Important Dates

RSA-North Age Group Thanksgiving Invitational Swim Meet
The next swim meet for age group swimmers is the RSA-North Thanksgiving Invitational Swim Meet to be held at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, NC. The meet will be taking place on November 22, 23, & 24. The Friday session of the meet are for BB and faster swimmers only. On Sat. and Sun, BB and faster swimmers are in the morning, while B/C swimmers are in the afternoon. The scratch deadline for the swim meet was Sunday, Nov. 10th. If you did not let me know if you were not coming to the swim meet by Nov.10th you were entered in the meet. Meet entries are posted on the bulletin boards in the Candler lobby, and are up on the RSA Webpage under swim meets. An individual events report will be placed in the folders a week before the meet.

Time Standard Achievement Certificates for Blue Moon Meet
Congratulations to the following swimmers for this achievement:
B time standard: Philip Ahlers, Victoria Bell, Sawyer Dove, Emily Facchine, Melissa Geiss, Natalie Hill, Andy Lamb, Mona Le, Thao Le, Alex Li, Matt Lower, Skipper Mahn, Katie Mathis, Katie Olson, and Jacob Tart
BB: time standard: Nicole Esplin, Matt Lower, Skipper Mahn, Grace Robinson, Gabi Shishkoff, and Jacob Tart
AA time standard: Torrey Bussey
AAA time standard: Torrey Bussey

A Bunch of Best Times at Blue Moon
Congratulations to the following swimmers for achieving personal best times at the Blue Moon Meet:
Nova Personal Best Times: Cassidy Holland (25 Free, 25 Back)
Wahoo Personal Best Times: Victoria Bell (25 Free, 50 Free, 25 Breast, 50 Back), Cara Chabreck (25 Breast), Alex Clarke (50 Breast, 50 Back), David DeJarnette (25 Free, 50 Free, 25 Fly), Natalie Hill (50 Free, 25 Breast), Kayla Mikolajewski (25 Free, 25 Back), Julianne Strickland (25 Back), Jacob Tart (50 Free, 50 Breast, 25 Breast, 100 IM).
Dolphin Personal Best Times: Philip Ahlers (50 Free, 50 Back), Andrew Clarke (50 Free, 100 Breast, 50 Back), John Clemmer (100 Breast), Michael Dickey (100 Back, 50 Fly), Nicole Esplin (100 Breast, 100 Free, 50 Fly, 100 IM), Emily Facchine (50 Breast), Melissa Geiss (50 Free), Deniz Gurel (100 Breast), Lindley Hill (100 Free, 50 Breast, 100 Back, 50 Fly), Gizem Imece (50 Back), Andy Lamb (50 Back), Thao Le (50 Breast, 100 IM), Matt Lower (100 Free, 50 Fly), Katie Mathis (50 Back, 100 Back), Lexi Mitchell (100 Free, 50 Fly), Katie Olson (50 Back, 50 Breast, 50 Fly), Paige Randall (50 Free, 50 Back), Matt Robertson (100 Free), Grace Robinson (50 Free, 100 Back), Gabi Shishkoff (50 Fly, 100 Back)

RSA MERCHANDISE ON SALE!
The Raleigh Swimming Association will be selling team apparel next week Monday, Nov. 11th - Thurs., Nov. 14 at Candler Swim Club from 5:00-7:00 PM. Thanks to Wayland and Mary DeJarnette, RSA now has a catalog that has all the team gear that you can purchase. Please take a look at it in the lobby when you come in for practice. There is a sign-up sheet located on the bulletin board in the Candler lobby if you are interested in volunteering to help sell the merchandise. This is a great chance to start doing your Christmas shopping for your kids. Parents, show support for your child at meets and purchase an RSA team shirt! There is something for every one: t-shirts , parkas, baseball caps , warm-up suits, swim suits , and more.

Reindeer Invitational Swim Meet
RSA hosts the Reindeer Invitational Swim Meet every year at the Triangle Sportsplex in Hillsborough. This year the meet will be held the weekend of Dec. 7th and 8th. There are still spaces available to help work the swim meet. If you are interested in helping in any way please sign the volunteer poster in the Candler lobby.

Technique For the Week
We have several meets approaching fast. It is important to really try to pay attention and listen in practice. It is most important to pay attention and listen when we are working on flip turns. I have noticed that in practice we also have to try to concentrate hard when we are working on drills. Remember this is the time when we think, and then in the meet you race. There is a time in practice when we are to race and when we are to think about what we are doing. It is not a race to see who can be first in line in your lane! Keep working hard RSA we are getting so much better!

See you at practice ready to listen and concentrate!

Coach Brian