Weekly Announcements for Week of 9/18-9/24

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule

Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:00 RHS

G1 Elite: Monday 5:30-7:15 RHS

Group 2: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:15, and Friday 5:00-6:30 RHS

Group 3: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:30-5:30, and Friday 3:30-5:00 RHS

Practice notes: A reminder to all Group 2 swimmers to bring dryland shoes and clothes to Friday's practice.

Parent Meeting This Tuesday September 20th

We are scheduled for to meet in the RHS cafeteria starting at 6:00.  The meeting will last approximately 60 minutes.  The first half of the meeting will be for all families and the last half for all new families.  At least one adult from each family will need to be in attendance

Intra-Squad Meet Date Change

We are going to have to move our date for intra-squad meet due to a conflict with scheduling the cafeteria.  Our intra-squad meet will be held on Tuesday, October 4th.

Outreach Program

If you answered yes to the question about your swimmer being eligible for free/reduced lunch at their school you received a credit at the checkout.  If you have not done so already please provide me with a letter from your swimmer's school stating they are eligible.  If you mistakenly clicked this box or are unable to produce the document your account will be charged back what you were credited

Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd

Our Swim-A-Thon link is now live.  You can click here to see the page on our website.  There is also a banner that will run across the top of our page for the remainder of our fundraiser.  If you are logged in to our site clicking on the banner will take you to your swimmers fund-raising page. Hopefully everyone has received the emails on Friday and Saturday introducing and explaining how to set up your swimmers Swim-A-Thon account.  

Here are the three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon funds: 

1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages 

2. Continue moving forward marketing our club 

3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional

Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/deadline to opt out

The dates to opt out are tentative for most of these meets and will most likely change when the meet information becomes available.  As a reminder all swimmers are considered swimming in a meet unless the parent declines attending.  I'm also asking if you know your swimmer will be attending please commit them to the meet.  If the option to choose days is not yet available please leave a note as to which days you would like to attend 

Intra-squad Meet Thursday 10-2/Riley High School/10-2

NCISC Sprint Meet Saturday 10-8/Riley High School/10-2

Dual Meet Vs. CON Saturday 10-15/Concord High School/10-9

NASA Sprint Meet Saturday and Sunday 11-5 & 6/Northridge High School/10-16

WWST Turkey Splash Saturday 11-19/Northwood High School/10-9

LCB Winter Invite Friday-Sunday 12-2,3,&4/Lake Central HS/10-23

DUNE RiR Invite Saturday 12-17/Chesterton High School/10-30

IA TW Invite Friday-Sunday 1-6,7,&8/Rolfs Aquatic Center, ND/10-30

CON IMX Challenge Friday-Sunday 1-20,21,&22/Concord High School/12-3

NCISC Championship Saturday 2-11/Riley High School/1-29

CON Last Chance Friday-Sunday 2-24,25,&26/Concord High School/1-29

Divisional Championship Friday-Sunday3-3,4,&5/Northridge High School/TBD

Age Group State Friday-Sunday 3-10,11,&12/IUPUI/TBD

Senior State Friday-Sunday 3-17,18,&19/Pike High School/TBD

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Weekly Announcements for week of 9/11-9/17

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule
Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:00 RHS
G1 Elite: Monday 5:30-7:00 RHS
Group 2: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:00, and Friday 5:00-6:30 RHS
Group 3: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:30-5:15, and Friday 3:30-5:00 RHS

Practice notes: A reminder to all Group 2 swimmers to bring dryland shoes and clothes to Friday's practice.

Steve Raymond
On Tuesday night our swimming community lost a dear friend.  Steve passed away after a very short battle with cancer.  Steve worked tirelessly for ours and other surrounding clubs and schools.  He graciously volunteered hours of his time helping run our scorer's table at our club and high school meets.  Steve and I did not always agree but I always knew I could count on him to do whatever he could to help our program.  His absence at the pool will be felt by many.  Our prayers are with his family and friends.  Thanks for everything Steve.  Here is a link to Steve's obituary.

New Families
You should have received a system generated email that confirmed your registration to the team.  If you did not receive one please email me.  The email also included instructions how to log into your SBSC account.

