TIGERSHARKS NEWS - WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Announcements and Reminders:​

• BLIZZARD BLAST - RECAP
• FEBRUARY TRAINING CALENDAR
• AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET FEB 16-19 - ENTRIES DUE 11:59PM WED 1/31/24
• DOUGLAS/MINDEN MEET FEB 9-11 - ENTRIES CLOSE 11:59PM WED 1/31/24
• TIGERSHARKS ATHLETES SELECTED FOR PACIFIC SWIMMING ZONE ALL-STARS

News:

Our PRACTICE focus of the week is:  INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY'S "IM's"

BLIZZARD BLAST RECAP - Back on January 12-14 Carson Tigersharks hosted our annual Blizzard Blast swim meet. The meet was a solid success all around and we owe huge thanks to our meet Director Becki Boehnke for organizing and coordinating the meet. It took a village! We thank our parent and family volunteers who helped staff so may jobs in order to make OUR meet run smoothly and successfully.Carson athletes performed well and the meet was a success by all measures. Results from the meet can be found online HERE.

UPCOMING TRAINING CALENDAR -  Our February training calendar is now posted HERE. There will be no training on Feb. 9, 10 (DDST meet), or 19th (President's Day)

CENTRAL CA AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET FEB 16-19 - This meet, formerly known as "Junior Olympics" is an LSC Championship meet. Tigersharks athletes with qualifying times are encouraged to attend this Trials and Finals meet being held in Clovis CA on President's Day weekend. Entries are due on our team website by 11:59pm on 1/30/24. CLICK HERE to see the event page on our team site for all the nitty gritty details and to declare your events for entry.

DOUGLAS DOLFINS MEET FEB 9-11- We'd like to see all Tigersharks athletes compete in a meet during February. If you are not going to the Championship meet in Clovis CA Feb. 16-19 then we hope to see you at the Douglas Dolfins meet. Entries close on Wednesday 1/31 at 11:59pm CLICK HERE to enter now.

PACIFIC SWIMMING ZONE ALL-STARS -  The 2024 Zone 4 Team has been selected for the Pacific Swimming Zone All Star Meet to be held in Carson City on March 3rd. Congratulations to Abraham Zoghra, Chloe Dowd, Hannah Ingram, Derick Hensley, Oliver Raker and Adam Zoghra for their selection to the Z4 team and who will combine with athletes from other Zone 4 clubs to form our select team for this meet versus Zone All Star teams from the other four zones of Pacific Swimming.

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