We hope everyone had a great Memorial Day. I thought the first week of practice went really well and we are off to a great start! It was also great to see old faces and new faces joining the sea dragon team. I am very excited to see what this team can accomplish this year. I would like to suggest a couple thing as we begin to prepare for week two. I suggested this stuff last year so bare with me if you have done this already. We all know how hard swimming is and if it was easy everyone would do it. But there are ways to make it easier and that is to create less DRAG. I want to suggest that if your child wears a swim shirt that they dont wear it during practice. These are not allowed to be wore in meets and they create tons of drag and limit movements of strokes too. Also anyone with long hair should wear a swim cap. Swim caps reduce drag and keep hair out your face. And the last thing I suggest is getting a good pair of goggles. These help your swimmer feel more comfortable in the water because they can see and when they can see they put there faces in the water and when their faces are in the water their body's are at the surface of the water which yes you guessed it REDUCE DRAG!
We will begin working on all of the strokes over the next week or two so it is important that swimmers try to get to as many practices as possible so they can work on all of their strokes. We will most likely spend 2-3 days focusing on each individual stroke, drills and technique, so if you miss 2 days in a row you could miss out on learning a stroke.
Also, next Saturday (June 7) is the Blue/Green Meet! More details to come, but this is our intersquad meet where the swimmers get to experience the meet format, the coaches can get swimmer times, and parents learn how to run their volunteer positions. It will take most of the morning so please let us know ahead of time if you will not be there so we can take your swimmer out of the meet and get their times at a later date. There will be no practice this day just the meet.
This Saturday's clinic will be a FLIPTURN clinic and therefore will be restricted to 11 and overs. Reminder: practices start an hour later this year so the clinic is from 10:45-11 am.
Finally, the deadline to turn in Durham Bull money is TOMORROW at practice. Tickets are $9 each. The game is on Thursday, June 26th so come out to cheer on the Bulls and have fun with your friends.
See everyone tomorrow!
Seadragon Coaches
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