Weekly Announcements for Week of 11/28-12/04

Dear SBSC families, Practice Schedule Riley HS Group 1 Monday and Tuesday 6:00-7:30 G1 Elite Wednesday 5:30-7:30 Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 5:30-7:30 New Prairie HS Group 1 Monday and Tuesday 6:15-7:45 CST Group 2 Monday and Wednesday 6:15-7:45 CST Practice Notes: No practice at Riley or New Prairie on Thursday due to a high school meet. No practice on Friday due to ELK Rudolph Romp. No Group 2 at NP on Tuesday due to coach availability but all NP swimmers are welcome to attend their corresponding groups practice at Riley NP 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. 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. New Prairie swimmers are welcome to attend their corresponding group's practice at Riley Group 2 Swimmers Timing at Riley Vs. Clay Thursday 12/02 The last several years (not including last year due to Covid restrictions) we invite our Group 2 swimmers to help time at one of our high school meets. Swimmers should wear the their red team T-shirt from this season. They should arrive at Riley by 5:45. The team will provide pizza for all those that help out. There is a sign-up available on the our calendar page. You can find it in the same spot you commit for meets or sign-up for jobs. ELK Rudolph Romp/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Dec. 3rd-5th The meet had smaller than anticipated numbers so they will be making some changes. Friday's warm-up session will be pushed back and there will be only one session on Saturday and Sunday. ELK has set up a web-page for this meet. You can find volunteer information, parking info, link to the web-cast, and the meet letter. You can also see the psyche sheet and our entry. Our entry can be found by clicking here. Once you are on the page scroll down to entry report. Please check to see your athlete is entered in the correct age group. If you notice any errors please inform me as soon as possible. ELK is allowing teams to make corrections and updates through Monday morning. Coach Kelli (574-850-1336) will be the primary coach on deck on Friday and Saturday. I will be the coach on deck on Sunday. If you are running late or will be unable to make it please text the appropriate coach. Pertinent times for this weekend's meet are as follows; Friday (event #1-#4) Warm-ups 5:00-5:50-our athletes need to be on deck by 4:45 Meet Starts 6:00 Est. end time 7:00 Saturday (events #5-#50) Warm-ups 9:00-9:50-our athletes need to be on deck by 8:45 Meet Stats at 10:00 Est. end time 1:45 Sunday (events #51-#98) Warm-ups 9:00-9:50-our athletes need to be on deck by 8:45 Meet Starts 10:00 Est. end time 1:45 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 November lifeguarding and volunteer positions 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., December 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER SAFE SPORT TRAINING FOR ATHLETES (AGES 12-17) 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 fall/winter 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/Results NASA Sprint Meet/Nov. 6 & 7/Northridge High School/Results CON Skypoint/Nov. 12-14/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Results ELK Rudolph Romp/Dec. 3-5/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Results coming soon DUNE Rumble IN the Region/Dec. 18/Chesterton High School/Entry Sent IA TW Invite/Jan. 7-9/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Entry Sent CON IMX/Jan. 21-23/Concord High School/Sunday Dec. 19 CON Last Chance/Feb. 25-27/Concord High School/Sunday Jan. 9 *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

Weekly Announcements for Week of 11/21-11/27

Dear SBSC families, Practice Schedule Riley HS Group 1 Monday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30 G1 Elite Friday 9:30-11:30 AM Group 2 Monday, Wednesday, 5:30-7:30, and Friday 9:30-11:30 AM New Prairie HS Group 1 Monday 6:15-7:45 CST and Wednesday 11:00-12:30 CST Group 2 Monday 6:15-7:45 CST and Wednesday 11:00-12:30 CST Practice Notes: No practice at Riley or New Prairie on Tuesday due to a high school meet. No practice on Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. NP 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. 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. New Prairie swimmers are welcome to attend their corresponding group's practice at Riley Upcoming Meet Deadlines We have received information for the IA meet in January. I anticipate this will be a meet with a lot of interest. They are accepting entries starting on Monday so we need to move our deadline for this meet to tonight. In year's past we have had a large number of our Group 3 swimmers attend this meet. Unless there is an athlete who truly wants to be in this meet I am recommending against participation. It seemed to me it took a lot out of our athletes especially those who have regular morning practices with their high school teams. It is my opinion it would be better for the vast majority of our Group 3 swimmers to sit this meet out. If your Group 3 athlete would like to attend please reach out to me so we can discuss it. Tonight is also the deadline for committing to the Dune Rumble in the Region meet being held at Chesterton Middle School. 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 November lifeguarding and volunteer positions 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., December 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER SAFE SPORT TRAINING FOR ATHLETES (AGES 12-17) 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/Results NASA Sprint Meet/Nov. 6 & 7/Northridge High School/Results CON Skypoint/Nov. 12-14/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Results ELK Rudolph Romp/ Dec. 10-12/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Entry Sent DUNE Rumble IN the Region/Dec. 18/Chesterton High School/Tonight Sunday Nov. 21 IA TW Invite/Jan. 7-9/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Tonight Sunday Nov. 21 CON IMX/Jan. 21-23/Concord High School/Sunday Dec. 19 CON Last Chance/Feb. 25-27/Concord High School/Sunday Jan. 9 *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

