Innisfail Info - Saturday July 4th

The meet this weekend is hosted by the Innisfail Dolphins Swim Club in Innisfail. Innisfail is one of our further away meets, about an hour and fifteen minutes drive North on the QEII. Some families choose to drive up the night before and camp which is a nice option. There is a campground in the town of Innisfail and the Best Western has been suggested by the host club:

• Innisfail Campground or


• Best Western (Ask for the Innisfail Dolphin “Special Rate” of $98.99 rate - Breakfast included! Valid until June 15, 2009)
  Best Western newly built in 2009 contact number: (403)227-4405

WARM UPS!!!!! - are at 7:30am again, this means all Swordfish swimmers should check in with their coaches no later than 7:15am!!!!

At our meet we had alot of issues with relays! This is very frustrating to the coaches as well as your team mates! If you do not want to be a relay team member then you need to write this on the sign up sheet, this is clearly written on all meet sign up sheets! If you forget to write No Relays next to your swimmers name(s) then it is important that you notify the coaches first thing in the morning!!!!!

From here on out, if you do not notify the coaches that your swimmer will not be able to swim relays and are consequently put on a relay team it will be the responsibility of your swimmer of your swimmer to inform their teammates that their relay will be scratched and they will be unable to participate.

IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT THE MEET:

Shelter:

Swimmers will be expected to use the outdoor park area between races. There is not enough room in the pool to accommodate all swimmers. Please come prepared to spend the day outside. Bring your own tent!!

Viewing Area

Due to lack of deck space there will be bleachers provided for spectators. Once you have viewed the race please make your way back to your team area. This will ensure the enjoyment for all spectators and athletes.

Food & Concession:

We will have a concession inside which will be open all day containing snacks and lunch. Deck food and lunch will be provided for all officials and coaches only. There will be no designated lunch break. Afternoon officials will be fed and then take over when required.

Please see the link below for a map to the Innisfail Aquatic Center:

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COACHES CORNER - OUR FANTASTIC SWIM MEET!!!

What an amazing meet we hosted!!!! Thank you to all our amazing Swordfish parents for putting together an exciting flawless meet, swimmers pat your parents on the back!

Some great swims of the meet include:

• India's lighting fast 25m freestyle!!!


• Graeme's first races of the season were a great success, the coaches hope he will keep up the hard work and race again very soon!


• JC is looking great in all of her races and improving every meet!


• Nic is racing strong and learning to focus in his races - face forward!!! :)


• Andrew is racing like a champ and beginning to take the lead in his races!!

Great Job to all of our swimmers!!! A major focus for the next two weeks in practice will be turns as all the coaches noticed this was a primary area of needed improvement for our club.

Distance races next week in Innisfail will be very exciting!!! I want to see all of Swordfish swimmers out in the stands cheering on our teammates and pushing them to new levels of success!!!!

Sorry that time is July 2nd NOT July 3rd. My mistake. Thanks.

Attention Green and Black swimmers and parents

New pool time for Green and Black Starting July 3^rd until the end of the season

Group	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Green	6pm-7:30	6-8pm	6-7:30pm	6-8pm	@ SAIT
Black	6-8pm	6-8pm	6-8pm	6-8pm	@SAIT

*Green will still be doing dryland on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s and Black will be doing dryland on Monday’s and Wednesday’s so remember to still bring appropriate dryland clothing.

Practice Change from June 22-July 2

Just a reminder to all parents and swimmers that the Sait pool will be closed down for maintenance from June 22 to July 2. During this time all Swordfish swimmers will be swimming at Foothills. Here are the times each group will be swimming.

Groups	Monday June 22	Tuesday June 23	Wednesday June24	Thursday June 25	Friday June 26
Gold @ Foothills	6:00pm- 7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	6:00pm-7:00pm	7:00pm-8:00pm	NO PRACTICE
Orange @ Foothills	6:00pm-7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	6:00pm-7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	NO PRACTICE
Red @ Foothills	6:00pm- 7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	6:00pm- 7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	NO PRACTICE
Green @ Foothills	7:00pm- 8:00pm	*7:30pm- 9:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	*7:30pm- 9:00pm	NO PRACTICE
Black @ Foothills	7:00pm- 8:00pm	*7:30pm- 9:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	*7:30pm- 9:00pm	NO PRACTICE

