Weekly Update: 1/29/24 - 2/4/24
Hello Red Dragon Families!
Practice this Week
We have practice Monday-Thursday this week! Please review this week's calendar as Minis are on Monday, NOT Tuesday. Tuesday will be at the MHS with different practice times. We do not have practice on Friday. Our Febraury downloadable calendar will be up soon on our website at reddragonswimming.com under Meets/Events.
Sickness
This past week we have received many notifications of sicknesses of athletes. We have a small coaching staff and if one coach gets sick, practice groups are left without a coach! If your athlete is not feeling well PLEASE do NOT bring them to practice. We want families, athletes, and coaching staff to stay healthy throughout our season! ESPECIALLY as we are less than 30 practices away from Championship Season meets!
Meet Results
As we are getting close to our championship meets there have been MANY questions about where your athlete's times are immediately after a meet. Please keep in mind, after the meet is completely over, not just the session your athlete is in, meet directors have to make sure times and results match. The more athletes attending, more DQ's and more not hitting the touch pad correctly delays the results to be published to teams. This can take up to 3 days depending on the size of the meet and any technical difficulties during the meet. PLEASE be patient with meet results being published. Once I receive results from the meet director, they are imported into SportsEngine in less than 2 hours and entry times are updated in meets that have NOT been submitted to the host team.
DL Meet - RECAP
WOW! Awesome job to the Red Dragons who attended the DL Meet on Saturday! There were a lot of new MRC qualifying times! Awesome job Red Dragons! Ribbons are being mailed in the next two weeks to us so please be patient.
FMY Meet - RECAP
Fantastic job to the Red Dragons who attended the FMY Meet on Sunday! There were a lot of firsts for many of our younger athletes! We even had a NEW national qualifying time! Awesome job! Ribbons will be at the pool this week!
WFF Meet - Meet Information
We have the WFF Meet this weekend at the Hulbert. We will send out more information once we receive the timeline for the meet.
ALEX Meet - Entries DUE
The ALEX/DRGN Meet entries are due TOMORROW 1/30. Make sure to declare your events. We are co-hosting this meet. They will need help with volunteers for timing and other jobs. Please let me know if you can volunteer at this meet!
NLSA Meet - Entries Received - FINAL
Below are the final entries for the NLSA meet on Feb 10th. Accounts will be billed this week.
MRC Meet - Entries OPEN
The FIRST Championship meet for this season is now OPEN! This is a great end-of-the-year meet for all of our athletes! We hope to have as many Red Dragons attend this meet! This meet requires athletes to achieve certain times to attend. If you go into the meet it will let you know the events they can and can not swim at this meet. I also attached the Short Course Time Standards for Minnesota. The times your athlete needs to achieve is in GREEN but they can not be faster than the RED time. Athletes need to achieve a time in their gender and age. Age is determined the first day of the meet, March 1st.
PLEASE NOTE: These time standards have NO reflection on our practice groups. Do not associate practice groups with the time standard requirements.
HS Athletes: If high school athletes want to use their HS times they are required to provide a printed report from their HS coach. The report needs to include the date of the meet and name of the meet with every achieved time.
MRC - Hotel Block - MORE AVAILABLE
We added more rooms to our hotel block the MRC weekend! We will be staying at the Hampton Inn in Eden Prairie. We have stayed here for the past 3 years!
Click the link below to get your hotel booked now! Hotel booking closes 2/9/24. We plan to have the team dinner on Saturday night at the hotel.
REQUIRED - USA REGISTRATION
If your athlete is not USA registered your athlete can NOT attend practice. To register your athlete in USA Swimming please go to our Website, click Registration, click USA Registration Link in blue, and follow the directions from there.
High School Athletes and Qualifying Meets
If your athlete is attending any meets with our team that require a qualifying time and you want to use their High School times you will need a proof of times report from your High School coach or the results of the meet. You can only use meet results or proof of times for State-level meets or lower. Any Sectional, Zone or National Meets have to be MN High School State Meet, ND EDC or ND State Meet. Any other meet does not qualify them for Sectionals, Zones or National Meets. All proof of times and meet results need to be sent to Coach Jess as many meets will ask for proof of times. Please do not wait to the last minute to send this.
Team Sponsorships
Every year we have sponsorship available for companies you know or may work for! Please take time to share it on your social media or ask your company if they are interested! Below is the link for our team sponsorships! If you have already submitted payment as a sponsor please send us your logo!
Taking a Break?
If you are taking a break this month please let me know by the 25th for your payments to be paused. To know if your payments have been paused go into the GoMotion App and your athlete should be listed as "suspended".
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"
