HELLO GBY FAMILY!

Announcements

There will be an ALL Parent meeting on Monday October 4, 2021 at 6:00pm located at the downtown YMCA. This meeting will be going over several important topics as well as some information for new parents. Topics will include things like Parent responsibilities like parent committees, swim meets jobs, officials, etc…, Swim meets- Home meets, away meets, USA meets, how to sign up for swim meets, our BIG Hosted Invitational swim meet. We will also go over our annual swim team fundraiser for the YMCA the swim-a-long.

Just a reminder that everyone needs a team suit and you can order those through our team store link on the home page of our team unify website. www.teamunify.com/wigbymca you can also order custom team caps and put your swimmers last name on the cap. I also just received a coupon code from Elsmore. Starting tomorrow 9-15 through October 3^rd where you can get 10% off. The code is GBYMCA10

Meet Info

October 23-HOME MEET-GBY Virtual Meet-Halloween theme( This meet is cool because data is collect from all YMCA’s across the country who host a meet in the time frame to make one big Virtual meet where times will get compared with all participating YMCA’s across the nation)

November 14-AWAY MEET-YMCA FALL INVITE
November 19-21-USA AWAY MEET WGLO
November 19-21-AWAY MEET-OSHY YMCA MEET
December 3-5-AWAY MEET-Y-Finalist
December 10-12-AWAY MEET-MMSY YMCA MEET
December 18-HOME MEET-GBY SPRINT MEET
January 7-9-AWAY MEET-OSHY YMCA MEET
January 21-23 HOME MEET-GBY TITLETOWN FREEZE
February 4-6-USA AWAY MEET-A+ MEET
February 11-13-AWAY MEET-OSHY YMCA MEET
February 19-HOME MEET-LUV 2 SWIM MEET
February 25-27-USA AWAY MEET-12&U STATE MEET
March 3-6-USA AWAY MEET 13&O STATE MEET
March 18-20-AWAY MEET-YMCA STATE MEET
March 28-April 1-AWAY MEET-YMCA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Reminder that all GBY swimmers are encouraged to attend all home meets. Home meets only happen and are successful with Parent help. All GBY parents are required to work the home swim meets. We have a wide range of jobs at home meets. There will be an all parent meeting October  4^th that will welcome new families, go over parent committee openings, and swim meet responsibilities. That date will be set after the Parent Committee meeting in September.

Swim meet attire. I would like all swimmers to wear a GBY swim team cap (can be a team cap, state cap, or national cap) Custom team caps with swimmers last names. Aside from the team cap I would like swimmers to wear our team suit, the exception will be championship meets where swimmers can wear tech suits.

Practice Info

Please if you haven’t got your swimmers Consent form turn in, please do so ASAP. The Interns from GBU will be working with us 3 days a week all season and it is a wonderful opportunity. They will be doing observations, group presentations, and 1:1s working with the mental aspects of sport training and sport performance. They are both working towards their masters in science of Sport, Exercise and performance psychology. Every elite athlete uses individuals like these two every day and several of the big club teams across the country also hire people in this field to work with their athletes. We have a great opportunity to have these two work with our team all season for free. They can only work with your swimmer if they have their consent form turned in.

There is no practice on days that the YMCA is closed, the night of the All parent meeting, on team bonding events, or days where there are big weekend swim meets. I will do my best to announce all those days in advance so you can mark them on the calendar.

Covid information: As the kids are back in school and some covid cases are popping up I want to make sure every is aware of the YMCA’s current polices.

Masks: The YMCA suggests that anyone who is not vaccinated to please wear a mask when entering the building. For swimmers they should wear a mask until they get into the pool and as soon as they get out of the pool.

Close Contact: If there is a close contact case and your child is asked to be quarantined then the YMCA policy is: If your child is fully vaccinated and has been for at least 12 days before close contact exposure then they are allowed to continue to practice, but symptoms should be monitored over the next several days, it is recommended to get tested 3 to 5 days after exposure and your child must wear a mask for 12 days. If your child is not fully vaccinated or it has been less than 12 days since their final shot then the swimmer must stay quarantined from practice for 10 days after exposure.

Positive Case: Swimmer must be quarantined for 14 days, if a sibling or household member has a positive case swimmer must stay quarantined from practice for their 14 days after their positive test and 10 days after their last day.