TIGERSHARKS NEWS - WEEK ENDING JANUARY 13, 2024

(COACH) Jim Stretch

 

Announcements and Reminders:​

  • THIS WEEKEND - BLIZZARD BLAST COMPETITION DETAILS
  • THIS WEEKEND- BLIZZARD BLAST ALL HANDS NEEDED
  • NO TRAINING ON JANUARY 12,13,15
  • PACIFIC SWIMMING ALL-STARS APPLICATIONS

News:

Our PRACTICE focus of the week is:  Backstroke starts, swims and turns

BLIZZARD BLAST THIS WEEKEND, COMPETITION DETAILS - Carson Tigersharks is hosting this weekend's meet at our pool. Athletes should arrive at 3:45pm on Friday and be prepared to be in the water by 4pm for warmup. NEW FOR THIS MEET: Saturday and Sunday 12/under athletes will compete in the MORNING sessions and 13/overs will be in the AFTERNOON sessions. Morning session athletes (12/unders) should arrive at the pool by 8am and be prepared to be in the water by 8:15am for warmup. Afternoon session athletes (13/overs) should arrive at the pool by 11:45am and be prepared to be in the water by 12:00pm for warmup. Please refer to the EVENT PAGE on our team website for more details including meet sheet and estimated timelines.

BLIZZARD BLAST THIS WEEKENDS, ALL HANDS NEEDED - As hosts of this weekend's Blizzard Blast swim meet our Carson Tigersharks will be responsible to staff virtually all of the jobs and duties of running the meet. Thank you to the many who have signed up and who have already helped us prepare. We will need all hands this weekend and ask families who did not sign up to be prepared to lend a hand at the meet, and at a minimum to act as lane timer while your child is competing.

TRAINING SCHEDULE CHANGES -  There will be no training this Friuday Jan 12 or Saturday Jan 13th due to the Blizzard Blast swim meet. Also, there will be no training on Monday Jan 14th due to the MLK Holiday. Please be sure to consult the TRAINING CALENDAR on our website at any time to see when we will be taking days off, or when there will be practice time changes (or doubles offered).

PACIFIC SWIMMING ALL-STARS APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE -  Each year Pacific Swimming runs a 14/under Zone All Star Meet ("ZAM"). Each Zone selects an All-Star team from it's pool of applicants for this meet. The meet offers a "select" team experince where athletes from different clubs come together for a special select team. The ZAM meet location rotates annually throughout the zones. Each year athletes aged 9+ from all zone teams travel, lodge and eat together as a team. Athletes aged nine years and older who are selected will meet and join the select team on Saturday March 2nd 2024 and will attend the ZAM banquet and stay in a hotel with all of the other ZAM teams. Athletes aged 8/under are invited to the banquet but do not travel/lodge with the team and instead are chaperoned by their parents. In 2024 the ZAM will be hosted by Zone 4 (our zone) and will be held in Carson City on Sunday March 3rd. Athlete and Chaperone applications are available online HERE and are due January 21st.. If you need more information please ask your coach.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR - Our  team calendar is available online at all times.

Questions, issues, etc?  Please email Coach Julie or Coach Jim

RULES QUESTION: Want to learn about the rules?  See pp. 19-24 of the  2023 USA Swimming mini-rulebook PDF  for the rules of each of the four competitive strokes as well as the multiple stroke individual medley events.  That's right, ALL the stroke, starts and turn rules of ALL official races in just six pages.

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Helpful Links:

Want to get more from our TeamUnify software?  Try the ON DECK PARENT app it's free and available on the App Store or Google Play.

A good, six-minute, YouTube video for athletes about attending your first swim meet

The online meet entry tutorial for ome.swimconnection.com can be found at:  https://sites.google.com/site/omehelp/how-to-for-parents-and-swimmers

Learn more about our LSC Pacific Swimming at: http://pacswim.org

View the new Pacific Swimming TIME STANDARDS for 2021-24 via THIS LINK.

Learn more about USA Swimming, the national governing body of the sport of swimming: http://usaswimming.org