TIGERSHARKS NEWS - WEEK ENDING 12/27/2025

(COACH) Jim Stretch

 

Announcements and Reminders:​​

  • OUR C.A.F. POOL RE-OPENS MONDAY 12/29
  • TRAINING RESUMES -MORNING PRACTICES THIS WEEK
  • NEXT MEET - JAN 16-18TH - CARSON HOSTED BLIZZARD BLAST
  • OUR BLIZZARD BLAST MEET - CALL FOR ALL TO PARTICIPATE
  • SIGNUP ONLINE TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR MEET 
  • DDST VALENTINES MEET NOW OPEN
  • SEEKING COMMITMENTS FOR UPCOMING CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS

CARSON AQUATIC FACILITY REOPENS MONDAY 12/29 - The Carson Aquatic Facility ("CAF") will reopen on schedule. Regrettably we've learned there will be another project at our pool in the coming months. We will update you about that when we know more. For now we are happy to be back in our home pool!

TRAINING AT CAF RESUMES - Our December 2025 Training Calendar is posted on our team website HERE. This week we have practices scheduled every day except Sunday! Practices week of December 29 - January 3 will be in the mornings with Sr starting at 7am and all other groups starting at 7:30am (except for January 1 when practices will be 9:30 Sr./Gold or 10:00am Silver/Bronze). We will return to our regular afternoon schedule on January 5th.

OUR NEXT USA MEET, JAN. 16TH IS CARSON HOSTED   - We need you and your athletes for our Tigersharks hosted Blizzard Blast swim meet January 16 through 18th, 2026. This meet is one of our team's key fundraisers and helps support Tigersharks operations.
 
ALL HANDS NEEDED - We need our athletes to swim and our parents to volunteer in a variety of roles to help the meet run smoothly and successfully. We strongly encourage 100% particiapation from all athletes and families. Please signup to volunteer - details and links are below.

SIGNUP ONLINE NOW TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR MEET - Our Blizzard Blast Job signup sheet is now online. It's easy to signup when signed in via the app or when signed on to our team website. Use the following links for help/instructions: desktop/laptop; or mobile app

DDST VALENTINES MEET - This meet February 6th through 8th is now open for entries on FastSwims.com.  Entries close Wednesday January 28th.

SEEKING COMMITMENTS FOR UPCOMING CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS - "BB" and faster age group athletes and Senior athletes are asked to declare their intent to participate in upcoming championship meets: CCS Age Group Championships (Fresno), Rosevile,CA SCY Sectionals and Western Zone Sr. Championships, Mesa AZ. We need to know interest levels in these meets to confirm there is enough interest for the club to send coach(es). Please declare online at each meet's EVENT PAGE.
 
General Questions, issues, etc?  Please email Coach Jim.

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Helpful Links:

Want to get more from our SportsEngine Motion software?  Try the 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 USA 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

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.