Weekly Announcements for Week of 8/29-9/4

Dear SBSC families, Practice Schedule Riley HS Group 1 Next practice Tuesday September 7 6:00-7:00 G1 Elite Next practice Wednesday September 8 5:30-7:00 Group 2 Next practice Tuesday September 7 5:30-7:00 Group 3 Next practice Tuesday September 7 3:45-5:15 New Prairie HS Group 1 Next practice at NPHS will be the week of September 7 Group 2 and Group 3 Next practice Tuesday September 7 4:30-6:00 Fall/Winter Season Registration The online registration is open. Remember all swimmers need to register for the fall/winter season. Here is the link to the registration page. Also, the club is running an ad on Facebook. It would help immensely if you could share this post to your page. It helps even more if you can give a small testimonial about your experience with the club along with the post. Thank you to those who have and continue to share on their pages! Just Add H2O Our team vendor is Just Add H2O. They are a locally owned swim shop located near the corner of SR 23 and Ironwood, across the street from 1st Source Bank. If you are in need of any swimming related gear they will be able to take care of you. Swimming Apps For all of our new families there are two apps that you will want to get for your phone. The first is the OnDeck app. This app is free and is tied directly to our website. It is incrediby usefull and you will be able to do everything you do one our website. The second app is Meet Mobile. There is a small yearly fee but well worth it. This is the app most swim parents use when attending meets. It can serve as a heat sheet, list your swimmers events, and keeps track of their final times and places. Parent Meetings We will be having a parent meeting at both sites this fall. Our hope is to be live at both sites as well as stream the meeting at the same time. The very tentative dates are 9/14 at Riley and 9/16 at New Prairie. Fall/Winter Meet Schedule You can find the initial offerings of our meet schedule by clicking here. We are in talks with ELK and CON about meets in October. If those talks don't come to fruition we'll be searching out other options. Swim A Thon Our annual (minus 2020) Swim-A-Thon is scheduled for Saturday October 23rd. This year we are requiring all families to raise at least $75. This is a per family requirement, not per swimmer. If a family does not meet that threshold they will be billed the difference. We will also be offering incentives for swimmers as well. Our team goal is to raise $10,000. More details on this event in the coming weeks. GoSwim Team Education Plan We are starting a new program this year. Our hope is to access the power and the resources of the GoSwim library. Literally, thousands of videos on stroke technique will be just a click away for our swimmers. We will also plan to video and store our swimmers strokes so we can track their development season to season and year to year. We also hope this helps our coaches identify areas of technique we need to improve upon. This will be $10 charge for each swimmer and will be billed on October 1. Here is a promotional flyer distributed by GoSwim for those looking for more information. USA Swimming Guidelines-MAAPPUSA USA Swimming issued a directive with regards to electronic communication and social media contact between coaches and athletes. Most of what is being implemented is common sense and falls in line with our club's policies. One new requirement we will need to adhere to is how your minor child communicates with me. For several years I have asked swimmers in Group 2 and Group 3 to text/email me if they would be missing practice. Moving forward, swimmers will be instructed to include a parent on all communication with me.
 If you are the parent of a Group 2 or Group 3 swimmer, and have never sent me a text before, please text me so I have your contact info in my phone. This way if I need to contact your swimmer about missing practice I can be sure to include you. My cell phone number is 574-276-6057.
 I encourage all parents and swimmers to read the full policy. We are required to keep this policy on our website, here is the link. As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. -- John VanDriessche Head Coach South Bend Swim Club South Bend Riley High School (574)276-6057 www.southbendswimclub.com #SBSCForLife