Weekly Announcements for Week of 11/14-11/20

Dear SBSC families, Practice Schedule Riley HS Group 1 Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30 G1 Elite Monday 5:30-7:30 Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 5:30-7:30, and Friday 5:00-6:30 New Prairie HS Group 1 Tuesday and Thursday 6:15-7:45 CST Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 6:15-7:45 CST Practice Notes: No practice at Riley on Thursday due to a high school meet. No Group 2 practice at NPHS on Thursday due to coach availability. NP 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. 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. CON Skypoint Meet 5 sessions complete with 3 left to to today. You can follow the action on Elkhart Aquatics YouTube page and on the Meet Mobile app. Here is a reminder of the times for today's sessions Sunday Session 6 (13 and over prelims) Warm-ups 7:30-8:20-our athletes need to be on deck by 7:15 Meet Starts 8:30 Session 7 (11-12 prelims + 10 and under timed finals) Warm-ups 11:30-12:05-our athletes need to be on deck by 11:15 Meet Starts 12:15 Session 8 (11 and over finals) Warm-ups 5:00-5:40-our athletes need to be on deck by 4:45 Meet Starts 5:45 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 November lifeguarding and volunteer positions 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., December 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER SAFE SPORT TRAINING FOR ATHLETES (AGES 12-17) 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/Results coming soon NASA Sprint Meet/Nov. 6 & 7/Northridge High School/Results CON Skypoint/Nov. 12-14/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Results coming soon ELK Rudolph Romp/ Dec. 10-12/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Tonight Sunday Nov. 14 DUNE Rumble IN the Region/Dec. 18/Chesterton High School/Next 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

Weekly Announcements for Week of 11/7-11/13

Dear SBSC families, Practice Schedule Riley HS Group 1 Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30 G1 Elite Monday 5:30-7:30 Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 Group 3 Next scheduled practice after high school season New Prairie HS Group 1 Tuesday 6:15-7:45 CST Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 6:15-7:45 CST Group 3 Next scheduled practice after high school season Practice Notes: No practice at Riley on Thursday due to a high school meet and no practice on Friday due to CON Skypoint Meet. New Prairie practices will be practicing later in the evening due to the high school team's numbers requiring separate practices for the girls and boys teams. We are also experiencing a shortage of coach availability. This week we will only offer one Group 1 practice at NP. But, we do allow all of our NP site athletes to practice at Riley whenever they would like. If you NP families are bringing their athlete to Riley please walk them into the building to make sure we put them with the appropriate group/coach. 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. 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. CON Skypoint Meet Here are the pertinent times for this weekends meet. I will be the primary coach for this meet please text or call if you will be running late or unable to make it. 574-276-6057 Friday Session 1 (1650 freestyle) Warmups 2:15-2:55-our athletes need to be on deck by 2:00 Meet Starts 3:00 Session 2 (Events #3-#14) Warm-ups 4:15-5:15-our athletes need to be on deck by 4:00 Meet Starts 5:30 Saturday Session 3 (13 and over prelims) Warm-ups 7:30-8:20-our athletes need to be on deck by 7:15 Meet Starts 8:30 Session 4 (11-12 prelims + 10 and under timed finals) Warm-ups 11:30-12:05-our athletes need to be on deck by 11:15 Meet Starts 12:15 Session 5 (11 and over finals) Warm-ups 5:00-5:40-our athletes need to be on deck by 4:45 Meet Starts 5:45 Sunday Session 6 (13 and over prelims) Warm-ups 7:30-8:20-our athletes need to be on deck by 7:15 Meet Starts 8:30 Session 7 (11-12 prelims + 10 and under timed finals) Warm-ups 11:30-12:05-our athletes need to be on deck by 11:15 Meet Starts 12:15 Session 8 (11 and over finals) Warm-ups 5:00-5:40-our athletes need to be on deck by 4:45 Meet Starts 5:45 NASA Sprint Meet Good first day for the club. Results will be posted as soon as they are received. Spirit Wear-Orders due 11/12 The spirit wear order form is attached. All forms need to be returned to me by this Friday, November 12. 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 November lifeguarding and volunteer positions 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., December 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER SAFE SPORT TRAINING FOR ATHLETES (AGES 12-17) 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/Results coming soon NASA Sprint Meet/Nov. 6 & 7/Northridge High School/Results coming soon CON Skypoint/Nov. 12-14/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Entry sent ELK Rudolph Romp/ Dec. 10-12/Elkhart Aquatic Center/Next 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