January 23 2024 NEWSLETTER 17
WORKOUT CHANGES
Fri Feb 2 NO WORKOUTS for Senior Gold/Silver
Sat Feb 3 NO WORKOUTS for Age Group Gold/Silver and Age Group Blue/Bronze
Sat Feb 3 NO WORKOUTS for Senior Gold/Silver/Bronze
Wed Feb 7 Fundamentals 1 5:45 – 6:45 pm CGAC
Fri Feb 9 NO PM WORKOUTS CGAC
Sat Feb 10 NO WORKOUTS Age Group Blue/Bronze CGAC
Sat Feb 10 NO WORKOUTS Age Group White/Orange at CGAC
Sat Feb 10 Age Group Gold/Silver 5:30 – 7:30 am CGAC NO DRYLAND
Sat Feb 10 Senior Bronze 5:30 - 7:00 am CGAC NO DRYLAND
Wed Feb 14 Age Group Gold/Silver 5:30 – 7:00 am CGAC
Wed Feb 14 Age Group Blue/Bronze 5:30 – 6:15 am CGAC
Wed Feb 14 Age Group White/Orange 6:15 – 7:00 am CGAC
THE COACHES REPORT
The 12 & Under Celebration
The 12&Under Celebration saw most of the LAC Development Fundamentals Swimmers compete in an invitational swim meet for the first time! The athletes managed themselves very well through this double-ended, multi-team competition and competed successfully in relays on each day.
The LAC Coaches displayed great pride in the Swimmer’s progression as almost every swimmer in the meet competed in an event they had never raced before. The ability to adapt to new events and take yourself out of a comfort zone helps to create strong, resilient, well-rounded swimmers.
Congratulations to first time Western Region Championship qualifier Julia St. John; and first time provincial qualifiers Alexander Dysko, Maya Haase, Derek Wedlake, Emily Wedlake, and Ava Weese.
Thank you to each and every volunteer that made this event a success for the swimmers. A special thank you to our meet manager Stacey Stokley, and our lead officials Mark and Rose for all of their time and effort.
The 13 & Over Time Trial
The 13&Over time trial was an opportunity for senior LAC Swimmers to challenge themselves at race-pace in some of the longer events that may be outside of their usual event repertoire. The end of January into early February sees our more Senior groups in the heart of the training we need to finish strong in the end of championship season.
Swimmers- stay strong, stay focused and stay positive. What you achieve in practice week over week and month over month will contribute to the quality of racing in the championship season.
Some reading, as recommended by Coach Mel (LAC Coach and proud parent). Source Huffpost: www.huffpost.com/entry/six-words-you-should-say-today_b_3863643
LAC SWIMMERS SOCIAL EVENT
Slide on into the River Valley for some Team Building, Fun and Tubing!
We hope most of our swimmers are able to join us on Sunday, February 11th from 10:00 - 11:30 am at River Valley Golf and Tubing.
Please sign up for this event under the Events Tab on the LAC website.
The cost is $25 per swimmer – billed to your LAC swimmer account.
Important Information regarding this event:
Swimmers 12 years and younger must wear a helmet to participate. You may bring your own helmet or rent one from River Valley for $5. It is strongly recommended that Swimmers 13 years old and older wear a helmet, but it is at the discretion of each family.
Also, please print off the waiver for tubing, fill it out and bring it with you on Sunday, February 11. Please see further information on the LAC website under the “events” tab. The waiver is able in the event information.
WESTERN - LAC SWIMMING COURSES
Western has teamed up with LAC to provide some advanced swimming courses.
Here are the first courses being offered.
Bronze Medallion and Emergency First Aid/CPR B at WSRC
Dates: Course 1: Feb 15-18 Course 2: March 14-17
Thursday/Friday 5-9pm
Saturday/Sunday 9:30am-5:30pm
Registration for both courses can be found here:
Bronze Medallion and Emergency First Aid/CPR B - Western Sports & Recreation (westernmustangs.ca)
ALL TIDES SPIRITWEAR – OPEN Jan 22 – 28 for orders!
To access the online store, you must create a user account on this webpage: https://alltidesteam.com/ To sign in, enter your email address, Then the club’s access code: LAC To complete your account, you must provide the swimmer’s first and last name. Once your account is created, you can choose the items you wish to purchase and proceed with payment. Some of the items include personalization. This means you can get the name of the swimmer embroidered to the article of clothing. In the box ``Personalization`` please write down in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS what you have chosen to get embroidered (first name, last name, full name or nickname). This feature is optional at a cost of $12. This means that when you choose to add a name to your garment, an amount of $12 will be automatically added to your basket. Items will be delivered in early March.
