Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Treachwig Meet

Congratulations to our swimmers for their first win of the season!

The final score was IVF 330, TW 203.

Our swimmers not only swam hard, but dropped a lot of time in their individual events!

I know Coach Will and I are so proud of them for working hard and continuing to give their best efforts at meets.

Let's continue to work hard and make this next week at the Woodlands Riptides another success!

Again, good job swimmers! Let's do it again!

Monday, May 17, 2010

First Meet

Howdy Stingrays!

I just wanted to say how proud I am of all of our swimmers from this past Saturday's meet. Everyone gave it their all. Although we might have a lot more work to do in practice, I am excited to say that everyone who participated on Saturday made this first meet worth it.

We are continuing to grow as a team - and I am so excited to see where the end will take us!

Let's stay on this journey and venture into this week's meet with a positive mindset and supportive attitudes! Our meet this week will be at home and we are swimming against Treaschwig. Let's work hard to improve our times even more!

Again, our swimmers make me proud to be a Stingray. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else!


We are the Stingrays...
Couldn't be prouder.
If you can't hear us, we'll yell a little louder.

Monday, May 10, 2010

A Couple of Things...

This Friday is our first pep rally for the season.

Coach Erin and Coach Will will be running stroke clinics before the pep rally in order to give swimmers a chance to refine some of their skills. The times will be as follows:

4-4:30 pm 6 & Unders
4:30-5 pm 10 & Unders
5-5:30 pm 11 & Ups

These stroke clinics are not going to be like practices. They will be focusing on technique and the little details that pertain to swimming as opposed to swimming laps to increase yardage. Although we definitely work on technique during practice, this will be an opportunity to have more individualized attention before meet day.

The pep rally will start at 5:30 and go until 6:45, which is when normal practice times are over. Please join us for dinner, fun swimming, and a time to get pumped for Saturday's meet!

I look forward to seeing everyone there!

Time Trials A Success!

I really want to thank all of the participants in this evening's Time Trials Meet!

Tonight gave us a glimpse as to what this season might look like for us. And can I just say that I am quite excited to see what will happen!

If you were not able to attend tonight's Time Trials, please be sure to tell the coaches at practice on Tuesday. We need to make sure to get times for each swimmer in each event. This needs to be done this week.

I am so proud of our swimmers! And even though we still have a lot of work left for us to do, I am getting pumped for this weekend.

Go Stingrays!!

Friday, May 7, 2010

Time Trials Monday!!!

Parents,

This week at practice has been quite successful! I can already see significant differences in how our swimmers are progressing...and it gets me so excited for this season!

On Monday, we will be having our Time Trials. We really need all of the families who have not paid or committed to the event on the website to do so.

Your swimmers will not be able to participate in this swim season if they are not registered and paid for on the website. Please see Greg Jones or Brandie James today during the practices to finish this process. We are looking forward to a great season ahead of us, and we need your help!

So, if you have questions, please let us know. We want to make this process as easy as it can possibly be.

Looking forward to our practice this afternoon!

Coach Erin

Monday, May 3, 2010

One Week!

Hello Stingrays!

There is only one week before our Practice Time Trials on Monday, May 10. The practice meet will be run during regularly scheduled practice times.

Please make sure to commit to this event on our website:


It is so important to make sure you sign up and commit to EVERY SINGLE MEET on the website. If you fail to do so, the coaches might just think you aren't able to come...and won't enter you to swim any events! Now, that would be a big disappointment to everyone. As a team, we need the help of every swimmer on the team to participate as much as they can this season.

For practices, this last week was a little chilly still...but I think as we get further into May, the weather will begin to get a lot warmer (as will the water temperature). Make sure you come to as many practices you can as we are always learning new and important ways to improve your swimming technique!

I look forward to this week and seeing all of our swimmer's faces at practice. See you this afternoon!

Coach Erin