Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Parents and Swimmers - Through out the next few weeks we will have group two and up perform test sets. These sets will be used for ranking each swimmer within groups, help establish intervals, show strong/weak areas and used as data for tracking purposes. Each test set is tailored to the group performing it but the work systems are the same for all groups. We be using the following sets:


Timed Swim  - T15,T20 and T30
Repeat Kick Set - 6 x 100, 10 x 100 and 15 x 100 Kick on R10 for overall time.
Repeat Swim Set - 6 x 100, 10 x 100 and 15 x 100 Swim on R 10 for overall time.
Repeat IM Set - 6 x 100, 10 x 100 and 8 x 200 IM Swim on R 10 for overall time.


We will rank each individual set within the group and do a complete ranking within the groups based on these sets. Additional information we will be using for tracking purposes will be practice attendance, Power Points ( based of swim times) and time standards achieved. While most of this data has been taken and recorded in the past we will now be sharing it with our swimmers on a more transparent basis. As swimmers who still have meets wrap up their competitions we will have them make up the sets they missed. We will perform these sets post champs competition, early season and mid season. It is important that your swimmer attends practice on a regular basis and arrives in a timely manner so we can ensure all swimmers have equal opportunity to swim each test set. 
If you have any questions please send me an email or catch me pre/post practice. I will be covering this in detail during our LC parent meetings in mid March. 


See you at the pool,
Coach Jason

Saturday Practice

Age Groupers and Seniors - With both 13 and Over Champs and Conference for the college team there will be no Saturday (2.26) practice due to coach coverage. 
There will also not be practice Saturday March 12th due to the March Madness masters meet at the RICE pool.
Coach Jason

Monday, February 21, 2011

Spring Champs 1

The Coaches wanted to send out a quick email congratulating all the swimmers on a great meet this past weekend. We will have a full recap out as soon as the final results get official.

Coach Jason

Masters Post Practice Social

Masters Swimmers - We will continue our practice of meeting for dinner after evening practice next Wednesday, February 23 at Black Walnut Café, 5510 Morningside, in Rice Village.

All Masters swimmers, morning and evening, are invited.  If the weather is good, we will sit on the patio.  See you there about 7 pm!

Thanks!

Al

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Parents and Swimmers - With the meet this weekend and some coaches attending the Friday session we will be using the following schedule tomorrow for practice.


Group 1 - Normal Practice
Group 2 - Normal Practice
Group 3 - Normal Practice
Group 4 - 4:45 -6:00 pm
Seniors - 4:45 - 6:00 pm


See you at the pool,
Coach Jason

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

RICE Swimmers Excel at TAPPS State Meet

Three RICE Aquatics swimmers participated in this last weekends TAPPS state meet in San Antonio. 


Christine McGough - Div 3
1st Place 200 Medley Relay (Fr)
1st Place 400 Fr Relay 
1st Place 500 Fr 
2nd Place 200 Fr


Rebecca Hawk - Div 3
7th Place 200 IM
8th Place 100 Fly
4th Place 200 Fr Relay


Lindy Reamer - Div 2
16th Place 500 Fr


Congrats to all three swimmers for the great swims!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Group 3 - Streamline Degree

The following swimmers from Group 3 were awarded the streamline degree today at practice.

Caleb Yen
Helen Schawe
Lisa Lin