Morning Wahoos - Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and enjoyed your time at the pool, beach, river, or where ever you were!

Congrats to Megan on her wedding this weekend. She and her husband Bo will be honeymooning in August once Bo is done sitting for the bar and we are done swimming.

Just a few friendly reminders for this week:

1) We are still accepting registrations for swim and dive - if you have registered for swim and want to dive or registered to dive and want to swim, its just $25 more. Simply notify me and pass a check made payable to WRA onto Flo Dooley either directly or through the Woodmont Post Office box address found on the membership page. If you haven't gotten your registration form in yet, please contact me ASAP, we'd actually like to resolve all of that today if we can. It will make for a much smoother registration process with JRAC.

2) With the pool now open our 5:30 midget/junior practice will be a little tighter as we will not have as many lanes available for us. Please work with Megan and Katie to see if it it might be appropriate for your 11-12 year old swimmer to practice from 4:00-5:00 with our oldest swimmers. This will not be the right solution for all, but may work for some of the more experienced juniors and allow everyone to get a little more space in the lanes.

3) The Ice Cream/Tie Die Swim & Dive Social is coming up this Sunday from 2:30 to 4:30 - please remember to RSVP to the evite so that our ice cream/tie die coordinators can ensure we have enough supplies to tie die and enough Ice Cream to share. The ice cream will be provided by the team, but we are asking for donations of topings, take a look at the evite and let us know what you can do. Also there will be a partent meeting for the swim team from 4:00-4:30 to fill you in on some of the details of our upcoming meets.

4) The Final training clinic opportuntity is this Wednesday beginning at 6 at Avalon - please consider attending if you haven't already. Clerk of Course and Strokes&Turns represent our biggest need. And for those of you who'd like to rehear what you heard for the first time going one more time is always an option. Here is the official schedule for the classes - it has changed slightly from the other training clinics:
STARTER HEAD TABLE REFEREE S&T HEAD TIMER
6:00 – 7:00 6:00 – 7:00 6:00 – 6:45 6:50 – 8:15 7:00 – 7:30

Clerk of Course
6:00 – 7:00

Thanks for all you do parents to make this a wonderful experience for your kids - we are working through the sign-up genius over the next few days and hope to have that finalized and reposted by the end of this week so you will know for certain what your swim meet commitments are. Where you are new to a trained position, we are working to have an individual experienced in that role for you to shadow the first time you work that role. Thanks for your patience as we ensure that everyone is doing their part!

See you at the pool ~

Jennifer

Practice 2011

Hello Wahoos and Welcome new Wahoos!!! We are so glad to have you joining us!

Practices start on Monday - can you believe it! We look forward to seeing you there - as a reminder before school gets out practices are as follows:

4:00-5:00 Intermediates/Seniors
5:00-5:30 Mites
5:30-6:30 Midgets/Juniors

Its also training clinic time for the upcoming summer season. Attendance of training (or USS Certification) is required to fill the certain positions during the swim meet. For most positions this training must be taken annually, the only exceptions are announcer and starter.
If you are USS Certified for any of these positions please let me know so that I can record it in my records. If you aren't please mark your calendars and be sure you attend one of the following sessions and let me know you are attending.

All of the classes are 1 hour or less - so it is not a major commitment, but your attendance is absolutely necessary to ensure the success of the season. Here's the schedule:

JRAC Officials Clinics 2011
Location & Date Strokes & Turns Referee Clerk of Course Announcer Starter Head Timer Head Table
Sunday, May 15th 6:15 - 7:15 7:20 - 8:00 6:00 - 7:00 5:00 - 5:30 5:30 - 6:00 6:30 - 7:00 6:00 - 7:00
Westwood Tommy Terrell Tommy Terrell Kirby Pierce Doug Stell Doug Stell Doug Stell Kathy Watson
Tuesday, May 17th 6:15 - 7:15 7:20 - 8:00 6:00 - 7:00 6:00 - 7:00 7:00 - 7:30 6:00 - 7:00
CCV Bev Harris Bev Harris Kirby Pierce Doug Stell Doug Stell Kathy Watson
Tuesday, May 24th 6:15 - 7:15 7:20 - 8:00 6:00 - 7:00 6:00 - 7:00 7:00 - 7:30 6:00 - 7:00
Walton Park Bev Harris Bev Harris Janet Ferrell Doug Stell Doug Stell Kathy Watson
Required: Annually Annually Annually Every 2 Years Every 2 Years Annually Annually

For those of you who have been with the program or involved with summer swimming for more than one season, I highly encourage you to select one of the positions above and get trained. The more folks we get trained to perform these roles the fewer times any one person has to fulfill the role during the summer. So get trained and help spread the wealth!

To help you decide where you would like to focus your training time, here are descriptions of each of the positions as well as the number of individuals we need to fill that position for each away meet and each home meet.

Position Description # at Away Meet # at Home Meet Notes
Referee Referee holds a meeting with the coaches 15 minutes before a dual meet at which time he shall review the Rules of the league and answer any questions pertaining to the meet. The referee coordinates the strokes and turns staff and also answers any questions during the course of the meet and provides support to the strokes and turns staff. Training required annually or USS certified. - 1
Strokes & Turns Two turns judges and two strokes judges are required for each meet. They ensure the swimmers are completing the strokes and turns legally. They are responsible for disqualifying swimmers when they complete a stroke or turn illegally. Training required annually or USS certified.

4
(2 per half)


4
(2 per half)


Our biggest need
Clerk of Course Organizes the swimmers into heats for each event. Training required annually.

2
(1 per half)


2
(1 per half)


Our next biggest need
Announcer The announcer along with the clerk of the course maintains the pace of the meet. The timing of the warm-ups, calls to the clerk of the course, and events on the block are announced. Results of evenuts are announced as soon as available. Announcer also plays the national anthem before each home meet. Training required every 2 years.

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1

Starter All heats go off the blocks after the starter's count and sounding of the buzzer. Must be USS certified or attended training within the past 24 months.

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1

Head Timer Head timer coordinates the timers during the meet and mans extra stop watches in case of timer error. Training is required annually.

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1

Head Table

Head Table worker coordinates the Table Workers who accumulate and enter the results of each heat swum during the meeting into the Meet Manager Software. The Head Table work takes any questions necessary to the Referee. Training is required annually.


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1


Thanks for doing your part to help the summer go smoothly!

See you at the pool!