Weekly Announcements for The Week of 1/7-1/13

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule

RHS Practice Groups

Group 1: Wednesday and Thursday 6:00-7:30
G1 Elite: Monday 5:00-7:30
Group 2: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:00-7:30, and Friday 5:00-6:30


NPHS Practice Groups
Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:30 CST
Group 2: Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 5:00-7:30 CST

Practice notes: No practice at Riley on Tuesday due to a high school meet. All NP swimmers are welcome to attend their corresponding group's practices at Riley.  All swimmers attending Friday’s practice are reminded to bring dryland clothes including running shoes

Email Issues

Sometime over the last two weeks my ISP changed formats for the email account they provide for their subscribers.  This is the email I have used to send our weekly emails and have used since 2006.  In some great digital mystery this change has caused all of my email contacts to disappear.  I have spoke with two of their techs with no resolution to the problem.  I have been told this is being pushed up the chain to get is straightened out.  I do not hold out much hope. 

Fortunately, with our website I am still able to send out emails to our active accounts.  I believe the swim club accounts with multiple email addresses listed are receiving emails to each one listed.  If you have a family member who is no longer receiving the weekly emails please add them to your swim club account.

IA TW Invite 

Our club has had a very impressive first two days.  We had several best times in the distance events on Friday and we were even more impressive on Saturday.  Our 10 and unders seemingly went best times every time they hit the water and our 11 and overs were outstanding.  We had 48 swims qualify for finals yesterday.  When we came back for finals 75% of those swims were even faster!

NCISC Championship Meet February 10th
If you have previously committed your swimmer to this meet please double check to see they are still committed.  Due to an error when I was creating this event on our website I imported all of the committed swimmers from last winter's meet.  To make sure it was accurate I had to delete the original meet and re-create the event.  The deadline to commit to this meet is January 28th.  High School girls not qualifying for the IHSAA State Championships are eligible to swim in this meet.

Also, sometime during the next two weeks the job sign-ups for this meet will be active and you can choose a job you'd like to do.  On your February invoice you will see a $10 concession stand/hospitality fee.  This will be charged to all families including those with Group 3 swimmers still competing with their high school teams.

Advertising Credit 


We have had 3 new advertisers to our website this season.  These advertisers were sold ad space by two of our families.  It has generated a total $725.85 of credit on their swim club accounts!  We will give 50% of whatever money raised right back to to you!!  The best sales commission ever?!

A Group 2 or Group 3 annual membership plus all the other associated fees with our membership -- spirit wear, meet surcharges, technology fees, concession stand/hospitality fees, USA Swimming-- is just under $550 for an entire year. (A Group 1 annual membership is about $100 less.)  If you were able to sell two of the the Premiere+ adds it could easily pay for a whole year of swimming including meet entry fees!

Selling a one year ad to one company 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 the remainder of  our winter meet schedule.  Swimmers wanting to compete will need to commit to those meets. When committing to multiple day meets please leave a message in the available notes section of what days you would like to attend.

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.