July 10th - gogreystonegators.com
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July 10th - gogreystonegators.com
Greystone Swim & Racquet club Gator Gossip July 10, 2016 www.gogreystonegators.com | @GreystoneUpdate Important Dates July 12 - University Club (Away) July 13—Swim-a-thon July 15—t-shirt practice July 19 - Lake Park (Home) July 21 - Awards Night , 6:30PM July 24 - TSA Championship Graduating seniors will be recognized at the Lake Park home meet. Swim Practice Schedule 6-and-unders 11-11;45am & 3:45-4:30pm 7-10 year olds 10-11am & 4:30-5:30pm 11-and-ups 9-10am & 5:30-6:30pm What’s Inside MeredithTownes Highlights Gutsy Gators Gators-on-the-Go: Secret Life of Pets (movie) Ribbons and Doughnuts Post Meet Visit to Chow Congratulations to Hanna Aspden Pick up Ribbons and Team Photos TSA Senior Scholarship Swim-a-thon Details Awards Night Coming Up TSA Meet Sign-Up and Waiver Gators Win Over the Mudpuppies—Now Onto University Club to Take On the Psychos Message from Coach Brendan Congrats on a great win against Meredith Townes this past week. It has been busy for our swimmers with Tucker lake this past week and the Swim-A-Thon this coming week. We are working towards raising over $5,000 to go towards our newly created Graduating Senior Scholarships. Please turn in any money raised no later that Tuesday, July 19th. Please remember to sign-out if you are missing this Tuesday’s meet. Also please make sure that you have signed-in for the TSA Championship, which is July 24th. Both of those sign-ups close at 6pm this Sunday Important Meet Reminders If you can’t make it to the meet, please add your name to the absentee list using Sign-Up-Genius. URGENT! We still need clerk of course, place judges, age group parents and timers for our meet on Tuesday. To sign up, please click here. Please arrive at University Club by at 5:00pm. The address is 4200 Hillsborough Street , Raleigh. Remember to show your good manners and sportsmanship and judgment during the meet.. Summer swimming is all about the fun. If swimmers have to leave early from an event, you must notify both the child's age group parent and a coach. We would like to encourage everyone to come out and support the team at CHOW after the meet. Greystone vs. Meredith Townes Final score: Greystone 290 Meredith Townes 223 Sweeps! Freestyle: 6 & Under Girls: Isabella Leoncini, Macie Waters, Eliza Roe 15-18 Boys: Jacob Wylie, Thomas Wright, Lucas Wylie Backstroke: 6 & Under Girls: Virginia Christopherson, Macie Waters, Natalie Shearon 7-8 Boys: Holden Ball, Drew Sito, Will Lewis 13-14 Boys: Trevor O’Neill, Duncan Burns, Jack Ellison Breaststroke: 13-14 Boys: Trevor O’Neill, Benjamin Nguyen, Calvin Austin 15-18 Boys: Jacob Wylie, Lucas Wylie, Michael Hughes Butterfly: 13-14 Boys: Trevor O’Neill, Duncan Burns, Jack Ellison Double Winners! Virginia Christopherson (6 & under girls) back and breast Triple Winners! Trevor O’Neill (13-14 boys) back, breast, and fly Samantha Muma (13-14 girls) free, back, and fly Jacob Wylie (15-18 boys) free, breast, and fly Gutsy Gators! Each week, our coaches recognize two swimmers who exhibit great sportsmanship and effort. These swimmers keep the beloved Gutsy Gator trophies for the week, then return them for the next winners. Liza Ball Liza Ball earned the Gutsy Gator for working hard everyday in practice over the last few weeks and also for swimming in her first meet this week. Lily Wilkerson Lily Wilkerson earned the Gutsy Gator for all of her hard work, team spirit and for her encouragement of teammates. Gators-on-the-Go Heads to See Secret Life of Pets This Tuesday Meredith Townes Results and Photos The Gators will head over to see Secret Life of Pets this Tuesday at 12:45pm at Six Forks Cinema: 9500 Forum Individual results and photos from the Meredith Townes meet are available on the website. We try to have the results posted by the Friday after each Tuesday meet. The results can be accessed from the “Race Season” link on each page. Photos from the meet are now available via the “Photos” link. Drive, Raleigh. Awards Ceremony on Thursday, July 21st Our end-of-year awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, July 21st at 6:30 PM at The Fountain of Raleigh, 9621 Six Forks Rd, Raleigh. The awards ceremony is not a banquet but there will be a dessert social at the pool following the event. Please come well-fed! Please dress appropriately. Girls usually wear sundresses and boys usually wear khakis and polos or buttondown shirts. Congratulations Hannah Aspden Hannah started swimming at Greystone at the age of 5. Now, our little gator is grown up and was recently named to Team USA Para-Swimming. She will be headed for Rio in September and will likely be swimming the following individual events, in addition to team relays: 50 Free, 100 Free, 400 Free, 100 Back, and 200 IM. Best of luck in Rio, Hannah. The Gators will be cheering for you! Go Gator! TSA Swim Meet This year, we will be participating in the TSA swim meet on Sunday, July 24th. Please sign-up your swimmer(s) by July 10th if you are interested in having them participate. Also, please complete the waiver that is on the next page and return to Coach Brendan. Please pick me up! Swim ribbons need to find their homes. Please check the snack bar to see if your swimmers have ribbons that need to be picked up. In addition, if you ordered a team photo, you can pick those up in the snack bar as well. Volunteers—It’s Your Turn!!! We still have several open positions for the last two meets of the season. Thank you to all those who have been loyal about signing up and covering volunteer shifts. Several folks have worked at every single meet. For those who have not done their fair share, please sign-up now for the University Club and Lake Park meets. Those who do not sign-up and have not fulfilled their commitment will be assigned to an open position. The only exception is parents of 6 and unders who are