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SHARKS
NEWS
10/16/06
HEALTH FORMS AND
TEAM FEES
PLEASE
TURN IN ALL HEALTH FORMS TO CHET ASAP. If you do not have one, please ask Chet
for a form. A completed health form on file is required to be on the team.
Also, for those swimmers who have been coming to practice and have not yet
registered, your TEAM FEES ARE DUE BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 23rd. Please pay at the
YMCA front desk. If your swimmer is registered under Group 1, they can ONLY
attend on T/TH/F. Their practices are only 1½-hour time slots, and the coaches
are prepared for the younger swimmers. The Group 2 swimmers practice for 2
hours and meet every day for a more intense training. If you have any concerns
or questions regarding the different groups, please talk to Chet regarding
different arrangements.
These
groups are set up for the number of coaches that we have at practice. Also,
when the girl’s high school season is over, we will be getting 15 or more girls
returning to swim Sharks in addition to the 19 we already have swimming with
us.
PRACTICE SCHEDULE
Any practice changes or cancellations
will be posted in the newsletter. SNOW DAYS: If Heritage has a snow day,
practice will be cancelled. If the YMCA is open, we will have practice
on Tues. & Thurs. (Please remember that you are a YMCA member and you could
decide to go down to the YMCA and do a workout on your own) during these snow
days. Chet will have a workout posted at the YMCA on the bulletin board by the
window. Newsletters and qualifying times, along with the meet schedule will also
be posted on the Shark bulletin boards at the YMCA and Heritage.
FLINT FALCONS MEET OCT. 28 & 29
ENTRIES FOR THIS MEET ARE DUE TO CHET BY WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18 AT THE BEGINNING OF
PRACTICE. Remember, this is an invitational meet; it is your choice to
participate in one day, two days, or not at all. If you do attend this meet,
please read your entry packet. It will tell you how many events each swimmer is
allowed to swim, how much each event costs, where and when the meet will take
place (At this meet, each swimmer is allowed to swim four individual events and
one relay per day). Parents will be sitting in the stands and swimmers will be
sitting in a designated team area. Relays will be put together after Chet sees
all entries for the meet. If your son or daughter does not end up swimming on a
relay, your money for relays will be refunded. This refund will be given back
to you at practice. Please include your relay money with your entries so that
we are not out monies, or have to spend time trying to track you down later for
relay money. Please put your completed entry form into the team box, in the
folder that says meet entries.
If you
need help filling out your meet entry forms, please see Chet before or after
practice. I will be happy to help your son or daughter pick their events.
PARENTS MEETING
There is
a parents meeting at the YMCA OCT. 19th @ 7 pm. If you are a new
parent, this would be an excellent meeting to attend for any questions that you
have.
CHET’S LANE
I have
had a number of parents inquire about swimsuits. Jeannie Hilk has agreed to
lead this huge operation, but is willing to let others help. Please contact
Matt if you might be available to help with this (753-7721 ext. 215). As soon
as we get the trial suit packet from Different Strokes, we will send a post card
out on exactly what times and days that you can try on suits; everyone should
have a team suit and cap for meets. We will be using the same suit as last
year, so if you don’t need a suit this year, you are one of the lucky ones. We
will want to get the ordering process over ASAP so we can have our suits for the
meets. If we don’t have them for this first meet, you will just have to wear
the suit you have now.
Parents,
you will be receiving a lot of meet information in the upcoming weeks. I am
going to give you a breakdown of these meets:
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An invitational
is normally a two day meet which would require you to fill out an entry
form, located in the team box, return that entry form to Chet or in the box
where it says meet entries. These meets will cost you extra money. Everyone
on our team is eligible to participate in these meets. The invitationals
will have beginners to veteran swimmers participating in the meet.
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The dual meets
will not cost you any additional money. You would just simply let Chet know
if you are going our not, and Chet will put you in the line-up.
I
understand that there was confusion on what meets have qualifying times. The
only meets that have qualifying times are the end of the year meets: MTSL
championship, YMCA State, YMCA Zones, and of course YMCA Nationals. In order to
qualify for these meets you must have participated in three YMCA meets with our
team.
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