Daves Notes
Swim-O-Rama
First I listed 2 dates originally. The Swim-O-Rama will be swum on Sept 18th. (Make up day on the 22nd during practice).
Location: Kroc pool
Time: SR and SD 4:15 - 5:45, JR AG and Novice 5:30 - 7:00 (actual swim time is 1 hr)
The Swim-O-Rama is our annual swimming fundraiser. Swimmers swim lengths of the pool and solicit donations for their effort. Swimmers will have 60 minutes to swim as many lengths as possible (200 max. ).
Families with one swimmer are required to raise a minimum of $200. Families with 2 or more swimmers are required to raise a minimum $300. If you just joined the team after June 15th, you are exempt from the requirement, however we would greatly appreciate your participation.
We have prizes that can be earned by just swimming , as well as prizes for bringing in certain amounts, as well as 3 top prizes for the top $ earners.
All money and donations are due by Sept 30th. Money turned in after this date will not count toward prizes. Prizes will be awarded on 10-6 at practice.
Letter to seek donations from friends and familiy
Freestyle Festival
The deadline to register is Tuesday 9/9.
The Freestyle Festival is the first meet of the Seaason. Until this week we didn't know whether our team was designated to swim on Saturday or Sunday. It's official - CAST swims on Sunday Sept 21st.
We would like all CAST swimmers to compete! But you must register.
It is only freestyle events, so everyone (even new swimmers) should enter. To enter, click on the commit button for the meet under the events section at the bottom of the CAST home page (or click here). - Make sure you are logged in and click edit commitment, go to the next page, select swimmers you want to commit, and make any notes you want to add. The coaches will select the events for the swimmers.
Events offered: 25 Free (8&U's only); 50 Free; 100 Free; 200 Free and 500 Free. Most newer swimmers will not swim the 200 or 500.
USA Swimming Registration
For those of you who are new to the team. Please take care of your USA swimming registration.
Click Here for a step-by-step page
USA Swimming Safe Sport Team Designation
IMPORTANT: We are in need to renew our team's Safe-Sport designation with USA swimming. The final step is to get 5 more families to take the safe sport class for parents. The online class takes about 45 minutes.
I am asking that the parents please take the time to take the following online course as this is the last step in getting our Safe-Sport clearance.
Thank you in advance.
https://university.usaswimming.org/landing then click on the Parents/volunteers tab, and then click the SSRP button, then click on the parents guide to misconduct in sport and start the class.
---See you at the pool----
Coach Dave
