Happy last week of swim team!  I’m excited for the party tomorrow and thrilled that the forecast for the week is looking good.

 

Our last meet is away at Chartwell (9885 Rod Rd, Johns Creek 30022) on Tuesday.  Please plan to arrive at 4:30.  The following information was sent to me from their team rep (Covered bleachers?  Fancy!)

Your bullpen area will be through the pool area by the tennis courts.  There are covered bleachers for your families and kiddos.  The kids can put towels on the tennis courts but no chairs or tents are allowed there.

Our concessions team will be grilling Hamburgers, Hot dogs and chicken.  The sides include chips, green salad, pasta salad and buttered noodles.  We, of course, have candy and the Kona truck will be in the parking lot from 6-8pm.  We sell soda, water and Gatorade.

Please have your families arrive anytime after 4pm. 

 

If your child cannot swim at the meet on Tuesday and you haven't let us know yet, please text me and Grayson ASAP.  Grayson 678-764-2266 and Sara 678-910-9931

 

Brain Gore took some great pictures at Glastonberry—both times!  Thanks, Brian!  Here are the two links to those pictures:

https://goo.gl/photos/CniR7WeYbMwGwE9t5

https://goo.gl/photos/4V8rT4Zw3mXT7SVQA

 

For our last Fun Friday practice, which will actually be on Wednesday of this week, the coaches are going to make pancakes for the team instead of us buying doughnuts.  If you have an electric griddle we can borrow to help make this happen, could you bring it to the pool this week?  We can store it in the clubhouse until Wednesday morning.  We are looking to borrow 3 or 4.  Thank you!

 

Below is some information regarding a fall swim season the ASA is organizing.  Woodfield will not be hosting a team, but if your child is interested in participating, you can contact them and ask what neighborhoods will have teams. 

The Atlanta Swim Association (ASA) will be offering a "fall" season in 2017.  This season is targeted (but not limited to) swimmer's age 8-14 and will consist of 5 meets to be held on Saturday mornings.  The meets are tentatively scheduled to begin Saturday, August 19 and end Saturday September 23.  Age groups will be 8 & Under, 9-10, 11-12, 13 and over.  The purpose of the Fall Season is to offer swimmers a more chances to swim in meets without the full time commitment to year round swimming.  Additionally, this season will provide a great chance for kids who will be swimming for their school teams to stay in shape. 

 The league will feature some of the following: 

·        We will follow ASA rules, with relaxed membership requirements to allow swimmers access to more teams.  Participation rules will likely be relaxed as well for these meets in an effort to allow kids more chances to swim, including events they may not get to swim in a normal summer league meet.

·        We anticipate smaller teams and smaller (shorter) meets.  This will provide some kids a shot at winning events in a meet for the first time, as we anticipate most year round swimmers will be occupied with their fall seasons.

·        Meets will be held at a central location each week (kind of mini invitational) and will have automatic timing used for results.

·        Team scoring will be kept, but will obviously not be the focus of the meets.

·        We plan of offering ribbons and the same essential structure and operational support you get in the summer.

·        Like other off season offerings for other sports there will likely be fewer practices offered, but the same 5 dual meets will be available.  

·        We will have a championship meet at Marist in mid-September as a culmination of the season.  Each swimmer will receive a medal for participating; as well as ribbons for each event.  Entry fees for this meet are $15 per swimmer.

·        We hope this will increase participation in middle school and high school swim teams.

·        The smaller teams may provide your assistant coaches valuable head coaching opportunities if your normal head coach is unavailable to coach during this season.

·        This will also likely offer assistant team managers, parent reps, and other meet volunteers a chance to ease their way into their jobs.

·        League fees per swimmer will be $20 with online registration available viaatlantaswimming.com.

·        Officials fees will be $20 per team per meet.

 

If you are interested in having a team, or more info about the program please e mail [email protected] , and stay tuned on atlantaswimming.com for more details.  We would like to get an idea of how many teams we expect to have and how we can best configure the schedule to make it as easy as possible for the teams.  Please share this with your teams and families to spread the word on something that we think will help our sport.  We plan on having informational meetings later this month and hope you can attend.  I will forward dates and times once I have them set.  In the meantime please let me know if you have any questions about this program.