MM Weekly Announcements for Week of 05/25-05/31

John VanDriessche

Good morning Marlin Families!

Practice Schedule

Penn High School

Splash 1 & 2: Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-7:15

Splash 3: Tuesday, Wednesday 6:00-7:15 & Thursday 5:30-7:30

Splash 4: Tuesday 5:30-7:30 (with Fins), Wednesday 6:00-7:30, & Thursday 5:30-7:30

Fins Flex: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 5:30-7:30

Fins Compete: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 5:30-7:30

Elite AM: Wednesday, & Friday 6:00-7:30

Elite PM: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 3:45-6:00

New Prairie High School

Splash: Tuesday & Wednesday 5:00-6:15 CST

Fins: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 5:00-7:00 CST

Elite: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 5:00-7:15 CST

Knollwood CC

Splash 1

Wednesday 3:30-4:30 or 4:30-5:30 or 5:30-6:30

Tuesday & Thursday 4:00-5:00 or 5:30-6:30

Splash 2

Wednesday 3:30-4:30 or 4:30-5:30 or 5:30-6:45

Tuesday & Thursday 4:00-5:15

Splash 3

Wednesday 5:30-6:45 & Saturday 7:30-8:45

Practice Notes:

No practice at any site on Monday due to Memorial Day.

No evening practice at Penn on Friday or Knollwood on Saturday due to CON BW3 Invite.

New Prairie families continue to use door N18 to enter the building. If you arrive at Penn and the gallery door is locked, please feel free to get my attention on deck to let me know.

Fins athletes that attended morning workouts during the winter season are welcome to attend Elite’s morning practices this month.

If a swimmer is swimming Friday night of the CON BW3 meet they are not required to be at morning practice on Friday.

Here is the link to this week’s Fins and Elite practice plans.

CON BW3 Blazin Invite/Elkhart Aquatic Center/May 30-June 1

Here is our entry as of 05/20. I will be the coach on deck for all sessions. If you are running late or will be unable to make it please send me a text (574-276-6057).

The meet format is as follows: All Friday events will be timed finals. All 10 & under events will also be timed finals events. The 400 Free, and 400 IM events will be timed finals. All other Saturday and Sunday individual events for 11-12, 13-14 and 15 & over age groups will be conducted in a prelim-final format.

The fastest 10 seed times of the 400 Free and the 400 IM will swim in the finals session. All other heats will be swum fastest to slowest at the end of their prelim session (e.g. for the 400 Free: the 2nd fastest heats of event 9, 10, 11, 12, then 3rd fastest heats of event 9, 10, 11, 12; e.g. for the 400 IM: the 2nd fastest heats of events 53, 54, 55, 56, then 3rd fastest heats of events 53, 54, 55, 56).

The fastest 20 competitors in each 11-12 and 13-14 event will qualify for the evening finals (A & B finals). The fastest 30 competitors in each Open event will qualify for the evening finals (A, B, & C finals).

Here are the pertinent times for this coming weekend’s meet.

Friday (events #1-#8)

Deck access 4:00 – our athletes should be on deck by 4:15

Warm-ups 4:30-5:20

Meet Starts 5:30

Session Ends 7:45

Saturday and Sunday AM (prelims 13 and over)

Deck access 7:00 – our athletes should be on deck by 7:15

Warm-ups 7:30-8:20

Meet Starts 8:30

Session Ends 11:15 Sat/10:45 Sun

Saturday Midday (12 & under)

Deck access 11:15 – our athletes should be on deck by 11:15

Warm-ups 11:30–12:10

Meet Starts 12:20

Session Ends 2:30

Sunday Midday (12 & under)

Deck access 10:45 – our athletes should be on deck by 10:45

Warm-ups 11:00-11:50

Meet Starts 12:00

Session Ends 2:30

Saturday and Sunday Finals (11 and over)

Deck access 3:15 – our athletes should be on deck by 3:30

Warm-ups 3:30-4:20

Meet Starts 4:30

Sessions end 7:30

USA Swimming Futures Championships/Madison WI/July 23-26

If your swimmer is planning on attending this meet please commit them ASAP. We are planning on making this a team travel trip. The sooner we know the numbers for the trip the sooner we can put concrete plans into place. If your athlete has not yet made cuts but is close please commit them to the meet.

Team Outing/4 Winds Field/Friday June 20

Our engagement committee has planned a team trip to watch the South Bend Cubs vs. Lake County Captains. The deadline for us to give our numbers attending is Thursday so we will need to know by Wednesday May 28 is you would like to attend

$15 per person includes a ticket to the game and a SB Cubs hat! There will be a fireworks show after the game.

