Newsletter - June 18, 2014

June 18, 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)  Meet Thank You  2)  FCY Summer Classic  3)  Yoga For Athletes 4)  Week of July 4th practices  5)  Upcoming Dates  6)  Assorted Notes

 

1)    Friday Night 50’s - Meet Thank You

Thank you to everyone for your help in running a great meet!  We appreciate all who were able to come in early to help set up and make sure the meet could start smoothly.  Also thank you to everyone who worked at the meet.  We hope you and your swimmers had an enjoyable experience.  Finally, thank you to the many families who donated raffle baskets or gift cards.  There were over 35 swimmers who won raffle items and left our meet very happy!

  1. FCY Summer Classic – Forty four GBY swimmers are participating in the FCY Summer Classic this Saturday & Sunday, June 21 & 22, at Erb Park Pool. Fox Cities Y has not sent or posted any information for the meet.  I did know that warm-ups are from 7-8am for the early sessions on Saturday & Sunday.  When they release a timeline I will update the warm-up times on our website.  Please read over the meet information carefully.  Remember that most events on Saturday are prelim/final for 11&over swimmers.  Coach Kari and I will be at the meet all weekend.
  2. Yoga For Athletes – The DT Y has a special Yoga workshop called Yoga for Athletes this Monday, June 23, from 5:30-7:00pm in the DT Y Yoga Studio.    Cost is $20.00.  Workshops are open to ages 14&older. Please contact me by Monday afternoon if you would like to attend.
  3. Week of July 4th practices – From June 30 – July 4, the Broadview Y is closed.  All practices scheduled at the BV Y are moved to the DT Y.  All Tuesday & Thursday afternoon practices are at the same times.  But Tuesday, July 1,  AM Gold will be from 8-10am at the DT Y.  There will be no practices on July 4 or 5.
  4. Upcoming Dates

Saturday-Sunday, June 21&22            FCY Summer Invite                             Erb Park

Friday-Sunday, June 27-29                  WGLO Meet                                        WSAC

Friday-Sunday, July 11-13                   Birdbath Invite                                    Erb Park

Sunday, July 20                                    OSHY Make A Difference Meet          Oshkosh Y

Wednesday, July 23                            GBY Team Championships                  DT Y

Friday-Sunday, July 25-27                   12&under USA State                           WSAC

Monday-Friday, July 28-August 1       Y Nationals                                          IUPUI, Indianapolis

Thursday-Sunday, July 31-August 3    13&over USA State                             RecPlex, Kenosha

  1. Assorted Notes
  • There will be a Friday morning practice this week. There will be no Saturday AM practice due to the FCY Meet.
  • Birdbath Entry closes Sunday night!  Please make sure you get entered by the deadline.  All GBY swimmers are encouraged to participate in this meet.  For the WGLO meet please check the Lake Country Swim Team website for the most up to date information.
  • The Next Parent Group Committee is Monday night, July 7, 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, Pat Stoa – Senior/National Team.
  • Please remember to scan your membership cards when entering any YMCA
  • Please remember to take a soap shower before entering any YMCA pool.  There are many reasons that a swimming pool creates chloramines.  Two of the biggest reasons are unclean people using the pools without taking a soap shower and people urinating in the pools.  At the Y National meet there was a presentation on Chloramines and their cause.  And the above two are the biggest issues that make Chloramines.  It is very important that all of our GBY swimmers take a soap shower before entering any Y pool and of course please ask the coaches to use the rest rooms if needed during practices.  The DT Y had little chlorine issue a couple of weeks ago but everything at the DT Y is now back to normal.  Again, please take showers and use the rest room before entering the swimming pools.
  • 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.
  • 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 by the entry deadline date and I will get them into the meet.