Parent Meeting Tuesday September 20th
We are tentatively scheduled for to meet in the RHS cafeteria starting at 6:00. The meeting will last approximately 60 minutes. The first half of the meeting will be
for all families and the last for all new families. At least one adult from each family will need to be in attendance

Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd
We will also be hosting our 4th annual Swim-A-Thon on Saturday October 22nd.  One of the things I take pride in our club is that we are able to provide a quality program at very little cost to our members.  In fact our training fees have remained the same as they were when we started in 2006.  The downside to our reasonable fees is that our coaches have not received a raise in several years.  I would like to use a significant portion of the proceeds raised this season to go directly to increasing our assistant coaches wages.  

I would also like to continue our marketing and advertising.   In the last year we have developed and produced a recruiting poster.  We hired Franko Design to upgrade our logo and our brand (unveiling coming soon).  We have also mailed out our newly designed brochures to all South Bend Schools students in grades 2-4.  This amounted to over 4000+ brochures in families hands during the Olympic games.  We also have thousands of more brochures ready to distribute to all the parochial and private schools this fall.

If we are able to raise funds like we have in past seasons I would also like to continue our relationship with our sports psychology professional. Ava Blennerhassett.  We were fortunate this season to work with Ava at no cost.  But as she moves forward with her practice compensation will be required to be able to maintain the amount of time she spent with us.

So are three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon: 
1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages 
2. Continue moving forward marketing our club 
3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional

New Prairie Satellite
Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October 3rd to begin.  If I have not contacted you about your preference to when you would like to start please email me with your intentions

Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/deadline to opt out
The dates to opt out are tentative for most of these meets and will most likely change when the meet information becomes available.  As a reminder all swimmers are considered swimming in a meet unless the parent declines attending.  I'm also asking if you know your swimmer will be attending please commit them to the meet.  If the option to choose days is not yet available please leave a note as to which days you would like to attend 

Intra-squad Meet Thursday 9-29/Riley High School/9-29
NCISC Sprint Meet Saturday 10-8/Riley High School/10-2
Dual Meet Vs. CON Saturday 10-15/Concord High School/10-9
NASA Sprint Meet Saturday and Sunday 11-5 & 6/Northridge High School/10-16
WWST Turkey Splash Saturday 11-19/Northwood High School/10-9
LCB Winter Invite Friday-Sunday 12-2,3,&4/Lake Central HS/10-23
DUNE RiR Invite Saturday 12-17/Chesterton High School/10-30
IA TW Invite Friday-Sunday 1-6,7,&8/Rolfs Aquatic Center, ND/10-30
CON IMX Challenge Friday-Sunday 1-20,21,&22/Concord High School/12-3
NCISC Championship Saturday 2-11/Riley High School/1-29
CON Last Chance Friday-Sunday 2-24,25,&26/Concord High School/1-29
Divisional Championship Friday-Sunday 3-3,4,&5/Northridge High School/TBD
Age Group State Friday-Sunday 3-10,11,&12/IUPUI/TBD
Senior State Friday-Sunday 3-17,18,&19/Pike High School/TBD

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Weekly Announcements for Week of 9/4-9/10

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule
Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:00RHS
G1 Elite: Wednesday 5:30-7:00 RHS
Group 2: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:00, and Friday 5:00-6:30 RHS
Group 3: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:30-5:00, and Friday 5:00-6:30 RHS

Practice notes: Group 3's Friday's practice will be from 5:00-6:30.  We are moving it to a later time because I will not be able to attend practice on Friday due to the RHS Swim Team's Port-A-Pit Fundraiser.  If your G3 swimmer is also and RHS swimmer they will be excused from practice on Friday and will be expected to be at the Port-A-Pit

RHS Port-A-Pit Fundraiser
If you have not done so already please consider helping with our fundraiser by purchasing a ticket from a RHS swimmer.  The high school fundraisers go to help with purchasing equipment for the high school team that is also used by our club team.  The cost of the chicken is $6.50.  We are also selling the pit-tatoes as well.  We are not pre-selling those but they can be purchased on site for $3.50.  We will be selling at the Advance Auto store on Ireland Road.  We are planning on starting to sell at lunch time though 5:30

RHS Homecoming September 23rd
We have been asked to add a float to RHS Homecoming Parade. The game is vs. New Prairie High School and will be held at Jackson Field on Friday September 23rd.  Brett and Aiden Mauer have made some preliminary plans but we want to gauge the interest of our members before planning too much in advance.  The parade route typically starts in the RHS Parking lot around 4:30-5:00.  An exact time or route has not been made available.  The club will cover the cost to the game of any of our swimmers or parents who participate in the parade and would like to stay for the game.  If you are interested please email me by the end of the week.

