FR1 Newsletter: Week 4 Fall 2024
Champions in the Pool. Champions In Life.
GRATITUDE~GRIT~GROWTH~MINDFULNESS~OWNERSHIP
Future Royal 1, Week 4 - Upcoming Week
Welcome!
Last week we stuck to freestyle and backstroke, making sure that we had good streamlines, good head position, and a good kick! We also introduced starts! We kept things simple with sitting and kneeling starts, and are going to continue to work on these throughout the season. We we will continue with this same focus for 1 more week until we have our first meet of the season (Super Splash Sept. 28th)! After that, the plan is to begin adding in Breastroke!
This week we'll make sure to focus on race starts, turns, and finishes, so that we are prepared for the meet this upcoming Saturday! We will stick to freestyle and backstroke for now.
For announcements/important items, we have a few things:
This Thursday, 9/26/24, we will have our FR1 meeting after practice! It was moved from this past Friday since we had a lot of swimmers out with all the fall festivals going on! The meeting will still look like the following:
- After practice finishes at 6:20, we will plan on starting the meeting at 6:35
- This meeting will go over expectations, our season plan, our age-group focuses, and some background information about myself and the sport!
- This will be held in the "Lane-Line Cafe" which is located on deck (there is a double set of doors, straight if you were to walk in from the main entrance to the pool, I'll make sure people know where it is).
I've talked with some parents individually, and we'll go over this at our FR1 meeting this Thursday 9/26, but if you haven't already, visit the Elsmore swim shop to make sure your swimmer has Fins and a Kickboard! Additionally, Elsmore recently received a stock of our "Meet" swim suits, so go ahead and stop by there to purchase a team suit we can use for meets!
There is now a groupme for FR1, go to this link to join the groupme! You'll need to provide an answer to the joining question (so we don't have people outside of the group join). Feel free to message about any questions of other parents or myself in there, I will do my best to monitor that chat regularly.
I mentioned this last week, but we want to represent our Royal colors, so we have what Coach Andy calls "Royal Fridays!" (an HSE tradition) where every Friday students/athletes, and coaches/teachers wear blue colors (specifically the shirt!)
HOWEVER! We do NOT have practice this Friday.
- This is not required, but heavily encouraged! We want to build team spirit, and it would be great to present a united blue front!
- The shirt does not have to be HSE or SSC in nature, as long as it is royal blue in color! (Obviously, HSE or SSC shirts would be preferred!)
If you have any questions or comments for me, feel free to reach out to: coachcampbell@southeasternswim.org
CALENDAR
- Here is the FR1 specific calendar:
- Here is the link to our Team calendar
- We'll be having practice Tuesday, Thursday BUT NOT FRIDAY this week
MEETS
UPCOMING
Noblesville Swim Club ICE BREAKER
01 November 2024 - 03 November 2024 Timed Finals Meet
More information to come!
But this will be a meet that I hope many FR1 swimmers can attend! We hope to have a large SSC contingent going to this meet.
SSC Barndance Fall 2024 **AN EVENT, NOT A MEET****
- Saturday Oct. 26th, 5-8PM at Sleepybear compound
- This is an event where the whole team gets together and celebrates the beginning of the fall season!
- The kids make a dance *lead and practiced with the group/team mom and al the groups perform their dance at the barndance!
Regardless of my poor memory, here is the link to our calendar page that should have information about any upcoming meets (such as the SSC Supersplash Sept. 24, and SSC Swimfest 2024!) and provide a spot to sign up for volunteer slots!
- If you would like to leave a comment on the meet entry form as to what you'd like your swimmer to swim, you can do so.
- I will be the one assigning swimmers to events, so do not do so, but as noted you may leave comments if you want to suggest an event.
Here is the all-important link!
https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/isscc/page/calendar#/team-events/upcoming
ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
For anyone who wants to be more involved or read more on the swimming community, here are some organizations/swimming influential members that focus on the sport!
(here's a good one) https://swimswam.com/10x-olympic-medalist-caeleb-dressel-unpacks-his-paris-olympic-games/
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/
