Sudbury Laurentian Swim Club

Big group off to Joey Calzone meet

On Friday of this week a group of 36 swimmers from SLSC will be going to Sault Ste Marie for the Joey Calzone meet.  The bus is leaving from the University at 12:00 noon SHARP!  Pre-boarding the bus will start at 11:30 am.  Please see the link below for entries for this meet.  If you not on this list it is for one fo 2 reasons #1 You were not invited or #2 you indicated through email that you were not attending the meet.  Have a great week of preparation and see you on the bus.

Download Calzone entries

SLSC Swimmers take show on the Road

    This past weekend saw 10 swimmers from SLSC attend the Harvest Invitational in  Etobicoke.  The swimmers were competing against some of the best swimmers in Southern Ontario and performed at a very high level.  Top 8 performances were done by Justin Burton-McCarthy,  Brenna Eastick,  and Spencer Hirschfeld.   Top 3 finishers included Kelly Hotta, Justin LeClair and Jacob Toner.   Other siwmmers going to the competition and attaining best times in quite a few events include Colin Hirschfeld, Tori Jewell, Tessa Jewell and Sarah Tkachuk.  Some great personal breakthroughs were attained this weekend and the whole group is off to Sault St Marie this coming weekend to  attend the Joey Calzones meet  with a number of other  SLSC swimmers.   See the link below for complet team results from the Harvest Invite.

Download Harvest results

Ten Rules by which to parent your swimmer

1. Provide your swimmer with the best opportunity available.
2. Support your swimmer.
3. Create and maintain a positive environment at home.
4. Love and accept your child unconditionally. Criticize the act, not your swimmer.
5. Let your child own his swimming. It is his swimming, not yours.
6. Make a contribution. Support the team.
7. Make swimming a collaborative pursuit between swimmer, coach, and parent.
8. Let the coach coach.
9. Demonstrate your value for competitive swimming excellence. Encourage your swimmer to play to win, but remember it is just a game whereby most of the value steams from playing to win, not from having won.
10. Tell your swimmer to HAVE FUN.

[source: club archives]

Swim Meet Schedule 2009-2010

Here is the Meet Schedule for the 2009-2010 season for SLSC.   It is also always available and kept up to date on the website at the following link.  As well, the calendar events will show in the left margin of the website.

http://sudburyswimming.typepad.com/slsc/member-info.html

 

This year we have enhanced the schedule layout to:  better clarify the cities; show which swimming levels Coach Dean indicates are likely to go to which meet, and whether or not you are required to officiate.   Other suggested improvements for the next revision are welcome.

 

Of special note on the schedule, one of the Biggest Meets to host is in April - the Ontario Division championships.  This year we will be hosting the Division 3 championship, even though SLSC is in Division 2.  What this means is: the same weekend our Div 2 team swimmers and coaches will be going to Brantford, the SLSC membership will be hosting the Division 3 meet in Sudbury.  This also means that SLSC members will be showing every Div 3 club and visiting family that we support the sport of swimming regardless of the Division, and we can run an awesome meet for anyone.  As the event gets nearer, meet management and Coach Dean will have more plans to share.

 

Lastly, Sudbury will be hosting the Ontario Summer Games in August 2010 -- SLSC will be hosting the swimming events.  Please mark your calendars for that too.

Guts and Glory - Alex Baumann keynote speaker

Sportlink, the Greater Sudbury Sport Council, is hosting a luncheon on November 4th, 2009 from 11:30am to 1:30pm. The keynote speaker is former SLSC swimmer, and Olympic Gold medalist, Alex Baumann.

Tickets are $60 per person. Call 674-4455 x4434 for information and to reserve tickets.

Please see the attached poster for more information.  View the poster

Agenda for Annual General Meeting - Tuesday October 6th, 2009

[edited Thursday Oct 1, 2009 - to list nominees]

Here is the Agenda for the club Annual General Meeting to be held Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at LU.

Within the agenda you will find the names of the four Directors whose term is ending, and the three Directors whose term is continuing. After the AGM, at the next Board meeting, the elected Directors select Officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, etc.) from within the elected Board.

The nominees for the four Director posts are (alphabetically):

1. Lise Hirschfeld
2. Mark Kivinen
3. John MacLean
4. Sean Thompson
5. Wayne Toner
6. Nancy Young

Also, please note that Coach Dean Henze will be present at the meeting and will speak to the club. Thanks for your attention, and see you at the pool!

