FAST Parents Meeting 18 September 2003

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FASTParents Meeting18 September 2003
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Agenda

• Coaching Staff
• Board Members
• T-E-A-M
• Finances
• Volunteering
• FAST and FWISD
• Team and Internet Resources
• Swim Meets

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Our FAST Coaching Staff

• Head Coach Ron Forrest
• Head Age Group Coach David Gabriel
• Coach Kristie Galegher
• Coach Janet Steenberge
• Coach Jeremy Martin
• Lessons Coordinator Shea Miller

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Head Coach and Program Director Ron Forrest

• Seniors and High School Group coach
• coachron_at_fastswimming.org

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Head Age Group Coach Dave Gabriel

• Advanced Age Group coach
• Teacher and Head Swim Coach for Paschal HS
• Group meeting Friday Sep 19 at 530 pm
• davegabriel_at_charter.net

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Coach Kristie Galegher

• Age Group and Novice II coach
• Student at UTA
• Group meeting Monday Sep 22 at 530 pm
• kgrrl20_at_aol.com

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Coach Janet Steenberge

• Minnows and Novice I coach
• Has 2 children who swim for FAST
• Head coach of Granbury Seals
• Group meeting Wednesday Sep 24 at 6 pm
• Email is read, phone/voicemail is faster

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Masters Coach Jeremy Martin

• Teaches and Head Swim Coach at Western Hills HS
• Goal is to build the Masters group
• Masters interests and abilities vary widely
• Parents are invited to join

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Lessons Coordinator Shea Miller

• Philosophy is to teach children competitive
  swimming
• Bring children into the sport
• Develop swimmers, not just make a profit
• Semi-private lessons. Students progress rapidly
• Tell your friends

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Our FAST Board

• President Mark Verdeyen
• VP Alan Lake
• Treasurer Laurie Seidel
• Secretary Nancy K French
• Meet Director Suzanne Dwyer
• Pool Parent Cathy Vollmer
• Swim Store David Slininger
• Membership open
• Program Director Ron Forrest

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President Mark Verdeyen

• Organizational Role
• Schedule board meetings
• Chair meetings, develop agendas
• Guide process toward decisions
• Advisory Role
• Provide input advice business perspective
• Aid in solutions council on issues

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Treasurer Laurie Seidel

• All requests in writing / email
• Treasurer folder in file cabinet
• treasurer_at_fastswimming.org
• Contact treasurer directly for anything affecting
  your bill, not just your coach.
• Bills due by the 15th
• We Accept Credit Cards
• Discount for prepayment

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Secretary Nancy French

• Answers team email
• Newsletter and FAST News emails
• USA-S Registrations Coordinator
• 2004 Registrations renewals in progress
• Website for FAST
• Helps maintain team databases

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Swim Store David Slininger

• Team Suits and caps
• Logo polo shirts, towels, parkas, backpacks
• Special Orders must be prepaid
• Sheri Hall will operate the store

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New FAST Team Suit
Speedo Viper Twins

• Female geoback
• Female Super Pro back splice
• Male brief or jammer
• Lycra
• Special order at the FAST Swim Store

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Meet Director Suzanne Dwyer

• Swimmers need to have swim meets
• FAST supports our sport
• We are proud to be a very good meet host
• Meets require 400 hours of volunteer help
• Committed helpers are needed
• No experience needed for many duties
• BB/B/C meet on Oct 31-Nov 1

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Pool Parent Cathy Vollmer

• Assists with tryouts and new member sign-ups
• Manages the bulletin boards and file cabinets
• Helps coordinate volunteer efforts
• General source of information

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We are a TEAM

• Valuable experience for your kids
• Fun Friends Fundamentals Fantastic
  Achievements
• Team Goals
• Be the 1 team in North Texas
• We are the 1 North Texas team at the top-end
  level (elite swimmers)
• Get bigger and better as a team
• If we need to hire more coaches, acquire more
  pools
• Swimmer progression
• Take pride in belonging to our organization
• Every swimmer counts both now and in the future
  
• Upper level swimmers do not get a "free ride"

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Team Accomplishments

• Wet Accomplishments
• Championships meet performance
• World rankings
• Meet attendance at all levels
• Lessons program
• Dry accomplishments
• Coaching staff
• Credit cards
• Meet entries process
• Parent involvement

