Newsletter - July 24, 2014

July 24, 2014

 

  To:     All Green Bay YMCA Swimmers & Parents

  From: Coach Dave - voice mail-436-9624   Cell phone - (920-609-4958)

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

 

 Re:      1)  GBY Team Championship Meet  2)  Upcoming Meets  3)  Escrow Accounts  4)  August Practices 7) Upcoming Dates  8)  Assorted Notes

 

  1. GBY Team Championship Meet/End of Summer Season – Thank you to all who attended the GBY Team Championship meet last night.  Thank you to all the parents who helped with timing and the computer room.  I did post the times from the meet on the website.  These are not official times and will not go into our time data base. Today’s practices are the last for our swimmers except those attending the State Meets and Y Nationals.  Year round swimmers are welcome to attend these practices also. Thank you again to all of our team members and their families for a great spring/summer season.  Enjoy the rest of your summer!!
  2. Upcoming Meets – Ten GBY swimmers are attending the 12&under USA State Meet at the Schroeder Aquatic Center in Milwaukee this Friday-Sunday, July 25-27.  I have attached the warm-up assignments, timeline and psych sheet to our website.  Please arrive early for all warm-up sessions.

 

Three GBY swimmers are attending the 13&over Meet in Pleasant Prairie, next Thursday-Sunday, July 31 – August 3.  As I receive more information on the meet I will post it on the website.  You may also want to check Wisconsin Swimming or SEA’s website for more up to date info.  I am not sending a GBY coach to this meet. Coach Neil Wright of SEA is our coach of record at the meet.  Our team will be assigned the same warm-up times as SEA. If there is any administrative problems that come up Neil will help us with it. Please read over the meet information carefully.   Good luck to our swimmers.  If a swimmer has any questions or needs to talk to me please call my cell phone.

 

Four GBY swimmers are attending the Y National Swimming Championships in at IUPUI Pool in Indianapolis, next Monday-Friday, July 28 – August 1.  Psych sheet is posted on our website.  I will see these GBY swimmers Sunday night at 6pm for a workout at the IUPUI pool.

 

  1. Escrow Accounts – Please ensure that all escrow account balances are taken care as soon as possible.  I will do the charges for the USA State meets and Y Nationals when I return to the office in August.  Please make sure all the families that are swimming in these meets have monies in their accounts to cover these entry fees. Thank you.
  2. August Practices – The August calendar is updated to reflect the workouts offered for our year round swimmers.  Coaching availability is the reason that some days there will be no workout.  Year round swimmers registered last fall to participate in these workouts.  I will allow other swimmers to attend but you will be charged $5.00 for each workout you attend through your escrow account in early September. These workouts will all be held at the DT Y pool and run from 4:00-5:30pm.
  3. Upcoming Dates

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

Wednesday, Sept 10 – Thursday, Oct 2     Pre-season Stroke & Training sessions   See Calendar

Tuesday, September 30                      GBY All-parent Meeting                     6:15PM, St Mary’s Rink

  1. Assorted Notes
  • I will be out of the office until Tuesday afternoon, August 12.  I will run the Friday AM workout tomorrow before heading to Milwaukee for the 12&under State Meet.  Coach Bill will run the Saturday AM practice and Coach Carissa will run workouts next Monday-Wednesday afternoon.
  • Fall practice group placements – I will be sending out a good explanation in regards to what group our current swimmers should try in the fall.   Please check the calendar for the Pre-season Stroke & Training Sessions beginning September 10.  These are open to all Gold, Silver, afternoon Silver and to even some our summer Bronze swimmers who may be ready to move to the Silver practice group.  These clinics give my coaches and swimmers a good taste of what their next step may be. 
  • Parents needed for Parent Group Committee – There are a couple spots opening up on the Parent Group Committee.  If a parent is interested please contact myself or a current member of the Parent Group Committee.  We would like these new parents in place by our September meeting.
  • The Next Parent Group Committee is Monday night, September 8, 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.