Weekly BGHS Swim/Dive Update - March 27, 2023

Coach Michael Kinross
This past Saturday, the Gaels took on Faith Lutheran High School in the first "Dual" meet of the season. The Gaels did an awesome job getting up and racing the Crusaders in a very close meet for both the Men & Women's teams. When the dust settled, the men beat Faith Lutheran 148-128. Our girls ended up falling short to the defending 4A State Champions by a similar margin, 135-150. Full results can be found here and are uploaded to the team database,
 
The coaches can't wait to see our teammates continue to challenge themselves in practices and swim new events each week. This coming week's meet against a very strong Arbor View team should be a great meet.
 
Upcoming Meet Commitment Deadline: Week 3 vs Faith Lutheran
If you haven't already, please log into your TU account and commit to our next meet vs Faith Lutheran. This is the first "regular" meet of the season. The sign up deadline was YESTERDAY! We will verify with the kids today at practice or via text. If you missed the deadline, please email me TODAY and we will get you signed up. While you are logged in, go through the rest of the season and commit to the remaining meets. You can always change your commitment if something comes up.
 
Arrival times, line-ups, relays, etc will all be published at the end of the week.
 
Reminder all student athletes must compete at over half of our meets to receive a Varsity Letter.
 
Commit to each meet via TU by:
  1. Log in to the TU site
  2. Go to the Meets tab
  3. Click the red "EDIT COMMITMENT" button for the meet you are RSVPing for
  4. Click on the name of the member you are RSVPing for
  5. Declare "yes" or "no" that you can attend the meet
    • If you have a special circumstance where you might be late, need to leave early, or anything else the coaches need to know, = elaborate accordingly in the notes field
  6. Click "Save changes"
 
Meet Results & Times Database
A huge benefit of using TeamUnify as our team website is the times database feature. All meet results will be uploaded to this website following our meets so you can track your times and improvements. Yesterday's meet is already uploaded. The coaches have added a meet called "2023 Season Practice Times" where we are adding all times that we record in practice. If you were at the practices where we did time trials, your results will be upload throughout the season. We will do the same for splits taken at the meets. If you were on the team in the past, you can access your old times as well.
 
To access your results:
  • Log into your account
  • In the toolbar on the left side of the screen, go to "My Account"
  • "My Meet Results"
  • This will bring you to a menu with a variety of ways to see your swims