Riverfront Parks & Trails Community Forum
I have been asked by Amy Roush, our Parks and Rec liaison, to share this with our membership.  I have also attached the flyer.

The City of South Bend has begun the process of re-imagining our Riverfront Parks & Trails, which run from Darden Rd. to Logan St. Working with consultant Smith Group JJR, an integrated architecture, engineering, and planning firm, the City’s goal is to develop a vision that enhances our riverfront, taking full advantage of its environmental, recreational, and economic potential. The resulting plan will serve as a guide for making investment, use, and design decisions within the park system.

 

You’re invited to the first in a series of community meetings to gather input on the future of our Riverfront Parks & Trails. Please join us:

 

 

Riverfront Parks & Trails Community Forum

Thursday, September 8^th

5:30pm

Century Center, Recital Hall

(120 S. St. Joseph Street, Downtown South Bend)

 

 

Parking will be available, free of charge, in the Century Center parking lot. Please share meeting information with others that have an interest in the future of our Riverfront Parks & Trails. Please contact Eva Ennis with any questions.

Fall and Winter Season
Please remember all families must register their swimmers prior to starting practice. If you haven't registered yet, you can click here to go directly to our registration page.    Also, please remember you will be registering for the fall/winter and the spring/summer seasons.

New Families
You should have received a system generated email that confirmed your registration to the team.  If you did not receive one please email me.  The email also included instructions how to log into your SBSC account. There will also be a parent meeting sometime in September with a break-out session for all new families.  Details on the date will be finalized after we get approval for the use of one of the computer labs at RHS

Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd
We will also be hosting our 4th annual Swim-A-Thon on Saturday October 22nd.  One of the things I take pride in our club is that we are able to provide a quality program at very little cost to our members.  In fact our training fees have remained the same as they were when we started in 2006.  The downside to our reasonable fees is that our coaches have not received a raise in several years.  I would like to use a significant portion of the proceeds raised this season to go directly to increasing our assistant coaches wages.  

I would also like to continue our marketing and advertising.   In the last year we have developed and produced a recruiting poster.  We hired Franko Design to upgrade our logo and our brand (unveiling coming soon).  We have also mailed out our newly designed brochures to all South Bend Schools students in grades 2-4.  This amounted to over 4000+ brochures in families hands during the Olympic games.  We also have thousands of more brochures ready to distribute to all the parochial and private schools this fall.

If we are able to raise funds like we have in past seasons I would also like to continue our relationship with our sports psychology professional. Ava Blennerhassett.  We were fortunate this season to work with Ava at no cost.  But as she moves forward with her practice compensation will be required to be able to maintain the amount of time she spent with us.

So are three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon: 
1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages 
2. Continue moving forward marketing our club 
3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional

New Prairie Satellite
Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October 3rd to begin.  If I have not contacted you about your preference to when you would like to start please email me with your intentions

Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/deadline to opt out
The dates to opt out are tentative for most of these meets and will most likely change when the meet information becomes available.  As a reminder all swimmers are considered swimming in a meet unless the parent declines attending.  I'm also asking if you know your swimmer will be attending please commit them to the meet.  If the option to choose days is not yet available please leave a note as to which days you would like to attend 

Intra-squad Meet Thursday 9-29/Riley High School/9-29
NCISC Sprint Meet Saturday 10-8/Riley High School/10-2
Dual Meet Vs. CON Saturday 10-15/Concord High School/10-9
NASA Sprint Meet Saturday and Sunday 11-5 & 6/Northridge High School/10-16
WWST Turkey Splash Saturday 11-19/Northwood High School/10-9
LCB Winter Invite Friday-Sunday 12-2,3,&4/Lake Central HS/10-23
DUNE RiR Invite Saturday 12-17/Chesterton High School/10-30
IA TW Invite Friday-Sunday 1-6,7,&8/Rolfs Aquatic Center, ND/10-30
CON IMX Challenge Friday-Sunday 1-20,21,&22/Concord High School/12-3
NCISC Championship Saturday 2-11/Riley High School/1-29
CON Last Chance Friday-Sunday 2-24,25,&26/Concord High School/1-29
Divisional Championship Friday-Sunday 3-3,4,&5/Northridge High School/TBD
Age Group State Friday-Sunday 3-10,11,&12/IUPUI/TBD
Senior State Friday-Sunday 3-17,18,&19/Pike High School/TBD

