JUNIOR ROYAL 4 NEWSLETTER: WEEK 3 (LCM 25)

Champions in the Pool. Champions In Life.

GRATITUDE~GRIT~GROWTH~MINDFULNESS~OWNERSHIP

Good Evening!

We have had a great first two weeks of practice as the Junior 4 group! I am very happy with where our minds are going into the season as well as how much they are starting to take ownership over their swimming, dryland, journals and goals! We are on our way to our first meet this weekend! This is a 2-day meet where the kids are swimming some events that are "out of the norm" for them and are ones that they are all learning to swim better and more strategically. As I told them at the beginning of the long course season...they will become 400 IM and 200 of stroke'ers this summer. If they can do those no other event is ever hard. I fully expect there will be some ups and downs this weekend as we are only 3 weeks back into training, it will be more about managing expectations at this point in the season vs going all life time bests. This weekend's meet is a normal suit meet. We will wear tech suits at Summer Sizzler and either the IU meet or Enchanted Forest. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out!

GEAR

Reminder the gear for this season (besides suit, goggles & cap): For our group we will need 

• Mesh Bag for Gear
• Kick Board
• Snorkel
• Fins: Short fins and long fins
• Pull buoy
• Paddles
• Tempo Trainer
• Drag Socks

**I have added a couple things to the list and understand the kids not having these right away but I do want to start using them by Week 3 of practice. 

**We have also had quite a few kids say they "don't have a snorkel" or "things have been taken out of my bag" - please double check to make sure your swimmer has all of the gear they need

  80 PERCENTER'S

• Evan Calanog
• Abby Collins
• Sarah Ding
• MacKenzi Fleck
• Natalie Gladieux
• Grace Gowdamarajan
• Sawyer Green-Whitehead
• Landon Marini
• Delaney Miller
• Jack Reine
• Milley Sealls

COACH BLAKE 'RULES'

As a reminder these are Coach Blake's "Rules" for practice:

1. When Coaches ask the group is to quiet down - eyes on the person talking, ears listening and being engaged with what is being said.
2. When a Coach (or any other adult) isn't talking and we are on the wall waiting to do the next thing or waiting for the next rep - be as LOUD and FUN as you want - just make sure we leave on time and UNDERSTAND what you are doing in the set
3. Ask questions!! If we don't ask questions and just get in the water and go through the motions it doesn't help us in getting better.
4. Respect ALL OF OUR TEAMMATES and only be positive with one another - if you can't be nice don't say anything at all!
5. Let's have FUN and teach EACH OTHER (that includes the kids teaching me!)
6. At meets all Coach Blake expects....1. To have FUN! 2. To do your best (swim your best!) 3. To Learn!

IMR/IMX INFO

As part of our seasons goals we will be focusing on IMR (IM Ready) and IMX (IM Xtreme) scores. These scores are great indicators of where your swimmers are, how well rounded we are helping them become and where we can improve. The Junior 4's are working on improving their IMX score. To learn more about these click HERE. If you have any questions on these or on what your child's scores currently are don't hesitate to ask!

• Reminder this group uses IMR and IMX scores to better understand how we are doing on creating holistic swimmers these updated IMR/IMX scores will be HERE (when I get them updated!) . This will be updated seperately after each Meet so you can see the improvement from beginning of the season to your swimmer's final meet!
  • ​I wanted to give you a basic understanding of IMR/IMX scores - these scores are based on your child's age, event swam and time they swam it in. This gets put into an algorithim and it spits out a score. The higher the score the better your athlete has done in that event - our goal is to have all of these scores be as high as possible and as close to each other as possible (Example: Blake is 9 and has a 300 in the 50 Fly, a 265 in the 50 Breaststroke, a 393 in the 50 Backstroke and a 287 in the 200 IM -- these scores help make him eligible for the Sharks group starting in the Fall)

STAFF

Social Media: If you do not already, follow the team on social media to get more info, see highlights on your kids and more!

• Instagram: @southeasternswimclub
• Facebook: Southeastern Swim Club

UPCOMING EVENTS

HIGHLIGHTS

• The highlight I had this week with the kids was " Man Coach Blake the warm up is so boring...it's the same every day, why?"..."Well it helps for you guys to know what you're doing and to be able to key in on the little things"......10 minutes later I let them know what the warm up was and I 'lagged behind' them out of the weight room. Without me having to say a thing, they got changed, got their gear, went to their lanes and started themselves on the warm up...that swimmers is why the warm up is "boring and the same every day!" So proud to watch them take OWNERSHIP over it!! 

UPCOMING

• May Meters Kickoff Meet: May 3rd+4th
• Summer Sizzler: May 30th-June 1st Sign up HERE 

GENERAL CALENDAR

Our general calendar will be on a Google Doc calendar once I have it complete at the end of this week! 

WEEKLY CALENDAR

LANE ASSIGNMENTS

The lane assignments below are just a starter and will be changed as I see a need for it. This season we are going to learn to be one team, one group lifting each other up!