Happy Father’s Day to all of our Fighting Turtles Dads!

The Sunday emails provide a lot of detailed information to help families be informed about our swim team.  Please take the time to read and help us out by marking your RSVP for the following activities.  Thank you.

- RSVP for Champs on our website.

- RSVP for the Banquet on our website.  Please make payment with Kelly O’dell on the pool deck.

- send photos to Stacie Brown via email by July 9th. (see more information at the end of this email under banquet)

All practices will be held at the Murabella pool.  

Tuesday 6/20, Wednesday 6/21, Thursday 6/22 & Friday 6/23:

7-8 age group           7:00 am- 8:00 am

9 & Up age group      8:00 am- 9:15 am

6 & Under age group  9:15 am- 10:00 am

*It was stated at the beginning of the season that swim practice is not a “drop off” activity.  This is set up for safety purposes and that all children are supervised by an adult.  The board and coaches are fine with you leaving practice as long as you have arranged another adult to supervise your child in your absence.  Your child needs to know who to go to should they need attention, deal with behaviors, & leave with should weather come into play.  

RSVP for every meet: 

Only 2 more regular season meets to RSVP for so please remember to RSVP- YES- my swimmer is attending OR NO- my swimmer is not attending.  

7/1-  Nocatee away meet      rsvp by 6/23- this Friday!

7/8- Durbin away meet          rsvp by 6/30

Monday Clinics:

Tomorrow Coach Junior will be holding a starts & turns clinic.  The 6 & under and 7-11 age groups are FULL.  If any kids in the 12 & up age group are interested there are spots available.  Please contact Tina at 904-704-5911 by noon tomorrow.   Next week’s clinic (6/26/17) is on butterfly.  Please sign up with Tina this week at practice.

06/19/17

Starts/ Turns

** Throughout this clinic we will be working on starts/turns and drills for all strokes to help improve diving off the blocks and work on the turns for us to be more efficient off the walls. Also, we will be working on the reaction off the blocks. This is a great opportunity to spend some time to go over the details of starts and turns.

06/26/17

 Butterfly 

• Technical drills
• Progression of the stroke
• Working on the dolphin kick ( learn to use them when starting the race)
• Timing of the stroke ( knowing when it’s time to breathe)

 

CHAMPS- Friday, July 14th (8 years old & under) & Saturday, July 15th (9 years old & up):

Any swimmer that has participated in at least 3 regular season swim meets (this includes the mock meet) is welcome to attend Champs.  We are asking that if you know your RSVP now please go to the website and mark yes or no.  RSVP deadline is July 1st.   Any one that is new to the team or has never attended Champs we welcome you to ask any and all questions.  

End of the Season Swim Banquet- Tuesday, July 18th!

An invitation was sent out via email with the details of our End of the season swim banquet.  We are asking for your help by going on the website or seeing Kelly O’dell on the pool deck to mark your RSVP.  This would be extremely helpful with the planning of this event.  Swimmers eat free and will receive recognition for their participation on the team.  We are asking that if you have any photos that you captured throughout the swim season and would like to include them in the slide show please send to Stacie Brown at [email protected] The deadline for photos is July 9th.  

Lastly, a shout out to Planet Swim for offering a FREE clinic to our swimmers this past Saturday!  It was an awesome opportunity for our Fighting Turtles!  A sincere thank you to Coach Jack & Coach Gus!

The Fighting Turtles Board