ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 11-29-10

“Cultivating Excellence in Academics, Character and Swimming”

TOP 10 ALL TIME SWIMS UPDATED ON TEAM WEBSITE:

Elite proudly displays its Top 10 All Time Best Times on its team website. The list for Short Course Yards (SCY) has been updated on the website thru Distance Derby. Check it out!!

….JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE NOT TO LOOK AT OUR PRACTICE SCHEDULE: HIGH SCHOOL MEETS TO DISRUPT PRACTICES:

In December, January and thru the middle of February, high school & middle school swim teams conduct practice and meets at the two pools Elite uses. Incredibly, a total of 7 high school and middle school teams use either Newark Academy or Morristown-Beard School during this time in addition to Elite. What these means to us is that Elite’s practices will be disrupted as meets will encroach upon Elite’s practice times.

On days when there are no meets, Elite’s practices will be held at the usual time. However, on those days when a high school or middle school is using one of our pools for a meet, our practices might be shortened at the front end or on the back end. And meets get canceled and rescheduled. So, please continue to check the practice schedule for practice time changes on a daily basis!!

TENTATIVE HOLIDAY SCHEDULE NOW POSTED:

Elite’s tentative Holiday Practice Schedule is now posted on the website under “Practice Schedule.” While it is likely this will be the practice schedule, both NA and MBS have been known to ask us to re-schedule. Thus, please check the website prior to coming to a practice.

ATHLETE PROTECTION: ELITE NOW HAS NAVIGATION BAR TO HELP!!

Following USA Swimming’s lead in trying to be at the forefront of Athlete Protection in structures sports programs, Elite has added an Athlete Protection Navigation Button on its website. Information on our website is identical to that on USA Swimming’s website.

As additional information regarding Athlete Protection is provided by USA Swimming, Elite will update its Athlete Protection data according.

PARENTS: PLEASE BE PROMPT IN PICKING UP SWIMMERS:

Parents are requested to be prompt in picking up their swimmers at the end of practice. Recently, especially after the Wave Golds on weekdays and the Wave Teals on Saturday, swimmers have had to wait 30-45 minutes after practice for their ride.

Bill has asked the coaches to remain at practice until the last child has been picked up (for the obvious safety reasons). Coaches are more than willing to do so occasionally. But Elite coaches have other full time jobs and several are attending school in addition to their primary jobs and coaching. It is unfair to ask the coaches to spend an additional 30-40 minutes waiting for parents to pick up their children.

Elite is prompt about ending practice on time. Please help out the coaches by being prompt to pick up your child.

JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE WITH SWIMMING WORLD AT CERA VE INVITATIONAL IN JANUARY:

Recreating the opportunity provided to New Jersey Swimmers last winter, Swimming World and Berkeley Aquatic Club will provide journal internships during the CeraVe Invitational Meet to be held January 14 thru January 16, 2011.

With the overwhelming success of the Summer 2008 Beijing Olympics and what swimming as a sport provided to that success, swimming is becoming more main-stream each year. NBC Sports has increased its coverage of high level swimming, including telecasting the Pan Pacific Games this past summer.

Swimming World, the most widely read swimming magazine, will be providing internships for those people in New Jersey to 1) to interview Olympians and top swimmers at the meet 2) to be involved in producing content for Swimming World’s magazine and website-both audio and visual and 3) to interact with the Swimming World Staff.

For the past two years, Elite swimmer Sam Duren (now a Senior Prep) took advantage of this opportunity.

Forms for applying for the internship are attached to this memo.

TIMING COORDINATORS ASK FOR YOUR HELP IN RESPONDING TO EMAILS:

Parents of Elite swimmers are asked to add the following four email addresses to your e-mail address book to ensure you receive important information regarding Elite Hosted Meets, Timing Information for all other meets and Parent Association Information.  Adding the e-mail addresses will insure that these important e-mails do not go to your junk/spam folder. 

Carolyn Balbo -                     cbalbo@comcast.net

Sanjeeta Mukherjee -        sanjumukhe@gmail.com

Sue Duren -                            sueduren@aol.com

Antone Balbo -                      abalbo@comcast.net

NEXT UP: GATOR GRID IRON; GO ELITE!!!; MEET INFORMATION POSTED; PLEASE RESPOND TO TIMER COORDINATORS EMAILS:

Elite’s next competition will be Gator Grid Iron (Wave Golds, Wave Blacks, Wave Teals, Marlin Blacks & Marlin Teals who have 3 or less swims in Holiday Classic). Information regarding this meet is posted on the team website at: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/Meet%20Schedule/homepage.htm. Please have your swimmer get in the habit of checking this page on a regular basis (and report back to you about details such as warm-up times, entries, meet locations!

WHEN IN DOUBT, CHECK THE WEBSITE:

If you have questions about Elite, your first source of information is Elite’s website located at eliteswimclub.org. When in doubt, first check the website!!!