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.
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.
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.
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.
Practice notes: 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.
Fall and Winter Season Our on-line registration platform will be active starting tomorrowMonday August 1st.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 I spoke with Coach Ashley this week and she informed me the NPHS pool construction has faced some delays. Rest assured we are still committed to making the South Bend Swim Club a viable program for the New Carlisle/Rolling Prairie community. 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 Another great start at a championship meet for our club. We had 8 swimmers compete yesterday and every one earned a second a swim and 7 of the 8 made it on the podium! We had two new state cuts achieved and Forrest Baumgartner and Bryce Knight each captured a Divisional Championship. You can follow the results of the last day of competition on the Meet Mobile app. The meet is listed as the 2016 North Indiana Summer Divisional Champ.
Swim Fest What a great meet for our program. We finished a combined 18th overall. Almost reaching our team goal of top 15. Our 17 swimmers posted a total of 53 new best times. We set 8 new team relay recordsincluding all 5 in the girls 15 and over age group. We also set 14 new individual team records. Here are our new record holders:
Todd Suttor: men's 50 free (24.66) Dakota Danks: men's 100 back (1:06.06) Bryce Knight: boys 13-14 100 fly (1:06.92) Kayla Molnar girls 15-18 200 free (2:09.67) Autumn Baumgartner 13-14 girls 50 free (27.58) and 100 free (1:03.47) Evie Sierra 13-14 girls 200 fly (2:26.96) and 1500 free (18:29.01) Sammy Sierra 11-12 boys 50 back (33.88), 50 fly (30.26), 100 back (1:13.02), 200 fly (2:29.87), 200 IM (2:33.41), and his state champion swim in the 100 fly in a winning time of 1:06.48
Congratulations to the entire team. I was told by more then one opposing coach our group of South Bend swimmers were an absolute class act. It made me as proud as anything else we did in the water.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Practice notes: This is the last week of practice for all of our Group 1 and G1 Elite swimmers. There will be no evening practices for any group after this week. Group 2 swimmers who have been attending morning workouts this summer may attend all remaining morning workouts with Group 3. Group 3 will practice through at least Friday August 5th and quite possibly through the 12th. We will not charge training fees for swimmers who attend practices in August.
Summer Divisionals Our entry has been sent. Please double check for accuracy. If you notice any errors please let me know ASAP. I can make changes to our entry without penalty through tomorrow. Please let me know if you notice any mistakes by the end of practice tomorrow evening.
Here are the pertinent times for the weekend: Saturday and Sunday Prelims Warmups 7:30-8:45 (our swimmers should be on deck by 7:45, yes 7:45. This is not a typo) Meet starts 9:00
Saturday and Sunday Finals Warm-ups 3:30-4:15 (our swimmers should be on deck by 3:30) Meet starts 4:30
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 lifeguarding 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.
Swim Fest We have had a great start to the meet. Several best times and new team records have been established. A huge shout-out for Sammy Sierra who became our club's 6th state champion and our first boy to stand on the top step of the podium. You can follow all the action today on your meet mobile app under SwimFest. I will post pics of any of our swimmers who medal on all of our social media sites. The final results and updates to all the pertinent pages on website will be up as soon as possible.
Practice notes: There will be no practice for any groups on Thursday and Friday this week due to the Swim Fest Championship. Group 2 swimmers that are tapering for this meet should attend only one practice each day, preferably the morning practice. The Group 3 training plan is attached.
IA Summer Spectacular Congratulations to all of our swimmers. We had over 150 new best times and set 12 new team records!! Here are our new team record holders:
Autumn Baumgartner in the 13-14 girls 50 free (28.41); Bryce Knight in the 13-14 boys 100 fly (1:07.17), 200 breast (3:02.86), and 200 fly (2:46.33); Sammy Sierra in the 11-12 boys 50 back (35.04), 50 fly (30.52), 100 back (1:16.84), 100 Fly (1:09.10), 100 free (1:07.84) and the 400 IM (5:38.72); Todd Suttor in the 19 and over men 100 back (1:12.91)
Swim Fest (combined state meets) Our entry has been sent. Please double check your swimmers entry. If there are any errors or oversights let me know immediately. Clubs are allowed to make corrections through tomorrow evening.
The Age Group (14 and under) portion of the meet will have pre-lims and finals at IUPUI. Here are the pertinent times for the Age Group portion of the meet. Please note times listed for our swimmers to be on deck may change to later (never earlier) and will be communicated to the parents if they do change. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday pre-lims Warm-ups 6:30-7:45 (our swimmers need to be on deck 6:30) Meet Starts 8:00
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday finals Warm-ups 3:30-4:45 (swimmers who have qualified for finals need to be on deck by 3:45) Meet Starts 5:00
Sunday finals Warm-ups 3:00-4:15 (swimmers who have qualified for finals need to be on deck by 3:15) Meet Starts 4:30
The Senior State (15 and over) portion of the meet will have pre-lims at Pike High Schooland finals at IUPUI with the Age Groupers. Please note the times listed for our swimmers to be on deck may change to later (never earlier) and will be communicated to the parents and swimmers if they do change.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday pre-lims Warm-ups 7:00-8:15 (our swimmers need to be on deck by 7:00) Meet Starts 8:30
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday finals Warm-ups 3:30-4:45 (swimmers who have qualified for finals need to be on deck by 3:45) Meet Starts 5:00
Sunday Finals Warm-ups 3:00-4:15 (swimmers who have qualified for finals need to be on deck by 3:15) Meet Starts 4:30
If a swimmer does not qualify for finals they are expected to attend finals to cheer for their teammates who did.
Last Practice for Summer The last practice for Group 1 will be Thursday July 28th. The last practice for Group 2 will be Friday July 29th. The last evening practice for Group 3 will be Friday July 28th. Group 3 will have morning workouts through at least Friday August 5thand quite possibly through the 12th. Group 2 swimmers that have been attending morning workouts will be allowed to attend all morning workouts also. There will be no training fees charged for August.
Fall/Winter Registration The registration link for the fall/winter season will be active starting Monday August 1st.