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Weekly Announcements for Week of 8/28-9/3

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule
Group 1: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th
G1 Elite: Next scheduled practice Wednesday September 7th
Group 2: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th 
Group 3: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th

Fall and Winter Season
Our on-line registration platform is now active. You can click here to go directly to our registration page.  All swimmers will need to register to be on our active roster for the fall.  Also, please remember you will be registering for the fall/winter and the spring/summer seasons.  You of course have the option to discontinue at any time. Our first official practice for the fall will be Tuesday September 6th.  

New for this season is we will be asking all Group 3 members to volunteer 4 hours during the upcoming season. This can either be assisting our coaching staff with our Group 1 practices or life-guarding any of the Group 1 or Group 2 practices.

We will also be changing the meet surcharge a little as well.  Last fall and winter season we charged $26 at registration.  This year we will charge $15 at registration and add $1 to the meet entry fees for each meet a swimmer attends.

New Families
You should have received a system generated email that confirmed your registration to the team.  If you did not receive one please email me.  The email also included instructions how to log into your SBSC account. There will also be a parent meeting sometime in September with a break-out session for all new families.  Details on the date will be finalized after we get approval for the use of one of the computer labs at RHS

Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd
We will also be hosting our 4th annual Swim-A-Thon on Saturday October 22nd.  One of the things I take pride in our club is that we are able to provide a quality program at very little cost to our members.  In fact our training fees have remained the same as they were when we started in 2006.  The downside to our reasonable fees is that our coaches have not received a raise in several years.  I would like to use a significant portion of the proceeds raised this season to go directly to increasing our assistant coaches wages.  

I would also like to continue our marketing and advertising.   In the last year we have developed and produced a recruiting poster.  We hired Franko Design to upgrade our logo and our brand (unveiling coming soon).  We have also mailed out our newly designed brochures to all South Bend Schools students in grades 2-4.  This amounted to over 4000+ brochures in families hands during the Olympic games.  We also have thousands of more brochures ready to distribute to all the parochial and private schools this fall.

If we are able to raise funds like we have in past seasons I would also like to continue our relationship with our sports psychology professional. Ava Blennerhassett.  We were fortunate this season to work with Ava at no cost.  But as she moves forward with her practice compensation will be required to be able to maintain the amount of time she spent with us.

So are three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon: 
1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages 
2. Continue moving forward marketing our club 
3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional

New Prairie Satellite
Coach Ashley contacted me this week and it looks like we will be able to start practice on October 3rd.  Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October to begin.  Registrations that have selected any of the NP training groups will be contacted to determine when they would like to start practices.

Upcoming Meet & Dates/location/deadline to opt out
The dates to opt out are tentative for most of these meets and will most likely change when the meet information becomes available.  As a reminder all swimmers are considered swimming in a meet unless the parent declines attending.  I'm also asking if you know your swimmer will be attending please commit them to the meet.  If the option to choose days is not yet available please leave a note as to which days you would like to attend 

Intra-squad Meet Thursday 9-29/Riley High School/9-29
NCISC Sprint Meet Saturday 10-8/Riley High School/10-2
Dual Meet Vs. CON Saturday 10-15/Concord High School/10-9
NASA Sprint Meet Saturday and Sunday 11-5 & 6/Northridge High School/10-16
WWST Turkey Splash Saturday 11-19/Northwood High School/10-9
LCB Winter Invite Friday-Sunday 12-2,3,&4/Lake Central HS/10-23
DUNE RiR Invite Saturday 12-17/Chesterton High School/10-30
IA TW Invite Friday-Sunday 1-6,7,&8/Rolfs Aquatic Center, ND/10-30
CON IMX Challenge Friday-Sunday 1-20,21,&22/Concord High School/12-3
NCISC Championship Saturday 2-11/Riley High School/1-29
CON Last Chance Friday-Sunday 2-24,25,&26/Concord High School/1-29
Divisional Championship Friday-Sunday 3-3,4,&5/Northridge High School/TBD
Age Group State Friday-Sunday 3-10,11,&12/IUPUI/TBD
Senior State Friday-Sunday 3-17,18,&19/Pike High School/TBD

