Dear SBSC families,
Practice Schedule
Riley High School
Group 1 Monday and Wednesday 6:00-7:30
G1 Elite Tuesday 5:30-7:30
Group 2 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 5:30-7:30, and Friday 5:00-6:30
Group 3 AM Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 6:30-9:00
Group 3 PM Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 4:00-5:30
New Prairie High School
Group 1 No Scheduled Practice
Group 2 No Scheduled Practice
Group 3 No Scheduled Practice
Practice Notes: No practice Thursday evening due to the 4th of July holiday. Group 3 swimmers will not be allowed in the building prior to 6:20 AM and 3:50 PM.
Here is the link for this week’s practices for Group 2 and Group 3. Please share this with your athletes.
The tentative schedule for Riley for the remainder of the season can also be found on the website.
Summer Divisionals
The dates listed on our schedule for this meet were not correct. The correct dates for this meet are July 26-28. I apologize for the error.
IA Summer Spectacular/Elkhart Aquatic Center/June 28-30
You can view our entry by clicking here. Coach Lexi (574-250-8342) and Coach Emma (574-780-4065) will be the coaches on deck this morning. I (574-276-6057) will be the coach on deck this afternoon. If you are running late or will be unable to make it please text or call the appropriate coach. Here are the pertinent times for today’s sessions.
Sunday AM Sessions
Doors open at 6:50
Warm-ups 7:15-8:05 – our athletes should be on deck by 7:00
Meet Starts 8:15
Sunday PM Sessions
Warm-up 12:30-1:20 – our athletes should be on deck 12:15
Meet Starts 1:30
IHSAA Moratorium Week July 1-7
Each summer the IHSAA mandates the week that contains July 4th ( Monday- Sunday) there is to be no contact between high school coaches and their athletes. I will be at practice but I will not be on deck during the scheduled Group 3 practices. I will be sequestered in the office and available to meet with any non-high school swimmer or any parent.
We will slightly adjust our practice schedule for this week. Group 3 AM practices will remain the same. The doors will be open at 6:20 each morning. The Group 3 PM practices will be from 4:00-5:30. This will allow me to be on deck for Group 2. The doors will open at 3:50. We will also be moving the PM practices normally scheduled for Thursday to Wednesday to accommodate the 4th of July.
All high school swimmers are not to be in the office for any reason. No swimmer will be allowed into the building until another coach arrives. Once in the building all swimmers should enter and exit the pool through the locker rooms.
Return to New Prairie
If all goes well with the water testing the NPHS pool will be ready for us on July 8. For those families who took the month of June off or have been practicing at Riley please email me your intentions for July.
USA Swimming Membership
All of our new athletes are now required to have this completed. If you have any trouble please let me know.
Here is a link to the document with instructions on how to register with USA-S. A few of our members have had trouble adding their swimmers once they created their own account. If you have trouble after creating a parent account, try using this link. If your swimmer qualifies for the Outreach Membership (free/reduced lunch at their school) click on this link. Remember, if you use this link you will need to provide documentation to me that your athlete qualifies.
To be eligible to practice/compete with the club once they turn 18 swimmers need to complete the USA Swimming Athlete Protection Training.
Birth Certificates
If your athlete has never competed in a meet for SBSC (or another USA Swimming club) you will need to send me a copy of their birth certificate. The preferred way is to electronically send a pdf. If that is not possible, please email a pic.
Team Apparel
The local swim shop in town is Milinko’s Scuba & Swim. This is a great place to find a good practice suit or pick up a spare pair of goggles.
We are also partnered with A3 Performance. You can purchase a logoed team suit directly from this site. Here is the link to the A3 Team Store. When your swimmer is old enough to purchase a tech suit (13 and over) this company is who I recommend purchasing from.
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. A requirement we will need to adhere to is how your minor child communicates with all coaches. For several years we have asked swimmers in Group 2 and Group 3 to text/email their coach if they would be missing practice. Moving forward, swimmers will be instructed to include a parent on all communication with me or any of our coaches.
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.
Spring and Summer Meet Schedule/Dates of Meet/Location/Deadline to commit
This is our tentative meet schedule for the spring and summer. We may add meets if we find ones that fit our club’s needs There will be two different dates listed with each meet The first date listed is the day(s) of the meet and the second date is the deadline to commit.
Swimmers wanting to compete will need to commit to those meets. The deadlines will be 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 notes section stating the specific days you would like to attend.
Some meets will be marked with an * and those will require swimmers to meet minimum time standards. All pool locations can be found on our website under the "Pools" tab.
NASA Off The Blocks Invitational/Northridge HS/May 4/Our Results
CON Memorial Day Classic/Merrifield Pool/May 24-26/Our Results
GSI Summer Splash/Goshen Aquatic Center/June 1/Our Results
Stadium Splash/Lucas Oil Stadium/June 7&8/Our Results
MSC Summer Splash/Munster HS/June 21-23/Our Results
IA Summer Spectacular/Elkhart Aquatic Center/June 28-30/Our Entry
*IN Swimming SwimFest/IUPUI & Center Grove HS/July 11-14/Our Entry
SwimFest is combined Age Group State and Senior State
*USA-S Futures Championships/University of Minnesota/July 24-27/July 7
*IN Swimming Summer Divisionals/Concord HS/July 26-2/July 7
As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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John VanDriessche
Head Coach
South Bend Swim Club
South Bend Riley High School
(574)276-6057
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