We had a
fantastic final week of January, both at practice and at the Winter
Invitational in Ellensburg. Champs is
fast approaching—Junior Champs in Moscow is 10 days away,
while Senior Champs in Ellensburg is 24 days away. Keep working hard at practice, and we’ll be
ready to roll! Here’s what else
is going on:
Entries for the Junior Championship Meet are
due today!!! Please, please, please
sign up, even if you are only going for one day. We would really like a large group of swimmers to
go to the meet—right now we have 35 swimmers signed up (last
year we took 47, so let’s get a few more signed up!!!).
IES Short Course Champs—Feb. 26-28, Ellensburg,
Washington
We still have a couple more weeks to get those
entries in for Short Course Champs. At
this point, if you’ve qualified, you should be signed
up. If you haven’t qualified,
then I hope you are going to Junior Champs so you can get your
qualifying times!
Shamrock Shake Up T-Shirt Contest
Our annual Shamrock Shake Up
T-shirt design contest is in full swing again this year. Show off your artistic abilities and create
a great design for the shirts that will be sold at the meet. You can win a free t-shirt and other
prizes. Please have your design into
Ashley or Mathew Christoff’s folder by February
16. Please make sure to attach your
name to your design. Good luck, and
have fun!
Shamrock Shake Up and Triple Pentathlon
We are getting
ever closer to March and April and we still have a lot of work to
do to get ready. Make sure that you have the weekends of
March 12-14 and April 16-18 blocked out so you can participate and
volunteer for the swim meets that we host. These are a lot
bigger and more complicated than our developmental meets, so
we’ll need all hands on deck! The on-line job sign-ups
will be posted soon, remember that the family volunteer hours need
to be fulfilled, and these meets are just about the easiest way to
do it.
Volunteer Needed: Waves Store
Speaking of those volunteer hours, we are
looking for a volunteer to cover the following shifts in the Waves
Store at the pool: Monday 5:30-6:30 &
7:30-8:30; Wednesday 7:00-8:30; Friday 7:00-8:30. It is an easy way to get your
volunteer hours in! If you are interested, please call Dede
at 465-2786.
Swim-a-thon
Our only fundraiser of the year is coming up
on Saturday, April 24. We need all
Waves families to participate in this huge team wide event. From Ripples all the way to Seniors, every
effort goes a long way, so please be ready to work hard for the
future of the team!
Training Tip of the Week
Last week, we talked about intensity. Intensity’s partner in crime is
motivation: you must have both in order to be successful. You can be highly motivated, but if you
don’t bring intensity, it’ll be difficult to
improve. Similarly, how intense can you
be if you are not motivated to achieve something? Find what motivates YOU to
achieve: is it to please your coach, your parents or your
teammates? Or is it the personal
satisfaction of winning or beating times? To truly be successful in the long-term, you must
find what gets you excited: this sport is all about making yourself
better, not necessarily doing it because other people want you
to. When individuals are
self-motivated, this allows the team to work together to achieve
common goals. And when we work
together, there’s nothing we can’t do!
There’s
a lot happening, and we need your help to make it all come
together. Remember, YOU are the Waves,
we are simply helping to steer the ship. Thanks again for all the work you’ve done,
and we look forward to the next few months!