not attending meets yet. Rained Out? NEW THIS YEAR! Text messages will be sent by our coaches if there is a weather delay for meets or practice. To receive text messages on your mobile device, go to this website and follow the simple, 3-step directions. Join the Gator Tradition T-shirt Practice Friday, July 15th This is a fun, yearly Gator tradition that will take place Friday at morning and afternoon practices for the 7-10 & 11 and up age groups. Coaches will bring in some of their favorite t-shirts and swimmers may get to take one home! Ribbons and Doughnuts Please Join Us at CHOW This Week Each Wednesday at 10am, Gators meet at the Swamp for a ribbon ceremony and sugar feast. It’s a fun chance to congratulate our swimmers. Main event swimmers and relay swimmers get ribbons. All other swimmers get ribbons during the meet. The coaches also recognize two swimmers who have shown the most “Gator Guts” during the previous week by awarding the two Gutsy Gator trophies. We will also play games in the pool after the ceremony so Gators should bring their suits if they wish to participate. Go Gators! Connect and Be Social On Facebook, you can "Like" Greystone Swim and Racquet Club to get pool updates. On twitter, you can follow our tweets at: @GreystoneUpdate. You can always keep up with the Gators on our web site: www.gogreystonegators.com. Thanks to all the Gators who joined us at Tucker Lake. It was a fun outing! Gators and their families head to CHOW after each Tuesday meet. CHOW is located at 8311 Creedmoor Road, in the Kroger shopping center near the intersection of Creedmoor and Strickland Roads. Share Your Favorite Pictures The Deadline is Approaching... We need your help collecting pictures from meets, Wednesday awards, and other swim team events. The last day to submit pictures is Sunday, July 17th - please send them to us at: Greystonegator@gmail.com We want all of our swimmers in the end of year slide show! Countdown to Important Events…. 2 days until…. 3 days until… 5 days until… 9 days until… 11 days until… 14 days until… meet against University Club Swim-a-Thon fun, t-shirt practice swim meet against Lake Park Awards Night TSA Championship Meet TSA Corner Attention High School Graduates Pool Professionals will once again award $1,000 college scholarships to a male and female Tarheel Swimming Association participant who demonstrates leadership, team spirit and dedication to the TSA. Pool Professionals seeks out young men and women who are role models for their peers and achieving success in the pool and classroom. Pool Professionals’ scholarship committee members value leadership and teamwork as highly as athletic skill when selecting the recipients. Applicants are required to be a 2016 high school graduation candidate or 2016 graduate, have been a TSA swimmer, coach or manager in 2016 and for the previous two seasons. The scholarship is available to swimmers at all TSA pools. The exclusive online application and more information about criteria for the scholarship are available on the TSA Scholarship Application or you can go to www.poolprofessionals.com. The deadline to apply is July 21, 2016. It was a great win on Wednesday night against a team that had had 30 straight wins! The Meredith Townes Mudpuppy Nation was very humble in defeat and very complimentary of the Gators! Particularly, the sportsmanship, volunteers, our swimmers, the parents and the Gator Grill! Way to go Gators! This week we are swimming at University Club! Your TSA Reps ask everyone again to show the same patience and sportsmanship that we have shown all season! See you on Tuesday!! Go Gators!!! Swim-a-Thon This year Greystone will be holding its First Annual Senior Scholarship Swim-aThon fundraising event. The Swim-a-Thon is an event in which swimmers attempt to complete as many lengths of the pool in a 1-hour period as possible (200 lengths maximum!!). Money is raised by having swimmers collect pledges from neighbors, friends, and family members for each length of the pool they complete within the allotted time or through pledges for a set dollar amount. You can begin collecting pledges using the form in the plastic bag that was sent home with your swimmer(s). The Swim-a-Thon will take place on July 13th from 10-11 (after Doughnuts and Ribbons which will start at 9 this day). We will also have a make-up for it in the afternoon from 5:30-6:30pm. Prizes!!! Overall winner: The swimmer who raises the most money gets free swim team registration/dues for 2017. Age Groups: The age group that raises the most money wins a popsicle party during practice. Team goal: If the team raises over $5,000 we will do an extra fun day practice. We have two goals for this Swim-A-Thon, First is to raise at least $5,000 through the Senior Scholarship Swim-a-Thon. We will put the first $2500 of what we raise into a Gators Senior Scholarship fund. Everything we raise over $2500 will go into a Senior Scholarship account to grow for the future. The second goal is to build confidence in our younger swimmers in seeing how many laps that they can swim in an hour. They will then be able to see how much they improve from year to year as we do this in future years. We will have prizes that will be raffled off based on level of money raised. The grand Prize raffle will be announced as we get closer to the date of the swim. As a program, we would like to encourage everyone to participate in this year’s Senior Scholarship Swim-a-Thon. All money raised will be due back to Coach Brendan on Tuesday July 19th by the end of the Swim meet against Lake Park. If you have any questions about the Senior Scholarship Swim-a-Thon please contact Coach Brendan. ~Happy Fundraising~ What’s Your Gator Best? Greystone Swim Team Summer 2016 Meet Time Trials June 4 Heritage of Wake Forest June 14 Northbrook June 21 Seven Oaks June 28 Meredith Townes July 5 University Club July 12 Lake Park July 19 Freestyle Back Breast Fly