Cy Fair Swim Club “Home of the Fleet” September 2013
Fleet Swimming and Fleet FIRST Swim School
Cy Fair Swim Club
Red vs. Black Meet & Cookout Upcoming Events: • Red vs. Black Meet & Cookout at Fleet Sep 21 • Gulf Banquet at Marriott Westchase Sep 22 • DJ Sports - FAC, Sep 23, 5:00—7:00 - Arnold, Sep 24, 6:00—7:30 - Spillane, Sep 25, 5:30—7:30 - Blyle, Sep 26, 5:30—7:30
• Fleet IMX Meet Oct 4-5
Fleet will be hosting its 2nd annual Red vs Black swim meet on Saturday, September 21st. This is a great opportunity to bring our new and returning families together in a friendly competition. The meet is free and fun and a chance for everybody to get the first meet jitters out of the way. We would like to see a 100 percent participation out of the whole team for this meet. To indicate your intention to par-
ticipate in the meet, please go to the Fleet website. You will need to click on the tab "team functions" and then click on the edit commitment button. You will see your athlete's name, click on your child’s name and indicate your intention to compete. At the completion of the swim meet there will be a pool party from 11:00-3:00pm. The cost of the pool party is $10.00 a person and this
includes burgers and entertainment. You must sign up under the tab meets and events at the top of the page. We would love to have you attend the meet and the barbeque, but we understand it makes a long day. So please make it a priority to attend the meet. It will be quick and will provide the coaching staff a chance to assess their swimmers as they prepare for their next meet.
Coach Jack: Welcome Back, Swimmers!
• Tri-Meet (hosted by Fleet) Oct 26-27
Inside this issue: Red & Black meet & 2 Cookout signup Coach Alex
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Congratulations Brandon Quinteros
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Coach Ambar
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Coach Morgan
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Traffic Reminders
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Coach Dustin
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Coach Matt
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Swim-a-Thon results 6 Coach Andy
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Coach Dave
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I want to personally welcome all new families and welcome back all returning families to Fleet. I’m proud of what we have achieved as a program over the last 9 months. I’m excited about what the lies in the future at Fleet. As Head Coach, I want you to feel that everybody is a part of our vision as we as a team try to climb that next mountain as a program. It doesn’t matter if you have a swimmer in the Copper group or the National group, my goal as Head Coach is to be accessible to everyone. One of the things that we do well here at Fleet is strive to make a big club feel a little bit smaller. We do this by sending out weekly e-mails and having individual athlete and parent meetings. Fleet has six full time coaches, and each coach has set office hours for you to contact them by phone or stop by the office. The month of September can be a little overwhelming for everybody as we all try to get www.FleetSwimming.com
back to routines of school and swimming. This is a chance for the coaches at Fleet to hit the reset button, so they can start from scratch again. We spend this time to go back to the basics so we are ready to start training in October. We also use the first month to assess all of our swimmers to make sure that they are in the correct group. So be patient, trust the coach, and if you have a question, please feel free to reach out and contact your coach during office hours.
Pfeiff, Pfeiff our new Swim School director. Please take the time to read your group’s weekly announcements each week. As a staff we try to minimize the e-mails. Each Monday you will receive an e-mail from your primary coach to let you know what is going on that week, plus what is on the horizon. Be on the lookout and mark your calendars for the following items: parent meetings, Red vs Black intra-squad and the pool party that follows.
We as a staff did meet and discuss what we did well last Fleet is coming off a very sucyear and identified what we cessful long course season, and need to improve upon. It’s this we are looking to keep that ball process that allows us to get rolling in the upcoming short better. To quote the great Mothcourse season. I truly feel that er Goose: “Good Better, Best. there’s a big ceiling here, with a Never Rest Til Good is Better lot of room for Fleet to improve. and Better is Best." The staff This will be the first chance for here at Fleet will not rest until the whole staff to be together this has been achieved. from star t to finish. We also have two new additions with I look forward to meeting all of Morgan Cordle, Cordle Head Site you as we start another great Coach at Spillane, and Dave swim year at Fleet! www.FleetFirstSwimSchool.com