Friday, December 28, 2018

Triangle Swim School / Hiring YR-Round Swim Instructors


If you enjoy working with kids and love swimming then you will love this job!

As an award winning swim school, we pride ourselves on “learning to swim correctly the first time”.

At TSS we offer a fun, positive, high-energy, and team oriented environment. Our instructors have formed relationships that can last a lifetime with their peers. Our goals are to provide excellent swim instruction, support our staff in and out of the water, and offer a program no other school can.

Triangle Swim School is an established and successful swim school with two locations (Cary, and Raleigh)...................

FOR MORE INFO & TO APPLY / CLICK BELOW 

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Preston Village Tiger Sharks Seeking Coaches


The Preston Village Swim Team is seeking applicants for a Head Swim Coach and Assistant Swim Coaches for the 2019 swim season, which runs from the middle of May through the end of July. PVST is a non-profit, board-run neighborhood swim team in the Cary area which competes in the Tarheel Swim Association summer league. The team has 100+ members with skills ranging from novice to competitive year-round swimmers. We are looking for applicants with strong communication skills, who enjoy working with kids, are able to create and lead daily workouts, and instruct swimmers on the technical aspects of all strokes. Competitive pay based on qualifications of applicant. Please send resumes and inquiries to pvtigersharks@gmail.com

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Cary Park Sea Dragons Seeking Summer 2019 Coaches


Cary Park Sea Dragons in Cary, NC is looking for energetic and skilled Head Coach and Assistant Coaches for Summer 2019 to help lead our community summer swim team!  If you have a love for children and have swimming or coaching experience, or know someone who does, we welcome you to send your resume to us for consideration.  Summer 2019 will start mid-May through the end of July. Coaches lead morning and afternoon practices Monday-Thursday and morning practices Friday & Saturday. The season includes 6 dual meets generally on Tuesday evenings as well as 1 to 2 end-of-season meets on a Saturday & Sunday.  Coaches are expected to swim in coaches relays at the meets, and if age-eligible (age 18 or younger), are strongly encouraged to join Cary Park Swim Club and swim for Cary Park during meets. Lifeguard/First Aid/CPR certifications will be required certifications prior to the start of season.  Competitive pay offered.  You may learn more about our team at www.caryparkswimteam.com
Please email resumes and a list of 2-3 references by January 21, 2019 if interested:
Subject: CP Sea Dragons Head Coach Application or CP Sea Dragons Assistant Coach Application
To:  caryparkswimteam@gmail.com
Thank you for considering joining the Cary Park Sea Dragons!!

Monday, July 23, 2018

Cecil L. Williamson TSA Educational Grant winners announced



Prior to the start of the afternoon session on Sunday (7/22/18) of the 2018 TSA Championship Meet, TSA President Jim Moran and TSA VP Jenny Smith drew 25 names from the final list of eligible TSA graduating seniors for the Cecil L Williamson TSA Educational Grant. 

The list of winners drawn is below.

Each winner will receive an Educational Grant in the amount of $400.  These checks will be mailed out to the address on record for each swimmer when their application was entered.  

Congratulations to all of the winners!


Name

Team
Caroline King

Amberly
Trey Harloff

Apex
Alicia Carlson

Bedford at Falls River
Parker Bryant

Charleston Village
Caleb Rinderer

Coachman's Trail
John Bradley

Devereaux
Michael Viola

Durant Trails
Kayla Guiterrez

Eagle Ridge
Stephanie Flores

Eagle Ridge
Grace Countie

Harrington Grove
Anna Olson

Kildaire Farms
Henry Sowers

Kildaire Farms
Carly Haugh

Lochmere
Brady Henges

Olive Chapel
Caroline Budo

Oxxford Hunt
Ben Smith

Park at West Lake
Claire Garner

Shepherd's Vineyard
David Mendenhall

Southall
Evan Williams

Sunset Ridge
Brooke Hagwood

TCC
Samantha Hager

TCC
Joshua Murray

Walden Creek
Connor Dablo

Weatherstone
Gillian Hurlburt

Wellsley
Wade Lee Creech

Zebulon



Tuesday, June 5, 2018

An Easy Way to Earn $100+ for Your Neighborhood Swim Club

If you’re a swim parent, you understand things most people don’t: spending days at a meet to watch mere minutes of action; driving backandforthandbackandforthandbackandforth to the pool every week; that crisp, clean first breath of outside air when you’re heading to your car; and volunteering “for the good of the team.”

That last one…that’s where we (TAC Titans) have a problem that only a swim parent could understand—and help us solve. Because so many people are traveling this summer, we need more volunteers for two upcoming meets on June 15th-17th and August 2nd-5th, 2018, being held at TAC in Cary.

