Shark Alert
June 2, 2010

The spring session will end with the Meter Madness Meet on June 6th. Summer session will begin on June 7th. If you have not yet registered for the summer session, please contact our Club Registrar, Helen Bopp at registrar@schenectadyswimclub.org.

The Colgate Classic Meet (July 2-4) is 1 month away! All swimmers registered for the summer session may have been entered in this meet, unless an opt-out notice was timely received (by the opt-out date of May 30th) at meets@schenectadyswimclub.org.   If you did not swim with the Club during the spring session, please contact Coach Jerry at that e-mail address during the first few days of the summer session if you wish to opt-out. Please take note of the Long Course Meet Schedule posted on our website.  The Meet Schedule includes opt-out dates that are applicable to each scheduled meet.

All parents are reminded of their responsibility to monitor the meet schedule as posted on our website and comply with any opt-in/opt-out dates that may be applicable to their swimmer(s).  Meets with “opt-out” dates, such as the upcoming Colgate Classic Meet on July 2-4, means that all swimmers in a Practice Group scheduled to attend that meet will be entered and their meet fee account charged, unless an opt-out notice is received prior to the opt-out date by Coach Jerry by e-mail at Meets@schenectadyswimclub.org. Once an opt-in/opt-out date has passed and swimmers have been entered in a meet, meet fee accounts will be charged as of such date and are not refundable (as meet fees have been sent to the host team), even if a swimmer later does not swim in that meet for any reason. The opt-out date for Long Course Championships (July 23-25) at Colgate is June 27th. All summer-registered swimmers in Groups 1-SR will be entered in that meet as of such date, and their meet fee account charged, unless they have timely opted-out. However, as Long Course Championships are the culmination of the summer swim season, all swimmers are highly discouraged from opting out.

We have reserved on-campus housing for our families at Colgate for both July meets. It is our tradition to stay together as a team. Please make your reservations through the Club. Housing reservation forms for the Colgate Classic Meet (July 2-4) have been posted on-line as well as distributed through the family folders. Please get your housing forms in early as on-campus housing may become limited-first come, first served.  Housing reservation and team family dinner forms for LC District Championships at Colgate (July 23-25) will be distributed at the end of June.

SSC is pleased to announce that Bryce & Ellie Colby (e-mail address: bcolby@nycap.rr.com) will be assuming the duties of Team Equipment Managers with the start of the summer swim session. We would like to thank our former Team Equipment Manager, Mark Duchesne, for his many years of dedicated service to the Club.  Mark’s daughter, Courtney, will be graduating from high school this month. If you are new to our team and need to order equipment, please go to our website and click the tab, “Equipment Ordering”, on the top of our home page (please ignore the fall deadline). Bryce & Ellie Colby are available to answer any equipment-related questions.

SSC Members who swim for a summer league during Summer session are welcome and encouraged to compete with our team at AD Long Course District Championships the weekend of July 23-25, even if they are not practicing with our team during the summer session.  Please notify Coach Jerry at Meets@schenectadyswimclub.org if you are interested, and be sure to sign up for housing and dinners.   
 
Please remember to check our website (www.schenectadyswimclub.org) often for updates and changes!  Also, please remember to check your family folders. All families registered for spring and/ or summer have family folders located at their home practice site (Skidmore or for the summer only, at Union).