The Week Ahead 8.19-8.23

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
― Rainer Maria Rilke  

Our first "week" (three days) of practice is in the books! Seeing the girls in the water this week makes us so excited for the season. They have had a fantastic start. These first few weeks we will be laying down the foundation for building speed and perfecting dives by emphasizing fundamentals, good Habits and making good choices in the water and on the boards. This is an important piece to achieving success.

This week is PACKED with details! Please read the following carefully...

Practice Times

• Monday (8.19) 3:00 to 6:00 
• Tuesday starts our normal practice times
• Mondays: 3:00 Dryland (Shoes and Clothes are needed!) , 3:30 to 5:30pm in Water (divers join us for dryland then will be on the boards from 4:00pm to 6:00pm 
• Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays 3:30-5:30
• Wednesdays: We are doing 'Weight Room Wednesdays'. (Don't forget your workout gear...shoes and clothing) The girls will be lifting in the school weight room from 3:00 - 3:40 then will head to the pool and be in the water from 4:00 - 5:30 (Divers will still go until 6pm) 

Locker Room Use

• Due to swim lessons in the instructional pool we will not be able to use our normal lockers until after Labor Day. The girls will need locks for these lockers once we do have access to them. Please be sure your daughter has a lock to use before then.

Athletics' Parent Night

• HC Athletics' Night is Tuesday (8.20) at 7:00pm in the High School Auditorium. Our keynote speaker this year is the MHSAA Executive Directer Mark Uly.
• At 7:40ish we will break out into meetings for individual sports. We promise to keep it short and sweet.

Pay-to-Play

•  Pay-to-play for this year will be $85. This can be paid online through FinalForms

Team Pictures

• Our team pictures will be at 3:00pm on Friday (8.23).  So, be on-deck and READY for pictures by 2:50pm so we can pass out parkas and be good-to-go there.
•  Picture forms will be handed out at the Athletics' Night on Tuesday.  If you want an individual or team photo, be sure to have your daughter bring a filled-out form with them on Friday!

• We will be wearing our parkas. Underneath, athletes should have dark jeans with a white shirt.

Handbook & Goal Sheets

• The girls were given a Team Handbook at our retreat. This is required reading and a sign-off sheet (signed by both parents and athletes) needs to be turned in by Friday 8.23 

• Individual Goal sheets are also due Friday 8.23

Aquatics Store

If you would like to purchase any apparel the Aquatics store in the Maroon and White shop will be open until August 27.

 Team Retreat
 We had a great time at our team retreat on Friday. We enjoyed the sun and water, played games, did team building activities, set team goals, created our team 'WHY' and ate lots and lots of food. Some may have reached their sugar limit for the entire season! hahah. It was great to get a glimpse of your daughter's personalities outside of the pool to kick off our season. Thank you to all of you who helped with food and a special thank you to John DeKievet for being our 'Captian' all day and taking the girls on countless tube rides & ski and wake board rides.   

  Here are a few pictures from our day.