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R & R Aquatics Summer Swim Team |
| Welcome to the R&R Summer swim and dive program! In advance, we would like to thank you for your support. Together, we can make this an exciting and positive experience for your child. Listed below are several topics we would like to cover with you, and for you to discuss with your child: benefits, schedules, regulations, and class structure. |
| BENEFITS |
| Your child will receive the following benefits: |
| -enhanced swimming abilities |
| -increase in endurance |
| -improvement in self-esteem and self-confidence |
| -great preparation for competitive swimming |
| -proper stroke techniques for freestyle, backstroke, |
| breastroke, and butterfly |
| -proper techniques for starts, turns and finishes for |
| competitive swimming |
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SCHEDULE |
| The summer practices will be held 4:30pm - 5:30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, until school is out, then Mondays - Fridays, 7:45am -9:00am. Please refer to calendar. |
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-Class begins
promptly at 4:30pm/7:45am. Please
be on time! |
| -Please do not arrive earlier than 4:15pm as there may |
| not be supervision and/or an open facility before |
| 4:15pm. With morning practices, gates open at 7:30am. |
| -When entering the pool area, your child will need to |
| obtain equipment, and then proceed to his/her designated lanes. |
| -Swimmers must not enter the water until instructed by a coach. |
| -Parents may view the class from the upstairs area; please no parents or visitors on deck |
| REGULATIONS |
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We would like the parents to help us with behavior
and compliance. Please have
your child be courteous to his/her teammates and coach by following these
rules: |
| -no dunking or splashing |
| -no misuse of equipment or facility |
| -no pushing teammates into the pool |
| -no talking or going under water while your coach is talking or giving instructions |
| -most importantly, listen and look at your coach while he/she is teaching |
| In addition, we encourage swimmers to wear goggles. Those swimmers with long hair need to wear a swim cap or pull hair back with a scrunchie or barrette. Team swim caps are required for meets. With all of this in mind, class instruction and meets can be most beneficial to all learners. |
| CLASS STRUCTURE |
| Groups will be organized according to age and/or ability. This process may take up to 2 weeks. Class structure will include a warm-up, conditioning, and instructions on stroke techniques as well as starts, turns and finishes. Age groups are 8& under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-17, 18 & over. Refer to order of events. |
| Swim-a-Cross |
| Every year we conduct a swim-a-cross with the help and support of American Red Cross. R&R Aquatics keeps 50% of the money raised while the other 50% goes to American Red Cross to help other learn to swim programs. The swimmers are asked to raise a minimum of $40.00 and in return they will receive a t-shirt. Other prizes are available according to the amount of money raised. The swim-a-cross is conducted during practice time and will be used as part of our summer training. The goal is to swim a minimum of 50 lengths continuous and no more than 100 lengths in the time allotted, 7:45am - 9:00am. See calendar for date of swim-a-thon. |
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We keep a count of laps and turn it into the American
Red Cross representative after swimming. You may bring a friend or family member to help count laps
for you. The money collected
is turned in by the following week and all awards are distributed at our
R&R party. See calendar for date. |
| Texas Swim Shop |
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Texas Swim Shop is our supplier.
They
will be here for the CCAA Champs meet and the TAAF Regional meet.
You may also contact them at 713-723-0910. |
| Team Pictures |
| We will have team and individual pictures taken during practice time in June (see calendar for date), starting at 7:30am. We will have swimming after the picture taking, if time permits. We ask that all swimmers be dressed in the team suit; we want all our swimmers in the group picture (regardless of whether you plan to buy pictures). Order forms will be handed out prior to picture date. |
| Regular Meets |
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All regular meets will be held on Saturdays with warm-up starting at 7:30am and the meet starting at 8:30am. Most of the regular meets will be finished by noon. |
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Ribbons are given to 1st -3rd place finishes and
times are kept for all swimmers. We
attempt to give out a blue participation ribbon to all swimmers, regardless
of place. Everyone swims and everyone will receive their ribbons at the
meet. Those swimmers who place
top 3 overall in an event will receive an additional special ribbon on
Mondays after practice. (Each team is allowed to score only 2 in every
event) |
| R&R Party |
| The R&R party is open to all swimmers/divers and their families. The party is scheduled in late July (see calendar for date), 4-7pm at the LCISD Natatorium. R&R will provide the pizza and fun in the water. We ask parents to bring drinks and desserts. |
| We usually eat around 5pm or 5:30pm and begin the awards ceremony by 6pm. We give out certificates to all participants and a top times report from the year. We also give trophies to Most Valuable and Most Improved boy and girl from each age group. We will also be handing out team pictures and any swim-a-cross awards your child may have received. Please plan to attend! |
| CCAA Championships |
| Championships is usually held at the LCISD Natatorium in July. (See calendar for date) |
| Session 1 10 & under 7:30am warm-up 8:30am start |
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Session 2 11
& over
12:00pm warm-up
1:30pm start |
| Heat sheets will be for sale, Tx Swim Shop will be set-up, and O'Henry's concessions will be selling a wide variety of menu items. Visit the CCAA (Coastal Cities Aquatics Association) website at www.ccaaswim.org for more information. |
| TAAF Regionals - (See calendar for date and location) |
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Session 1 10
& under
7:00am warm-up
8:30am start |
| Session 2 11 - 17 11:00am warm-up 12:30pm start |
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Entry fee is $5.00 to $6.00 per event and athletes must be
registered with TAAF State office. R&R
will take care of TAAF registration fee. Top 3 finishers in each event at Regionals, (if we have 1000
register in our region) otherwise top 2, will advance to the State meet.
You must pay and register for State at
the Regional meet. |
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Heat sheets will be for sale, TAAF Regional T-shirts
for sale, Tx Swim Shop will be set-up and O'Henry's Concessions will be
here with a wide variety of menu items. |
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TAAF State Meet - (See calendar for date and location) |
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Top finishers are eligible for the TAAF State meet.
State qualifiers will train two weeks between regionals and state, 7:45am -
9:00am.
There will be a required additional coaching fee of $25.00 per
swimmer. R&R Aquatics
also has a block of rooms set aside for the State qualifiers and their
families. See coach Schramme or Mrs.
Ward for hotel rooms. Visit TAAF
website at www.taaf.com and/or www.swimtaaf.com
for more
information pertaining to the meet. |
| Items for Sale |
| Team suits- make checks payable to Tx Swim Shop: |
| Female youth $46.55 |
| Female adult $48.70 |
| Male youth jammer $33.55 |
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Male
adult jammer
$35.20
Available in male brief. |
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Other For Sale Items: Make checks payable to R&R Aquatics: |
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Team swim caps - latex $ 5.00 |
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Team swim caps - silicone $10.00 |
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Classic Water gear goggles $ 5.00 |
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Swedish goggles $ 5.00 |
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TYR goggles $10.00 |
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R&R decals $ 8.00 |
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Visors/Baseball Caps $10.00 |
| (fill out order form) |
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Team t-shirts $10.00 (All Swimmers get one Free!) |
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| Weekly Emails and Newsletter |
| We usually hand out a weekly newsletter on Thursdays with various information. We will also be emailing this information if you are on our email list. Included in the newsletter is a list of concession items we ask to be donated to R&R for our home meets. We appreciate all your help and consideration! |
| In conclusion, you have our commitment as the coaching staff to give our best effort to your child. We look forward to making the summer swim team a fun and educational experience. |
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Sincerely, |
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The R&R Aquatics Coaching Staff |
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