Important Dates

THIS Saturday Practice- Feb. 22nd w/ RSA-North @ Ravenscroft
This Saturday, Feb. 22nd we will have practice with RSA-North @ Ravenscroft in North Raleigh. Minnows, Novas, Wahoos (9 AM-10 AM) and Dolphins are from (9 AM-10:30 AM) There are several reasons why I think this is important to attend. First of all we are a team. It is important to develop some type of team chemistry between us and our fellow teammate up at RSA-North. The only time we see them are at meet, and this is a good opportunity to get to know them better. The championship season is here, and many of us will swim in relays at B/C States, Tarheel States, and Age Group Champs. We will practice relay starts with our teammates from RSA-North since many of you will be on relays with them. This is really an important practice to make so please try to be at practice this Saturday.

RSA CLEANS Up at Eastern Qualifier
There are several RSA swimmers that acheived best times or received a new RSA Time Standard Awards

Time Standard Awards:
B Time Standard Awards: Victoria Bell (100 Free), Casey Carter (100 IM, 50 Breast), Caroline Campbell (50 Breast), Patrick D'Alessio (50 Back, 50 Breast), Andy Lamb (200 Free), Mona Le (50 Free), Matt Lower (200 Free), Paige Randall (100 Free), Toby Rosen (50 Free)
BB Time Standard Awards: Hannah Gardner (50 Free), Andy Lamb (100 Free, 50 Fly, 100 IM, 50 Breast, 50 Free), Mona Le (50 Back), Katie Olson (50 Fly, 100 Back), Skipper Mahn (50 Back)
A Time Standard Awards: Grace Robinson (50 Free)

Best Times from Qualifier:

Philip Ahlers (50 Breast); Sommer Barritt (25 Back, 25 Breast); Victoria Bell (50 Fly, 25 Free, 25 Fly); Tori Boddie (25 Free, 50 Breast); Caroline Campbell (100 Free, 100 IM, 50 Breast); Cara Chabreck (25 Breast, 50 Free); Kevin Chabreck (50 Breast); Brad D'Alessio (100 Free, 100 IM, 100 Back); Patrick D'Alessio (25 Back, 25 Breast, 100 IM, 50 Free, 25 Free, 50 Back, 25 Fly, 50 Breast); David DeJarnette (25 Back, 25 Breast, 100 Breast, 50 Free); Sawyer Dove (100 Back); Hannah Gardner (100 Free, 50 Fly, 100 IM, 100 Back, 100 Fly, 50 Free, 200 IM); Deniz Gurel (100 Back, 50 Breast, 50 Back); Cassidy Holland (25 Back); Gizem Imece (100 Free, 100 IM, 50 Back, 100 Breast, 50 Free); Andy Lamb (100 Free, 50 Fly, 100 IM, 50 Breast, 50 Free); Kiko Lamb (50 Breast); Mona Le (50 Back, 100 Breast, 50 Free); Matt Lower (50 Free, 200 Free); Lexi Mitchell (100 IM, 50 Free); Katie Olson (50 Fly, 100 IM, 100 Back, 50 Back, 100 Breast, 50 Free) Paige Randall (100 Free, 50 Fly, 50 Breast); Heather Robertson (100 IM, 50 Back, 100 Breast, 50 Free); Matt Robertson (100 IM, 100 Back); Grace Robinson (50 Fly, 100 IM, 50 Breast, 200 Free, 50 Free); Toby Rosen (50 Breast, 50 Free); Sean Rudio (25 Fly); Gabi Shishkoff (100 IM, 50 Breast); Taylor Villard (25 Back, 50 Free)

Scratch Deadlines Set for B/C States & Tarheel States
Several Scratch deadlines have been set. B/C swimmers are eligible for the B/C States meet on March 8 & 9. The Scratch Deadline for that meet is Sunday, February 23rd. PLEASE let Coach Brian know by email at bgill@swimrsa.org if you will not be attending the meet or only going for one of the days. The next meet for BB + swimmers will be Tarheel States on March 28-30th. The scratch deadline for Tarheel States is Tuesday, March 11th. Please email Coach Brian if you will not be attending either of these meets or will only be going one or two of the sessions.

Video Taping: A Success!
The video taping session that we had set up for this past Thursday went great! Thank you parents for being patient with the rescheduling. I think this is something that can benefit every swimmer that was taped. Finally, thank you to Roman Kab for helping to provide the equipment to video tape, and his expertice in setting everything up. Also thank you to Rick Clarke for making us a stand to hold the underwater camera. This was a big plus for us to see underwater. (Especially on those turns) I hope that every swimmer learned something about their stroke from this experience. I thought this went so well, we will try to do it again sometime before the bubble goes down in the spring.

Great job last week RSA! Keep coming to practice ready to listen and work hard.

Coach Brian