WEST Weekly

Dear Swim Fans,

Well here it is: our last week of the short course season. Age Group Regionals are this week and we will take our spring break next week.

Age Group Regionals Meet Info

Please be aware that we have lane timing assignments by session. Here is the link showing when WEST is required to help out: https://www.teamunify.com/pnswca/__doc__/2012%20NWAG%20Lane%20Timer%20Sheets.pdf

Here is the Meet Timeline (keep in mind these times are estimates): https://www.teamunify.com/pnswca/__doc__/2012nwag_FINAL_Timeline.pdf

Here is the Meet Psych Sheet: https://www.teamunify.com/pnswca/__doc__/2012nwag_FINAL_MM_Psych_Sheet_3col.pdf

We also have several relay only swimmers (Michelle Asmar, Caroline Kowalchuk, Yenni Phong and Ashley Sawyer): talk to your coaches to make sure you know which relays you are on and when you need to be there.

Practice Schedule: Now through Break

We will run normal afternoon practices through Thursday of this week. Jordyn will run an optional practice for all Challenge and Accelerate swimmers from 3:30-5:30pm and optional practice for Explore and Discover from 6-7pm. Friday will be our last practice before break, THERE WILL BE NO PRACTICE SATURDAY FOR ANY GROUPS.

During break we will run optional workouts on Monday through Wednesday of next week. Anyone, from any training group is encouraged to come from 4-5:30pm. We will hold an intensive dryland for anyone in challenge or accelerate from 3:15-4pm. We will return to normal practices on Wednesday April 11th.

Swim-A-Thon

Everyone has homework for now until over break: help solicit donations for the Swim-A-Thon. There are several ways and tools to take advantage of to help meet your minimum fundraising amount. Our website has an online section that will automatically email blast some or all of your contacts and we have form letters that can be filled out and mailed. Please let us now if you have any questions or need assistance. Here are the dates for all our different Swim-A-Thons this year (which we are happy to get more groups involved!).

Accelerate & Challenge: April 14th 6-8am
Discover & Explore: April 14th 10am-12pm
Masters: April 13th 9-11am
Water Aerobics: April 6th 7:30-9:30am

Long Course Meet Schedule and Declaration Forms

Please make sure you hand in a new Meet Declaration form otherwise you WILL NOT get entered into meets this summer. They can be found at this link: https://www.teamunify.com/pnswca/__doc__/Meet%20Declaration%20-%20LC%202012.pdf

Montana List

Here is the list of people we currently have listed to attend the travel meet to Montana:

Hannah Peseau
Matt Williamson
Mariah Williamson
Bradley Zhou
Maddie Presler
Conner McGinnis
Clara Cannon
Lauren Cooley
Michelle Asmar
Whitney Bennett

We have not yet received any deposits yet, but will start billing accounts. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you would like to attend or not so we can finalize the financials.

Can't wait for the weekend to see how fast everyone swims!

Go WEST

Nick, Sam, Jordyn and Rachel