January 25, 2012

  To:     All Green Bay YMCA Swimmers & Parents

  From:Coach Dave - voice mail-436-9624

Email- [email protected] team unify website - www.teamunify.com/wigbymca

 Re:      1) GBY Winter Open  2) Team Unify  3) 2012 Strong Kids Calling night & Swim-A-Long  4)  Assorted Notes

1. Thank you to everyone for another great GBY Winter Open.  I many fine compliments on how well we run swim meets and it is all because of the great families we have on our team.  Please mark Friday, June 15, on your calendars for our “Friday Night 50’s” meet. 
2. It looks like everyone is doing well with the team website.  Please keep track of your escrow invoices and please ensure that you have monies in your accounts to cover upcoming meets.  I will expect all balances taken care of before entering swimmers in the later February & March meets.  Again please check your escrow statement regularly and keep monies in there to handle all future expenses.  Payments should be made at the DT Y front desk.

Also when entering swim meets or in this case not entering swim meets.  It would be very helpful to me if you declined to attend the meet if you are not going.  This is another tab next to the commitment tab.  Thus I will know for sure that you are not attending.

I also ask that if you have any kind of note regarding your meet entry that you put it in the note box on your entry page.  This would include seed times that you would like used from High School meets so that I can update them prior to sending in the entry.  I always have the website update best times prior to doing entries also.  A lot of this is dependent on the host teams sending me meet results in a timely manner also.

There are still some bugs I am working out with the website but all seems to be pretty good.  Thanks for keeping up with registration deadlines and the like.

1. Swim-A-Long envelopes are being passed out this week.  I distributed many last night and I and the coaches will distribute at tonight’s practices.  If you have not received yours after this week.  Please contact me and I will leave it a the DT Y front desk for you.  The night of the swim-a-long is Wednesday, February 15, at both SWHS & the DT Y.  The blue information sheet as lots of good information.  This form is available under the documents on the website.  I also have additional pledge forms there also if your swimmers fill up their envelopes.  Remember that the envelopes should not be sealed to not cover up the names on the back side.  All envelopes should be returned on Wednesday, February 15.  If you are unable to be there on February 15, you may return them to Coach Dave or the DT Y front desk any day that week.

Thank you to our 10 parents and swimmers that will be making phone calls on Wednesday, February 8, at the Baylake Building down the street from the DT Y.  I believe that I have pulled all of the swim team family cards out of the piles.  We will not call you because your donation will be done through your swimmer’s swim-a-long.  Thanks to everyone for the their support and help with the 2012 Green Bay Y Strong Kid’s campaign and swim-a-long.

1. Assorted Notes

·         There will be both Friday morning & afternoon practices this Friday.  There will also be a Saturday AM practice at BV Saturday AM for Gold I swimmers.  Coach Bill will be running both the Friday afternoon and Saturday AM practice as I will be visiting my parents.   To plan ahead. There will be no Friday practices next week, February 3 due to the Schroeder A+ meet.  There is also no Gold practice on Wednesday, February 8, due to the Strong Kids calling night.  We will have both Bronze and Silver practices that evening as normal.

·         The Yooper meet entry deadline is midnight, Today.  The registration deadline for the FCY/Dolphin meet is this Sunday night at midnight.  Please enter before the deadlines.  Thank you!  The USA Regional entry is now open for entries.  This is for USA registered swimmers only.  Both USA State Meets have just been posted on the Wisconsin Swimming website.  I will have these entries up ASAP too.  Please check the deadlines and have your entries completed on time.  Remember that for both USA State Meets there are qualifying times and you must be a USA registered swimmer.

·         The National Team wishes to thank all the swim team families for their donations to the Bake Sale at the Winter Open Meet.  They had a very successful Bake Sale thanks to the generosity of all our families.

·         The National team is also doing a Noodles & Company Fundraiser on Wednesday, February 8.  All GBY families are encouraged to eat at Noodles & Co this day.  The National Team will receive 25% of the sales for all people who participate in this fundraiser.  The National Team also asks that you pass this information along to family, friends and work associates so that they can help our National Team out in this fundraiser.

·         Please remember that all GBY swimmers must scan their membership card before entry in to our Y’s.  If you need a membership card, stop at any Y front desk and they can make you one.  I would suggest a key card which could be attached to the swimmer’s bag so they always have it. 

·         Winter reminder – All swimmers should be dressing properly for the weather.  Including a winter coat, hat and no shorts.  I will try to monitor this when I can but please ensure that your kids are dressed properly for the weather.