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Volunteering at FAST

• 10 hours of help every 6 months or pay 100
  opt-out per family
• September 1 through end of February
• March 1 through August 31
• FAST would rather get your help than collect the
  fee
• More equitable distribution of work
• Avoid paying an administrator / increasing
  training fees
• Lots of help needed for our Oct 31-Nov 1 meet !
• Romy Hughes keeps track of hours
• Forms are in the file cabinet
• Forms must be signed by a coach or board member
• Activities must be approved to earn credit
• Any family member can help out

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Financial Review

• Training fees cover key team expenses
• Coaches salaries
• Facility rental
• Travel expenses
• Printing, postage
• Phone miscellaneous
• Budgeting process
• Forecast income expense
• Drive to keep training fees reasonable
• Team Budget requires meets and fundraising

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Key Fundraising Events

• Silent Auction
• December Banquet Party
• Fun for everyone
• New volunteers Laurie Sheryl
• Need help donations!
• Information on bulletin board
• Swim a - thon
• Single largest fundraiser
• Tentative March 2004
• All swimmers participate
• Surprises prizes!

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FAST and FWISD

• FAST rents pool space from the FWISD
• We cherish our good relationship
• Rules
• NO food or drink
• Kids MUST be supervised by parents off-deck
• NO PETS
• No free admission to events at WGAC, dont peek
  in
• Only the FAST board will phone or talk to FWISD.
• Fire door (stairwell exit) only used when lobby
  is closed off
• No parking in the firelane

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Team / Internet Resources

• FAST website and email
• fastswim_at_fastswimming.org
• http//www.fastswimming.org
• Team phone [phone]
• Team FAST News emailing list, sign up on
  website
• North Texas Swimming (regional organization)
• Meet info, results, and more
• http//www.ntswim.org
• Bulletin board
• File cabinets
• Each swimmer, coach, board member has a folder
• We rely very heavily on email and internet

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Black vs Blue Intersquad

• Fun meet for ALL kids and Masters
• Short events and fun relay
• Best way to get first meet experience
• Saturday October 4
• Sign up by Thursday October 2 on bulletin board
• Team lunch at CiCis pizza afterwards

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Swimmer Classifications

• Swimmers are classified by achieving time
  standards
• 13 and older are automatically at least BB
• New swimmers 12 and younger start as C
• The fastest standard for 3 events determines
  classification.
• 1 A time, 2 BB times, 5 B times is a BB
  swimmer
• Ask your coach if you are not sure or check
  FASTs website
• Some meets allow Exhibition swims

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Meet Policies and Procedures

• FAST team swim suits are mandatory
• NO FASTSKINs without Head Coach pre-approval
• Caps must be FAST caps
• Arrive 10-15 minutes before team warm-up
• Report to coach before warm-up begins
• Swimmers check themselves in for their events
• Meet with coach immediately after each race
• Sit with teammates

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The remaining slides in this presentation were
not covered due to time constraints.
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New Records Statistics

• 31 swimmers broke team records
• All age groups and both genders
• 16 swimmers broke individual records, 15
  relay-only swimmers
• 217 records were broken
• 124 Individual, 93 Relay records
• 16 North Texas LSC records broken
• 17 Texas State records broken
• Oldest record dated back to 1979
• One was a world record when set in 1980

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Trend of improved performance
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Most records broken were recent but some were
very old
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Teamwork helps make swimming affordable FASTs
fee structure is typical of USA-S teams
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Officiating Needs

• USA Swimming relies on volunteer officials
• FAST needs more officials
• Training Saturday 20 September at GCAT
• Tremendously rewarding experience
• Attend a clinic, take a test, then
• apprentice at 4 meets.
• You do not need to know how to swim!

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Meet Classifications

• Meets are classified by times
• A, BB, B/C (or BB/B/C)
• A meets are the fastest developmental meets
• BB/B/C meets are entry level and intermediate
• Swimmers only swim meets they are qualified for

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Meet Participation

• B/C swimmers are encouraged, must sign up
• BB swimmers are expected to attend, must sign
  up
• A swimmers are expected to attend meets.
• FAST may enter unless notification in
  writing/website signup.
• Use the web signup form to indicate yes/no
• All communications MUST be written
• web signup form
• email
• written note to coach
• Signup reminders are emailed to FAST News mailing
  list
• Entries report on website and bulletin board

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Online Meet Signup form

• Meet Signups webpage
• Indicate YES or NO whether you will attend
• Optional comments for certain events you would
  like to swim or if you cannot swim all days of
  the meet
• More info Tuesday 23 September 6 pm

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