Weekly Announcements for Week of 10/3-10/9

Dear SBSC families, Practice Schedule Riley HS Group 1 Thursday 6:00-7:15 G1 Elite Wednesday 5:30-7:15 Group 2 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:15, and Friday 5:00-6:30 Group 3 AM Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 5:30-6:45 AM Group 3 PM Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:45-6:15, and Friday 5:00-6:30 New Prairie HS Group 1 Monday 6:00-7:15 CST Group 2 Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 4:30-6:15 CST Group 3 Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 4:30-7:00 CST Practice Notes: NP Group 1 swimmers and parents continue to use door N17. NP Group 2 and 3 swimmers and parents should use door N18. Parents are welcome to stay to watch practice and masks are optional. Riley families please use door #22. For our new families this is the door on the north west corner of the building and faces Fellows Street. If you are planning on staying to watch practice there is a stairwell that is adjacent to this door and this will lead you to the seating area. Everyone choosing to stay to watch practice must be wearing a mask and social distance while in the seating gallery. Intra-Sqaud Meet Tuesday Oct. 5 Riley High School The job sign-up function is now active and you can register for any of the available jobs. There are only 9 families that have signed up to help. We will not be able to run an effective meet without your help. Please sign up today! We would like all swimmers to be on deck by 5:45 EST. We are going to push our start time of the meet to 6:15 EST. Hopefully this will make it a little easier on our NP families and still be able to be out of the building at a decent time. All of our swimmers are assumed to be swimming at this meet. If your swimmer will be unable to make the meet you will need to decline attendance with the "Edit Commitment" button on our website or by using the OnDeck app. The meet will last approximately 60-75 minutes followed by a team pizza dinner/potluck in the RHS cafeteria. The club will provide the pizzas and drinks. We are asking families to bring their favorite dish to share. Families A-M bring their favorite side dish and families N-Z bring their favorite dessert. If you are making the dessert please list ingredients on a note card to be displayed with your dish. Swim A Thon Thank you to everyone who received donations this week. We are now over 60% of way to our goal. We have over 100 swimmers on the club and only 24 have been able to secrue donations. I am sure by anyone's assesment this would be considered less then ideal. 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. Every swimmer who reaches a $150 will receive an embroidered team suit from Just Add H2O. Our team goal is to raise $10,000. This is our only fundraising event of the entire year. We need everyone's help! WAR Monster Splach 10/30 The meet information has yet to be posted on the Indiana Swimming website. I have sent an email to the Warsaw head coach and hopefull we will have information soon. The deadline to commit to this meet has been pushed to next Sunday, October 10. Lifeguarding/Assisting with Group 1 and Group 2 The last several years we have had a 4 hour volunteer requirement for our Group 3 swimmers. We also still have several of the swimmers who took our lifeguarding class last fall not finish their 10 hours of volunteering. It helps the club considerably more to have those swimmers fulfill their commitment as opposed to billing those families for the class. The October lifeguarding and volunteer postions are now available for sign-up. USA Swimming Guidelines-MAAPP/Safe Sport 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. The USA Swimming Safe Sport staff has been hosting Zoom training for parents, minor athletes and coaches to assist clubs in completing the Training and Education requirement of the Safe Sport Club Recognition program. All participants will need to register to attend training. SAFE SPORT TRAINING FOR PARENT Wed., October 20 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER Wed., November 3 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER Wed., December 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER SAFE SPORT TRAINING FOR ATHLETES (AGES 12-17 Thur., October 21 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER Thur., November 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET| REGISTER Thur., December 2 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER Fall and Winter Meet Schedule/Dates of Meet/Location/Deadline to commit Below is our spring/summer meet schedule. The first date listed is the day(s) of the meet and second date is the deadline to commit. Swimmers wanting to compete will need to commit to those meets. The deadlines are based on deadlines that were set in previous years. They may change once the meet hosts posts the meet information. When committing to multiple day meets if the option to select the days you want is not available, leave a message in the available notes section of the specific days you would like to attend. Meets marked with an * are meets that require swimmers to meet certain time standards. All pool locations can be found on our website under the "Pools" tab. Intra-Squad/Oct. 5/Riley High School/Oct 4 WAR Monster Splash/Oct. 30/ Warsaw High School/Sunday Oct. 10 NASA Sprint Meet/Nov. 6 & 7/Northridge High School/Sunday Oct. 17 CON Skypoint/Nov. 12-14/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Sunday Oct. 17 ELK Rudolph Romp/ Dec. 10-12/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Sunday Nov. 7 DUNE Rumble IN the Region/Dec. 18/Chesterton High School/Sunday Nov. 21 IA TW Invite/Jan. 7-9/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Sunday Nov. 28 CON IMX/Jan. 21-23/Concord High School/Sunday Dec. 19 CON Last Chance/Feb. 25-27/Concord High School/Sunday Jan. 8 *IN Swim Divisionals/Mar. 4-6/TBD/Sunday Feb. 19 *IN Swim Age Group State/Mar. 11-13/Sunday Feb. 26 *IN Swim Senior State/Mar. 18-20/Sunday Mar. 5 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