Hi everyone! this is a reminder that this week is the last week of practice until the month of September. I believe practice will start on Monday September 5th. Unfortunately i will no longer be the head coach because i will be moving. But i hope you will welcome the new coach just as you did myself.

I had a great time this summer and i hope everyone has a great Winter season!!

Coach JC

Hey Stingrays, welcome everyone to summer! Because of our season is slowing down, we may be making a few changes. The low participation during the summer may cause us to go back to the one practice per day (on MWF). I would love the feedback from you all about practice times. We will either start at 4:00, or 5:00. Please let me know which practice would be easier for you to attend.  Most of the OKC swim leagues take brakes for the summer, this has made it more then challenging to come up with some summer meets. I would love some feedback on whether you all would be interested on attending an inner squad meet. I was thinking about hosting it at UCO on June 18^th, let me know if that would work for you. I am really excited about evryone’s progress and I hope to see everyone rock out during the summer.  Thanks in advance for the feedback, JC

SWIM TEAM CANCELLED 5/11/10

Due to the weather practice at 4:00 and 5:00 has been cancelled

Because today was the last day to sign up i am extended the date to tomorrow

Please E-mail!! what you want to swim if you plan on going

Name, sex, age, and events you are wanting to swim

Sorry for the inconvience,

JC- jboothfau@yahoo.com

The new practice schedule will be starting tomorrow     5/9/11

Mondays 4:00-5:00 or 5:00-6:00

Wednesday 4:00-5:00 or 5:00-6:00

Friday 4:00-5:00

Remember you can choose either practice that suits you for that day. No practice is the same so try and get some verity if you can.

James Booth

Swim meet april 30 at UCO

Warm ups will be a 9:00 AM and the meet will begin around 9:30

I will be giving a packet to every kid about sign ups and where the meet is. I will try to Make sure they come home with the packet! VERY Important even if you are not attending the meet!!!!

YOU NEED TO SIGN UP FOR THE MEET IF YOU DO NOT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SWIM!!!!

Sign up Dates April 18, 2011 last day to sign up April 27, 2011

Sign ups will be located next to the girls locker room in the pool there are NO email sign ups.

again a packet is being sent home with the kids in much more detail if you have any questions please email me

Thank you, JC

Swim Meet Sign ups

          Meet sign up sheets will be posted on the swim team board located outside the girl’s locker room on the south wall of the pool. The sign up sheets will always be posted two weeks before the meet.  All other deadlines are on the meet information sheets and on our web site. (no e-mail sign ups please)

*** Please pay attention to deadlines. We cannot take late entries****

            Attached, is a list of optional events for each age group. We recommend that a swimmer compete in 3-4 events. Swimmmers may also choose to sign up for relays, but because of age/event restrictions the coach will choose who will compete in the relays.

• If you do not think you will be able to make it to the meet please do not sign up.
• If you are signed up for the meet and cannot attend, please let the coach know as soon as possible.
• Please do not show up late for meets. Being late for a meet can result in an automatic scratch from the meet in order to keep the meet running smoothly. Please call JC if you are running late 405-473-3350

Great news!

We have been granted an “optional” practice on Fridays from 4-5. Make sure you try and make it out if you can Long and i will both be there.

Here is our current schedule now:

Monday 4:00-5:00

Wednesday 4:00-5:00

*Friday 4:00-5:00

*Optional

Thanks hope to see everyone there!

Hey everyone!

What a great first two weeks of practice I’m happy to see everyone is getting into the groove of this. I know it can get a little crazy at this time of the year so i thank everyone for sticking with me.

Well i have some great news i just found out our first meet is APRIL 30th at UCO! I’m sure a lot of you will have questions about this but don’t panic.  I will be giving a hand out to your kids next Monday with all the information you will need for sign ups and information regarding to the meet When? where? what we need? all of that will be answered in the handout. Any additional information? you can just ask or email me. I just hope everyone is getting excited knowing that the first meet is only a couple weeks away.

Reminder try and spread the word about the swim team we want to get as many kids swimming as possible!

Thanks, JC      jboothfau@yahoo.com

I posted an image of the new swim team flyer in the media library folder. You can also pick up a flyer at the Edmond Y at the front desk.

Important dates:

April 1st- Registration begins

April 4th- Practice begins

Thanks, JC

Email-jboothfau@yahoo.com /Phone number 405-473-3550

My first task as new coach is to inform you,  in case you have not heard,  that we will be changing competitive leagues. The Edmond Y swim team will now be a developmental team in which we will concentrate more on endurance and stroke techniques.  In otherwords, we will be focusing on our swimming skills and strokes.  We believe we need to better our strokes and perfect them in order to become better individual swimmers and build a better team.   So many young swimmers develop bad swimming habits at a young age because they have not been taught properly and we want to correct that now.  

We will be competing against other YMCA developmental teams in the Oklahoma City area once a month on Saturdays and the meets will be at UCO.  There will be no actual disqualifications at these meets, but the children will be instructed using the USA swimming rules and regulations which will be part of the learning and developmental process.

This past year, there has been a great interest from our parents and the swimmers to go in this direction.  We need to get back to the basics of learning, developing, and loving the sport rather than a rush to win and score points.  We believe this will make for better happier swimmers. 

The fee will decrease to reflect the structure change of the team.  Monthly dues will be $30 for members and $40 for nonmembers. I will be posting the offical flyer on the website within the next two days.

The YMCA aquatics and I are very excited about this new direction that the swim team will be taking and hope that you are too. 

Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns.

JC Booth    405-473-3350 (call or text)

email:  jboothfau@yahoo.com