March 5, 2024 NEWSLETTER 23
WORKOUT CHANGES
Thurs Mar 7 NO AM workout Senior Gold/Silver and Age Group Gold/Silver
Fri Mar 8 NO AM workout Senior Gold
Sat Mar 9 Skills 8:00 – 9:00 am CHOCC
NO Workouts Mar 10 to 17 for Senior Bronze, Age Group, Development and Introductory Programs - ENJOY YOUR MARCH BREAK!
THE COACHES REPORT
Next week the LAC Coaching staff encourages your swimmer to take the week off of swimming. We hope that you enjoy some time away from the pool and get to spend quality time with friends and family. March Break is an important recovery period for most of our athletes as it helps them both mentally and physically. The break is also beneficial to promote growth and recovery before we gear up for our last training cycle of the season
The Ontario Swimming Championships
Congratulations to all 16 LAC competitors who raced against the best in the province at the Ontario Swimming Championships. The improvement percentage was an incredibly successful 80%. 7 LAC athletes achieved 100% personal bests.
Eleven LAC athletes performed an impressive 28 swims that ranked in the London Aquatic Club’s Top 10’s! Ten of those 28 swims ranked in the Open Top 10 Times, which means they were one of the Top 10 swims - in their event in LAC history!
Congratulations to First Time Top 10 performers: Renee Hart (100 FL), Karen Xian (100 BK) and Declan Nolan (200 BK)!
Congratulation to our First Time Qualifiers on the weekend:
Eastern Canadian Championships: Renee Hart, and Karen Xian
Canadian Junior Championships: Jackson Cooke, Renee Hart, and Declan Nolan
Canadian Swimming Trials: Abduallah El Tatawy, Ewan Shearer, Grier Stokley, and Lauren Stokley
Canadian Swimming Championships: Connor Barnardo, Lauren Stokley, and Ewan Shearer
And a special THANK YOU, to our LAC families for their support in the Relay events by returning to TPASC on Sunday evening so LAC could field a Team. Relays are an important part of the sport of competitive swimming. As a team LAC highly values the development of relays as athlete’s progress through Provincial level competitions.
SWIM-A-THON APRIL
On behalf of the board and coaching staff we are excited to announce that our annual Swim-A-Thon campaign for the 2023-24 Swim Season has begun!
What is Swim-A-Thon: Swim-A-Thon is a national fundraiser for our sport. The fundraiser is a great team building event for swimmers at all stages of competitive swimming. At the end of the fundraising campaign, swimmers will be given the opportunity to complete as many lengths as they can (up to 200 lengths or 5KM). Development swimmers will have the opportunity to swim for one hour while our Age Group and Senior programs will swim for one and a half or two hours. Those who participate will celebrate the completion of Swim-A-Thon with snacks and the opportunity for LAC prizes. Let’s get fundraising!
When is Swim-A-Thon: It will take place Saturday April 6th and Sunday April 7th
Sat Apr 6 Age Group Gold 5:30 – 7:30 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Age Group Silver 5:30 – 7:30 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Age Group Blue 5:30 – 7:30 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Age Group Bronze 5:30 – 7:30 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Age Group White 7:30 – 9:00 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Age Group Orange 7:30 – 9:00 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Fundamentals 1 7:30 – 8:30 am CGAC
Sat Apr 6 Skills 7:00 – 8:00 am CHOCC
Sun Apr 6 Fundamental 2 8:00 – 9:00 am CHOCC
Sat Apr 6 Senior Gold 9:30 - 11:30 am WSRC
Sat Apr 6 Senior Silver 9:30 – 11:30 am WSRC
Sun Apr 7 Senior Bronze 1 & 2 9:30 – 11:30 am WSRC
How to Participate: Our club once again will be fundraising using Swim Canada’s online fundraising program. Please click this link to set up your own Swim a thon page donate.swimming.ca.
BOARD of DIRECTORS POSITIONS
If you are interested in joining the LAC Board for the 2024-25 swim season please contact the nomination committee by emailing Donna at [email protected] before March 31st.
LAC MARCH STATEMENTS
The March statements will show all of the charges in February, some of the charges are dated before we received the February payments. We try to run the statements so that you can see your previous payment being applied to your account. If you follow the right column of the statement you will be able to see your adjusting balance.
IT’S OFFICIAL!
2024 LAC-Hosted Long Course Meets:
April 14, 2024 - LAC - Long Course Pentathlon
May 10 - 12, 2024 - LAC - Hollandia Spring Invitational
July 13 - 14, 2024 - LAC - Dr. Paul Hauch Invitational
Senior Officials: Please start requesting senior official jobs, that you are qualified for, especially for the Pentathlon. Send me a separate email for each meet with the name of the meet in the subject. I will need the full name of the officials who will be working, and what sessions that they are available for. If there are preferred jobs or signoffs are being sought, then please indicate that too, for the applicable officials. I will do my best to assign the jobs that are asked for.
Clinics: I will be hosting one more round of clinics between now and Hollandia.
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.