Here is the Agenda for the 2009 Annual General Meeting

Welcome Celebration Friday Sept. 25 at 6:45

...in the Ken Bahnuk Lounge.

It is time to celebrate the start of another great swim season!  This year we also have the pleasure of welcoming a new Head Coach: Dean Henze.

Come join us Friday Sept. 25 at 6:45 in the Ken Banuk Lounge for a SLSC Welcome Celebration. Pizza will be provided.

sign up on the Doodle survey to indicate how many members of your family are coming, and whether you are able to bring a salad, desert or appetizer: http://www.doodle.com/c5uyyncecrzk5dbq.

We look forward to seeing you all again!

Notice - Annual General Meeting

The Sudbury Laurentian Swim Club will be holding the Annual General Meeting for members on Tuesday October 6, 2009.  The meeting will be held in the Ken Bahnuk Lounge (to be confirmed) at Laurentian University, Ben Avery Building from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.  All member families are encouraged to attend.

At this meeting there will be elections for FOUR of the seven Director positions.  Each Director position is a two-year term; with four directors being elected this year, and three directors elected the following year.  After the AGM, at the next Board meeting, the elected Directors select Officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, etc.) from within the elected Board.  If you are interested in an elected Director position, please submit your name to the Secretary (Doug Eastick - eastick@gmail.com ) by Monday September 28, 2008.

An Agenda will be distributed by email around September 23, 2008.

Additionally, there will be elections for the Working Committees which are listed below:

• MEET MANAGER
  
• MEET-ENTRY COORDINATOR
• OFFICIAL'S CHAIRPERSON
• EQUIPMENT
• BILLETING
• FOOD COMMITTEE
• SWIM-A-THON
• NEWSLETTER
• WEB SITE (Doug Eastick)
• SOCIAL COMMITTEE
• ADVERTISING
• PUBLICITY
• REGISTRAR POSITION
• BINGO NEVADA
• SHOPPING CARDS
• TRILLIUM (Doug Eastick)
  

Our Head Coach, Dean Henze, will be present at the meeting.

Swim Officials training clinics - Sept 12

This weekend our regional association (NEOR - NorthEastern Ontario Region) of Swim Ontario will be holding their Annual General Meeting at the Days Inn on Saturday.  During this meeting they will also be running the following four Swim Officials clinics:

• Saturday 9 a.m. Referee clinic, and Clerk of Course clinic
• Saturday 10:30 am - Starter clinic, and Chief Finish Judge

If you plan to attend please give Rob Whipple (one of our Official's chairs) a heads-up.  I suggest you also bring your Swim Ontario official's education/training card to record your attendance.

Google Maps link to the hotel - Days Inn (beside the Lorne St beerstore, aka "The President", across from the courthouse)
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=days+inn,+sudbury&sll=46.436898,-80.993364&sspn=0.007542,0.014784&ie=UTF8&ll=46.493569,-80.99959&spn=0.003582,0.007392&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A
or
http://tinyurl.com/nhgvfy

2009 swim season...(updated)

[UPDATE 2009-09-01: Registration forms now available]

[UPDATE 2009-09-09: Training Schedule now published]

[UPDATE 2009-09-10: Registration Dates published]]

[UPDATE 2009-09-12: Training schedule tweaked for Level 2]

Hello swimmers and swimming families. We hope you had a great summer. Now that your swimmers are tired of smelling like lake water, sunscreen, and beach sand, they can get back to that mmmmmm-fresh smell of chlorine!

We wanted to give you a heads-up on the start of the swim season. The starting weeks will be as follows.

• Levels 1 and 2 - starting September 14, 2009
• all other levels, and novice - starting week of September 21, 2009.

While you may think that the starting dates are a bit later than usual, the coaches assure us that it is a long season and not to worry.

Registration packages are now available, and the Training Schedule has been finalised.   Registration is a requirement to get into the pool.  Current Registration Dates are (check back for more updates):

• please email swimclub@laurentian.ca to arrange

The Fee schedule will be emailed to existing members.  If you are reading this on the website, send me an email eastick@gmail.com and I will forward you the fee schedule.

I should also remind you that we have a new club Head Coach joining us this year - Dean Henze. Info on his announcement is here.

Please forward this email to anyone that you know that has kids that may be considering swimming this season.