Announcements Archive


All,

Thanks for a great season!!!!

The team did great this year, our swimmers set new records and improved their times week after week. We finished second in our division and had a strong showing at Allstars. All results are on our website and the PMSL website. Our coaching staff did a great job this season and we look forward to having them back again next year.

Here is some additional information for you:

If you are interested in the team photos from the meets, remember to visit the kodak website. Allstars pics will be uploaded soon.

If you did not pick up team party awards, divisional t-shirts (pre-orders only), or all-star awards they will be at the clubhouse beginning Monday. Please ask the lifeguards if you can go in and get your items. PLEASE NOTE, THEY WILL NOT BE THERE FOREVER.......

If you ordered Neptune clothing, Mary will send out a separate e-mail when they are ready for distribution.

Anyone interested in a offseason/winter swim program, stay tuned....Gregg will be getting information together shortly and it will be distributed as soon as available.

Lastly, a special thankyou to all our parents/grandparents. It is a pleasure to be part of a team where there is such fantastic parent cooperation and support for everyone on the team!!!

Doug Higgs




LAST MINUTES
NORTHRIDGE NEPTUNES
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2005


1. Awards Dinner and Party - Thursday, July 28, 6:30 p.m. Set-Up



2. Divisional Meet - Saturday, July 30, 8:30 am START


3. Divisional Food


4. Coaches Corner




2005 Division E Divisionals Information

MEETING MINUTES 7/18/05



Pool Committee Update: Mary Lucian

Mary Lucian indicated that there are ongoing issues with cloudy water that the pool staff is addressing using several techniques. It entails flushing water from the pool; thus, there at times there will be large hoses and big puddles at the pool for the next few days.


Coach Update: Coach Gregg

Cheverly Relays: Northridge will NOT participate in Cheverly Relays this year.

1. College Park Woods Meet: Coach Gregg was pleased with the meet against College Park Woods even if we kinda lost. He is not convinced the better team won but they did swim better that day. He was also pleased with the active participation of 98% of the kids. Will try to move some swimmers to different places this weekend against Accokeek to shake things up.

2. Divisionals: Divisionals on July 30th at home will be very competitive. List of swimmers will be sent in an email on Sunday.

3. Practice for Divisionals: Please note Monday, July 25 - evening practice; Tuesday thru Friday - Morning Practice every day!!!!

4. Accokeek: Meet at Clubhouse at 6:45!!!! According to MapQuest, it's a 50 minute drive.


Divisional Meet: Doug Higgs Update

1. Cheer: Be there to cheer on our team even if your child/children aren't swimming!

2. Food: Mary Hennemann will need lots of food and assistance to feed everyone. She will email her request out later this week (Sat. or Sun.) Look for it!

3. Parents: July 25 Parent Meeting - please attend and/or volunteer

4. Volunteers are Needed: Timers, Runners, Judges - Sue Ann and Diane will contact volunteers directly.

5. Program: not selling ad space due to time restraints, etc. Program will be for sale at Meet.

6. PARENT ACTION ITEM---T-Shirts: White T-Shirts with team names and team players listed! Please email Elise Miller to place your order NOW (elisecmiller@comcast.net). Bring a check to the Meet Saturday ($12 each or $13 for XL). No orders taken will be taken after this Sunday (7/24) and extremely limited (if at all) sales at Divisional Meet. Do it now!

7. Pool Records: a number of team records have been broken this season (go neptunes). This is a reflection of the caliber of swimmers on our team and at our pool (we are in a higher division than ever before!). Pool records will probably be broken at the Divisional Meet. So take a look at the current records posted at the Pool. Your child may break his/her own record too! How cool is that?

Team Party and Awards Ceremony

1. PARENT ACTION ITEM--- Thursday, July 28 at 7:00p.m. Please RSVP Mary Lucian (marylucian@hotmail.com) if you are coming or not and the number of people in your family who will attend. Do it Today! Thanks.

2. Unless you make special arrangements (gotta bring the famous potato salad handed down by Grandma Boehmer), team volunteers will randomly assign food tasks to different families. This will happen today or tomorrow.

