SYS NEWSLETTER
Monday, January 2, 2006
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

CHRISTMAS PRACTICE SURVIVORS

            Over the Christmas break the Sharks had 12 practices available. If you completed every workout, you would have done over 83,000 yards or 42.7 miles. Yes, that makes my arms hurt too! We had 6 Sharks that made every practice. Kudos to our Hard Core Sharks: Andrea Brown, Brooke Rich, Whitney Woodbridge, Mary McCarthy, Paul Ilkka, and Scott Inman. 

FLINT FALCONS INVITATIONAL- January 5^th-7^th

            Friday             Warm-up                     Start

                                    5:00pm             5:45pm

            Saturday         AM Warm-up AM Start

 (both days)     7:30am                        8:30am

            Sunday            PM Warm-up PM Start

            (both days)      12:00pm                       1:00pm

**This meet is being held at Grand Blanc High School.

**Flint Falcons will be taking deck entries for this meet.

 DUAL MEET

            This is an away meet at Midland Dow High School, January 13^th, 2007 vs. Midland Dolphins.

There will be a 400 IM and 500 free offered at this meet, if you would like to swim these events. Please let Chet know.  **This is an MTSL meet. Please let Chet know if you are NOT planning on attending. Warm-up is at 12:000 noon & Start is at 12:30pm.

HOME DUAL MEET

JANUARY 20, 2007 VS THE BLUE WATER OTTERS. THIS IS A YMCA MEET.

THIS MEET WAS NOT ON YOUR SCHEDULE, PLEASE ADD IT TO YOUR SCHEDULE.

LAST DUAL MEET

Bay City dual meet on January 27^th, at John Glen High School, more information on this meet will be coming in future newsletters.

THANK YOU

            Beno, Jacquie, and Chet would like to thank all of the parents for our Christmas gift, it was greatly appreciated.

CHET’S LANE

            You will be getting a lot of meet information in the upcoming weeks. Please be sure to check all entry deadlines. I will not take any late entries. You have been doing this long enough now. Please get your entries in on time or better yet early.

****Look in next weeks’ newsletter for the team picture date and time. We are trying to schedule this picture so that the high school boys can be present.

Congratulations to our six Shark swimmers that made all 12 workouts. The Christmas practice Meltdown did not get to you.              ** CHET**

SIGNS OF CHRISTMAS PRACTICE MELTDOWN: by Whitney Woodbridge

·        When you enjoy calculating how many miles you swam throughout the week.

·        When you wish you where in the movie CLICK then realize you are really in the movie Groundhog Day AND think it’s funny.

·        When you start complaining about your suit hickies, pull bouy rashes, and fin blisters.

But we deserve to complain because just today alone we did 6.0 miles in three hours.

What a day.

“NOTHING GREAT WAS EVER ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM”