WCSC Newsletter Week of 6/29
Walnut Creek Swim Club Weekly Update
Week of 6/29
In This Newsletter:
- Job Reminders: Please double-check that you’ve signed up and completed your required season jobs. Open shifts and subs are available.
- Thank You: A huge thank you to all of our All City volunteers! If you hired a sub, please be sure to thank them again.
- Photo Orders: The team photo gallery is going live! Photos are only available to order for a limited time. Text 2025WCSC to 90738.
- Social Events:
- 11/12s: July 11, 2–4pm, Putter’s & Yogurtland
- 13/14s: July 15, 11am–3pm, Hurricane Harbor
- Private Lessons: Coaches and Jr. Coaches have sign-ups open
- Stroke & Turn Clinic: Sunday, July 20th 9-11am fill out the interest form.
- Optional Hox Last Chance Meet: Sunday, July 20th meet start at 3pm – warmups are 1:30-2:30, there are warmup lanes during the meet.
- Coach Appreciation (13/14s): It’s your week to show coach appreciation—details below on how to contribute.
Important Upcoming Dates:
Meets:
Wednesday, July 2nd: Away Meet @ LMYA (Acalanes HS) (Sign out by 6/25)
Friday, July 4th: No Practice
Monday, July 7th: No Practice
Wednesday, July 9th: Away Meet @ Martinez Community Swim Team (Rankin Swim Center) (Sign out by 7/2)
Saturday & Sunday July 12th & 13th: Woodlands Invitational (select swimmers)
Social Events:
Friday, July 4th - Monday, July 7th: Camping at Camp Richardson
Friday, July 11th: 11/12 Social - Mini Golf
Tuesday, July 15th: 13/14 Social - Hurricane Harbor
Coaches’ Update:
WOW! WHAT A WEEKEND!
The coaches are SO PROUD of our swimmers and their incredible accomplishments during All City! Huge shout out to all of our families for your hard work helping make this meet happen! We had tons of new star times achieved, and all of our swimmers had a fun and memorable weekend with their teammates. Thank you all!
We’d like to acknowledge Denise Rigli who has been spending time adding stars to our recognition board each week so that our swimmers have a visual of their goal times. Thank you so much, Denise!
The star recognition boards can be found in the display case at the side of our white shed. Please also make sure that you look in your family’s folder in our award boxes on the picnic tables and take any ribbons or medals home to display proudly.
13-14 and 15-18 Families: please sign your swimmer up for a goal talk with me. We’ll discuss their short term goals leading up to Conference, as well as their long term goals as a swimmer on WCSC. Our coaches are always here to support them, and this is a great way for us to work together and talk about how we can best do that for each individual swimmer. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48AEAC2BA0F4CE9-57394090-13up
Our focus this week is fine tuning our breaststroke and butterfly. LMYA is allowing each of our swimmers to swim three individual events on Wednesday evening, so everyone will most likely swim at least one of those two strokes. Please remind your swimmers that they must touch each wall with two hands simultaneously in fly and breast. We should also not see dolphin/flutter kicks in breaststroke either. That was one of the most frequent disqualifications we saw at All City. Practice makes permanent!
Looking forward to a fantastic trip to Camp Richardson this Fourth of July weekend with the team!
Goooooo Walnut Creek!
Sincerely,
Coach Emily
Meets:
Wednesday, July 2nd
Dual Meet (Away): WCSC @ LMYA
Location: Acalanes High School
Warm-ups: 4:55pm 10&Unders | 5:05pm 11&Ups
Team Meeting and Cheer @ 5:20
Meet Start: 5:30pm
Three (3) warm down lanes will be provided at the shallow end of the pool. These lanes are restricted to swimmers ages 11 & up and are to be used for warm up or warm down only during the meet. These lanes are for active swimming not a spot to play around or watch the meet.
This is the County Championship pool so come ready for some fast swims! Eat well, stay hydrated, make sure you're warming up and getting your stroke counts down in IM and back.
Photo Day:
Our swim team photo gallery is going live! If you’ve already opted in via text, you’ll receive a message with a private link to view and order your swimmer’s photos. All orders are shipped directly to your home.
