USA Swimming Deck Pass App

macadmin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:42:38 +0000

Deck Pass is the official mobile application of USA Swimming.

Download the free Deck Pass application today and connect with all your swimming friends. Share times, brag about your accomplishments and set your goals in this new application that lets you compete and connect.

All swimmers, from state champions to summer leaguers, can track their times with the log book and even keep track of their personal goals through Deck Pass. USA Swimming members can also look up their times and recent meets, check their IMX scores, and see all of the Deck Pass patches they’ve earned.

USA Swimming coaches can use the mobile application to monitor their team’s times and rankings. Furthermore, coaches can use the mobile application to assign coach-given patches to swimmers. Why wait until you’re in front of a computer when you can use your mobile phone on deck to award your swimmers for their hard work?

Deck Pass Mobile features include:

IMX scores, best times, recent meets and rankings.
Digital patches for your achievements at practice and at competitions
A way to connect with your swimming friends.
A tool that allows coaches to award digital patches to their swimmers
Your team’s times, scores and ranks.
USA Swimming information on events, meetings, certifications and results
A digital logbook to keep track of your times and earn more patched
A goal tracker to set goals for the season and monitor your progress.

Download Deck Pass from Apple iTunes.

Welcome to the 2011-12 MAC Season!

Coach Krista — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:03:11 +0000

MAC Parents

Go Piranhas! Myself as well as the rest of the coaching staff can’t wait to get the season started! Whether you are a new MAC family or one of our devoted returning families, we welcome you and are looking forward to another awesome year!

By now, all of you should have received a phone call from one of the coaches on staff letting you know which ability group your swimmer has been placed in. With everybody’s busy schedules throughout the weekend, not everyone was home when the coaches called. Messages, however, should have been left on answering machines/voice mails. If at this point, you still are unsure what ability group your swimmer has been placed in, send an e-mail to me, and I will look at the master list and confirm.

Although you will all be receiving an October newsletter and calendar your first day of practice, I wanted to give you some important reminders to to start the season with. Some of the information is also represented in the newsletter, so you will definitely see some of these reminders again.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR SWIMMER’S FOLDER THE FIRST PRACTICE YOU ATTEND, AS THERE IS DEFINITELY TIME-SENSITIVE MATERIAL IN THEM!

PRACTICE SCHEDULE

As most of you are aware, practice begins TONIGHT! (Monday, October 3rd). We have practice this week Monday thru Thursday and Saturday. We can’t have practice on Friday as Purcell Marian is renting MHS’s football stadium, and whenever the football stadium is being used, we have to cancel practice due to the large number of people on the MHS campus. If your swimmer can’t be at practice tomorrow night, no worries. As a reminder, the suggested number of practices per week is 3 for Gold, 3 for Blue, 3 for Red I and 4 for Red II. If you can’t make the suggested number of weekly practices due to fall sports, please e-mail your swimmer’s lead ability group coach to make him/her aware of your swimmer’s fall sport commitments. You can e-mail the lead coaches at the following e-mail addresses:

Gold Lead Coach: Leah Roth

Blue Lead Coach: William Montage

Red I Lead Coach: Krista Howard

Red II Lead Coach: Robyn Kueper

PRACTICE GROUPS

In order to meet the needs of all of our swimmers this season, we have decided that there needs to be two different levels of the Red Group – one for some of last year’s older Blue Group swimmers (Red 1), and one for all of last year’s Red Group swimmers (Red II). Although the two Red Groups will practice at the same time, each group will have its own set of coaches.

The coaches for all groups are as follows:

Gold Group: Leah Roth and Emily Wolfer

Blue Group: William Montague and Abbey Brinkman

Red 1 Group: Krista Howard and Anita Beck

Red 2 Group: Robyn Kueper and Jordan Schad

The practice times beginning this week are as follows:

Gold: 5:45 P.M. – 6:45 P.M. (Monday – Friday) 9:00 A.M. – 10:15 A.M. (Saturday)

Blue: 5:45 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. (Monday – Friday) 9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M. (Saturday)

Red: 6:30 P.M. – 8:15 P.M. (Monday – Friday) 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. (Saturday)

(Red 1 and Red 2 will practice at the same time)

All of these times INCLUDE stretch time………………..

MEET COMMITMENT FORM

Also, in your folder, you will find a Meet Commitment Form for our first meet of the season. The first meet is definitely one of our team’s favorites, as swimmers get to spin a prize wheel if they win their heat! The meet is called the Val Lyons Meet and is held at Sycamore High School on October 22nd and 23rd. Please read over the Meet Commitment Form and make sure you turn it back into your swimmer’s ability group folder (GOLD, BLUE, RED 1 or RED 2) located in the front of the folder system by Saturday. We would like to receive a Meet Commitment Form from each swimmer even if he/she isn’t able to attend the meet.

SUIT-UP NIGHT

Kast-A-Way Swimwear will be at practice next Monday, October 10th from 5:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M. Team swimsuits and equipment can be purchased that night. As well, swim bags, warm-ups, goggles, and practice suits will be available.

MAC swim caps have been ordered and should arrive hopefully by the first meet. I will send out an e-mail when the order arrives so that you know when your swimmer will be bringing a cap home. Each swimmer gets one cap – included in his/her team fees. Additional caps are $5.00. Caps can be worn to practice and should be worn at meets. As we did last season, we will also be ordering caps with last names on them. The order will go out at the end of the month.

FEES/PAPERWORK

Each swimmer by now should have the following three forms turned in: 1.) Emergency Medical, 2.) Swimmer/Parent Contract, 3.) U.S.A. Registration. Unfortunately, swimmers who don’t have these in won’t be able to be entered in the first meet as they won’t be registered in time. As well, everyone should have paid the $150.00 deposit which includes the $92.00 Escrow Fee and the $58.00 USA Registration Fee. Each swimmer will be billed for the remaining fees in the next few weeks. Checks should be written to Mariemont Aquatic Club.

TEAM SOCIAL

We have our first team social this Friday, October 7th at Hahana Beach Club on Wooster Pike. All MAC families are invited to attend! Eat, drink, socialize and even play volleyball if you wish! MAC will be there starting at 5:30 P.M. I have encouraged the coaches to drop by as well, so if you would like to meet your swimmer’s coaches, this would be a great opportunity to do so. We did this event last year and everyone who attended really had a good time. Since there isn’t practice Friday night anyway, this is a perfect opportunity to meet other families on the team. I hope to see a lot of Piranha families on Friday night! A BIG thank you to Tara Scarborough for organizing this event again!

Okay, I think that should do it for this post. Expect a few more e-mails throughout the week!

I am looking forward to the first week of practice! Don’t forget to check your swimmer’s folder!

I will see many of you tonight!

Krista

Winter 2011-12 Season

macadmin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:49:14 +0000

New swimmer registration meeting will be held on Thursday, September 15th at 7pm in the Mariemont High School cafeteria.

For further information please review our New Swimmers page or contact Head Coach Krista Howard at Kristaau@aol.com.