Weekly Update: 12/26/22 - 1/1/23

Jessica Colby
Hello Red Dragon Families!
I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend! I apologize this is a day late. I was with family with scattered service.
 
Practice Schedule
We have practice Tuesday-Friday this week! Friendly reminder Friday practice is at 6PM.
 
January Schedule
January schedule will be posted this week on our website.

 

Not Swimming this Month?
Friendly reminder, if your athlete is not planning on swimming for the next month, you need to send an email to [email protected] ASAP. Your athletes should show "suspended" for no billing activity.

 

2023 USA Registration - PLEASE READ

Below is a PDF of a list of all athletes who are 2023 USA registered. If your athlete is not listed, you can NOT swim in January until you have completed your 2023 USA registration.

2023 Athletes

There are two different memberships, Flex and Premium.

Premium - This membership allows any age athlete to attend any meet at any level.

Flex - We will only be offering this membership to our Beginner Minis and Advanced Minis. This membership will only allow athletes to attend two nonchampionship level meets. Families are responsible for upgrading their athletes if they would like to attend more meets. If families fails to upgrade athletes 72 hours before attending a third meet or championship level meet, families will be billed the penalty payment issued by Minnesota Swimming and USA Swimming.

This is not the full complete payment! you will also have a payment for MN Swimming in your sports engine account.

HOW TO VIDEOS BELOW

Existing Members
 
New Members
Home Meet Entries Due Dec 29th
Our Home meet entries are due this Thursday, December 29th! Make sure to declare your events on time! Please do this in your sportsengine account.
 
Home Meet
We are getting close to our home meet! We have a few spots still open that we need help in! Sign up at the links below!
 
Team Towels - Back Ordered....

It looks like our Team Towels are back ordered and will not be arriving in time for Christmas... I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause some families. I will let you know when we get the towels are in.

 
MRC Hotel Block
We have officially been zoned for MRC! We will be swimming in Chaska, MN. We already have our hotel block set and ready for you to book your hotel on our website under Meets/Events. This meet is a great “end of the year meet” for all of our athletes. Below are the time standards for this meet. We HIGHLY encourage athletes to attend this meet! Last year, we were division champions and we hope to continue this year!
50 & 100 Events –  Bronze Standards
200 + Events - Silver Standard
*Friendly reminder these standards do not correlate with our team groups!*
 
2023 Senior State – Volunteer Sign Up
We officially have our 2023 Senior State volunteer sign up available! Please note the times are TENATIVE and will be communicated closer to the event. Sign up link is also on our website under Meets/Events.
     
18 and Older Athletes - APT Training
Emails have been sent to our 17 and 18 year old athletes/families who have to complete APT training to be able to continue practice and participate in swim meets! PLEASE make this training a priority and get it done as soon as possible! 
 
Mark Your Calendar NOW!
We need all families to mark their calendars NOW for the Senior State meet we are hosting on March 16-19th , 2023 at the Hulbert Aquatic Center. We need all the help we can get to have a fantastic meet at this level so please mark your calendars now!
 
If you have any questions or concerns please let me know,
 
Jessica Colby
Head Coach
Red Dragon Swimming
763-229-7701
"Once a Red Dragon, Always a Red Dragon"