Old Announcements7/9 Tuesday's Meet with Wellsley
7/9 Individual Photo Information
7/9 Pasta Pump-Up for Scottish HillsVolunteers are needed for set-up, serving, and food preparation. Sign up!
7/9 Swim Banquet ChangesThe Swim Team Banquet will be held 6:00 - 10:00 pm, Thursday, July 19 at Cary Swim Club. Pizza, drink and light desserts will be served at no charge, followed by awards, a slide show, and a pool party! 7/8 Silverton Meet ResultsThe results from the Silverton meet are now available. A link to them may be found on the Meets page in the Meet Results box for the Silverton meet. Thanks to Coleman Poag for doing such a great job with meet results! 7/8 Upcoming Events
7/8 Practice Changes
6/28 Shepherd's Vineyard Meet ResultsThe results from the Shepherd's Vineyard meet are now available. A link to them may be found on the Meets page in the Meet Results box for the Shepherd's Vineyard meet. Thanks to Coleman Poag for doing such a great job with meet results! 7/2 Volunteer for Cary City MeetSwim team parents who have children swimming in the Cary City Meet this Saturday, July 7, need to sign up to volunteer for positions running the meet, just like at regular home and away meets. Online signup is currently open. Questions? Contact Deb Ryan at 465-9529. Volunteer positions for concessions and other areas also need to be filled. All members of Cary Swim Club are encouraged to help out with the huge amount of work that goes into putting on a successful Cary City Meet. Revenues from the meet benefit the whole club, not just the Swim Team. Please check the bulletin board at Cary Swim Club to sign up and for more information about who to contact. 7/2 Cary City Poster ContestDuring practice Thursday evening and Friday morning, there will be poster-making supplies available, supervised by the coaches, for swimmers to make James Bond and spy-themed posters to hang on our team's tent at the Cary City Meet. Swimmers, whether they are participating in the meet or not, can make posters to support our team. The theme of the meet is 007 and spies, so get creative and tie the James Bond movies and spies into your posters! 7/1 2007 Cary City Meet AdsAs the 2007 Cary City Meet approaches we would like to offer Team Ads to you for placement in our heat sheet. Here is a sample. Parent Ads are available for you to show your support! $15 Business card size ads for your child may be placed in our heat sheet. Please have the message print ready and we will shrink it to business card size. Also, advertisement opportunities are $30.00 for a 1/2 page ad, $50.00 for a 1/4 page ad, and $100.00 for a full-page ad. Our meet advertising committee will work with you if needed. We would like the ads to be print ready and placed by June 27th. For more info, contact Colleen Bussey at 919-931-7286 or email her. 6/28 A Message from Holland's Crossing Swim TeamThank you so much for letting us join your meet. We all had a really great time. The kids always enjoy themselves. My parent helpers were amazed at how smoothly the meet ran. It was a great experience for us all the way around. Everyone I met at Cary Swim Club club was extremely friendly and helpful. You all made me and my team feel so welcome. I truly can't thank you enough for the experience and the kindness. Please everyone that I thank them for holding our hands throughout the meet. I hope we will have the pleasure again. It was an amazing race to watch. Best of luck with the remainder of your season. Wendy Cox, Coach Holland's Crossing of Apex 6/26 Web Site UpdatesA few things have been added to the web site. Note in the menu to the left there is now a link to Swim Team Contacts and to the Swim Team Code of Conduct. 6/28 Swim Team Picture is Re-scheduledDue to the unpredictable weather this evening, the team photo has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 30th @ 2pm at the pool.
6/26 Cary City Meet SignupsATTENTION: Cary City Entries were due Monday night by 7:00PM. However, in order to give everyone who would like to participate that chance, please email me or fill out an entry form at the meet against Shepherd's Vineyard tomorrow night. Tuesday night is the absolute latest we can accept entries! Thank you for your cooperation! -Coach Alex 6/26 Tuesday's Swim Meet Rescheduled for Wednesday, June 27Same time, same place. Swimmers, PLEASE email Coach Alex ASAP to let me know if you will not be able to attend tomorrow evening. If at all possible, everyone should PLEASE COME! We hope the weather cooperates tomorrow and we can still have an awesome meet! There is no practice tomorrow morning and the team activity at Jellybeans from 1:00 to 3:00 is still on. Cary Swim Club will be open for your enjoyment regular hours tomorrow (Wednesday) UNTIL 4PM when the pool will close in preparation for the rescheduled swim meet against Shepherd's Vineyard. Swim Team parents--please email the Meet Directors to let them know whether you'll be there. 6/23 New Fast TracThe new Fast Trac is now available. Click on the latest issue in the box to the right. 6/20 Prestonwood Meet ResultsThe results from the Prestonwood meet are now available. A link to them may be found on the Meets page in the Meet Results box for the Prestonwood meet. Thanks to Coleman Poag for doing such a great job with meet results! 6/20 Pasta Pump-Up for Shepherd's VineyardVolunteers are needed for set-up, serving, and food preparation. Sign up!
