TIGERSHARKS NEWS - WEEK ENDING MARCH 15, 2025

(COACH) Jim Stretch

Announcements and Reminders:​​

  • TWILIGHT MEET WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 AT CARSON POOL
  • TRAINING CHANGES + CALENDAR
  • NEW COACH ON STAFF - COLE BENNETT
  • FEBRUARY CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS RECAP
  • NNA MEET THIS WEEKEND - NO PRACTICES SATURDAY 3/15
  • VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - TOUCHPAD REPAIRS
  • OFFICIALS NEEDED
  • ZONE ALL-STAR MEET APPLICATIONS CLOSE SUNDAY 3/16

WEDNESDAY MARCH-12 - Wednesday this week brings a special event and some calendar changes. At 4:30pm warmups will begin for our Winter Twilight meet. This Twilight Meet is THE practice on March 12 for all groups except Senior i & II, Senior I&II who will be released at 4:30 on Wednesday. Our WINTER TWILIGHT MEET check in is from 4:00-4:30pm, warmups will be 4:30pm -5:00pm, Pre-meet announcements will be made at 5:05pm and we hope to begin the meet at 5:15pm. There will NO REGULAR PRACTICES FOR Bronze, Silver and Gold on March 12th and athletes in these groups are encouraged to participate in the Twilight Meet.

TWILIGHT MEET ENTRIES -  Silver and Gold Groups there will be no regular practice this Wednesday. If your athlete is in Bronze, Gold or Silver please plan to swim in Wednesday's meet. Please try to make your athlete's TWILIGHT MEET entries at the meet's EVENT PAGE on our site before 12pm on Wednesday March 12th.

MARCH TRAINING CALENDAR IS POSTED - Our MARCH 2025 Training Calendar has been posted to our team website. Access it HERE.

COLE BENNETT JOINS TIGERSHARKS COACHING STAFF - Cole Bennett has joined the Tigersharks coaching staff as the primary coach of the Gold Group. Cole will also be helping the team out by coaching other groups when needed. Cole grew up here in Carson City and graduated from Carson High. He was Northern Region NIAA HS Champion in the 50 Free and 100 Free in 2023, He also took second and third respectively in these events in the 2023 NIAA State High School Championship meet. Cole has excellent swimming knowledge and has studied stroke technique and trainin. Cole has particularly extensive knowledge with sprint training. Cole has proven ability to compete at a high level while balancing training, academics and personal growth. Cole still competes in higher level USA Swimming meets as well as in masters competitions.

FEBRUARY 2025 CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS RECAP  - Our Tigersharks attended two Championship meets in February. Over Presidents Day weekend thirteen of our athletes attended the Central California Swimming LSC's Age Group Champioship meet. This is a qualfying meet where participating athletes needed to achieve a qualifying time. The meet was also a Preliminary-Finals meet where athletes had to earn a swim in finals by placing highly enough in preliminaries. Every Tigershark that participated in the CCS Age Group Championship meet made it into finals swim(s)! Additionally Larkin Russell and Samson Massie made so many finals that they each won High Point Awards in the 15-18 age groups. - - Two Weekends later Leif Morway and Hannah Ingram competed in USA Swimming's Speedo Sectional Championships in Roseville CA. Both Leif and Hannah made finals at this tough, high level meet and both athletes came home with at least one new personal best time.

NNA MEET THIS WEEKEND, NO PRACTICES SATURDAY 3/15 - We have seventeen (17) Tigersharks signed up to compete in the USA Swimming Sanctioned, Pacific Swimming Zone 4 Meet hosted by NNA at Northwest Pool this weekend. Due to our team being at this meet we will not hold practices on Saturday March 15. Meet Participants will be emailed about arrival/warm up times later this week.

OUR MEET TOUCHPAD EQUIPMENT NEEDS REPAIR - Seeking Volunteers to help us apply adhesive and propoerly cure our timing equipment's touchpads which are starting to have their coveres delaminate. This is a project we hope to move along in pieces over the next two months so that the touchpads are all ready to go for our Tigersharks hosted Long Course Intermountain Classic meet on May

OFFICIALS NEEDED - Zone 4 now requires teams participaiting in Z4 meets to provide minimum number of officials based on a team's enrollment in a meet/session. If the team does not meet these requirements its athletes will swim exhibition (for time only and not for place/award). Several of our officials are parents of older athletes. Our team needs to fill the pipeline with new officials to take over after our current official's children graduate HS and move on. Please talk to Coach Jim or see the Pacific Swimming website for information on how to be come an official.

ZONE ALL STAR MEET APPLICATIONS - Are due no later than this Sunday March 16th and will be accepted at the NNA Meet this weekend. All age groups in Z4 are lacking applicants except for 11-12 Girls and 13-14 Girls.

Questions, issues, etc?  Please email Coach Jim or Team Manager Becki.

RULES QUESTION: Want to learn about the rules?  See pp. 19-24 of the  2025 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

Help for parents/swimmers on fastswims.com can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/fastswimsv2/support/parents-swimmers?authuser=1

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 2024-28 via THIS LINK.

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