Weekly Announcements for Week of 11/6-11/12

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule

RHS Practice Groups

Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:30

G1 Elite: Monday 5:15-7:30

Group 2: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:15-7:30, and Friday 5:00-6:30

Group 3: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:30-6:00, and Friday 3:30-5:00

NPHS Practice Groups

Group 1 Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30 CDT

Group 2/Group 3 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 5:15-7:30 CDT

Practice notes: Group 2 will start practices beginning at 5:15. NO practice on Thursday at New Prairie due to a high school meet.  ALL NP swimmers are welcome to attend any practice at Riley that works into their schedule including Friday for Group 2 swimmers.  All swimmers attending Group 2's Friday practice are reminded to bring appropriate dry-land clothes including running shoes.

SBSC Website

Part of our marketing plan was to establish a new brand and update the image for our club. This included new brochures and a new look for our logo.   We hired Franko Design out of Elkhart to do this work for us. The design concept included a couple of variations on a general theme.  Mr. Franko wanted to tie our look with the history of South Bend.  If you look closer at the logo on the front of this season's T-shirt you will notice the swimmer's head resembles the "S" Studebaker logo.  (Yes, we did receive permission from the Studebaker Museum to use this).  We will using the circular "S" design on our new caps  Coincidentally, with our color scheme it also looks quite a bit like our new city flag.  With all the new artwork we were able to give the South Bend Swim Club website a very sleek new look.  If you have not seen it yet please take a look.  All the same valuable information is still on the site just some will located in slightly different locations. 

Parent Meeting

Thank you for the parents who took time out of their schedule to hear Ava discuss the athlete-parent-coach triangle and the important role you play.  Our plan is to bring back Ava once a month to lead these type of conversation/parent ed meetings.  Please let me know your thoughts on the meeting and if there are any topics or subject matter you would like discussed.

NASA Sprint Meet Plus

A great day yesterday for our club with several lifetime best swims.  I will post all the meet information as soon as it becomes available.  If you are unable to be at the meet today you can track how the club is doing by going to our website and locating the black button on the left side of the page titled "TouchPad live".  It is located just above the "Find us on Facebook" button.

Advertising Credit

Thank you to Creative Colors International and to Hoffman Insurance Group for advertising our website.  The families that were brought these advertisers to us received a commission of over $240 in credit to their swim club accounts! 

Selling a one year ad on our website could earn you anywhere from $50 to almost $500. Here is the link for more information.

Another easy way to earn credit for your swim club account is to hang our recruiting posters out in the public. For every poster you hang you will receive a $5 credit up to $25. Once you hang the poster post a pic of it on your Facebook page (or other social site) and tag the club. For every poster after the 5th one you will have your name entered in a drawing for a Visa gift card to be held on December 1st .

Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/deadline to opt out

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.

DUNE RiR Invite Saturday 12-17/ Chesterton High School /11-13

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.