WEST Weekly

Dear WEST parents, swimmers and general fans, 

What an exciting week at WEST. We are coming off some of our heaviest training and getting prepared for our November Age Group Invitational, our first hosted meet of the season!

November AG Invite 

Meet Information is available by clicking here. 

Entries have been posted to the website. Please visit the team tab and scroll down to Important Links, then click on Team Stats and Entry Info. 

Please make sure all Volunteers check-in with Pam Williamson at the meet to make sure you get credit for working!

Amended Practice Schedule This Saturday!

We would like to hold a team meeting this Saturday following Challenge and Accelerate practice, and at the start of Discover and Explore's practice. Discover and Explore will still practice at their normal time, however we are asking that all Challenge and Accelerate swimmers stay until 10am. 

Hanging Around the Pool After Practice

We've noticed more and more swimmers hanging around the deck following their practice. We would like to remind parents of the importance of eating within 30 minutes of workout so that muscles and the body can rebuild effectively. Kids go from school all day (sometimes following practice that morning) and then straight to practice and then don't end up eating for an hour or two after practice because they have been hanging around. This is not good. We need to be eating enough to handle the training that we've been doing. 

We don't mind the kids hanging out on deck as long as they meet the following conditions: They are respectful of the other groups practicing, show respect for the facility and staff and have something healthy to eat immediately following practice (snacks behind the counter, especially cookies, are not suitable). 

Billing

As we move to Team Unify for all our team billing, we've lost the ability to email everyone through Pro-School and were not able to email out statements for the November Billing. We did run the billing, and charged everyone's credit cards that we have on file (as normally done) however we will be mailing hard-copies of your account statements. Next month, everything will be done through Team Unify and we will need to make sure everyone is set up, so please let us know via email if you are having trouble.

Burn the Turkey

The WEST Masters Team will be holding its annual "Burn the Turkey" practice on Friday following Thanksgiving. The practice will run from 9am until 11am and will be more than enough yards and intensity to burn off all those calories everyone consumes on Turkey-Day. We welcome everyone to join us and hope to make this as memorable an event as ever. Please email Trish if you have any questions.

Girls High School State Championships are this weekend and WEST has several swimmers competing. We want to wish them all luck! Let's also make sure we are bringing warm clothes for after practice, there are tons of germs going around and many people getting sick. Let's make sure we stay healthy going into the next month of swim meets!

Happy Swimming.

nick, sam and jordyn