Here’s a quick video that walks you through the ordering process:
https://hometeamsportsphoto.com/order-pictures
In case you missed it:
Pictures are only available to order for a short time! You can order by either:
- Texting the access code 2025WCSC to 90738
- Or visiting https://my.photoday.com and entering access code 2025WCSC
Stroke & Turn Clinic - 7/20:
We are planning a clinic on Sunday July 20th from 9-11am. In order to best plan the clinic we'd like to gauge interest and availability. This is a great chance to get that extra practice before The Hox Last Chance Meet and Conference the following weekend.
Stroke & turn Clinic Interest Form
Hox Last Chance Meet - 7/20:
The last few years our team has attended the HOX Last Chance Meet at Blackhawk Country Club. This is a fun meet on a Sunday afternoon/evening. A great opportunity to get more race experience before conference, try and achieve a county time, or just be with your swim friends. They offer three chances to swim the 50 Free and two chances to swim IM. There are no jobs required!! So just show up and have fun!
I wanted to share it now so families can plan for this weekend full of swim events. I will send out this information again as it gets closer. Please let me know if you have questions. [email protected]
Once you are ready to sign up you will need to fill out the google from HOX LAST CHANCE ENTRY and pay for your events via our square HOX LAST CHANCE EVENT FEES. Must sign up by Thursday, July 17th at 4pm.
Social Events:
11/12 Age Group Social - Please make payment here to RSVP
Putter’s Golf & Yogurtland
Friday, July 11, 2:00–4:00pm
$10/swimmer – includes mini golf (bring your own money for frozen yogurt)
This event is weather dependent. If it’s too hot, we’ll adjust and see a movie
This is a drop off/pick up event for 11/12 swimmers and coaches only
13/14 Age Group Social - Please complete form and payment here.
Hurricane Harbor, Concord
Tuesday, July 15, 11:00am–3:00pm (ticket valid until 5:00pm)
$25/swimmer (or use your season pass)
Bring money for food and drinks. Hurricane Harbor does not accept cash—bring a card or use a Six Flags cash card
This is a drop off/pick up event for 13/14 swimmers and coaches only
Private Lessons with Coaches:
Private Lessons with Jr. Coaches:
Aishani | https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C084CAAA72AA5FEC25-57371545-private
Riley | https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C0549ADA92BA0F8C52-57335139-coach
Crina | https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C094AACA722A3F9C43-57372655-swim
Henry | https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C0549A9AE23A4F9C61-57365102-private
Jobs:
Review if you have signed up and completed your season job commitments. We will assess accounts that have not completed the requirement. There are open shifts available at the next few meets and we have subs available to work if needed. If you have questions email [email protected].
Thank you to all of the All City Volunteers. If you hired a sub could you please thank them again. We could not have pulled the meet off without everyone doing their part.
Coach Appreciation:
13/14 FAMILIES it’s your week to show some appreciation to the coaches.
Here is the sign-up genius:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4EA9AA28A7F58-57324729-coach
Short on time…Venmo @Jamie-Fields-2 (last digits 6551) with the memo “13/14 coaches appreciation” and I will put it towards a collective gift for each coach. Once you sign up, if you need ideas for coaches' favorite items, email me at [email protected] - I will also post them in the sign-up genius!
New Families:
Hello everyone! Now that All City is over, you now have an idea of what to expect for Conference. The events may differ/day and they host finals each afternoon, but it is very similar.
If you are joining us for the camping trip, bring rafts, tubes, paddle boards and bikes or scooters. Many of the kiddos ride all around the campsite when not at the beach. If you didn’t plan to join us this summer, put it on your calendar for next year. It is so much fun for everyone in the family!
Also, keep an eye out for info on our team banquet in September. Our Banquet is a fun celebration of all swimmers and coaches!
All City:
Looking back at All City 2025, the event was a huge success. The kids had a fantastic time, the weather was perfect, we raised money for the team, and everyone's teamwork made it a truly great event. Jenny, Jeff, WCSC leadership, and I want to extend a sincere thank you to all our volunteers.
Camping Updates:
Camping updates have been emailed out to those families that are attending. If you will be attending and staying offsite let us know and we will send you the info for the weekend.
Have a safe and relaxing 4th of July!
