Important Dates

Goodstuff Meet Cancelled
The RSA Goodstuff Meet has been cancelled. Anyone who was planning on attending or volunteering now has a free weekend.

SWIM- A-THON 2003
The 2003 Swim-A-Thon will take place the week of May 12th. This will be held both at Candler and Pullen, depending on your practices. Please begin to start getting pledges from people. We need 100% participation from everyone to make this a great event.

As you all know the we will be doing our swim-a-thon during the week of May 12^th.  This is our last week swimming at Candler.  Here are some things to remember about the swim-a-thon

1. This is a fund raiser that goes toward your family obligation
2. Please start to gather up people to start pledging per lap
3. Your swimmer has 2 hours to swim 200 laps or do as many as he/she can in that time
4. Please have someone to count for your swimmer.
5. We need a great turnout for this, prizes will be given out to the swimmer who can raise the most money.

Dates & Times for each of the Practice Groups

• May 15th - Minnows, Novas, Wahoos, Dolphins(5:45-7:45 PM) Please note: The Dolphin group has now been scheduled to do there swim-a-thon on May 15th instead of May 14th. If you cannot change your plans Coach Brian will be there on the Wednesday, May 14th if you need to do the swim-a-thon on that day.
• May 14th - Juniors, MS/HS Prep(5:45-7:45 PM)
• May 13th - Pre Seniors, Seniors (5:45-7:45 PM)

Goals for the Summer: Technique for the Week
To RSA Swimmers and parents:

I think it is important for our swimmers to start setting some short term goals for themselves. This is mainly for the Dolphin group, but all groups are encouraged and welcome to participate. Last week in practice I talked with the Dolphin group about setting short term goals for the summer. I think that 3 different goals would be sufficient. You can have 3 different types goals:

(1) a goal for RSA and long course meets; (2) what you want to do in practice (things you need to work on); (3) If you will be participating in a summer TSA league one of your goals there would be sufficient, but only one of your three.

So what I would like for you to do is write down your three goals for the summer. Please make them realistic. Turn them in to coach Brian at practice by Wednesday, May 28th. Setting some goals may help the swimmers focus a little bit more on things they would like to strive for in their swimming. I will be talking to them more about this in practice. If you have any questions feel free to email me or give me a call.

Thanks,
Coach Brian

Scratch Deadlines for Liberty & Capital City Approaching Fast
Please note that the scratch deadline for the Liberty Meet and Capital City Meet are on Thursday, May 15th. If you have not emailed caoch Brian to let him know you will not be swimming then you will be entered in the meet. The Liberty Meet are for all Novas, Wahoos, and Dolphins swimmers with BB and below times. The Capital City Meet is for all Dolphin swimmers with "A" and above times (You must have at least 2 A times to swim in this meet.)

WHAT AN EVENING- 2003 RSA AWARDS BANQUET
The Raleigh Swimming Association held it’s annual awards banquet on Thursday, May 8th, at the Cary Senior Center. Over 250 swimmers and family of all ages gathered to celebrate the 2002-2003 season, a season truly to remember. The turnout was over twice as many people as last year. All of the swimmers received cool ski caps as the participation award for this year. The food was great and plentiful!

The evening ended with an awesome slide show by Coach Brian. Thanks to everyone for coming out and showing the growing pride in our organization. Special thanks to all the parents who helped set up and clean up afterward, especially Mary DeJarnette and the Nowell family.

The following swimmers were awarded special awards:

Minnow, Nova, Wahoo Awards
Most Improved Boy: Osman Sbaiti
Most Improved Girl: Lauren Koepnick
Coaches Award Boy: Trey Lower
Coaches Award Girl: Victoria Bell

Dolphin Awards
Most Improved Boy: Andy Lamb
Most Improved Girl: Katie Olson
Coaches Award Boy: Matt Lower
Coaches Award Girl: Caitlin Kelly
Most Outstanding: Torrey Bussey

Congratulations to all those swimmers who received special awards! I would like to give a shout out to all Minnows, Novas, Wahoos, and Dolphins: What a great year of swimming you had. We improved, worked hard, and had tons of fun! That is what swimming on this team is all about! You all deserve a round of a applause.


PRACTICE SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR May 12-May 17
(Underlined groups & times are the changes; the other days are normal practice times)

MONDAY Dolphins: 5:15-6:30 Wahoos: 5:30-6:30 @ Candler

TUESDAY Minnows, Novas, Wahoos & Dolphins 4:30-5:30 @ Pullen

WEDNESDAY Wahoos & Dolphins 5:00-6:00 @ Pullen

THURSDAY SWIM-A-THON Minnows, Novas, Wahoos, & Dolphins (5:45-7:45) @ Candler

FRIDAY Minnows, Novas, & Wahoos: 5:15-6:15 PM Dolphins: 6-7 PM @ Candler

SATURDAY Minnows, Novas, & Wahoos: 10:30-11:30 AM Dolphins: 10:30AM -noon @Candler

SUNDAY NO PRACTICE

PRACTICE SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR May 19-May 31(All practice are at Pullen)
(Underlined groups & times are the changes; the other days are normal practice times)

MONDAY Dolphins: 5:45-7:00 PM Wahoos: 5:45-7:00 PULLEN

TUESDAY Minnows, Novas, Wahoos: 5:45-7:00 PM Dolphins: 5:45-7:00 PM PULLEN

WEDNESDAY Dolphins: 5:45-7:00 Wahoos: 5:45-7:00 PM PULLEN

THURSDAY Novas & Wahoos 5:45-7:00 PM Dolphins: 5:45-7:00 PM PULLEN

FRIDAY Minnows, Novas, & Wahoos: 4:15-5:15 PM Dolphins: 4:15-5:15 PM PULLEN

SATURDAY Minnows, Novas, & Wahoos: 10:30-11:30 AM Dolphins: 10:30AM –noon PULLEN

SUNDAY NO PRACTICE