Information about Team Clinics for Reps and Coaches

Dear TSA Team Representative or Coach,

The WAVE professional coaching staff is available this summer to conduct swim clinics for your summer team free of charge! We will offer these clinics at your pool during your normal practice times.

Below is a list of clinics we offer all designed to improve your teams technique and racing results. Please reply with which clinic you wish to have and a list of days and times available.

______ 3 Secrets of FLY
______ World Class Breaststroke
______ Smooth and Fast in Free
______ Smoke on the Water Backstroke
______ Learn to Turn & Start Like a Pro
______ We can also offer a personalized clinic for your team
Preferred Date:___________________
Preferred Time: ___________________

Clinics will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Please send your request or any questions to coachjohn@bellsouth.net or call 981-0644.

Sincerely,

John P. Roy
Head Coach/CEO
WAVE Swimming

WAVE Swimming Spring Clinic Information

All of the information for WAVE's Spring clinic can be found at http://www.newwaveswimteam.org/documents/spring.clinic.pdf.

If you have questions, please email waveswim@nc.rr.com.

Water Restrictions

I feel that the point raised recently by the Durant Typhoons regarding Raleigh's water restrictions bears addressing in more detail. If you haven't already examined the new Stage 2 restrictions, please read them carefully. They will take effect this Friday (February 15th) and apply to your pool if it gets its water from the City of Raleigh or from any of the towns served by Raleigh's water system (Garner, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon, Rolesville and Wake Forest).

The salient point, from a swimming pool perspective:

…the following Stage 2 mandatory water conservation restrictions and rules are in effect to regulate the specified uses of water from the City of Raleigh public water supply:
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2. Filling new swimming or wading pools is prohibited. Filling of pools drained for repair after the effective date of Stage 2 mandatory restrictions and rules is prohibited. Potable water may be added to pools to maintain sanitary operating conditions.

Note the loophole -- as long as your pool is NOT drained on or after Friday, when the new rules take effect, you are allowed to add water to it. This is consistent with a telephone conversation I had two years ago with Mr. Dale Crisp, Raleigh's Utilities Director, in which we discussed possible future restrictions and their impact in swimming pools. He stated at that time that as long as SOME water was maintained in a pool, it would not qualify as empty under the restrictions.

So if your pool is currently empty, my advice is to pump some water, even if only a foot or two, into it before Friday.

If you are unable to avoid having an empty pool, or if you are opening a brand new pool, your options are more limited. Does anyone in TSA fall into either of these categories? If so, you would have to resort to using water that does NOT come from "water from the City of Raleigh public water supply". One option would be to truck water in from elsewhere to fill your pool. I have no idea how expensive this method is, but it appears to adhere to the restrictions.

February Board of Directors meeting

Remember, our second Board meeting of 2008 is coming up tomorrow night (Tuesday, February 12) at 7:00. Note that we will meet at a different location, the Kiwanis Center at 2526 Noble Road. If you can, please print and bring your own copy of the meeting agenda and the January meeting minutes; a limited number of hard copies will be available for those unable to bring their own.

January Meeting Minutes Posted

TSA Board Members,

The minutes for the January TSA meeting are now posted at the following location in .pdf format:

http://www.tsanc.googlepages.com/Minutes2008-01-15.pdf

Water restrictions -- swimming pools

Hi everyone,

Given the current water restrictions, how are summer league teams going to fill up the swimming pools. Has anyone heard anything else surrounding this? Just curious. I would think this would effect many pools and communities.

Thanks for any insight you may have!!

Durant Typhoons

Cary Park Club Swim Coach

The Cary Park Club Sea Dragons swim team is searching for an enthusiastic and dedicated swim coach for the 2008 season. If interested, please contact the Club directly:

Office: 919.460.7720
Email: club@caryparkclub.com

Sunset Ridge Barracudas Head Coach Search

The Sunset Ridge Barracudas in Holly Springs (Home of the Southern Wake Invitational Meet) are in need of a Head Coach for the 2008 summer season. To apply for, or to find out more about this position (220 members, highly participatory parent lead team), please forward questions and/or coaching credentials to team President Victoria Whetzel at: vwhetzel@mindspring.com.

Head Coach Needed

The Park Village Porpoises are looking for a head coach for the 2008 TSA swim season. We are located in Cary and typically have around 100 swimmers. We practice Mon-Fri in the morning and afternoon. If interested please e-mail Tracey at twasbill@nc.rr.com.

Starting Blocks Needed

Hollands Crossing's Sea Dragons are in need of starting blocks. If your team is upgrading or has a good source for us please email us! Thanks. Cris

Coach Needed

The Reserve Sting Rays are looking for a new head coach for the 2008 season. We have a great team with committed assistant coaches and parent support. Unfortunately, year-round school changes have made it impossible for our head coach to return this year.

Please direct any leads or interested persons to sas1710@nc.rr.com.

Thanks,
Steve

Where's my blog invitation?