NORTHRIDGE NEPTUNES - PARENT MEETING MINUTES

Monday July 11, 2005
This Saturday's (July 16) meet is at College Park Woods Swim Club, 3545 Marlbrough Way, College Park, MD 20740, approximately 30 minutes from Northridge.

Coach requests that we meet at the Northridge Clubhouse at 7:15am to caravan over. Our team has warm up swim at 8:00am. The meet starts promptly at 8:30am.

Directions from PMSL handbook:
From the Beltway, take Rte 1 exit toward College Partk. Follow Rte 1 to 193 West and sign for Univ of MD Stadium, then turn right. Turn right at first traffic light onto Metzerott Rd. Go 3/10 of a mile, turn right onto St. Andrew's Place. Follow to Marlbrough Way, turn right and continue to pool on the right. There are also directions and a Mapquest map directions page.

Divisional Meet is on July 30 at our pool. We will need everyone to help in hosting the meet - set up and running the meet is bigger and more complicated than the dual meets. More donations of food and beverages will be needed for the concession stand. But it's a great opportunity for our community and swim team. We'll be talking more about this at next Monday's meeting.

Gregg will identify swimmers who will be in the divisional meet by Sunday evening, July 24.

We are invited to participate in the Cheverly Relays on July 31. Gregg needs to know which swimmers will and will not be available to swim in the relays so that he can decide if we have enough swimmers for the events. Let him know by e-mailing NRST@yahoo.com.

Swim Team awards party will be on Thursday, July 28. Swimmers and their family members are invited. RSVP - Mary Lucian needs to know how many people are coming to the party to plan for food amounts. Please let her know as soon as you can.

Coach's Announcements:
This week's meet will be another close one. Coach asks that parents encourage kids to stay with the team and cheer for teammates for the duration of the meet. He was disappointed in the lack of cheering and difficulty keeping the kids together at the last meet and asks for our support in this.

Gregg also talked about Divisionals and the Cheverly relays (see above).

Treasurer Report:
Another excellent meet regarding profit at the food stand and through the 50/50 raffle. I don't have the exact figures here, but she sent them to us in an e-mail. Just a little less than the take at the Hawthorne meet, which was very lively.

Marlton Meet:
Speaking of lively. You may have noticed a lot of discussion at the last week and murmurs about protests etc. Sue Anne described the disagreements that were going on regarding just a few of the events:

-On one, the Marlton team disagreed with a stroke/turn decision that resulted in a disqualification. This was resolved.
-Another involved a case where a spectator saw one of our swimmers do something they thought would merit a disqualification. None of the stroke/turn judges, nor the referee had seen it. So, no call, which is supported by the rules.
-The final controversy involved a single mistake in seeding at clerk of course. A disagreement between times and sweep judge determinations was also involved. The clerk of course issue was noted and the rule that sweep judge determinations in agreement rule over times was reviewed with the Marlton team and seemed to be resolved.



NORTHRIDGE NEPTUNES - PARENT MEETING MINUTES

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Coach's Corner

1. Friday Practice: very important practice for the Saturday meet. We will swim even if it's raining (but not thunder/lightening); all swimmers are encouraged to attend.

2. Coach Gregg and Coach Ayanna are will to spend extra time with swimmers on Friday, helping with skills. See Coaches for details.

Treasurer

Margot reported the team has made $391 in concessions so far this season. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Concessions - We need your extra help this weekend...

1. Mary H. still needs several items for Saturday:

· (in cooler with ice) coke, sprite, diet coke

· candy

Please let Mary H. know if you plan to bring the drinks on Friday night at 7:45 or Saturday morning at 7:15.

Either way, drinks need to be on ice and cold. Thanks in advance. Weather and logistics are dicey for this event only!

Coordination is difficult this week as there is an event in the Clubhouse on Friday night so we are outside only and have to store everything off-site (see below).

Friday Night Set-Up

· NOTE: There is an event in the Clubhouse; we will not have access to the building!.

· Unless there are torrential downpours and/or thunder/lightening, we will set up outside on Friday evening at 7:45 pm. Please come if you can.

· In case of torrential downpours and/or lightening/thunder, we will set up at 7am on Saturday!!!

