ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 11-30-09
ATTENDANCE
STATS STILL STRONG THRU NOV; 3 OF 7 TRAINING GROUPS AVERAGING OVER 80%
OR HIGHER
WAVE TEALS
LEAD WAY WITH 84.63%!!! ALL
GROUPS OVER 75%; ATHLETES RECOGNIZED:
HEAD OFFICIAL
SPENDS TIME WITH MARLINS, WAVE TEALS:
Moya Chew-Lai, head Elite Official, spent 20 minutes with the Marlins and the Wave Teals training groups last Friday to review those infractions NJ Swimming Officials look for during competitions.
Moya went thru each of the strokes and pointed out the most common errors a swimmer makes in each stroke. The session included questions from the swimmers.
AHLMEYER
SPEARHEADS EFFORT TO BUILD LIBRARY IN AFRICA; YOUR BOOKS ARE WANTED:
Morristown Freshman Matthew Ahlmeyer, as a member of his high school’s key club, is heading an effort to collect 1,000 books to start a library in Africa. To help Ahlmeyer’s effort, Elite will make a bin available at Morristown-Beard each day to collect books from Elite Swim Club members.
The books can be picture books, novels or dictionaries and can be for any level of reading.
Bring your used and no longer needed books to MBS!
TOP 10 ALL TIME SWIMS UPDATED ON
WEBSITE
The Top 10 Elite All Time Swims 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 into Elite’s practice times.
On
days when there are no meets, Elite’s practices will be held at the identical
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!!
ADDITIONAL 12 & UNDER ENTRIES FOR
WINTERFEST; PRINCETON ENTRIES ALSO MODIFIED FOR 12 & UNDERS:
Elite was able to modify its 12 & Under entries for Winterfest, adding those swimmers and swims achieved at Fall Festival. The 13 & Olders portion of the meet was closed prior to competition at Fall Festival; thus no modifications of entries for 13 & Older were made for Winterfest.
As a result of the modification of the Winterfest entries, the Princeton Invitationals entries were also modified to take into consideration the Winterfest modifications. An attempt was made to provide as many different events per swimmer between the two meets held in January.
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 Cera Ve Invitational Meet to be held January 15 thru January 17, 2010.
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. This winter, NBC Sports will be telecasting the USA/European Dual in the Pool contact in December, 2009.
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.
Last year, Elite swimmer Sam Duren (now a Senior Prep) took advantage of this opportunity.
Forms for applying for the internship are attached to this memo.
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 virtually every night.
Elite is prompt about ending practice on time. Please help out the coaches by being prompt to pick up your child.
CLOTHING ITEMS CAN BE PURCHASED
THRU ESCPO:
The Elite Swim Club Parents Organization is offering “Elite-wear” to anyone interested in buying clothing with the Elite logo or name on it. This items are great birthday and holiday gifts.
The link to the items available is: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/Parents Org/ELITE 2009 Clothing.pdf
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!!!