To post to this blog, you have to be invited to become a contributor. Invitations have been issued to each registered TSA Rep and alternate, but your mail reader program might have mistaken your invitation for spam. If you don't remember receiving an invitation, please check your junk mail folder. The first invitations went out in late November, and I renewed them on January 8 (apparently, they expire after some time period).

Invitation message are generated by blogger.com and look something like this:

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From: Bob Goudreau [mailto:no-reply@google.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 5:54 PM
To: somebody@nc.rr.com
Subject: You have been invited to contribute to Bob Goudreau's blog

The Blogger user Bob Goudreau has invited you to contribute to the blog: Tarheel Swimming Association Blog.

To contribute to this blog, visit:
http://www.blogger.com/i.g?inviteID=7295250239357770347&blogID=4600405785996408913

You'll need to sign in with a Google Account to confirm the invitation and start posting to this blog. If you don't have a Google Account yet, we'll show you how to get one in minutes.

To learn more about Blogger and starting your own free blog visit http://www.blogger.com.

We should add the Johnston County team for 1 year

I posted a comment to Bob's January meeting post, but I suspect it went unnoticed.

I believe that the current TSA bylaws, as written, allow the executive committee (the 4 officers) to approve non-conforming swim teams on an annual basis (see my previous comment for details).

Looking at the map, I see that Riverwood is not farther than Zebulon from 69 of the 71 clubs in TSA. Looking at scheduling, 72 clubs will be easier to schedule than 71. I cannot imagine having to "cut" swimmers from a summer league swim team to be eligible to compete.

I propose that we, the TSA board, ask the TSA executive commitee to allow Riverwood to participate in TSA for the 2008 swim season.

If it works out well, then we can consider amending the bylaws to accommodate out-of-Wake-County members. If it doesn't, then it was only 1 year.

Coleman Poag
Cary Swim Club

January Board of Directors meeting

Remember, our first Board meeting of 2008 is coming up tomorrow night (Tuesday, January 15) at 7:00 at Powell Drive Park. If you can, please print and bring your own copy of the meeting agenda (a limited number of hard copies will be available for those unable to bring their own).

Streamline Swim School

Streamline Swim School is offering track-out stroke clinics and half-day swim camps at the Triangle Aquatics Center (TAC) from now through the end of May. This is a great opportunity for your children to stay active during track-out while brushing up on their swimming skills before summer. There are various levels of instruction but all camps and clinics will focus on improving stroke technique, starts & turns, and endurance. You can visit www.streamlineswimschool.com or call me directly at 244-3097 for more information.

Pool Professionals scholarship winner

Congratulations to Lauren Bays of Southall for winning the 2007 Pool Professionals Partnership Scholarship! Pool Professionals will present Lauren with her $1000 scholarship award at the February 12 TSA Board of Directors meeting.

Greater Raleigh Championship Invitational Meet

This is not a TSA event, but many of our member clubs participate in this meet, so I'm happy to pass along some information from Melanie Stahmer of WAVE:

WAVE SWIMMING is anxious to host the 2008 Greater Raleigh Championship Meet again this year. With the pool at Optimist being shut down this summer for renovations, WAVE has secured the new Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, NC for Sunday, July 13th, 2008 to host this event. We plan on running dual pools for this meet with the 10 & under swimmers in one pool and the 11 and older swimmers in the other. Another change would be the elimination of the 6 & under breaststroke event. We realize this would limit them to 2 events; however, the results last year gave a good indication that the number of swimmers in this event that received a DQ far outweighed those that received a medal. As you know, the Cary City Meet also eliminated that event in 2007. We also plan to change the information to allow swimmers to swim four individual events as well as the relays and increase the number of swimmers per event from each team. We hope that these changes will allow for a great experience for the swimmers as well as a quality meet overall.

We will provide the TSA reps with the TM software file, the event file for the meet and instructions as we did last year. Now that we are aware of the meet status and liability, we will also include the waiver that each swimmer must provide to swim in the meet to streamline the registrations. WAVE would like to present this to the TSA board at your March meeting if possible.

This year the meet will have an Olympic theme that will generate excitement for the Summer Games and we believe that TAC will be a great venue for this event as it will be a chance for summer swimmers to enjoy swimming in the finest facility in NC.

We look forward to hosting this meet again this year and look forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely-
Melanie Stahmer
Meet Director
WAVE Swimming

A winter tune-up league for summer swimmers

Marlins of Raleigh head coach Paul Silver wants to let TSA swimmers know about a new winter league that starts this month, which he describes as "an instructional program for summer league swimmers to hone their skills during the winter".

Meeting place idea for 2009

I often see TSA reps at the new TAC facility in Cary as they are either waiting or picking up their year round swimmers. I could check into meeting space and price for this facility if there is interest.

Swim Coach Needed

Happy Holidays to all!

To get a jump start on 2008, I would like to post a "Head Coach" position is available for the DURANT TRAILS TYPHOONS!!!! Our long time head coach has entered the employment world doing much needed work with the Peace Corps overseas! Thus, we need some help.

If you know of anyone, let me know. We are located in North Raleigh and practice in the evenings with exception of Saturday.

Thanks to all!!!!

Libby