Well done on our first home meet. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time and helped run the meet. A few things we need to remember for future meets:
1) Please stay in the water until everyone has finished the race and tell your competition "nice swim"; this is polite, shows good sportsmanship and helps build camaraderie between teams.
2) Please stay and cheer on your relays. Once you have finished your leg of the relay don't run away to get your towel, stay and cheer on your swim team mates.
3) Please try and stay until the end of the meet. I know this can not be avoided sometimes, but it shows great team spirit to have everyone cheering at the very end of the meet. Its also nice to address the team as a whole at the end, and do a cheer for the other teams participation.

Reminder: Check the revised Thanksgiving Schedule, please volunteer for the next home meet, and keep up the good work.

Coach Matt and Coach Jennifer

Finally we are almost Through with the Flu and things can once again get back to normal. For those of you who attended the Howl at the Moon Invitational, congratulations on great swimming and you showed great support for each-other by cheering one another on, and also by the amount of comradery in between events. We finished in 4th place and i am very proud of everyone.
Some points of interest:
1 If a man in a white shirt approaches you after a race and starts to tell you that you did something wrong, don't freak out. It is the official explaining to you why you have been disqualified. Usually i try to intercept him and explain why to the swimmers myself, but occasionally they slip by.
2 Getting Disqualified: is not the end of the world. In my career i was disqualified 237 times, and many of those were at championship meets. Use the "DQ" as a learning tool and make the necessary improvement.
3 At this point, places really don't mean much to us as coaches and really shouldn't have such emphasis to the swimmers. What matters is self improvement. If you continue to work hard, listen, practice often, and make the necessary improvements to your strokes: places will improve on their own as will your times!!

Keep up the good work, i know its been a rough couple of weeks with illness and everything, but now that we are getting healthy again, please try and make it to as many practices as possible.
Volunteers: please help out with the meet this weekend, we will need alot of help from the parents to make the meet run smoothly and since its the first home meet, the nerves are high. Please lend a hand.

Coach Matt and Coach Jennifer