March Newsletter #2
Hello LASC Families,
I hope you are all doing well today, we have an exciting upcoming week with our first home meet of the year this weekend, the Pronghorn Classic, taking place.
LASC H2Oh Yeah, Cash! Raffle
There is still lots of time to sell booklets for our upcoming cash raffle later this month. Each booklet contains 10 tickets at $10 a ticket. We have some significant cash prizes up for grabs with the Top 3 Prizes being $3000, $1000, and $500 respectively.
A big bonus for all the families selling the tickets, for each booklet you sell, $70 goes towards your fundraising commitment as well. And you are able to sell multiple booklets, so you can make quite a dent in that commitment with a few books.
To purchase a book, please e-transfer [email protected] and include your family name and ‘cash raffle booklet’ in the note section so we can file the money properly.
After purchasing a raffle book, you can pick them up from Gilliam Laird or Lindsay O’Brien in the pool viewing gallery at the following times:
Monday & Friday: 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Tuesday & Thursday: 5:00 - 6:00 PM
Saturday: 9:30 - 10:30 AM
There are no refunds on unsold tickets.
All tickets stubs must be returned to Gilliam or LIndsay by March 21st for the Draw on Friday, March 28th.
If you have any further questions, please reach out to Lindsay at [email protected]
We have updated our Event page to include all of the up to date information we have on meets until our Mid-Season break in April.
Pronghorn Classic (Mar 14-16th)
We are very much excited to be hosting our first meet of the year this weekend and are looking forward to watching all of the swimmers get up to race. A reminder that it is a 3 day, 4 session meet with Friday consisting of Short Course meter races and Saturday and Sunday being contested in Long Course meters.
Session timeouts are as follows:
Session 1: Friday Warm-ups @ 3:00 PM, Racing @ 3:50 - 6:30 PM
Session 2: Saturday Warm-ups @ 8:00 AM, Racing 8:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 3: Saturday Warm-ups @ 3:30 PM, Racing 4:20 - 8:00 PM
Session 4: Sunday Warm-ups @ 9:00 AM, Racing 9:50 AM - 1:30 PM
Make sure to pack snacks, fluids, towels, goggles, caps and team gear. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of warm-ups for each session unless otherwise directed by your coach. There will be short breaks during the meet on Saturday and Sunday to allow for some additional warm-up and cooldown time.
Winter Provincial Championships - Edmonton (Mar 21-23rd)
Our second Provincial Meet in March, we have 22 swimmers qualified for and ready to go for Provincial Championships in Edmonton. This is a 4 day, heats and finals meet and serves as the pinnacle of competition for age group swimming in Alberta.
Friday Night Races (Mar 28th)
Our next installment of Friday Night Races will take place on March 28th. We will be doing the LASC H2Oh Yeah Cash! Raffle draw during Friday Night Races as well.d
Bridge City Spring Classic - Saskatoon (April 10-13th)
Thank you to all those who registered for the Bridge City Spring Classic in Saskatoon. It looks like it is going to be an exciting 3 day meet with heats and finals racing at the beautiful Shaw Centre in Sunny Saskatoon. For those who signed up for Team Travel, we are still on the search for a chaperone in order to make the accommodation work. If you would be interested, please reach out as soon as possible to make sure we can make the team travel happen. We will still be attending the meet through personal travel means if we are unable to organize team travel.
Canadian Open - Edmonton (April 10-13th)
One of Swim Canada’s premier long course racing competitions, we have 6 swimmers qualified for the upcoming Canadian Open in Edmonton. The three day meet will feature the best swimmers across the country getting valuable race experience against one another as they prep for Trials and International events upcoming in the summer.
Take care and swim fast!
Josh
