As a registered member of USA Swimming, you are given access to the powerful and extremely helpful Personal Nutrition Tracking System. Take the time to help give your swimmer the benefit of great nutrition!   This Personal Nutrition Tracking System is designed to provide you with an opportunity to have your diet evaluated for energy and nutrient content. Use it to: Look up a single food item to see what's in it. Enter an entire day's food intake to see how much carbohydrate, protein, fat and calories you consumed. Compare what...

Hello Waves Families, We are rolling right along! I know that the coaching staff is having a blast so far this season, and we hope that all of you are having as much fun as we are. Please let us know if you have any questions or anything to discuss with the coaching staff. Here are the upcoming events: -Kroc  Meet  Are you ready for the first meet of the season?!?  Check your entries and show up October 2 -4 at the brand new Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene for a fun weekend...

This was e-mailed to all roster groups, but if you didn't see it - here it is again.  Any questions, please let Teri know, thanks. Hotel Block for Trick or Treat We have a block of 20 rooms set aside for WAVES at the University Best Western Inn in Moscow for the Trick or Treat Meet October 23-25.  Please call 800-325-8765 and mention Spokane Waves Aquatic Team to reserve your room.  Rate is $89.99 per night with complimentary continental breakfast.  The hotel is very convient to the pool, directly across...

  Hello Waves Families,                                                                                                      After getting to talk and hang out with a few Olympic coaches last week, Both Keddy and I are very excited to get back to the business of coaching the team. We learned a lot of great ideas and theories from some of the best coaching minds in the world. Inspired and excited, we’re ready to do our best to bring out the potential in all our swimmers. For those new to reading the Coaches notes, I try to bullet point the interesting and important information. Take the time to...

 Message Body       Hello Waves Families,                                                                                                    Coaches Note 9-8-09 Hello from Florida! Kevin Eddy and I are at the ASCA World Clinic, learning from the best minds in coaching from around the world. Already It has been a great experience, with many Idea’s that will change the way we both approach coaching. Here are a few of the major upcoming events, please take the time to read through them.   -Kroc Meet “Fall Frenzy” October 2-4th (Entries will be due Monday September 14th.) The Kroc Meet sign-up will be ready the...

  Hello Waves Families,                                                                                      Here we are again at the start of a new year! While we have a lot of familiar faces around, there a few new ways of doing things. Please take the time to look through these changes, and get ready for an awesome new season.   -Welcome Back I wanted to thank you all for coming back for this next year. It has been a great pleasure and honor to work with you guys to build this team up and provide a great experience for the families. Please feel...

Hello Waves Families Lots of good stuff to read, then back to the break! Enjoy!!! -Western Zone Championship Meet Our Waves swimmers swimming on the IES Zones Team did fantastic and had an incredible experience in Hawaii. Overall, the team got 5th place--one the highest finishes of all time! Everyone of our athletes on the team thoroughly enjoyed the experience and swam very, very well!!! Congratulations to Faith Barr, Mitchell Beck, Melissa Kirby, Maddy Lydig, Carlie McGregor, Taylor McGregor, Amanda Merrick, Kyle O’Malley, Megan Schuh, Matt Stapleton, and Regan Steinert on a job well...

Hello Waves Families!  Hope you are enjoying your break.  There are a few announcements that I wanted to get out to you all this week. -First Practice: August 31 Please make sure that you have gone to our website, clicked on the "Attend this Event" button, and have signed up. The primary reason for doing this is to familiarize yourselves with how we will do meet signups this year; plus it doesn’t hurt to play around on the website. Make sure that you log in to your account.  Instructions are found on the...

There has been a lot in the news the past 2 years or so about swim suits and the sport of swimming.  While I do not think some of the controversy has had an impact on our club, it is important for us to all understand what the leaders of our sport are doing to protect the sport, it’s athletes, and it’s coaches.  Below is a great article, written by John Leonard, a very respected coach who is an incredible leader in our sport.   Enjoy!    For Swim Parents; “The Big Deal About SwimSuits” by John...

Hello Waves Families,                                                              Coaches Note 7-28-09   This will be one of the last (if not the last) Coaches Notes for the summer.  However, there will be a lot of information coming at you over the next month or so.  Please check the new website often (www.spokanewaves.org) and pay attention to any email you receive from the team.  If you have not logged on to the site, please make sure you do so—we will use the website to register for events next year (including swim meets!), so it is ABSOLUTELY...