BUT we’re *not* asking for volunteers. No way. We know you do enough free labor for your own team. That’s why we’re PAYING $100 per every five volunteers (per meet) from your swim club if you can help us out by timing during these upcoming events.

The best part is, you can use that money for whatever you want. More spirit wear. More replacement goggles. A folding chair, but one that actually works. More sunscreen. Or, serving suggestion: put it toward your team banquet or coach’s gift.

To line your team pockets (and totally help us out), please contact us at servicecredit@tactitans.org.

Monday, June 4, 2018

NORTH RALEIGH CHAMPIONSHIPS

2018 North Raleigh Championship Meet
Hosted by the Marlins of Raleigh Swim Team


SITE:
A.E. Finley Athletic Center
Ravenscroft School
7409 Falls of the Neuse Road
Raleigh, NC 27615

PARKING:
Parking will be available in the main lot in front of the building. Please enter from the Falls of Neuse entrance and follow all the way back of campus. Follow signs for the Finley Center and enter through the front doors turn right.

DATE:
Sunday, July 15 2018

TIMES:
10-unders:
Warm-ups will be at 8am- meet starts 9:15am
11-Over:
Warm-ups will be at 1pm- meet starts 2:00pm
**any changes in warm-up times or start times will be sent to the main email address contact given.
All teams will receive a timer/kid pusher assignment and any changes to the meet on or before July 11, 2018.

FACILITY:
Ravenscroft is a six- lane, 25 yard pool, with non-turbulent lane ropes and permanently mounted starting blocks. The minimum depth at the start end of the pool is 12 feet. An automatic timing system and computer results will be used. 25 yard events will start from the blocks. Spectator seating is available in the balcony and will be WARM, please tell parents to dress accordingly.
Please NOTE: All families that have a swimmer in the water can stand at the balcony railing. However, if your child is NOT in the water we ask that you sit and wait your turn. Thank you for your cooperation.

The gymnasium will be set up with each team having a designated spot to sit.
YOUR AREA NEEDS TO BE CLEANED before leaving your area. Please tell swimmers and parents that floor mats and basketball goals are not to be used- these are the property of Ravenscroft School.

NOTE: NO FOOD ALLOWED ON DECK or in the GYMNASIUM.  HOWEVER, SWIMMERS MAY HAVE A PLASTIC BOTTLE FOR WATER.  NO TOBACCO USE ALLOWED IN ANY PART OF THE BUILDING or Campus.  No one is allowed on any part of the track or football field.

ELIGIBILITY:
There is NO limit to the number of swimmers/relays that can be entered from your team in each age group. However, there are no move ups. IE a 6 year old cannot swim in a 9-10 relay.
Directions to downloading Hy Tek Lite are at the end of this meet information. The TM file to load onto Hy-tek Lite can be found at www.marlinsofraleigh.com on June 20, 2018 or by emailing coachcara45@aol.com

ENTRIES:
Entries are due Monday, July 9, 2018 by 6pm. You can email them to mormeets@gmail.com and coachcara45@aol.com and you can leave information in the mailbox of 120 Cromwell Court, Raleigh, NC, 27614 or at the MOR office.  All Swimmers must have a time to enter the meet. Please remember to adjust 6-under times to 25 yards. A TM Lite file can be downloaded by going to http://www.hy-tekltd.com/downloads.html - go down to the bottom where you see TM Lite and go to the right- you will see LITE to download.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT EACH SWIMMER/PARENT SIGNS THE WAIVER IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEET. WAIVERS MUST BE GIVEN TO COACH CARA ON OR BEFORE THE START OF THE MEET!

SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP:
2018 MOR Graduating Seniors Scholarship. Please fill out (on the form at the end of the meet information) each graduating senior that is attending the NR Championships Meet that MOR hosts to be entered in the drawing for a $400 Scholarship from the Marlins of Raleigh Swim Team. This information MUST BE SENT VIA EMAIL OR WITH MEET ENTRY BY JULY 9, 2018. The Drawing will be on July 15, 2018 at the North Raleigh Champs Swim Meet and announced at the meet by the coaching staff.

ENTRY LIMIT:

Swimmers are limited to 4 individual events and can be on both the medley and freestyle relays- NO swimmer may move-up to next age bracket for relays. Please make sure to go through the report that Pam Rocque (mormeets@gmail.com) sends to you after you supply us with your entries. Please make sure that each swimmer is listed under the correct sex and age group/events.

ENTRY DEADLINE:
All entries done by hytek are due on July 9th. Please email your entries to coachcara45@aol.com and mormeets@gmail.com. If you need to hand deliver your entries, please email me at the email below for instructions on where to submit your entries- if you overnight your entries, please make sure you sign the part where a signature is not required. Please email me to let me know you have delivered, sent or put in mailbox at coachcara45@aol.com. Send appropriate fees with your entry via mail unless other arrangements have been made.

