JANUARY 26-31, 2015 -- The End is Nearing!
Wow - can you believe it - this is the last week for many of you!
Nice job at Granger at our last regular meet of the year. East won every event but one! If we were a basketball team, we could be talking about all the things we executed perfectly. We had a lot of best times - just not many from our top swimmers. It was fun to swim at a nice new pool. The Region 6 meet is this Saturday at the South Davis Rec Center (550 North 200 West in Bountiful). Everyone is expected to swim. Almost all of you will be tapering this week, meaning we will back off quite a bit in our practices. It doesn't mean they will be easy or unimportant, but our yardage will go down, and our focus will go up. The region entries will be decided by the coaches to try to help our team score as many points as possible. We can only enter two relays, so not everyone will be on a relay.
The region meet will be important for our team - to score as many points as possible, to each of you as an individual - to do the best you can do, and for those swimmers trying to get to the state meet - to get that time that will get them in. State entries are due February 4th. Only swimmers participating at the State meet - as an individual, a relay member, or an alternate - will be expected at practice after the Region meet. A lot will depend on how many relays qualify to swim.
The Region dinner is for all swimmers qualified to swim at region. It will be Thursday at 6pm at the Spaghetti Factory in Trolley Square. At this time you are all eligible. I know several of you have been sick. If you have not given me a note, please do. The dinner will be paid for by the team, but you will need money for drinks or special requests.
The Region 6 Championship meet is on Saturday. The bus is scheduled to leave East at 6:15am. East's warm-up is from 7-7:25am. The meet starts at 8am. There is an admission fee for spectators ($6 adults, $4 students, $20 family, under 5 and over 62 are free). Programs can be purchased for $4. East needs to provide 2 timers for Lane 1. Please email Jodie (snjswanson@msn.com) if you can help. We have also been asked to provide an official. Officials, please let me know if you will be there.
This Week's Schedule:
- Monday 1/26: 2 practices - normal times. ONLY Meghan and Katy at both. Jack, Alex, Griffin - morning only. Everyone else - pick either one. 7am or 3pm
- Tuesday 1/27 - normal practice at 3pm.
- Wednesday 1/28 - ONLY Katy and Meghan in the morning (5:30am). Everyone in the afternoon (3pm)
- Thursday 1/29 - Everyone at 3pm - we will probably finish early. Region dinner, 6pm, Spaghetti Factory.
- Friday 1/30 - Everyone at 6:15am - 7am. (Breakfast - Colgan family)
- Saturday 1/31 - Bus at 6:15am. Meet runs 8am-1:30pm. Snacks supplied by the Swanson and Wright families. Lunch after at Hires.
Many thanks to:
- Brown-Curtis, Day, Henshaw, Jensen, Keller-McDonald, Mayer, Z. Olson, Packham, Phillips, Robinson, Sloan, Swanson, and Wright, families for providing breakfasts, dinner, and bus snacks and chaperone help in Cedar the week of Jan. 12-17.
- Rainier, Lewis, and N. Olsen families for providing breakfasts, dinner, and bus snacks last week
- Marsha Rainier for conducting our dryland sessions all year!
I will let you know the schedule for next week and who needs to be at practice when I know better who will be swimming, and what, at state.
