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Quick One tonight — (4 points only and a Thank You)

1.       If you ordered a Holiday/Christmas Training Challenge T-shirt, they will be at the front desks of the swim centers by the time PM practices begin today (Thursday).  Be sure to stop by and pick yours up. They turned out great.

 

2.       Speaking of holidays, I was remiss at not mentioning the charity work that our own TAGS 1 group from Cedar Park did. Please read:

“Hi Mike,

After reading your note last night, I wanted to let you know about a service project the TAGS1 kids did for some families at Davis Elementary. They adopted 2 families who otherwise would not have been able to celebrate Christmas. Tracy Jonsson coordinated the effort, and Coach Greg was also involved and participated throughout the project. Please see the note below for more details.”

Jenny Daniels
Interim Principal – Will Davis Elementary
Here’s the note back from the Principal of Davis Elementary (by the way, Jenny is one of our Swim Moms) to another one of our Swim Moms, Tracy Jonsson:

From: Jennifer Daniels/AISD
Date: 01/10/2013 06:19AM
Subject: Thank You!

Thank you so much for thinking of Davis families and coordinating the Christmas service project with the TAGS1 kids. Thank you also for hosting the kids for the wrapping party. It was great to see how excited they were to prepare all the gifts to give to the children. We ended up giving each of the two families more than $125 in HEB gift cards, 4 trays of cookies and other Christmas goodies, and multiple gifts for each of the children. They were so appreciative of the gifts they received, and we couldn’t help but notice that the gifts we brought into each apartment were the only evidence of Christmas for these families. When I told the mother in one family that swimmers wanted to do this for them, it really touched her. She shared that she was a swimmer in high school and had competed at the state level. She went on to say that if she would have worked harder in school, she could’ve been given college scholarships, and would not have ended up in her current situation. It was pretty powerful to hear that. Thanks again for everything!
3.       I had previously mentioned a March 2nd meet at Belton for the kids who didn’t participate in any of the Championship meets. That meet will not be taking place – they cancelled it. HOWEVER, WE will be hosting our own sanctioned meet on that same day, Saturday, March 2nd, for any of our swimmers who have times “slower than a B time standard.” This will be an official, USA Swimming meet, with times being recorded into the USA Swimming database. Coach Kristyn is getting the meet set up online over the next few days, we’ll be submitting our application to get an official sanction for it, and it will be at our Bee Cave facility – 1:15PM warm up, 1:45 start time. Great beginner type meet for those with times that are not yet a B time standard for USA Swimming. More details to come.

4.       Mark your calendars – Saturday afternoon/evening – April 27th, Nitro’s End of Season Get Together/Awards Ceremony/Wrap up. More details to come, but everyone will be invited to come celebrate with us as we look back on the past year of Nitro swimming, acknowledge some milestones, and highlight the special performances/some of the special people that make Nitro, well, Nitro. I will have more info to share as it becomes available, but for now, keep that date clear! Approx time of the event: 5:00-7:30PM.

5.        Thanks for being a part of Nitro Swimming, and we’ll see you at the pool! Don’t forget to pick up your training challenge T-shirt if you ordered one! Coach Mike

Coach’s Note: 12/21/12

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Hi All – Happy Friday to everyone, 12-21-12.

1.       We want to wish any of our Nitro families who are traveling over these holidays to stay safe, and enjoy your time away, but hurry back!!

2.       For those of you staying in town, as a reminder, we are having practices scheduled as normal. The only exceptions to that:

a)      We’re off on Tuesday, Christmas Day; and also off on Tuesday, Jan 1st.

b)      If you are a Monday swimmer, both Mondays, Dec 24th and Dec 31st (Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve) we’re following a typical “Saturday” AM schedule.

c)       If you are a Tuesday swimmer, feel free to match up your correct group name and come in on Monday morning, or on Wednesday afternoon/evening at the normally scheduled practice time for that group. But remember, that Monday practices are following the posted Saturday AM practice schedule. Whew!! That sounds confusing! Might want to read that again.

d)      Some of the more advanced groups are having some “two a day” practices throughout the break. The coaches should have communicated the plan to those families.

3.       As has become a Nitro tradition, swimmers who complete 100% of their group’s practices over the break (for this year, the period of Sat Dec 21st-Saturday Jan 5th – exceptions will exist for the kids competing at the Jan-4-6th UT meet), will be allowed to purchase a special Nitro training T-shirt that will commemorate their commitment over the school break. This will be a one of a kind, limited edition shirt, but only available to those who attended their group’s practices over the break. I’ll be communicating a sign up format as we wind up the training. Design is already being created, and it is getting a big thumb’s up!

4.       Short housekeeping note: Team parents – our front desk is pretty knowledgeable on scheduling issues, lessons registration times, multiple swimmer discounts, selling swim caps. They aren’t that knowledgeable on meets, time standards, coaching decisions, group advancements, etc. Feel free to bring any team questions to the coaching staff, or to me. If not sure, here are the email addresses of the primary coach(es) of the groups:

 

Cedar Park:

 

Bee Cave:

**If you have emailed your group coach and are waiting more than 24 hrs for a reply, email me and let me know. mike@nitroswim.com

5.        Last point – I went to a show last night at the Cedar Park Center. It was something unlike I’ve ever seen before. Here’s a youtube link of the same show from about 5 days earlier while they were performing in another city. Wait until the 2:40 mark, and you might say “WOW” like we did. Well worth the 6 minutes. Enjoy. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!! Thanks for being a part of Nitro, and we’ll see you at the pool! Coach Mike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qe2wMDF0ii0

Coach’s Note: 12/20/2012

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Quick Coach’s Note – two meets being added!!

1.       For those of you who weren’t able to get into the Jan 4-6 UT meet, we have tracked down another meet that same weekend. The meet is an out of town meet, hosted by the Woodlands. The great news is that it is an Unclassified meet (which means there are NO prequalifying times required). In other words, anyone can enter any of the events in their age group. It is an officially sanctioned meet. We will have meet info for this meet added to our site by end of day tomorrow (Thursday) and will have a VERY FAST Turnaround on getting entries turned in. There are a couple of events offered on Friday the 4th, then for Saturday and Sunday, the 11 and olders will swim in the morning sessions, and the 10 and unders will swim in the afternoon sessions.

2.       Two weeks later, weekend of Jan 19-21st, The Woodlands is hosting an “A” meet – (meaning that swimmers with “A” time standards or faster may enter that event). It is a timed finals meet for 12 and Unders; and it is a prelim/final meet for 13 and olders.  We will have this meet info posted shortly.  FYI: This is the same weekend as the B Championships being held at Belton.

3.       I was remiss in the smoothie note earlier – Max Chbaro is also getting one for a phenomenal 500 freestyle at Friday’s session of the Jingle Bell meet – his leg kick never quit, and his arms stayed long. Quite impressive!

That’s it for now. Thanks for being a part of Nitro Swimming. See you at the pools! Coach Mike