Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule

RHS Practice Groups

Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:15
G1 Elite: Monday 5:30-7:30
Group 2: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:30, 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 Thursday 6:00-7:15 CST
Group 2: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 5:30-7:30 CST
Group 3: Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, and Thursday 5:00-7:30 CST

Practice notes: Group 2 practices will now last until 7:30 for the next several weeks. NP swimmers are welcome to attend any of their corresponding group's practices at RHS.  Group 2 swimmers attending Friday practice are reminded to bring workout clothes including running shoes.

Golden Goggles
The Golden Goggles is USA Swimming's annual awards ceremony for their athletes and coaches.  It also serves as their fundraiser for the USA Swimming  Foundation.  Each year they recognize several outstanding performances.  This year one of our very own has been nominated for an award.  Bethany Galat, a senior at Texas A&M and former SBSC member, has been nominated for the "Breakout Performer of the Year".  You can click here to read Bethany's short bio and to cast your vote for her.

For those of you that are interested Bethany and her Texas A&M teammates will be swimming at Notre Dame at Rolfs Aquatics Center on this weekend. The meet will begin at 5:00 on Friday and 11:00 on Saturday morning.

Intra-Squad Meet Tuesday

We had 108 swimmers participate in this year's intra-squad!  Thank you to everyone who was able to help time, work in the cafeteria, or just show up to support our swimmers. 

NCISC Meet Saturday October 7th at Riley High School

Another great showing for our club.  We had 87 of our swimmers compete yesterday.  This may be our largest group we've ever had at any meet. Congratulations to Joe Radde who set new team records in the boys 13-14 50 Fly (26.13) and 100 IM (1:00.30). I have attached a pdf of the final results and places, you can click here to see our improvements, you can find our new all time top ten here, and here is our updated qualifiers page.  I caution you when you read the qualifiers page that it may not be 100% accurate.  Our website host has not uploaded this year's Indiana Swimming's Championship time standards and our page is showing those that achieved last year's time standard.  Please just use our page as a starting point.  You can check to see if your swimmer has qualified by using this chart.

Also, I can not thank our parent group enough for your willingness to help run the meet yesterday. Once again you showed why the South Bend Swim Club is not just another youth sports program.  We our a family willing to lend a hand whenever asked!  A special thanks to Darci Maurer and Amy Szakaly for running our hospitality room and our concession stand.  I also wanted to thank Nick Milovich.  Nick's employer, Adams Remco, donated the copier we used yesterday and we were able to have heat sheets in your hands faster then ever before.

Concord Dual Meet Saturday October 14th at Concord High School
Here are the pertinent times for this Saturday's meet:

Group 3 swimmers warm-up/practice: 8:00-9:15 -- our swimmers need to be on deck by 7:45
Group 3 breakfast with the CON high school swimmers: 9:15-10:00
Group 1 and Group 2 warmup: 9:15-9:50 -- our swimmers need to be on deck by 9:00
Meet Starts at 10:00

The deadline for committing to this meet is tonight, Sunday October 8th
Swim-A-Thon at Riley High School October 21st
As of this morning we are just 22% of our way towards our goal with only 2 weeks left.  We now have 22 swimmers who have received donations so, a very small increase from last week.  This is our 5th swim-a-thon we've hosted and we have never failed to reach our goal in the other 4.  At the pace we are going we may not make it to 50% of what we hoped to raise.

This is the only fundraising we do for the entire year and it is imperative for our operating budget.  I realize every activity your child participates in does fundraising. I am also aware you can only call ask the grandparents only so many times.  But it very easy to set up your swimmer's account, send out to your email and put a link on your Facebook page.  If every swimmer raised as little as $80 we surpass our goal. The funds this season are going to help cover our coach's salaries, pay for our sports performance consultant, and if we raise enough money we would like to purchase the Ikkos mental training system.

NASA Sprint Meet Plus
When some of our families committed to this meet the option to select which days you wanted to attend was not available. Some of you left a note to which days you wanted to swim, thanks. If you did not leave a note and you don't want your swimmer to swim both days of this meet please email me.  If there are no sessions selected, and I do not hear from you I will assume you want them in both days.

Advertising Credit 

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. 



Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/Deadline to commit
Below is our fall/winter meet schedule.  Swimmers wanting to compete will need to commit to those meets.  The deadlines are based on deadlines that were set last year. They may change once the meet hosts posts the meet information.  When committing to multiple day meets please leave a message in the available notes section of what days you would like to attend.


Dual Meet Vs CON October 14th/Concord High School/Tonight, Sunday October 8th
NASA Sprint Meet November 4th & 5th/Northridge High School/October 15th
SWAC Prelims-Finals November 17th-19th/HPB Natatorium, Ft. Wayne/October 22nd
LCB Winter Blast December 1st-3rd/Lake Central High School/October 29th
DUNE Rumble December 16th/Chesterton High School/November 12th
IA TW Invite January 5th-7th/Notre Dame/October 29th
NCISC Championship February 10th/Riley High School/January 28th
CON Last Chance February 23rd/Concord High School/January 28th
Divisionals March 2nd-4th/TBD/February 19th
Senior State March 9th-11th/TBD/February 25th
Age Group State March 16th-18th/IUPUI/March 4th

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.