Email entries to coachcara45@aol.com AND mormeets@gmail.com

ENTRY FEES:
Individual Events-per event - $5.00
Relays - $8.00 per relay
Facility Fee per swimmer - $10.00 per swimmer

Entry fees must accompany entries and are not refundable.
Make checks payable to: MOR (please do not send individual checks; one check from each team please)

MAIL ENTRIES & FEES TO:
Cara Cameron
4904 Waters Edge Drive; Suite 295
Raleigh, NC, 27606

Entries must include:
1.  Correct entry fees.
2.  Entry forms properly completed.
3.  Received by dates on Entry deadline
4.  Please do not send entries in a manner which requires signature for delivery.

TIMING and OFFICIALS:
Each team is required to provide timers for each session in which they compete. A specific number will be determined after entries are received and sent to the main contact for your club. Coaches will pick up the Coach/Volunteer package at check in and hand out their kid pusher and timer badges.

CLERK OF COURSE And GYM AREA:
Each team is asked to have their own kid pushers to get swimmers to the blocks. Each team will be given a deck pass for kid pushers (for every 15 kids, one is allowed). The coaches can pick these up at Check in. Each team will have an area clearly marked in the gymnasium to set up their towels and chairs. NO FOOD IS ALLOWED and we ask that everyone be respectful of this rule. WE will have a board in the gymnasium that will have the number of the event in the water so that you can begin preparing your swimmers to get to the blocks.

AWARDS:
Please pick up awards after the meet. In the event that the awards are not ready at that time, please supply us with your mailing address before you leave.

WARM-UPS:
Each team will be given specific warm-up times and lane assignments once all entries are received and put into Meet Manager. A contact email is needed for the person responsible for making your swim club aware of any changes. Warm-up time is specific so please make sure your team is ready and in the water at your specified time.

SAFETY:
NO running or horseplay will be tolerated- no gum or food on deck or in the gymnasium. Anyone who has food in the gymnasium will be asked to leave the area.  Coaches, the deck at Ravenscroft can be slippery. Please wear appropriate footwear and be careful going up and down the stairs.

COACHES MEETING:
A coaches’ meeting will be held at 9:05am by the starting console

MEET DIRECTORS:
Cara Cameron- coachcara45@aol.com) AND
Pam Rocque- mormeets@gmail.com

STARTER:
Wade Martin

OFFICIALS:
Any USA Swimming Official or TSA Stroke and Turn INTERESTED IN STROKE AND TURN AT THIS MEET SHOULD CONTACT CARA CAMERON at coachcara45@aol.com

HOSPITALITY:
Hospitality will be open to officials, coaches, and meet workers. No swimmers allowed.

CONCESSIONS:

The Marlins of Raleigh will be selling some snack foods and drinks to be in the main lobby. Heat Sheets can be purchased in the hallway near where results are posted. T-shirts will be on sale in the lobby as well.

RELEASE STATEMENT:
USA Swimming, Inc., North Carolina Swimming, Inc, Marlins of Raleigh, and Ravenscroft School shall be held free and harmless from any and all liabilities or claims for damages arising by reason of injuries to anyone during the conduct of this event.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO SEND CARA CAMERON A RESPONSE IF YOUR TEAM WILL BE ATTENDING THIS SWIM MEET. Please RSVP by June 20, 2018 (Approximate # of 10-under and 11-over you guess will attend)
coachcara45@aol.com

Thank you and we look forward to having you at the pool!!!

ORDER OF EVENTS; MEET ENTRY FILE; WAIVER; ENTRY FORMS are all available at the Marlins of Raleigh website at www.marlinsofraleigh.com.



Sunday, May 20, 2018

Something else for teams that use Hy-Tek's Meet Manager or Team Manager

Last year I released a revised version of a free software package called Bob’s TSA Tools for Hy-Tek, which can be used by TSA teams which own Hy-Tek’s swimmer management program, Team Manager, or its companion product for running swim meets, Meet Manager. Teams who compose their entries for a dual meet in Team Manager as described in this document can use Bob’s TSA Tools to automate various pre-meet chores that formerly had to be done by hand. Teams which own both Team Manager and Meet Manager will be able to perform even more meet preparation tasks. As before, the software is still completely free of charge.

The components of this package include:

Event Entry Form Generator
This feature frees coaches from the tiresome task of manually transcribing all their main event entries (up to 138 swimmers in individual events and up to 240 swimmers in relay events) to the pink and blue event entry forms used during TSA meets. Instead, the tool will generate those forms online automatically from a team’s meet entries in the span of only a few seconds. The online forms can then be printed on sheets of blue and pink paper to create the physical forms that will be used in the meet by the Clerk of Course and Recorder.