Saturday Meet - Team Picture Day

· Meet will take place unless there is thunder/lightening within 30 minutes of start time!

· Parents: arrive at 7am (if it rains Friday and we have to set up on Saturday). If you have a deck job, or not, check in with Diane G. Have your kids in suits and ready by 7:15 rain or shine! NOTE: If you cannot do the job you did last week, or if you need a new job, please let Diane G. know ASAP. Email Cornelia or NRST...thanks.

· Mr. Williams has agreed to take the team picture this year at 7:30 a.m SHARP.

· Children: arrive at 7:15 fully dressed in swimsuits. Check in with Ayanna by 7:15. Picture will snap at 7:30 so DON'T BE LATE!

· Available jobs include (but are not limited to): Herder, Timer, Runner, Runner Back-Up

Upcoming Events

1. Cheverly Relays: will take place on Sunday, August 7th - the day following ALL-STARS. Please email Cornelia if you will be available for this date (either NRST or ctrandolph@idsdc.com). Thanks.

2. FUNDRAISER: Outfits (it's all about the outfit, yah know).

Please call, email or stop by Cornelia's house to let her know if you are interested in Northridge Neptune T-shirts, sweat pants, sweat shirts, or ladies strappy tops. Sizes and quantity is also helpful (there is a form on the website too!) Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.!!!
We need to order at least 12 items to make the logo process worthwhile.

3. Team Party: Thursday, July 28th Please let NRST know your family's availability for this fun, fun, fun event!!!! More details to follow.



Minutes From 6/27/05 Parent Meeting

1. Friday Night Set-Up: starts at 7:45 p.m. and continues until finished. If more people help, the jobs will go very quickly. It's also an opportunity to drop off your donations for Saturday morning meet. If you can be there, please show up by 7:45


2.Meet 2 - this Saturday, July 2 at 8:30 a.m

· Parents need to arrive by 7:45. Deck jobs: check in with Diane McNellis. Non-Deck jobs/concessions: check in with Mary Henneman.

· Swimmers need to arrive by 7:30. Check in with Coach Ayanna. Northridge warms-up are at 7:45 - 8:00 a.m.

· At Noon or meet end, parents need to stay and help clean up. Pool needs to be ready to open as soon as the meet is over. If everyone stays and pitches in, it will go very quickly. Thank you in advance for doing your share.

· We still need ice for Saturday's meet. If you have ideas for getting free ice, please contact Mary Hennemann

· Pop Up Tents: Steve Randolph and Doug Higgs are bringing pop-up tents (10x10 free standing, no ropes). If anyone else has one, please email team to let us know we can use it on Saturday.

· Here are some deck jobs that are still open for our meet Saturday. If you are interested and can help out please contact Diane McNellis or see her first thing Saturday morning: Team Representative, a few more timers, runners…for clerk of course, head timer


3. Miscellaneous - But Not to Be Overlooked

· We expect the result and photos in the blade on Thursday.

· No practice on Monday, July 4th. Have a safe and happy holiday.

· Parent Meeting is rescheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6th.

· Help: If anyone ended up with a huge towel (blue on one side, terry on the other). I waited til' last to pick up trash and my stuff and it was gone by then...thanks Cornelia.


4. Coach Gregg's Corner

· The Coach was very pleased overall with our first meet. Many swimmers dropped seconds off their times and were very competitive for the most part (a-hem, see Coach if you need specific information). Northridge made Bannister nervous and only lost by about 50 points. It was a great meet.

· Volunteers are welcome, needed, and highly thought of.

· Tuesday, Thursday Morning Practices: older kids can stay and work on skills from 8:30-9:30 (mainly 15-18 year olds). See Coach if interested.

· Friday Morning Practice: Coach will stick around after 9:30 to help swimmers work on skills. All ages are welcome




6/20/05 Weekly Parent Meeting Notes

1. League Meeting and Training


2. Coach Gregg - Meet this Saturday and General Advice

FIRST MEET THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 25


GENERAL ADVICE FROM COACH GREGG

* Encourage kids to practice their skills, strokes, etc., more often than at practice; for example during their leisure swim time (eg, flip turns). Helps them improve and gain confidence.
* Keep everyone informed if your family schedule changes. Contact Cornelia, email the team at nrstswims@yahoo.com ASAP if you have changes to your schedule that you did not make us aware of with your registration form. We need to know if your child (or you with a job) cannot make a meet. Thanks!

