will provide them with pizza for dinner during the diving break. The meet will start at 5:00 and we ask all the swimmers who are able to attend to arrive by 4:45. Our double dual meets typically take between 2-2.5 hours. We would like our club swimmers to wear their SBSC superman logo t-shirt to the meet. I have added this meet to our calendar and the meet commitment function has been turned on. We will be using this as an RSVP so we know how many pizzas to order.
SWAC Pre-lims Finals Meet
The SBSC athletes are swimming incredibly well on the first two days of the meet. Several new best times and quite a few swims moving up the rankings in our All-Time Top Ten. I will update all of our meet result pages on our website as soon as I receive the file from SWAC. You can follow the meet action today on the Meet Mobile app.
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
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 istonight, 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 was placed on our schedule for our 11 and over swimmers with a minimum of at least one Divisional time standard. The GSI meet is for all of 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 isSunday 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
IA TW Invite Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 1/8-10/Rolfs Aquatic Center, Notre Dame/Sunday 12-6
IA Vs. SBSC dual meet Saturday 1-16/Rolfs Aquatic Center, Notre Dame/Sunday 1-10
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
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me
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