Groups	Monday June 29	Tuesday June 30	Wednesday July 1	Thursday July second	Friday June 26
Gold @ Foothills	6:00pm- 7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	CLOSED CANADA DAY	Back to regular schedule
Orange @ Foothiulls	6:00pm-7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	CLOSED CANADA DAY	Back to regular schedule
Red @ Foothills	6:00pm- 7:00pm	7:00pm- 8:00pm	CLOSED CANADA DAY	Back to regular schedule
Green @ Foothills	7:00pm- 8:00pm	*7:30pm- 9:00pm	CLOSED CANADA DAY	Back to regular schedule
Black @ Foothills	7:00pm- 8:00pm	*7:30pm- 9:00pm	CLOSED CANADA DAY	Back to regular schedule

*Black and Green will be doing dryland so bring appropriate clothing

Swordfish Swim Meet June 20th 2009

I would like to start this message with a big thanks to the Swordfish Executive and all the parents for helping out and putting this meet together! Its really great that we are able to race out of our home pool and our swimmers can feel a sense of pride hosting a meet. Thank you all!

The meet this weekend is at Sait.

Warm ups are at 7:30 am again, so please check in with your coaches by 7:15am.

This will be a hectic meet as the Swordfish have entered 101 swimmers, that's a record baby!!!! So please be as helpful as possible in making sure all Swordfish swimmers make it to their races on time and stay organized. Coaches will need to know ASAP whether or not your swimmer(s) will be staying for relays.

The meet package is posted on our website , please reference our website for more info including order of events.

The coaches are very excited for a great meet this weekend - and may even have a relay or two up their sleeves....

Coaches Corner for High River

What a great second meet! As a team we really came together and worked out the kinks from Okotoks, fewer disqualifications and faster times! Way to go!

From the Green Squad Akash achieved all best times for the second meet in a row, he also stood up and made his team proud choosing to swim his 50m Breaststroke later in the day after the officials made a mistake and disqualified him from the heats. Octavio, Nandi, Jordan and Nic had great 100m Freestyle races taking off a combined time of 39 seconds!

Speaking of taking off huge chunks of time Brent started the day off with a stellar 400m Free earning a personal best by 30 seconds! Brent swam a strong and aggressive race from the start maintaining even splits and finishing hard. Amber had a great meet swimming 4 for 4 best times and swam smart executing race plans. Kirsten had a great 50m Fly looking strong and taking off 6 seconds.

The Red Squad swimmers had great races and learned some important lessons this meet. India swam her heart out after losing her goggles in the 25m Free and Bradley powered through an entire 100m IM after losing his goggles on the start, way to tough it out and race!

Samuel had a quick Flutterboard race and is really coming along as a competitive swimmer!

Our relays dominated the High River pool, power in numbers! I can't wait to see the number of relays the Swordfish will be able to produce this weekend with a whooping 101 swimmers entered in our meet!!!! It will be awesome!!!

Finally a big CONGRATS to Stephen in the Black Squad!!! Stephen qualified for the ASSA ALLSTAR TEAM in his 100m Breaststroke posting a very fast time of 1.24.72. By swimming this time Stephen has qualified for winter club A Provincials held at the Talisman Center on June 26, 27, 28. Be sure to shake his hand when you see him and wish him luck!

High River

The High River Swim Meet is this coming weekend June 13th. The Meet is to be held at Bob Snodgrass Sports Complex. The complex is on the main road into Highriver, over the bridge heading west.

Warm ups are at 7:30am, please check in with the coaches by 7:15am.

All swimmers must participate in warm ups!!!!

The meet is timed out for 4:00pm (fingers crossed) The order of events is listed below:

EVENT LIST

8:30am – 12:30pm

400 FREE (30min.)

BREAST STROKE(60min.)

MEDLEY RELAY(60min)

LONG FREE(60 min.)

BUTTERFLY(30min.)

12:30 pm – 12:45 pm

LUNCH –time permitting/OFFICIALS SWITCH

12:45 pm – 4:00 pm

BACKSTROKE (90 min.)

LONG FLY (20 min.)

SHORT FREE (60 min.)

I.M.(20 min.)

See you all there!!! Go Swordfish Go!!!!