If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Potok at potok@nc.rr.com or (home) 481-3360. Thanks for signing up! 6/15 6 & Under Practice ChangeStarting Monday, June 18, the morning practice time for 6 & Unders will be PERMANENTLY changed to 10:15-11:00 am. The coaches have realized that there is enough lane space for the 6 & Unders to practice at the same time as the rest of the 10 & Unders in the mornings. Thank you for your cooperation and we apologize for any inconvenience. Upcoming Events
6/15 New CalendarA Google Calendar has been created for the CSC Swim Team
(see the link to the left.) If you would like to add something to the
calendar, email Khristi.
To subscribe to the new calendar, click
6/13 Lochmere Meet ResultsThe results from the Lochmere meet are now available. A link to them may be found on the Meets page in the Meet Results box for the Lochmere meet. Thanks to Coleman Poag for doing such a great job with meet results! Green and White ResultsThe results from the Green and White meet are now available. A link to them may be found on the Meets page in the Meet Results box for the Green and White meet. Thanks to Coleman Poag for doing such a great job with meet results! No Practice Friday!There will be no afternoon practice on Friday, June 8th. Green and White MeetThe Green and White Meet will be on Wednesday, June 6th. Warm-ups start at 5:15 and the Meet will begin at 6:00 pm. The team rosters for the Green Team and White Team are ready! 6 and Under / Sunfish Practice Begins May 29thWith the cool nights that we have been experiencing the
pool temperature is currently only 72 degrees. At the kick
off meeting on Saturday the young swimmers became quite cold very
quickly. Young children are timid about getting
into the water when it is cold which can have a
negative impact on them for the season. To avoid this and for their
safety 6 and unders as well as Sunfish will not begin practice until
Tuesday, May 29th at 4:15 pm. Thank you for your
understanding. 6 and unders and Sunfish start date for practice has
been changed. Practice for these groups will begin practice
on Tuesday, May 29th at 4:15pm . |
Old Coach's CornerJune 20Swimmers had an amazing night at the swim meet against Preston this Tuesday and there was a lot of obvious improvement. Swimmers will be able to pick up their Speeding Tickets at the lifeguards' desk in the clubhouse hopefully no later than Thursday evening--they will be in a box on the desk in envelopes with each child's name. That said, there is a slight change to the Speeding Tickets program. The coaches are still trying to get the prizes for the Speeding Tickets trade-in organized and the "prices" for each prize set. Therefore, the first chance swimmers will have to trade in their tickets for prizes will be NEXT week after the meet against Shepherd's Vineyard. We will provide more information on the trade-in as it gets closer. We will plan to have one more trade-in at the end of the season where swimmers can trade in the tickets they will receive during the second half of the season. Thanks for everyone's generous donations thus far!" Thanks! -Alex June 11 - IMPORTANT!The coaches completely understand that emergencies and unexpected circumstances arise where your children have to miss swim meets with very little notice. However, there has been a problem leading up to the first swim meet against Lochmere this year with parents not telling me that their children are either missing the swim meet altogether or leaving early well after Friday night. I have received emails as well as been told in person about these absences or early departures as late as Monday night (the night before the meet!). I know people may not realize the importance of telling me by Friday if their swimmers will be absent. However, creating the lineup for each meet is a very time consuming process, which I usually spend much of my weekend completing. When parents or swimmers tell me that they will miss a meet or part of a meet after the lineup has been completed, it creates a great deal of extra work and last-minute scrambling to change the lineup and cover for the missing swimmers. It is VERY important that parents remember to either sign the meet absence sheets posted on the swim team bulletin board OR email me BEFORE 7:00 PM on the Friday before the meet. If this becomes a repeated problem, swimmers risk not being entered in any main events or relays for future meets. - Coach AlexJune 8Hello Imps! Congratulations to all the swimmers who swam in the Green and White practice meet on Wednesday night. Everyone swam hard, cheered for their teammates, and all around showed some amazing team spirit! The coaches hope that the swimmers bring this same type of enthusiasm to the meet against Lochmere on Tuesday! That said, as the swimmers who attended practice on Thursday evening saw, I had a very thick pile of yellow DQ slips from WednesdayÕs practice meet. The large majority of these DQs were for breaststroke and butterfly, which we will be working very hard on before TuesdayÕs meet in order to correct any problems swimmers might have had with these particular strokes. There was also some confusion among our younger swimmers on Wednesday night about relays. We had only worked on them once before the time trial, so this was to be expected. We will try to work more on relays in practice in days to come to make sure everyone is comfortable with relays. Lastly, I just wanted to let everyone know that, in honor of our first home meet, we will be having a poster contest and other spirit activities for swimmers as they finish practice on Tuesday morning. I hope everyone is having fun and excited about our very first swim meet of the season! Go Imps! -Alex June 6 - PARENTS PLEASE READThings have been going great at practice the last couple of weeks, and all of the coaches are VERY excited about the Green/White meet and our first meet next week! The members of the swim team have all been doing a GREAT job! But, I have a couple of things that I urgently need Swim Team parents to be aware of:
June 1We had a great Parent-Coaches Meeting last Saturday! I've summarized what we discussed, so please take a minute to look over it and see if you have any questions.  |
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