Week 2 Team Updates

Galen Ziegler

Hello Team!

Week 2 has come to a close, and I hope everyone had a good first meet!

Important Updates

Morning Practice Schedule Change

I am excited to share that we will be moving all Wednesday morning practices to Tuesday morning! This aligns much better with our weekly schedule, obviously. I have updated the calendars and attached them here(June & July). They are also posted to the website if you want a fresh copy.  

Meet Commitments

Make sure you get these RSVPs in there. If you have specific scheduling limitations that day, put a note when you commit. Sometimes people have to leave the meet a little early. Most of the time, that is no issue at all and is easy to accommodate. I just ask that you do your best to let me know those things ahead of time to limit the changes I have to make on the deck at the meet.

Attachments

You will see the following attachments each week and I have included some important information on each as everyone learns the process.

Results

The meet results contain all the details that you may have seen posted on the wall in paper form or accessed within the Meet Mobile app. This is a good place to see the times and/or why your swimmer was DQ’d. Feel free to email me if you have questions or concerns about results following the meets. All of these times will get stored within their profile on the GoMotion website. So, if you want to see historical times and compare throughout the season, that is the best place to go.

Top Times

The top times include every swim from the entire league. As we move through the season, more swimmers will compete in more events and start dropping time. So, this report can change quite a bit since it only has data from one meet. But, it is still fun to see how your swimmer lines up thus far. You can also see if your swimmer hit the Sunday Championship Cut on this report as well.

Sunday Cuts

This year, qualification for Sunday Championships will be based on the list of times attached. This will serve as a great goal-setting tool for many of our athletes. It also helps you guys plan which day your swimmer will be competing. Keep in mind that these times are based on 2024 season data from the top times report and championship results. The intention is not to make qualifying for Sunday any easier or harder.

I want to make one thing clear up front. This is not designed to allow you to pick one day or the other. All swimmers are still expected to swim their maximum number of events(3 individuals and 1 relay). This is still a team event and we should be bringing every swimmer in every event that we possibly can!

Congrats to everyone who has hit the qualfiying time already!

 

Looking ahead at week 3!

Practice

  • The practice schedule is the same.
    • Sunday at HCC.
    • No morning practices yet.
    • No first group practice on Tuesday.
  • We will start working on some new things this week and try to get swimmers in events outside of Free and Back. We have been doing amazing with practice attendance thus far. Do your best to keep that up through the last week of school that tends to get a little crazy!

Meets

Meets against Joppa(Wed) and Aberdeen(Sat) are coming this week.

  • This is the first season in multiple years that Joppa is hosting meets. So, please be prepared to show some grace and patience as we help them get a system in their facility. I consider us lucky to not have to host, so I appreciate those who do that work for us.
  • These are both out-of-division meets again. So, our next goal will be to get as many legal times as possible for everyone so we will have plenty of options and good seeding going into our in-division competitions.

 

Thanks,

Coach Galen

 

p.s. Make sure you are emailing [email protected] or just replying to a team email if you are trying to reach me. [email protected] has not been working properly!