Newsletter - January 15, 2014
January 15, 2014
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 Titletown Freeze 2) Team Picture 3) Green Bay Y Annual Campaign and GBY Swim-A-Long 4) Upcoming Dates 6) Assorted Notes
- GBY Titletown Freeze - Everything regarding the meet is on the website. Please look over everything carefully. I will continue to update the website with anymore information that you may need.
Hopefully all parents got signed up for the meet job. If not check in with the meet director Jill Zablocki and she will assign you to a job.
- GBY Team Picture – We will take a team picture on Swim-A-Long night at 6pm in the large gym at the DT Y. All GBY swimmers must be there. All GBY swimmers should wear their team suits. This is begin done during our down time of the Swim-A-Long. The Gold Team swims prior and the Bronze & Silver swim afterwards. Also to plan ahead the DT Y Staff will be selling Chili on Wednesday evening during our Swim-A-Long
- Green Bay Y Annual Campaign Calling Night (Wednesday, February 5) & GBY Swim-A-Long (Wednesday, February 12) - Thank you to the 10 parents and swimmers who are going to help out on our calling team. You will all received additional information from the Y. But plan to be at the DT Y Large Gym at 5:30pm – 8:00pm on February 5.
I will begin to hand out Swim-A-Long pledge envelopes out tomorrow. I would ask that everyone please take a look at the website page regarding the Swim-A-Long. I have a great informational piece there regarding the Annual Campaign and Swim-A-Long. Thank you very much for your support of strong kids.
- Upcoming Dates
Friday-Sunday, Jan 17-19 GBY Titletown Freeze DT Y Pool
Friday-Sunday, Jan 31-Feb 2 Schroeder A+ Schroeder Aquatic Center
Wednesday, February 5 Annual Campaign Calling Night DT Y 5:30-8:00pm
Wednesday, February Swim-A-Long/Team Picture DT Y Gold 3:45-5:40pm, Bronze & Silver 6:30-8:00pm Team Picture will be shot in the large Gym at 6:00pm
Thursday-Sunday, Feb 6-9 OSHY/FCY Winter Meet Oshkosh Y
Friday-Sunday, Feb 21-23 USA Regional Meet Fond Du Lac Aquatic Center
Friday-Sunday, Feb 28-March 2 12&under USA State Meet UW-Madison Natitorium
Thursday-Sunday, March 6-9 13&over USA State Meet Kenosha Rec-Plex
Saturday-Sunday, March 8-9 FCY Everyone Counts Meet Appleton Y
Sunday, March 16 OSHY Last Chance Meet Oshkosh Y
Friday-Sunday, March 21-23 Y State Meet Schroeder Aquatic Center
Tuesday-Friday, April 1-4 Y National Meet Greensboro, NC
Friday, April 11 GBY Awards Banquet Riverside Ballroom
- Assorted Notes
- There will be no Friday afternoon or Saturday AM practices this week due to the Titletown Freeze.
- Titletown Freeze T-shirts - We have re-opened the pre-order of 2014 Titletown T-shirts on the website. This closes today, January 15th. The GBY Team cost is $10.00 and $12.00 for XXL & XXXL. Please order because sizes are limited.
- January Meets entries – Schroeder A+ will remain open until next Sunday night, January 19. If anyone makes any more QT’s make sure you get entered. I should very soon be opening entry pages for the February meets. Again when I initially open a new meet entry you are all notified by e-mail. And a reminder is automatically sent one week prior to the deadline for entry.
- The Next Parent Group Committee is Monday night, February 3, 2014. All Parent Group Committees are held from 5:30-7:00pm, in the 2nd floor lobby area of the DT Y. Parent Group committee members are Lynn Anderson – Facilitator, Jill Zablocki – Meet Director, Annjie and Mark Nowak – Food Service, Bob Howe & Amy Wolf – Equipment, Tim Van Gheem – Financial, Heidi Neverman – Awards Banquet & Recognition, Scott & Heidi Socha – Social & New Family, Jeff & Beth Gahnz - Marketing, Open – Senior/National Team.
- Weather Updates/E-mail Alerts,etc – Thank you for everyone’s patience with the weather situation. Just a reminder on a few items related to weather and cancellations. First of all the Y’s rarely ever close for weather. Thus all Y programs including swim team will always run if the Y’s remain open. If the Y’s do close I will alert the team by e-mail. The other situation we deal with is the SWHS & the Green Bay Public Schools. Like Tuesday when school was closed all after school programs get cancelled including pool rentals. I will notify the team ASAP with any cancellations.
- Please remember to scan your membership cards when entering any YMCA
- Please remember to take a soap shower before entering any YMCA pool.
- Please remember that the GBY swim team is a part of the GBY Gymnastics Scrip program. If any family is interested in earning some extra money for their escrow accounts should check out the Scrip program. Scrip information is under the documents tab on the web site.
- Many meet entries are already opened. Please make sure that you get entered into meets by the deadline.
- Please ensure that you keep ample monies in your escrow accounts. A swimmer will not be allowed to enter in a meet unless they have the monies in their escrow account to cover the meet fees. The website is set up to make sure that you have monies in your account when you enter a meet. All escrow fees may be paid at the DT Y front desk, or by calling the DT Y front desk to pay by phone. Thank you to everyone for keeping up with your escrow accounts. Please do not wait until it is too late to get money into your account. All information for your escrow account may be found under your account page on the website. And please keep ample monies in your escrow account to cover all upcoming charges. All meet entry fee charges are done on the Monday following the meet. If by chance you cannot enter a meet because of your escrow account. E-mail Coach Dave with your swimmer’s entry numbers and I will get them into the meet.
