News and Announcements

Dear Swimmers and Parents,

Our swimmers had another excellent meet this past weekend. Congratulations!

This week Coach Peter will escort seniors Angus MacDonald and Joey Stebbins to the 2023 WinterJuniors Meet. Good luck, gentlemen….I am sure you will make us proud!

Coaches are distributing the awards and goal sheets. Please help the young swimmers complete their goal sheets by referring to their season’s performances on Meet Mobile. When they have completed them, put them in a zip-lock bag with a writing implement and have them bring them to practice and a coach will review their times and set some intermediate and long-term goals. This is an amazingly effective practice and I would like all of our swimmers to take advantage of it. Then, post the goal sheet in a conspicuous spot at home (the refrigerator, the bathroom mirror, their bedpost….) where a swimmer can see them and be reminded of where they want to be at the end of the season.

Additional Practice Change this week:

Saturday, December 9:
13/14 and 15/18 10:45-12:45 (we get the pool at 11:00.)
9/10 and 11/12 12:30-2:00

Holiday Practice Schedule:

Regular practice through December 22nd with one exception. 9/10s and 11/12s will both be at Cranbrook on December 22.

Regular practices resume at Cranbrook on January 2nd and at Derby on January 3rd.

December 22nd
8 and Under – normal practice
9/10 and 11/12 – 5:45 to 7:15 @ Cranbrook
13/14 and 15/18 – normal practice

December 23rd
13/14 and 15/18 – 11:00-1:00 @ Cranbrook
9/10 and 11/12 1:00-2:45 @ Cranbrook

December 24th and 25th
All practices canceled

December 26th,27th,29th,30th (no practices on the 28th)
13/14 and 15/18 10:45-1:00 @ Cranbrook
9/0 and 11/12 12:45-2:30 @ Cranbrook

December 26th-30th
8 and Unders – 12:00-1:15 @ YMCA

December 31st and January 1st
All practices canceled

If you are traveling please try to find a place to train. Most teams welcome visitors (we do!) and your Y membership should work at Ys across the country.

Kudos to the board……when we used Groves for the “Day-After Meet” there were no additional charges because of the excellent job you did setting up and cleaning up. Another reason to be proud of our entire team!!

Thank you to the group moms for the hot chocolate after practice. I know the swimmers were appreciative.

I have two beautiful BBD winter hats that were left at the meet. Let me know they are yours. Also, a boy swimmer is missing a team suit from the meet this weekend with his name in it. Please double check your bags to make sure you don’t have an extra. Please reply to this email if you have the suit.

Kevin

P.S. A friendly reminder from the BBD Boosters Board that custom woven towel orders are ready to be picked up at the YMCA.

REMINDER: ENTRIES CLOSE 12/5/23 AT 8PM

The 2024 Circle City Classic (Indy) meet being held January 26-28, 2024 at IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis, IN is open for entries for qualified swimmers. If you’re planning to attend, the deadline for entry is Tuesday, December 5 at 8pm.

This is a USS meet for 9 & Over swimmers only (i.e. it does not count towards the YMCA 3 meet criteria). 12 and under events are timed finals. 13-14 and OPEN Saturday/Sunday events are prelims/finals. This meet is our most complex for registration.

Please read & pay very close attention to the instructions and meet packet found in the MEETS section on the BBD website or below

There are qualifying times (cuts) for this meet, but your child MAY swim in any Saturday/Sunday event without a cut. (Only qualified swimmers may enter Friday events) You’ll have to pay a $5 missed cut fee at the meet if your child does not achieve the cut time either before or at the meet. Instructions are in the meet packet for how to make these payments at the meet! BBD swimmer times will be updated automatically for meets swam between the December 5th deadline and January 12th.

If you would like to enter your child in an event that they do not currently have the cut for, please email me directly at bbdentries@gmail.com with your child’s name and the events (both # and event name) so I can hand enter them at the qualifying time. If you desire to enter your child in this meet, but they do not have any cuts, you must get approval from their coach directly in order to enter. You must email the requested events BEFORE the entry deadline!

You can view the meet packet here:
http://bbd.bbdswimming.com/clubs/6769/documents/561407

Times in your portal have been updated for all meets through the FFYS Holiday Invitational and all Girls HS meets that have been sanctioned thus far

Dear Parents and Swimmers,

As the holiday season begins we find that we have many reasons to be grateful.

The board took on an additional meet, giving our high school girls a chance to swim a meet while tapered and to give all of our high school swimmers another opportunity to fulfill their YMCA meet requirement. Thank you to Liz Solomon and Dennis Jackson who led the event and to our coaches who staffed it.

All of our 350+ swimmers are doing well. This past weekend our female high school swimmers showed how their seasons of diligent effort as age-groupers manifest in some great performances. There are three divisions in high school swimming determined by school size and our swimmers really distinguished themselves at all three meets.

At Division 1…
Demetra Bicos was 4th in the 200 IM and 5th in the 500.