Optional add ons include:

$5 Fun Zone Wristband (for children ages 3-10, $7 on gameday)

$7 Meal Voucher (Hot Dog, Chips, Soda, $13 at concessions)

When committing, please enter in the notes how many tickets ($15) and also how many optional Fun Zone wristbands ($5) and Meal Vouchers ($7) you would like.

New Programing

Both of our new programs are underway. I would appreciate any feedback you’d like to share. As we navigate our way through this learning curve for both athletes and coaches it would be helpful if you were to share your thoughts.

As of this morning 76 of our athletes signed up for GoSwim. For us to get everything we can out of this program we need all of our athletes to sign up.

Here is the link to register your athlete.

NASA Summer Invitational

We received word NASA was moving their meet to Elkhart Aquatics. This meet was put on our schedule specifically for our newer and less accomplished swimmers. The move to long course meters means this meet no longer serves the purpose I originally scheduled it. It was also 3 weekends in a row for our staff so I have decided to remove this meet from our schedule.

Summer Practice Schedule

This is our tentative plan for all locations:

Practices at Knollwood will continue to be the same structure as they are now.

Practices at New Prairie will be moving to the morning starting June 2. Coach Ashley and I have made this decision in an attempt to increase the small turnouts we have had over the last several seasons.

Penn Groups our plan will look something like this:

Splash Groups 1, 2, 3:

We will follow the same format we are currently.

Splash 4

This group will practice with the Fins on Tuesday at Elkhart. The rest of their schedule will remain as it is.

Fins Group

We will follow a very similar evening practice schedule we are on currently.

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 5:30-7:30 and Friday 5:00-6:30 at Penn

Tuesday at Elkhart Aquatics 3:45-6:00

We will also allow Fins athletes to attend some of the Elite group’s morning practices based on their age and accomplishment level. The morning practices are not meant to be a replacement to the evening practices. If an athlete has at least 3 Divisional Cuts in their age group they may attend this many morning practices at Penn. We consider a swimmer’s age to be how old they will be at their championship meet.

11 year olds 1 morning practice

12 year olds 2 morning practices

13 year olds 3 morning practices

14 year olds 4 morning practices

If an athlete has one Age Group State Cut in their age group they will be allowed to attend the long course practice at Notre Dame on Fridays. No athlete will be allowed to exceed the number of practices listed for their age. If an 11 year old has state cuts they are allowed to attend one morning workout each week. They can choose to attend the practice at Notre Dame or one at Penn.

Elite

Monday - Thursday 6:00-8:00 AM at Penn (8:15-9:00 weights*)

Friday 9:00-11:00 AM at Notre Dame

Monday 3:45-6:00 at Elkhart Aquatics

Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 5:00-6:30

*more details coming on our weights program

USA Memberships

We will need all of our athletes that have not done so already, to renew their USA Swimming memberships. Here is the link.

If you qualify for the Outreach Program email me and I will send you the link you will need to use for registrations.

If you have any questions about any registration issues you can reach out to me or our team/business manager Kelly Laneman ([email protected])

Spring and Summer Meet Schedule/Dates of Meet/Location/Deadline to commit

This is our tentative meet schedule for the spring and summer. We may add meets if we find ones that fit our club’s needs or delete meets if there is not enough interest from our members. There will be two different dates listed with each meet The first date listed is the day(s) of the meet and the second date is the deadline to commit.

Swimmers wanting to compete will need to commit to those meets. The deadlines will be based on deadlines that were set in previous years. They may change once the meet hosts posts the meet information. When committing to multiple day meets, if the option to select the days you want is not available, leave a message in the notes section stating the specific days you would like to attend.

Some meets will be marked with an * and those will require swimmers to meet minimum time standards. You can view all pool locations on our website under the "Pools" tab.

NASA Off The Block Invitational/Northridge High School/May 3/Our Results

Dual Meet Vs. Concord Swim Club/Concord High School/May 9/Our Results

VSC Spring Classic/Valparaiso High School/May 16-18/Our Results

CON Buffalo Wild Wings Blazin Invite/Elkhart Aquatics/May 30-June 1/Our Entry

ELK Summer Bash Invitational/Elkhart Aquatics/June 13-15/Our Entry Coming Soon

DUNE Splash Spectacular/Hobart High School/June 27-29/June 8

GSI Last Chance Luau/Goshen Aquatic Center/July 11-12/June 8

*IN Swimming Senior State/IU Natatorium-Indy/July 17-20/June 29

*USA Swimming Futures/Madison, WI/July 23-26/June 29

*IN Swimming Age Group State/IU Natatorium-Indy/July 25-27/June 29

*USA Swimming Junior Nationals/Irvine, CA/July 30-August 3/TBD

*IN Swimming Divisional Championships/Valparaiso High School/August 1-3/July 13