BLUE ASH YMCA SWIM TEAM
NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 1, 2007
PARENT’S
MEETING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 2007
We
had our Annual Parents' meeting last night - Sunday, September 30th.
If you missed the meeting, we will put all the handouts and information on our
website later this week.
KAST-A-WAY NIGHT Thursday, October 4th Kast-A-Way Swim Shop will be at
the Blue Ash YMCA to sell team suits, training equipment and other apparel for
our team. They will be there from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, thus being available for
most practices. Please stop in and get anything you need. New swimmers will be
taken care of by the sales ladies. We our team suit is a Speedo suit –
Endurance training for
the older girls, Eclipse Splice for the younger girls, boys will continue with
a Jammer. The boys and older girls will be a solid, with the younger girls 2
solid colors. These suits should be around for a longer time. We will also
embroider a BASH logo onto the suit (optional).
We are also encouraging older swimmers to purchase a team warm up jacket. Samples will be available at the fitting.
SWIM CAPS AND COACHING FEES
We still have a few families that have not paid their
initial coaching fees! Please do so quickly!
We will be ordering personalized swim caps for every swimmer
this season- IF fees have been paid- an order will be placed soon. Each swimmer
will get 2 caps with their last names.
Parent Information
Please wait until after practice
or before practice to talk to your swimmers’ coach. Please do not take time
away from your Coach and the swimmers during practice since we are limited to a
specific amount of time in the pool to swim. Also, the safety of our swimmers
is important and the coaches need to watch the pool during practice.
Also, parents much watch practice
from the lobbies of the pools. An extra person on the pool deck just adds more
distractions for the swimmers and coaches. We want the swimmers to give their
full attention to their coach during their practice.
Valuables We recommend that swimmers lock their
valuable in a locker at the YMCA. All
swim bags should either be brought on to the pool deck or place in or on top of
a locker. Please do not use benches or counter in the locker rooms to store
your bags.
Practice Schedule
Changes
Every week read this
section of the Newsletter to see if your swimmer's group is affected.
Saturday, October 6 - Elite or Senior
Practices start at 8:00 AM in the Fitness Center, check with your coaches about
Saturday Morning practice each week.
Elite Group's before
school practices will start until the week of October 8th, check
with Coach Bill
We have had a good two
weeks in the outdoor pool. Elite
and Senior will continue all practices in the outdoor Pool and hopefully going
until late October outside.
Adv Age will also
continue all practices in the out door pool for a few more weeks, Monday and
Wednesday they will have a dryland activity first, the other days – swimming
only!
Dolphin Group will swim
Tuesday – Thursday – Friday – Saturday practices in the outdoor pool – as long
as it is nice.
TEAM TEE SHIRTS Each
BASH swimmer will be getting a Free, new team tee shirt. BUT first we need an
idea. Please pass ideas on to Coach Bill, he is ordering shirts this week and
his idea is
“Swimmers are made by
their coaches and parents” so if you don’t like this, get him an idea.
MEET SCHEDULE IS finalized and is now on our website – but it is always
subject to changes!
TRAINING EQUIPMENT
The coaches of some of
our younger swimmers want their swimmers to purchase fins this season.
This is the equipment
needed by each groups. The YMCA supplies kick boards; pull buoys and some hand
paddles. Older swimmers can purchase their own it they would like.
Junior Team – Goggles with extra goggles in your swim bag
Blue Group - Goggles
with extra in your swim bag
Dolphin Group – goggles and rubber fins
Adv. Age Group – goggles and rubber fins
Senior Group – goggles, swim caps for girls, fins,
snorkel, mesh bag, water bottle
Elite Group – goggles, swim cap for girls, fins, snorkel,
mesh bag, water bottle
All equipment should
have names in permanent markers.
Extra goggles are
recommended for all swimmers – a light color for indoors, a dark color for
outdoors
Swim caps- all swimmers
that use caps should carry an extra or two in their swim bags
Fins – younger swimmers
should get all rubber fins with enclosed foot (no straps).
Coaches can answer
questions on equipment.
Our annual bus trip this
December is set – we are going to Fischers Indiana. We will leave the afternoon of December 7th and return late on
Sunday, December 9th after Finals. This is a USA Swimming meet that
requires an extra registration fee. More detail are available from Coach Bill
or Coach Evan and information will be on our website!
Would your company
be interested to place your logo on our team tee shirt for the season?
About 175 tee shirts - cost – is $1 per shirt for a 3 x 3 inch square on the
back of each shirt.