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Future Royal 1, Week 20 - Upcoming Week

Welcome!

Prepping for MLK this week! We will focus on starts, turns and finishes of all the strokes.

A quick reminder for meets: Swimmers need towels, goggles, caps, snacks and water! But do NOT need equipment. **Generally** we want the swimmer to be there 45-30 minutes prior to the start of the warm-up time listed on the calendar page of our website. This is important so that we can make sure they have their gear, and we are able to complete our warmup (we do a small dryland warmup before meets!).

NOTICE: We coaches were informed this week that the HSE doesn't like us using Door 8 *the door at the back of the pool near the windows* for drop off and pickup. Please have your swimmer go to Door 10 (*Entrance you'd go through coming from the parking lot by the pool, near the football field) instead.

Hopefully I don't forget anything for this upcoming meet (as you guys have seen I get the timing wrong a lot) but I will make any necessary updates to the groupme.

For announcements/important items this week there isn't much, besides a reminder that the MLK meet is this weekend so no Friday practice/look to the meet section to see more info!

• If your swimmer has not gotten a shirt, please email me! @[email protected] 
  • ​If I don't have them, I will ensure your swimmer is on the list for our staff who prepare the shirt bags. This might take some time.
• Almost all of us who aren't brand new have it already, but if you haven't, visit the Elsmore swim shop to ensure your swimmer has Fins and a Kickboard! Additionally, Elsmore recently received a stock of our "Meet" swimsuits, so go ahead and purchase a suit we use for meets:

• There is a GroupMe for FR1, go to this link to join! Feel free to message about any questions of other parents or myself in there, I will do my best to monitor that chat regularly.

  • https://groupme.com/join_group/103338122/Wtg0lWPG

• We want to represent our Royal colors, so we have what Coach Andy calls "Royal Fridays!" (an HSE tradition) where every Friday students/athletes, and coaches/teachers wear blue colors (specifically the shirt!)
• The SSC announcing crew (our wonderful announcers for meets) is looking to grow the group!
  • We would like to extend an invite to any Future Royal Parent who would like to give it a try. We have the November Splash on Saturday, and Matt would be glad to show you the ropes during this club-only event. It is a lot of fun and offers you a front row seat to the action - all while counting towards your volunteer obligation to the club when announcing for one of the club hosted/non-Splash meets. Please feel free to reach out to Matt to let me know if you would be interested - [email protected]
• *IF you've noticed that some groups getting goodiebags or other fun things, we can get that for our group too! Here's the following message from Kathy Nelson, who's the lead for the Team Parents Committee.*

"We are looking for a few more parents to join the Team Parents Committee for the FR1 group!!  Are you interested in becoming a little more involved in SSC?  Are you wanting to support and foster the culture and the cohesion of the FR1 group?  Are you wanting to get to know the FR1 athletes and families?  Being an FR1 Team Parent will allow you to do just that!

If you're interested in being part of the Team Parents Committee for FR1 or want additional information about the role, contact Kathy Nelsen at [email protected]."

Our Group count!

With goodie bags for meets/after practice snacks, below is a table of the FR1 swimmers I have on my list (*if you don't see your swimmers name please contact me so we can sort that out!).

Last, First names, alphabetical order:

Here is the link for the signupgenuis our group uses to organize who is bringing after practice snacks!

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/8050E4AAAAE29A75-53093543-fr1after

If you have any questions or comments for me, feel free to reach out to: [email protected]

CALENDAR

• Here is the FR1 specific calendar:
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fiks0bNn8Qc1R_IGuhHP2JU6QCFgSXrkyPw1YyJfoMg/edit?usp=sharing
• Here is the link to our Team calendar
  • https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/isscc/page/calendar/general-schedule
• We will have our normal practice schedule for next week, with practices from 5:20-6:20 on Tues, Thurs but not Friday!\
• We will have the MLK meet Sat and Sun mornings (*see below for details)

MEETS

UPCOMING

MLK Invitational

• 17 January 2025 - 19 January 2025
• Friday -- not for our group. Saturday -- lots of events for our group! Sunday -- lots of events for our group!
• The Saturday and Sunday morning sessions will serve as preliminary sessions for finals later that afternoon/evening.
• During prelims, there will be 2 pools(likely a boys pool and a girls pool); finals will be swum in 1 pool.
• 10 & Unders will only have an A final (only 8 10&Under swimmers will swim in the final session per event, e.g., 50 breast for 10&Unders will have 8 10&Under swimmers in the final, one swimmer can qualify for finals in multiple events (e.g., Sally can qual in 50 breast and 100 free for example).
• WARM UP MEET START TIMES
  **Warm Up Lanes for ea. club will be assigned prior to the start of ea. warm up. Following is warmup time first, meet start second. Please arrive 30-45 mins before warmup start time (E.g., 7:15/7:30AM for Sat and Sun Prelims) E.g., 7:15/7:30AM is our ITD time
  Sat & Sun Prelims (2 pools) 8:00 am 9:00 am
  Sat Finals (1 pool) 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
  Sun Finals (1 pool) 3:00 pm 4:00 pm

Regardless of my poor memory, here is the link to our calendar page that should have information about any upcoming meets and provide a spot to sign up for volunteer slots!

• If you would like to leave a comment on the meet entry form as to what you'd like your swimmer to swim, you can do so. 
• I will be the one assigning swimmers to events, so do not do so, but as noted you may leave comments if you want to suggest an event.

Here is the all-important link!

https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/isscc/page/calendar#/team-events/upcoming

A reminder for meets: sometimes they can go long, make sure that your swimmers has snacks and water so they're ready to race when the time comes! Lastly please ensure that your swimmer has a towel, caps, and goggles when they arrive at the meet!

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 

For anyone who wants to be more involved or read more about the swimming community, here are some organizations/swimming influential members that focus on the sport!

https://www.usaswimming.org/

https://swimswam.com/

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/

​https://elsmoreswim.com/collections/southeastern-swim-club.html