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Weekly Announcements for Week of 8/21-8/27

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule
Group 1: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th
G1 Elite: Next scheduled practice Wednesday September 7th
Group 2: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th 
Group 3: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th

Fall and Winter Season
Our on-line registration platform is now active. You can click here to go directly to our registration page.  All swimmers will need to register to be on our active roster for the fall.  Also, please remember you will be registering for the fall/winter and the spring/summer seasons.  You of course have the option to discontinue at any time. Our first official practice for the fall will be Tuesday September 6th.  

New for this season is we will be asking all Group 3 members to volunteer 4 hours during the upcoming season. This can either be assisting our coaching staff with our Group 1 practices or life-guarding any of the Group 1 or Group 2 practices.

We will also be changing the meet surcharge a little as well.  Last fall and winter season we charged $26 at registration.  This year we will charge $15 at registration and add $1 to the meet entry fees for each meet a swimmer attends.

New Families
You should have received a system generated email that confirmed your registration to the team.  If you did not receive one please email me.  The email also included instructions how to log into your SBSC account. There will also be a parent meeting sometime in September with a break-out session for all new families.  Details on the date will be finalized after we get approval for the use of one of the computer labs at RHS

Meet Schedule
Our meet schedule is now posted on-line. You can click here to view our schedule and commit and or decline the meets you would like to attend.  Our policy is all swimmers who do not decline meet attendance will be automatically entered.  Please, if you know you do not want to attend decline attendance.  Also, it helps on my end if you know you are planning on attending a meet please commit to the meet.

Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd
We will also be hosting our 4th annual Swim-A-Thon on Saturday October 22nd.  One of the things I take pride in our club is that we are able to provide a quality program at very little cost to our members.  In fact our training fees have remained the same as they were when we started in 2006.  The downside to our reasonable fees is that our coaches have not received a raise in several years.  I would like to use a significant portion of the proceeds raised this season to go directly to increasing our assistant coaches wages.  

I would also like to continue our marketing and advertising.   In the last year we have developed and produced a recruiting poster.  We hired Franko Design to upgrade our logo and our brand (unveiling coming soon).  We have also mailed out our newly designed brochures to all South Bend Schools students in grades 2-4.  This amounted to over 4000+ brochures in families hands during the Olympic games.  We also have thousands of more brochures ready to distribute to all the parochial and private schools this fall.

If we are able to raise funds like we have in past seasons I would also like to continue our relationship with our sports psychology professional. Ava Blennerhassett.  We were fortunate this season to work with Ava at no cost.  But as she moves forward with her practice compensation will be required to be able to maintain the amount of time she spent with us.

So are three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon: 
1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages 
2. Continue moving forward marketing our club 
3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional

New Prairie Satellite
Due to construction delays our plan is to start practice at NPHS beginning Monday October 3rd.  Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October to begin.  Registrations that have selected any of the NP training groups will be contacted to determine when they would like to start practices.

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Weekly Announcements for Week of 8/14-8/20

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule
Group 1: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th
G1 Elite: Next scheduled practice Wednesday September 7th
Group 2: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th 
Group 3: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th

Fall and Winter Season
Our on-line registration platform is now active. You can click here to go directly to our registration page.  All swimmers will need to register to be on our active roster for the fall.  Also, please remember you will be registering for the fall/winter and the spring/summer seasons.  You of course have the option to discontinue at any time. Our first official practice for the fall will be Tuesday September 6th.  

New for this season is we will be asking all Group 3 members to volunteer 4 hours during the upcoming season. This can either be assisting our coaching staff with our Group 1 practices or life-guarding any of the Group 1 or Group 2 practices.

We will also be changing the meet surcharge a little as well.  Last fall and winter season we charged $26 at registration.  This year we will charge $15 at registration and add $1 to the meet entry fees for each meet a swimmer attends.

New Families
Sometime this week you will receive a system generated email confirming your registration.  The email will also include instructions how to log into your SBSC account.  If you do not receive one by Friday please let me know. There will also be a parent meeting sometime in September with a break-out session for all new families.  Details on the date will be finalized after we get approval for the use of one of the computer labs at RHS

Meet Schedule
I am in the process of finalizing our meet schedule for the upcoming season.  I hope to have it completed by the time I send out next week's email.  Our first meet will be Saturday October 8th at Riley. 