LAC SWIMSUIT FOR SALE
Code : SW-SSPO455-12
SPEEDO FLYBACK SWIMSUIT - YOUTH
Asking Price: $50 - please contact Adriana Gomez Acosta [email protected] if interested
IT’S OFFICIAL!
Remaining 2023/24 LAC-Hosted Meets:
February 23 - 25, 2024 – Western Region Short Course Championships
April 14, 2024 - LAC - Long Course Pentathlon
May 10 - 12, 2024 - LAC - Hollandia Spring Invitational
July 13 - 14, 2024 - LAC - Dr. Paul Hauch Invitational
Thank You Everyone for Volunteering! There was a lot of very positive feedback for the 12 & Under and for the 13 & Over. Apparently, we do a great job of hosting, and that feedback is a reflection of the great people we have coming out and helping. Another job, well done! Special recognition to our meet managers Stacey and Dmitrij for another excellent result and huge appreciation for the visiting officials and parents of graduated swimmers who just keep on helping.
About Sign-ups for Jobs, Clinics, anything . . . Please do not sign up if you are not going to attend and stay for the whole event. If your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please remove your sign-up to allow someone else to sign-up and so we can plan and find coverage if needed. When the Volunteer Info: pop-up box appears, please fill in the name of the person coming. Fill in a separate row on the sign-up for each person.
Registration of Officials/Volunteers: Even to just take a Zoom clinic, you are required to be registered as an Official. When we see someone, who is not registered as an official, sign up for a clinic or to work at a meet, we create a new official account for you and an email is sent to you from [email protected] If you have signed up for a clinic or a job and you are not a registered official then watch for the email, probably the next morning (keep tabs on your spam or junk folder too) and, when it comes, please read it and sign on and complete your registration.
Clinics: I am having another round of clinics. They will all be done via Zoom. The intention is to do all of the clinics before Regionals. Sign-ups will be posted on the LAC web site. A session credit is earned for each clinic that you take for the first time. You can take a clinic as many times as you want but session credits are only given for the first time. Here are the next clinics:
- Wednesday, January 24 – Administrative Desk (formerly Clerk of the Course) 7:30 to 9:30 PM
- Monday, January 29 – Chief Finish Judge / Chief Judge Electronics 7:30 to 9:30 PM
- Wednesday, January 31 – Chief Recorder 7:30 to 9:30 PM
- Monday, February 5 – Starter (Starts the races) 7:30 to 9:30 PM
- Wednesday, February 7 - Meet Manager 7:30 to 10:00 PM
A few clinics are also available to take online as emodules which allows you to take them whenever it suits you. If you go to Swim Ontario - Clinics there are instructions on how to take the online clinics. A session credit is only given once for a particular clinic. Live or as an emodule, not both. The Zoom clinic presentations can be found online as well. Great for review but reading those does not count as taking the clinic.
If you have any officiating questions please contact me, Mark Lukings, L.A.C. Co-Club Officials Chair at [email protected] Note: This is volunteer work for me, so I may not get back to you immediately but, if urgent, I can handle a reminder.
SWIM MEET VOLUNTEER SESSION CREDITS
Please note that high school students can get their volunteer credits for school as well as session credits for your swim family by helping out at our meets.
To check your session credit balance - log on to your LAC account on the website, go to "my account" and click the "service hours" tab to view your account summary. Any questions contact Donna at [email protected]
Our club has a long-standing policy regarding volunteer participation in our hosted swim meets, which includes the earning of mandatory session credits through working at our hosted swim meets. The session credit policy can be found on the LAC website under the "parent info" tab under "LAC policy #2 - Club Hosted Meets and Session Credits".
Families of swimmers in Age Group and Senior are required to earn 22 session credits.
Families of returning Development swimmers are required to earn 11 session credits.
New families are not required to earn session credits but can transfer up to 5 session credits if they should decide to volunteer (which of course is encouraged and applauded).
Families with swimmers that have transferred from another team are considered returning swimmers and are subject to the session credit policy.
Any unworked session credits will be billed to your swimmer account at $40 per session at the end of the season.
The Session Credit Policy is under the constant scrutiny of the Board of Directors.
