Newsletter - November 14, 2012
November 14, 2012
To: All New Green Bay YMCA Swimmers & Parents
From:Coach Dave - voice mail-436-9624
Email- [email protected] team unify website - www.teamunify.com/wigbymca
Re: 1) New Parent’s Informational Meeting 2) Oshkosh Y Champion Meet 3) WGLO Meet 4) Turkey Trot Water Station 5) Upcoming Dates 6) Assorted notes
- Next Tuesday, November 20, from 5-6pm, in the balcony of SWHS Pool we will have our 2ndNew Parent Informational meeting. This meeting will deal with entering in swim meets and also the family’s responsibilities when your swimmers are participating in our home meets. I would ask that all new families take a look at both entry pages for our two upcoming meets. The November 28 Mock Meet and our December 1 Sprint Meet. I already see that new families are already entering and signing up for jobs. The entry process is very simple. Also insure that you take a look at the job sign-up page. We will talk about the work assignments for the home swim meet. The job you sign-up for at our December 1 meet will be the same job that you will do or be trained for at the Mock Meet on November 28.
- All information including warm-up times are on the website. They are charging for heat sheets so you will not get these ahead of time.
- All information including warm-up times are on the website. Please refer to Lake Country’s website for more information including the Psych sheet.
- I could use some more volunteers for the Turkey Trot water station, Thanksgiving morning. Deadline for signing up is tomorrow night, November 15, at midnight. All volunteers should be at Calvary Lutheran Church by 7am for set-up, and training. I am not sure if I will have the shirts ahead of time but you will be able to get them the morning of the race. They have over 5000 registered runners for this race. Working the water station is quite fun and exciting. Please check the website for more information.
- Upcoming Dates (Team events and meets)
Friday-Sunday, Nov 16-18 WGLO Meet, Schroeder Aquatic Center, (see website)’
Friday-Sunday, Nov 16-18 Oshkosh Y Champion Meet, Oshkosh Y (see website)
Tuesday, November 20 NEW PARENT INFORMATION MEETING, SWHS pool balcony, 5-6pm, Meet responsibilities and meet entries will be discussed
Thursday, November 22 Turkey Trot Water Station – Calvary Lutheran Church – 7:00am-9:15am
Thursday-Sunday, Nov 22-25 NO PRACTICES, Happy Thanksgiving!!
Monday, November 26 GBY Parent Group Committee Meeting, DT Y, 5:30-7:00pm
Wednesday, November 28 MOCK MEET, DT Y, 6:15-9:00pm, All GBY swimmers and parents should participate (see website)
Saturday, December 1 GBY SPRINT MEET, DT Y, All Day (see website)
Friday-Sunday, Dec 7-9 SST Y Finalist Meet, Schroeder Aquatic Center, (see website)
Tuesday, December 11 Practices are moved to Edison Middle School Pool for this evening only
Saturday, December 15 DCY Jingle Bell Meet, Sturgeon Bay Y, (see website)
Wednesday, December 19 Holiday Relays, DT Y, 6:30-8:30pm, (All GBY swimmers should participate)
Thursday, December 27 Team Bowling Party, Pro Bowl, Howard (check website for more info and sign-up)
- Assorted Notes
- There will be no Friday or Saturday practices this week due to the swim meets. Also there are no practices next Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Happy Thanksgiving.
- Park & Rec has asked us to move our Tuesday, December 11 practices from SWHS to Edison Middle School. The Green Bay United Boys high school team is going to host a meet at SWHS that evening.
- Please ensure that everyone is keeping up with the Team events on the calendar. Registration deadlines are coming up for the Y Finalist meet & USA Registration. These registration close on Sunday night, November 18.
- 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. These Parent Group Committee meetings are on the website calendar. Next meeting is Monday, November 26.
- We have scheduled our annual awards banquet for Friday, May 10, at the Riverside Ballroom. Please get this on your calendars right away. We will do a sign-up for this on the website.
- Please ensure that you have monies in your escrow account to cover all upcoming swim meets. Thank you for taking care of this ahead of the charges.
- A reminder to all GBY swimmers. The only swim cap acceptable at meets is a GBY cap. This includes are standard Blue cap but also includes the Yellow and Green Hats that have GBY on them too. Also expected is for all swimmers to wear a team suit or an acceptable tech suit. Dark, one color is recommended on tech suits. I have ordered more silicon hats and they should be here in about 3 weeks. We still have latex caps available for sale at the DT Y front desk for $3.00 each. There is also a order page on the website for personalized silicon GBY caps if interested. I will send out a note when the new GBY silicon caps arrive.
- A reminder that all GBY swimmers ages 8&over must scan their membership upon entry to all Green Bay YMCA’s. If you need a new card stop at the front desk and have them make you a new one. It is very time consuming especially during the rush around team practices to have to stop and type in your information manually to make sure you are a member. Thank you for taking care of this matter.
- REMINDER - All swimmers should be showering before using any pool for practices. This can be a big help with the air quality. Thank you for doing this.
