Practice Schedule
Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:00 RHS
G1 Elite: Monday 5:30-7:00 RHS
Group 2: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:00, and Friday 5:00-6:30 RHS
Group 3: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:30-5:15, and Friday 3:30-5:00 RHS
Practice notes: A reminder to all Group 2 swimmers to bring dryland shoes and clothes to Friday's practice.
Steve Raymond
On Tuesday night our swimming community lost a dear friend. Steve passed away after a very short battle with cancer. Steve worked tirelessly for ours and other surrounding clubs and schools. He graciously volunteered hours of his time helping run our scorer's table at our club and high school meets. Steve and I did not always agree but I always knew I could count on him to do whatever he could to help our program. His absence at the pool will be felt by many. Our prayers are with his family and friends. Thanks for everything Steve. Here is a link to Steve's obituary.
New Families
You should have received a system generated email that confirmed your registration to the team. If you did not receive one please email me. The email also included instructions how to log into your SBSC account.
Parent Meeting Tuesday September 20th
We are tentatively scheduled for to meet in the RHS cafeteria starting at 6:00. The meeting will last approximately 60 minutes. The first half of the meeting will be
for all families and the last for all new families. At least one adult from each family will need to be in attendance
Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd
We will also be hosting our 4th annual Swim-A-Thon on Saturday October 22nd. One of the things I take pride in our club is that we are able to provide a quality program at very little cost to our members. In fact our training fees have remained the same as they were when we started in 2006. The downside to our reasonable fees is that our coaches have not received a raise in several years. I would like to use a significant portion of the proceeds raised this season to go directly to increasing our assistant coaches wages.
I would also like to continue our marketing and advertising. In the last year we have developed and produced a recruiting poster. We hired Franko Design to upgrade our logo and our brand (unveiling coming soon). We have also mailed out our newly designed brochures to all South Bend Schools students in grades 2-4. This amounted to over 4000+ brochures in families hands during the Olympic games. We also have thousands of more brochures ready to distribute to all the parochial and private schools this fall.
If we are able to raise funds like we have in past seasons I would also like to continue our relationship with our sports psychology professional. Ava Blennerhassett. We were fortunate this season to work with Ava at no cost. But as she moves forward with her practice compensation will be required to be able to maintain the amount of time she spent with us.
So are three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon:
1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages
2. Continue moving forward marketing our club
3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional
New Prairie Satellite
Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October 3rd to begin. If I have not contacted you about your preference to when you would like to start please email me with your intentions
Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/deadline to opt out
The dates to opt out are tentative for most of these meets and will most likely change when the meet information becomes available. As a reminder all swimmers are considered swimming in a meet unless the parent declines attending. I'm also asking if you know your swimmer will be attending please commit them to the meet. If the option to choose days is not yet available please leave a note as to which days you would like to attend
Intra-squad Meet Thursday 9-29/Riley High School/9-29
NCISC Sprint Meet Saturday 10-8/Riley High School/10-2
Dual Meet Vs. CON Saturday 10-15/Concord High School/10-9
NASA Sprint Meet Saturday and Sunday 11-5 & 6/Northridge High School/10-16
WWST Turkey Splash Saturday 11-19/Northwood High School/10-9
LCB Winter Invite Friday-Sunday 12-2,3,&4/Lake Central HS/10-23
DUNE RiR Invite Saturday 12-17/Chesterton High School/10-30
IA TW Invite Friday-Sunday 1-6,7,&8/Rolfs Aquatic Center, ND/10-30
CON IMX Challenge Friday-Sunday 1-20,21,&22/Concord High School/12-3
NCISC Championship Saturday 2-11/Riley High School/1-29
CON Last Chance Friday-Sunday 2-24,25,&26/Concord High School/1-29
Divisional Championship Friday-Sunday 3-3,4,&5/Northridge High School/TBD
Age Group State Friday-Sunday 3-10,11,&12/IUPUI/TBD
Senior State Friday-Sunday 3-17,18,&19/Pike High School/TBD
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
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