Swim Up Form Generator
This feature produces a pair of forms, one for boys and one for girls, listing all the “swim up” athletes entered in any of their respective gender’s ten relay events, suitable for presentation to the opposing team’s TSA Representative as required by TSA rules. These forms are combined with the event entry forms described in the previous section so that they can be printed along with them, using the half-sheet of blue or pink paper that would otherwise be left over after producing 33 event entry forms for each sex.

Event Entry Error Checker
This feature examines a team’s meet entries and produces a report enumerating any violations of TSA rules it finds in entries for main event heats. Examples of such violations include athletes who are entered into too many main events and relay teams which include illegal “swim up” athletes; a full list can be found in the instructions. Coaches and other team personnel can use this feature to check their initial meet assignments and apply corrections as necessary before settling on their final entries.

Three Options for Producing Heat Sheets and Kid Pusher Reports
The previously described features require only Hy-Tek Team Manager and Microsoft Excel as prerequisites. If your team also owns a copy of Hy-Tek Meet Manager, you will be able to take advantage of another feature of Bob’s TSA Tools: the ability to seed meet entries, from one or both teams, and import those seeded entries directly into Meet Manager. You can then use Meet Manager to generate any desired meet paperwork, including heat sheets, kid pusher reports for specific age groups, timer sheets, etc. This paperwork will automatically identify swimmers both by name and by the swimmer ID number they are “tattooed” with during meets: “Doe, John (301)” instead of just “Doe, John”, for example. A separate set of seeded meet entries without the appended swimmer IDs will also be generated, and can be used to run the meet itself in Meet Manager if the teams participating in the meet opt to employ an automated timing system.

Three different seeding scenarios are supported:

1)      Unseeded: If you have meet entries only for your own team, but no information about the other team, the “seeded” entries produced by Bob’s TSA Tools will facilitate mustering your team’s heat swimmers in the traditional TSA dual meet fashion. Your team’s main event (Heat 1) assignments will not be affected, but all other swimmers will be assigned to fake lane numbers (starting at Lane 21) in a single fake heat (Heat 99), in order of their seed times. This will allow those swimmers to be lined up in order from fastest to slowest and deck-seeded by the Clerk of Course into actual heats and lanes in real time, as in a standard TSA meet.

2)      Semi-seeded: If you have meet entries for your own team and also know how many swimmers the other team plans to enter in each individual (non-relay) event, Bob’s TSA Tools will generate a set of mock entries representing the other team and then fully seed the meet as in the final scenario below. Useful heat sheets, kid pusher reports and other meet paperwork can then be generated for your team, though not for the opposing team.

3)      Fully seeded: If meet entries for both teams are available, Bob’s TSA tools will seed Heats 2 and beyond for all individual events according to TSA rules (a capability not offered by Meet Manager’s own native seeding mechanism). In this scenario, useful heat sheets, kid pusher reports and other meet paperwork can be generated for both teams, not just your own.

Prerequisites
Bob’s TSA Tools for Hy-Tek require Excel 2003 or later on a computer running Windows XP or later.

Your team must have access to Hy-Tek Team Manager (any version) and, optionally, access to Hy-Tek Meet Manager, but these need not be on the same system where Bob’s TSA Tools will run. However, it is more convenient if they are installed on the same computer.

To Get the Software
Simply download this file, unzip it, and follow the instructions.

Saturday, May 19, 2018

For teams that use Hy-Tek's Meet Manager or Team Manager

As in previous seasons, I have created a set of meet databases and meet events files covering this year’s TSA season for use by teams that own Hy-Tek’s Meet Manager (MM) or Team Manager (TM) programs, so please share this announcement with your coaches and the folks who handle technology for your team.

The first item is a collection of meet events files for Team Manager users. There are actually four separate sets of meet events zip files inside the master zip file: one set for each combination of pool length (25 yards or 25 meters) and meet event ordering (normal TSA event order vs. “6 and under first” variant). Each set contains six meet events files, one for each dual meet date this season. Unzip the appropriate one for each of your meets and import it into Team Manager.

The second item is a collection of template Meet Manager databases configured for TSA dual meets. These will be used by meet administrators who produce heat sheets, import swimmer times, etc. There is one template for each of the four meet type combinations mentioned above. Meet administrators will need to adjust the meet date from week to week; the templates start out with the date of this season’s first meet (June 13).

Note that the events files for meets at 25 meter pools (about 10 percent of TSA teams host meets at such facilities; most TSA pools are 25 yards long) have the 6 & Under races listed as being 15 meters long. This is purely an artifact of the software -- TM and MM can’t handle a meet containing a mix of yard-based and meter-based events. The important thing to bear in mind is that the actual 6&U race distance is invariant regardless of pool length: it must always be announced by the Starter as “15 yards” and the finish rope must be placed 15 yards from the blocks, in accordance with rule 102.1.1.A.