Welcome aboard to the Wave House San Diego Swim Team, which resulted from the merger of two former SI swim teams – Peninsula Aquatics San Diego (PASD) and the City of San Diego Swim (CSDS). Wave House San Diego Swim team (WAVE) is led by Head Coach Donald Watkinds (ex-PASD), Head Age-Group Coach Art Gutiérrez (ex-CSDS), and assistant coach Cesar Garcia. WAVE practices at the Wave House Athletic Club, located at the site of the Mission Beach “Plunge” in Belmont Park.
Bids from SI member clubs to host 2010 long course season meets are being solicited. The 2010 season bid package, containing a list of all prospective meets and meet formats is available along with the bid application form. Bid applications, which must be submitted to the SI Swim Office along with proof of water statements, are due no later than 2:30pm on 13 January 2010.
Congratulations to San Diego-Imperial Swimming’s newest member club which was approved during Board action tonight – San Diego Elite Swimming (SDES), coached by Nico Kintz and practicing at Cathedral Catholic HS. More information is available at the team website.
The results of the PS-hosted AB All Ages meet held 13-15 November at the Poway Community Pool in Poway have been posted.
The results of the FAST-hosted C All Ages meet held 7-8 November at the Fallbrook HS Pool in Fallbrook have been posted.
As a reminder, the next meeting of the San Diego-Imperial Swimming Board of Directors will be held on Monday, 16 November at the All-Sports office beginning at 7:45pm.
All clubs and coaches are reminded that coaches’ first aid, CPR, and safety training certifications must be current in order for coaches to perform their duties on the deck at practices and at meets. A recent review of the coach roster shows that as many as 20% of the coaching credentials are not current, and therefore invalid. It is up to coaches to keep their certifications current. The coach’s USA Swimming membership card lists the expiration dates of each of the coach’s certifications. Member clubs must ensure that all their coaches complete the necessary training and maintain valid registration cards. It is the policy of San Diego-Imperial Swimming that all coaches must display their current coach membership card on deck at meets. At meets this fall the head referee or a designee will conduct coach membership card checks at each meet to ensure compliance with this requirement. Coaches with questions about certification requirements should contact the SI Swim office at si-swimming@sbcglobal.net or (619) 275-1292.
For those of you making long-range calendar entries, the Western Zone has announced that the 2010 Western Zones Swimming Championships will be held in San Jose, CA from August 10-14.
In case you hadn’t noticed, SI Swimming is in the process of updating the look of our website. As of this post, about 70% of the old website has been converted to the new structure. The previous version of the SI website hadn’t really been changed in the past 4 years – which is almost forever in online world! In addition to changing the look of the site, we have changed the underlying software architecture to improve the performance and give all our users a more consistent experience. With so many changes being made to the website code, there are bound to be somethings we miss, forget or just plain foul up. If you find something in the site which looks strange or could be improved, please don’t hesitate to let the webmaster know by submitting a comment!
SI Swimming has scheduled another Introductory Official’s Clinic. This highly informative 2 hour clinic is designed to introduce parents to becoming volunteer swimming officials, and will be hosted by SI Swimming’s Officials chairman, Mike Saltzstein. The clinic will be held Wednesday, November 18 at the SI Swimming office (All-Sports), beginning at 6:30pm. Please contact the swim office at 619-275-1292 or si-swimming@sbcglobal.net for more information.
Due to popular request, the SI Swimming ABC and JO Time Standards have been published in a consolidated, easy to read format. Choose Short Course Yards (SCY) or Long Course Meters (LCM) and print and enjoy! And where do these time standards come from? By rule, our San Diego ABC time standards are set to equal those published by our large neighbor LSC to the north, Southern California Swimming. They call their time standards Blue-Red-White, but other than that they are identical. These time standards are very stable and rarely change from year to year. Having equivalent time standards makes it easier for swimmers to enter and compete in the other LSC’s swim meets. On the other hand, our Junior Olympic time standards are set locally here in San Diego and are crafted to select approximately the 24 fastest swimmers in each event based upon the average results in the event over the past 3 – 5 years. These time standards can, and often do, change by small amounts from year to year in order to keep up with advances (and sometimes declines) in the various age groups.
The results of the WSST-hosted ABC All Ages meet held 24-25 October at the Coggan Family Aquatic Center in La Jolla have been posted. |
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During the 16 November Board of Directors Meeting, a new Athlete’s Representative was elected to replace outgoing representative Emma Baldwin. Andrea Voigt from South Bay Aquatics, a member of the 2009 SI zone and all-star teams, was named as the new representative. Michael Cohn from Wind N’ Sea Swim Team was named as the alternate.