At Division 2
Kelly Hassett was 2nd in the 200 free, she won the 500 free and set a new D2 state record in that event. She was named “the D2 swimmer of the meet!”
Avery Tack was 3rd in both the 200 and 100 freestyles.
Avery Anderson finished 7th in the 100 free and 5th in the 100 back.
Skyler Jansen was 4th in the 200 and 500 freestyles.
Caroline Lee took 13th in the 200 and 9th in the 500.
Delaney Dalziel finished 16th in the 200 and 11th in the 500.
Lucy Truesdell was 11th in the 200 IM and in the 100 fly.
Lindsay Louwers was 16th in the 200 IM and 13th in the 100 breast.
Elena Garza finished 8th in the 100 fly and 14th in the 500.
Savannah Sneyd was 10th in the 100 breast.

At Division 3
Eryn McLaughlin 8th in the 200 free, 5th in the 100 fly.
Stella Glorio was 16th in the 200 free, 6th in the 500 free.
Julijana Jelic took 2nd in the 200 IM and 200 back.
Quinn Norlander finished 6th in the 200 IM and 5th in the 500 free.
Mariana Becharas was 7th in the 200 IM and 10th in the 100 breast.
Elea Mast took 12th in the 50 free and 10th in the 100 free.
Marin Norlander was 7th in the 100 fly and 8th in the 100 back
Elizabeth Kurz took 7th in the 100 breast.

As a result of their finishes Eryn Mclaughlin, Savannah Sneyd, Elena Garza, and Jiulijana Jelic joined our YMCA National Team.

I hope I covered it, please forgive me if I missed something….Congratulations to all of you. Our team is really proud of you.

Remember, returning high school girls, we expect to see you at practice the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, everyone!

Kevin

The 2024 Circle City Classic (Indy) meet being held January 26-28, 2024 at IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis, IN is open for entries for qualified swimmers. If you’re planning to attend, the* deadline for entry is Tuesday, December 5 at 8pm.*

This is a USS meet for 9 & Over swimmers only (i.e. it does not count towards the YMCA 3 meet criteria). 12 and under events are timed finals. 13-14 and OPEN Saturday/Sunday events are prelims/finals. This meet is our most complex for registration.

Please read & pay very close attention to the instructions and meet packet found in the MEETS section on the BBD website or below

There are qualifying times (cuts) for this meet, but your child MAY swim in any Saturday/Sunday event without a cut.+ (Only qualified swimmers may enter Friday events)+ You’ll have to pay a $5 missed cut fee at the meet if your child does not achieve the cut time either before or at the meet. Instructions are in the meet packet for ways to make these payments at the meet! BBD swimmer times will be updated automatically for meets swam between the December 8th deadline and January 12th.

If you would like to enter your child in an event that they do not currently have the cut for, please email me directly at bbdentries@gmail.com with your child’s name and the events (both # and event name) so I can hand enter them at the qualifying time. If you desire to enter your child in this meet, but they do not have any cuts, you must get approval from their coach directly in order to enter.

2024 Circle City Classic meet packet
https://teampages.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/561407/2024-circle-city-classic-final_002319-AMENDED.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA3I4H7LHCQ72W7BF3%2F20231113%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20231113T143710Z&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=75ac7f30ef62b918e1dc9f75a7914c20a6cfb1c9e92fa581e78c88561d7692bd

Girls high school times will be updated with counties, leagues and states in the near future

Entries are now open for the upcoming 2023 FFYS Holiday Invitational being held the weekend of December 1-3, 2023 at Waterford Kettering High School. The entry deadline is TUESDAY, November 14, 2023 at 8pm. Late entries can not be accepted.

This meet is being run as 2 separate meet sessions, a Distance meet on Friday, December 1 and a normal meet December 2 and 3. This will allow those swimmers who swim in both meets to have it count as 2 YMCA meets towards the 3 meet criteria. There are events for all age groups on all 3 days of the meet, including Friday. The corresponding meet packets can be found below, as well as on the BBD website. Keep in mind, your Parent Portal will have TWO meets available to enter for this 3 day meet.

BBD is required to provide timers for this meet, which will allow deck access during your session. We MUST provide 3 timers per session for all 3 days of the meet (i.e. 15 timers total). Please sign up in the Signup Genius here, as we can not submit our entries without the complete volunteer list. Thank you advance for your help.

Timer SignUp Genius
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054CAAA62DAB9-45992689-timers#/

2023 FFYS Holiday Distance Invitational Meet packet
https://teampages.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/561342/2023-ffys-holiday-distance-invitational-meet-packet---complete_026914-AMENDED.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA3I4H7LHC537SWYSG%2F20231109%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20231109T143033Z&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=216e07b0aaea0eeb59943f4415002af0673f6bcb6f2919404cbd12376c9fea6a

2023 FFYS Holiday Invitational Meet packet
https://teampages.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/561343/2023-ffys-holiday-invitational-meet-packet-final-ver_081901-AMENDED.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA3I4H7LHC537SWYSG%2F20231109%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20231109T143107Z&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=80d82968f415e3ec982955d83cc539e9a56424d20c3846c0dee4cd167b2b5367

IMPORTANT Any swimmers who have outstanding meet fees must pay their fees and then email bbdentries@gmail.com, before entry is available. This must be completed before the entry deadline.