Swim-A-Thon Saturday October 22nd
We will also be hosting our 4th annual Swim-A-Thon on Saturday October 22nd.  One of the things I take pride in our club is that we are able to provide a quality program at very little cost to our members.  In fact our training fees have remained the same as they were when we started in 2006.  The downside to our reasonable fees is that our coaches have not received a raise in several years.  I would like to use a significant portion of the proceeds raised this season to go directly to increasing our assistant coaches wages.  

I would also like to continue our marketing and advertising.   In the last year we have developed and produced a recruiting poster.  We hired Franko Design to upgrade our logo and our brand (unveiling coming soon).  We have also mailed out our newly designed brochures to all South Bend Schools students in grades 2-4.  This amounted to over 4000+ brochures in families hands during the Olympic games.  We also have thousands of more brochures ready to distribute to all the parochial and private schools this fall.

If we are able to raise funds like we have in past seasons I would also like to continue our relationship with our sports psychology professional. Ava Blennerhassett.  We were fortunate this season to work with Ava at no cost.  But as she moves forward with her practice compensation will be required to be able to maintain the amount of time she spent with us.

So are three goals for this year's Swim-A-Thon: 
1. Reward our assistant coaches with higher wages 
2. Continue moving forward marketing our club 
3. Maintain our working relationship with a sports psychology professional

New Prairie Satellite
Due to construction delays our plan is to start practice at NPHS beginning Monday October 3rd.  Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October to begin.  Registrations that have selected any of the NP training groups will be contacted to determine when they would like to start practices.

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Weekly Announcements for Week of 8/7-8/13

Dear SBSC families,

Practice Schedule
Group 1: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th
G1 Elite: Next scheduled practice Wednesday September 7th
Group 2: Next scheduled practice Tuesday September 6th 
Group 3 AM: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 6:30-9:15 AM RHS

Practice notes: Coach Drew (574-302-7926) will be covering practice on Monday.  Coach Ted (574-360-9187)  will be covering practices on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Coach Carol (574-292-0553) will be covering on Wednesday.  The weekly training plan is attached.  Group 2 athletes who have been attending mornings may attend as many morning as they would like this week.  We will not charge training fees for swimmers who attend practices in August.

Mega Zones and Junior Nationals
We have 3 swimmers who are competing in August.  Evie and Sammy Sierra are representing Team Indiana at the Mega Zone meet held at IUPUI from Thursday through today. They are competing not only against the best Indiana swimmers but the best from 14 other LSC's/states as well.  Both have scored at the meet and Evie continues her fast swimming posting several new best times and a new team record in the 200 fly (2:24.70)  Abby Kirkpatrick competes in Junior Nationals this week in Minneapolis.  She swims the 100 breast on Monday, the 200 breast on Thursday, and the 200 IM on Friday.

Fall and Winter Season
Our on-line registration platform is now active. You can click here to go directly to our registration page.  All swimmers will need to register to be on our active roster for the fall.  Also, please remember you will be registering for the fall/winter and the spring/summer seasons.  You of course have the option to discontinue at any time. Our first official practice for the fall will be Tuesday September 6th.  

New for this season is we will be asking all Group 3 members to volunteer 4 hours during the upcoming season. This can either be assisting our coaching staff with our Group 1 practices or life-guarding any of the Group 1 or Group 2 practices.

We will also be changing the meet surcharge a little as well.  Last fall and winter season we charged $26 at registration.  This year we will charge $15 at registration and add $1 to the meet entry fees for each meet a swimmer attends.

New Prairie Satellite
Due to construction delays our plan is to start practice at NPHS beginning Monday October 3rd.  Families who plan on being part of the NP satellite are welcome to attend practices at Riley in the September or they can wait until October to begin.  Registrations that have selected any of the NP training groups will be contacted to determine when they would like to start practices.

Summer Divisionals
We had a small number of athletes in attendance but we swam well and spent as much time as anyone on the podium.  Congratulations to Forrest Baumgartner for setting a new team record in the 15-18 boys 200 free (1:46.93) breaking Coach Brion's record set in 2014.

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.