3. Volunteer Opportunities



General Advice:

A. If you volunteered for a job and cannot make your commitment, see Diane immediately to let her know.

B. Check in with Diane upon arrival at meet and tell her your job.



Confucious said: Volunteer for a job that you know you can handle; or just wait to be volunteered for a job that overwhelms you, sucks the life out of you, and generally makes you crazy.

* THIS SATURDAY (JUNE 25): Timers needed. Talk with Diane.
* NEXT SATURDAY, JULY 2: Head Timer Needed.
* DIVISIONAL MEET PLANNER - One Time Commitment; see Doug
* MERCHANDISE COORDINATOR AT DIVISIONAL - valuable opportunity to help raise funds for our team and work with other teams.
* ICE (man cometh?) - we really need big piles of ice for July 2, July 9, and Divisional Meet on July 30. Any who donate will be recognized and a letter of thanks sent at the end of the season. Great opportunity for an organization to show their volunteerism. If you know of business owners who can possibly support the team with Ice for our meets, please let us know ASAP. We have HUGE coolers in the shed that can be used for the transportation of ice.
* Team Clothing…The Neptune Clothing order form has been placed on the website. We need at least an order of 20 units of clothing to do the order. If you want team clothing, please print the form and give to Elise or Mary. If we get enough orders from team families we’ll let you know and collect payments.

Update 6/9/05

We start the morning schedule this Thursday (June 9), see calendar also, big kids 7:30am, Jrs'. 8:30am. Remember mornings are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Evenings Monday and Wednesday.

- Parents please get suits ordered. Friday 6/10 is supposed to be last day. Swim Pro does have Saturday hours...see form on website. They plan on imprinting "NRST" on the suits next week. You can also call in the order if you are comfortable with the sizing.

- There is a training for officials this weekend...here is the information:
The PMSL officials clinic is this Saturday, June 11, 2005 at University of Maryland Armory at 9:00 a.m. This is a mandatory meeting for all league reps. The southern Maryland clinic is June 18, 2005 at Fort Washington from 3-5 p.m.
It would be great if we can get more stroke and turn judges and people familiar with scoring...please send us a message if you were able to attend and what training did you take.

- Get your registrations in.....We need to know who is swimming and when they may be away. This is critical for our coach to begin thinking about seeding. Also, our data manager will need a team listing for official records. This is very important, get it in even if your check is not there yet.

- Coach mentioned that the Wednesday evening practice before our first meet (June 22nd.) he will hold time trials. Please make every effort to get all swimmers to practice that night. Also, Diane will likely want to test out the watches and we will need parent volunteers to assist in the timing.

- Our first meet is Saturday June 25th, stay tuned for announcements regarding meet times.

- There will be a parent meeting on Monday June 13th. One of our board members will lead the meeting as I will not be able to make it.

Thanks

Lot's to get done;

Doug


Updated 6/1/05

Practice Schedule

Evenings During Public School until 6/8/05~~~~~~ 6:45pm Jrs~~~ 7:30 pm Srs

Summer Practice Schedule Starting June 9th

Evening Practice: Mondays & Wednesdays 6:45pm Jrs~~~7:30pm Srs

Day Practice: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 7:30am Srs~~~8:30am Jrs

Swimsuits are available at Swim Pro...see Forms Page for Info

Northridge will be hosting the 2005 Division E Divisional Meet on 7/30/05

Meet schedule and info can be found at the PMSL website http://www.princemont.org

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5/16/05

Welcome Back!!!

We have moved up to the the top seed of Division E!!! The teams in our division are:

Northridge Swim Team-----Accokeek Swim Team-----College Park Woods Swim Club Inc.
Hawthorne Country Club-----Marlton Swim and Recreation Club

The 2005 Registration Form is now available for you to print on the forms pages.



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