September 26, 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) Stroke Clinics  2) All-parent meeting/Registration Forms/Concussion Information  3) 

1.  Stroke Clinics end tomorrow night.  Tonight is 200 Race strategies and tomorrow is IM exchanges.  All swimmers will be charged for September clinics and workouts early next week. Please have ample monies in your escrow accounts to cover these costs.
2. Thank you to everyone who attended the All-parent meeting last night.  We had (43) families represented at the meeting.  Hopefully the information was helpful.  Those who did not attend will need to pick up a registration packet at the DT Y front desk.  I have also posted the registration forms on the website under the documents tab.  All forms must be turned in together.  Returning swimmer forms are due by Friday, October 19, 2012. Please ensure that you have read over the concussion information posted under the documents tab and both parent and swimmers must sign off on that form.  Also Parents who did not attend the Parent meeting will need to sign-up for a Sub-committee.  I will create a sign-up page on the website for this.  When it is ready I will send out an e-mail.
3. Assorted Notes

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·        The practice schedule should be up to date on the website.  Practices begin the week of October 8.  Those swimmers that would like to move from Bronze to Silver or Silver to Gold II will be placed after the first week of practice.  Decisions on Gold III swimmers will also be made after the first week of practice but additional swimmers may be moved to this Gold III during the season.  Please check under the “Team/Classes” tab for group requirements. Due to some swimmers not knowing their group placement registration forms are not due until the week of October 15.  All swimmers not registered by the end of this week will lose access to the website so please get your forms in that week.  This includes any high school girls who will be joining our team after their season.

·        I did make a change to the Wednesday night practice schedule.  We will have only the Bronze team practice from 6:30-7:30pm.  And both Silver and Gold will practice together from 7:30-8:45pm.  Gold will practice until 9pm.  Beginning Wednesday, November 7, we will move Gold practices to SWHS from 4-6pm.  And then Silver will have the whole DT Y pool from 7:30-8:45pm.  The team is going to be very large this season so I am trying be as proactive as possible on helping relieve some of our space issue.  Silver and Gold swimmers being more experienced should be able to handle the big practice group on Wednesday nights.

·        Practices for those who registered for year-round swimming will continue until the season begins.  Except October 4&5 when we will not have practices.  I will also run practices for these swimmers on Tuesdays, October 9,16 & 23, from 3:45-5:30pm at the DT Y pool.  We cannot get into SWHS on Tuesdays until October 30 because the pool is scheduled for High School meets on these days.

·        Parent Group committee meetings have been moved to the first Mondays of the Month. Exception being December where we will move that meeting back to November 26 to meet before our December 1 Sprint Meet.

·        The revised handbook has been posted on the website under the documents tab.  Please read this over carefully.  Many new items mostly related to the team unify website.

·        We need volunteers to help with the water station for the Turkey Trot run on Thanksgiving morning.  The sign-up is open on the website.  Please give me names and t-shirt sizes. This can all be done under one swimmer.  Thanks for helping out.

·        We also are in desperate need of Y Officials for our home swim meets.  There are October 20th trainings posted on the website. Parents will be reimbursed the training cost if you work at all of our home swim meets.