Meet Sign Out Now Available!!

Hi Everyone!  The Meet Sign Out is now available on Sign Up Genius for the Meets at the link below.  Please add all of the childrens' names (First and Last) to the Comment section when signing them out!  This is VERY IMPORTANT!!  Sign outs MUST be done for the Blue Green Meet (06/07) only by This Thursday (06/05) at noon.   For all other meets, Sign Outs will need to be completed by the Saturday (at Noon) before the meet.  We will send out reminders but if you know in advance you are going to be gone, you may sign them out now.

Click to Sign out of Swim Meets

 

Thank you so Much!

Laurie Williamson

Volunteer for the Blue Green Meet!

We are asking each family to fill one volunteer position for the Blue Green meet. The sign up can be found using this link:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0C4DAFAC2D6-2014.

Thanks!

Cyndi

BLUE vs GREEN intersqaud MEET!

 Blue Green Meet Information
Saturday, June 7^th, 2014 from 8am-10ish
warm-ups begin at 7:15am
 

The Blue Green Meet is our practice meet so that parent volunteers can learn their positions, and kids can experience how a real meet will operate.  It also allows the coaches to get a base time for every swimmer in each stroke.

All swimmers need to be at the pool by 7 am  -- with sunscreen already applied. It is helpful if sunscreen is dry before we marker names and numbers on the kids' shoulders .  If you want, you may pre-mark the right shoulder with first initial, last name. Like this:

M. Jones

Due to a TSA rule change we will also be marking numbers on the kids’ arms for all meets.  You will be getting your child’s number at the Blue Green meet.  This number will be required on your child’s arm at each meet and will not change throughout the season. (So, it is helpful to learn the number and have it written on your child before each meet)

NOTE: Junior Dragons do NOT swim at this meet, and there is no practice Saturday morning.  A special Junior Dragon meet will be announced later in the season.  If you and your Junior Dragon would like to see how a meet runs, please join us and cheer on the Sea Dragons!

Swimmers should wear their team suits and team caps.  If you do not a have a Sea Dragon cap, wear no cap or a PLAIN cap (i.e. no other team names -- year-round team or high school -- as your cap.  This is a TSA rule change this year- so NO exceptions!)  The apparel folks will be on site selling caps and other Sea Dragon goodies.  Support the Sea Dragons and buy your caps and t-shirts this week!

Parents and spectators should bring folding chairs. Due to limited space, no chairs are allowed in the dragon lair, except for parent volunteers.

Meet format will run as follows:  We will follow traditional meet format, beginning with the 6 & unders swimming freestyle, followed by 7-8 freestyle, 9-10s, etc.  Stroke order is freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, then butterfly. We will not do the freestyle relay at the end, however we may practice some medley relays at the end of the meet, to learn how to line up the relays. 

Please allow our kid pushers and clerk of course crew to line up and seat your swimmers for their races. Do not walk your swimmer to the chairs behind the blocks as this confuses things and causes congestion.

Also remind your swimmers that it is good swimming etiquette to stay in the pool after a race until all the swimmers in the heat a re finished. And handshakes and high-fives for the swimmers in the adjacent lanes are also way cool!

Volunteer Assignments

ALL parents should check in at the volunteer table between 7-7:15 with our volunteer coordinators Cyndi Edgington and Mimi Switzer.  ALL families are needed to volunteer at this meet in the positions that they signed up for during the regular season.  Experienced parents are needed to train new parents on the volunteer positions, so please be ready to step up.  There will be a volunteer sign up email to follow this email, please sign up for a position- it takes a village to run a swim meet!

Parking

Due to our LIMITED parking, please walk, bike or carpool up to the pool. If you must park on the street, please park on only one s ide of the road to leave enough clearance for emergency vehicles.

Concessions

The Concessions committee will be providing some complementary coffee and Great Harvest Bread Co. breakfast breads for the team, but will not have anything for sale.  Please pack plenty of fluids for you and your swimmer. 

 

Go Blue!  Go Green!  Go Sea Dragons!

Practice cancelled tonight 5/27

Practice is cancelled tonight due to rain and thunder. Stay dry and see you all tomorrow.

Coach Kevin.

Durham Bulls Tix Purchase Deadline

The deadline to purchase tickets to the Durham Bulls Swim Night has been extended to Thursday, May 29th! Place your check made out to SMSD in the envelop on the coach's table. 

Durham Bulls Swim Night: 

Thursday, June 26th, gates open at 6:00, parade at 6:15, first pitch 7:05.

Tickets are $8.99 each, Thursdays are $1 concessions night with $1 hot dog, popcorn, and french fries.

Join us for a great night of baseball with your swim team friends!

~Cyndi

p.s. There are no other taxes or fees with the ticket price.

A note from Coach Kevin

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

Swim caps!!

Support your SMSD!  Swim caps are in!  $14 for silicone and $5 for latex. Catch Barb Tapper at practice or email atbtapper3@gmail.com and she'll do her best to get you one!