Future Royals 2 - Week 9 Newsletter
Champions in the Pool. Champions In Life.
GRATITUDE~GRIT~GROWTH~MINDFULNESS~OWNERSHIP
FUTURE ROYALS 2:
Happy Sunday!
I hope everyone was able to enjoy the beautiful fall weather this weekend!
It was so great to see some of our FR2 families at the annual SSC BarnDance on Saturday night! Out group had some impressive participants in the Costume Parade to kick off the evening with Timmy Lawrance being the "Best in Show" for our group! I am including a link to the pictures from the evening if you are interested in looking through! Stephanie Miller kindly organized them into folders to make browsing a little bit easier! :)
Happy Meet Week for those of you who will be participating in the Noblesville Ice Breaker coming up this weekend at Noblesville High School! I look forward to a great weekend of racing and seeing the hard work from the past few weeks pay off with some fast swimming!
Recently, we have been dialed in on "the little things" at practice. These include starts, turns, finishes and small technical aspects of our strokes that sometimes get forgotten about when going fast. Saturday we worked A LOT on using our legs on starts and making connections between dryland skills and in-water skills that can help make swimming easier and make strokes, starts and turns more efficient! We also incorporated drills, some new and some old, to help remind us of the little things that we should always be doing without even thinking. These last few weeks have been set up for swimmers to start making good habits and forgetting the bad habits so proper technique comes more naturally during a race!
This week we will continue to do some drill work and race-prep for this weekend!
***REMINDERS***
- THIS WEEKEND (11/1 - 11/3) is the Noblesville Ice Breaker Meet at Noblesville High School! If you are signed up for this meet, please make sure to check the meet details down below and on the meet page on our website for updated information. You can also get to the meet page by clicking HERE!
- NO PRACTICE SATURDAY (11/2) THIS WEEK! Due to the Noblesville meet this weekend, we will NOT be having practice for anyone not swimming this meet.
- It is starting to get cooler out so please make sure your swimmer is prepared for the dropping temperatures at the end of practice! I require for all swimmers to be wearing shoes, a shirt/sweatshirt and pants/shorts to leave the pool area. There are also a variety of fall germs going around right now, so if your swimmer is not feeling well please use your best judgement in whether or not they are well enough to attend practice.
- We do dryland as a group on WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY each week. If your swimmer would like to participate in dryland they MUST be wearing tennis shoes. I do not allow Crocs, sandals or slides of any kind.
- Please help me remind your swimmers to bring all of their equipment as well as a water bottle to practice every day! Having their own equipment and a drink nearby allows us to move through practice more efficiently and get more work done in the time that we have!
Below are a few important reminders/updates for this week:
- We are going to be starting up BLUE FRIDAYS again this year! Each Friday, please have your athlete show their ROYAL PRIDE by sporting either a blue shirt/sweatshirt or an SSC/HSE Swimming shirt to school!
- Please make sure your swimmer has and is bringing all of their equipment everyday! If there is something you haven’t been able to purchase or you have questions, please let me know, but we are really starting to use fins and kickboard especially each day so it is important that we have what we need to be successful.
- We have suits/warm-ups to try on at the pool so let me know if you would like your swimmer to try anything before ordering the new team apparel for this year! Below is the link for Elsmore Swim Shop to purchase gear, suits and
- https://elsmoreswim.com/collections/southeastern-swim-club.html
- If you have not yet signed up for a slot on the Sign Up Genius for snacks, please do so! :) If you have any questions, please reach out to myself or Alyssa Barr!
- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4AA8AE28A1FDC52-51554350-practice?useFullSite=true#/
- JOIN OUR GROUP-ME!
- Here is the link to join our Future Royals 2 Parents Group-Me! If you have not joined yet, PLEASE do so as this is a great way for us to communicate with one another and connect our group! https://groupme.com/join_group/95496817/SSTllfQr
For those of you who don’t know me already , here is a quick "About Me" to get to know me better!
My name is Kylie Love (formerly Sutherlin, I recently got married) and I am a Royal at heart! I started my swimming journey at SSC in the lessons program at age 6 and ended my competitive swimming career with SSC the summer before my sennior year of college at age 22. I attended Hamiton Southeastern High School and graduated in 2016, helping bring home a State Runner-Up title my senior year while also being part of the pool and school record-setting 400 Freestyle Relay team in the process. After graduating, I went on to swim and Study Elementary Special Education at Eastern Michigan University. I graduated from EMU in December of 2021 with my teaching degree and decided it was time to come home, not only to Indiana, but to HSE/SSC as well! I got a job as a Special Education teacher here at HSE High School in January of 2022 and have loved it ever since. Swimming has been such a huge part of my life for so long and I am thankful to be back at the club that has provided so much to me, working alongside so many coaches who helped get me to where I am today!
OUR GROUP:
We have some familiar faces returning to our group this fall while also welcoming some new swimmers from Future Royals 1 and some who are new to the team all together! Below I have included a "Meet Our Group" chart that will help everyone get to know the members of our FR2 family! :)
This week I would like to welcome 2 new members to our FR2 group - Ruth Carter and Lilah Lambert! They will be moving up from FR1 to join us, so if you see them around, please make sure to make them feel welcome!
| Sarah Alsadi | Adley Barker | Nash Barr |
| Caroline Breske | Myla Guiden | Layla Halvorson |
| Donna Janssens |
Lorrie Janssens | Timmy Lawrance |
| Chloe McIntosh | Arjun Rajput | Addison Sealls |
| Viyaana Shukla | Meghna Vinesh | Jamie Voigtman |
| Krystal Wang | James Wright |
SWIM EQUIPMENT:
Please make sure swimmers have all swimming equipment they need for training - labeled with their name and group (FR2) in Sharpie! We will be adding a new piece of equipment this fall ... A SNORKEL! I recommend going to Elsmore Swim Shop with your swimmer so they can help make sure you get a snorkel that will fit!
Now is a great time to check and see if anything needs to be replaced (Fins too small? Goggles leaking? Mesh bag ripped? Kickboard missing?). I have included a list below, as well as the link to the equipment that we need and a phone number/address for Elsmore.
- Mesh Bag (optional but recommended)
- Swim Suit
- Cap (this will be a required piece of equipment in our group this year!)
- Goggles
- Towel
- Kickboard
- Fins
- SNORKEL :)
- Water Bottle
CALENDAR and WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
Weekly, our schedule will be Mondays and Fridays from 5:20 - 6:20pm, Wednesdays from 5:00 - 6:00pm and Saturdays from 11:30 - 12:30pm. If there will be any change to our regular schedule I will let you know as soon as possible and with as much notice as I can to help you prepare or make arrangements if necessary.
PLEASE send your swimmer ready for dryland each practice. We will typically only do dryland activities on WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY but I like for swimmers to be prepared in the case that we do any type of land activity on a different day. Dryland attire includes:
- T-shirt (preferably SSC if possible)
- Shorts/Sweatpants
- TENNIS SHOES - NO Crocs, flip flops or sandals of any kind!
- For the safety of all athletes, swimmers will NOT participate in ANY type of running activities if they come with shoes other than tennis shoes. They will be asked to participate in stationary exercises only.
- Water Bottle
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
MONDAY - October 28th , 2024 from 5:20 - 6:20pm
WEDNESDAY - October 30th, 2024 from 5:00 - 6:00pm
FRIDAY - November 1st, 2024 from 5:20 - 6:20pm
SATURDAY - November 2nd, 2024 NO PRACTICE DUE TO NOBLESVILLE MEET! :)
CALENDAR LINKS:
UPCOMING MEETS/EVENTS
- Noblesville Ice Breaker at Noblesville High School
- Friday November 1st - Sunday November 3rd
- REGISTRATION DEADLINE HAS PASSED!
- Tentative Warm-Up and Meet Start times:
- SAT PM (12 & Under) Warm-ups @1:00 pm, Meet Start @2:00 pm
- ITD (In the Door) @12:45pm
- New WHITE team shirts
- SUN PM (12 & Under) Warm-ups @12:00 pm, Meet Start @1:00pm
- ITD (In the Door) @11:45am
- New BLUE team shirts
- SAT PM (12 & Under) Warm-ups @1:00 pm, Meet Start @2:00 pm
- City of Mason November Invitational at Mason Municipal Aquatic Center
- Friday November 15th - Sunday November 17th
- REGISTRATION DEADLINE HAS PASSED!
- More information coming soon! :)
- Thanksgiving Splash at Hamilton Southeastern High School
- Saturday November 23rd
- REGISTRATION DEADLINE - NOVEMBER 18th! You can register your swimmer HERE!
- Please only put event suggestions in the NOTE section - I will discuss events with each swimmer!
ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
A big "THANK YOU" to Coach Campbell for putting these links all together in one place! For anyone who wants to be more involved or read more on the swimming community, here are some links to check out!
CONTACT ME:
If you ever have any questions, comments or concerns please don’t hesitate to reach out to me by email at [email protected].
Please allow at least a 24 hour response window to any email. I am typically pretty quick to respond, but as I have said before I am a teacher a well and work from 7:15 - 3:15 each day. I may also not have the answer that you are looking for and am utilizing my resources to get the best information for you. In that case I will reach out and let you know that I am looking into it and will be getting back to you as soon as possible. In case of an emergency, or last minute change, please utilize our Group Me or contact me at 317-752-8465.
Thank you for your cooperation! I truly look forward to working with your swimmers this season and helping them become the best they can be in and out of the pool!
Kylie Love
Future Royals 2 Coach | Assistant Royals Coach
GRIT ~ GRATITUDE ~ GROWTH~ OWNERSHIP ~ MINDFULNESS
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