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Latest News ItemsWeb Guy Gram: Monday, Aug 4, 2008CMSL final standings, meters records and yards records have been updated. Paul Web Guy Gram: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Results for the Straehle and the Divisional meets are posted, as are updates to the CMSL final standings and CMSL records. Unless I receive new data (e.g. new records data, or final e-mails from Peggy), updates to the Swim Team section of this web site is concluded for 2008. Paul Peggy Gram: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Thursday July 17, 2008 NO LATER THAN 11am - Last day to scratch from Rollingwood, Straehle's, and or Divisionals Meets Friday July 18, 2008 - Picture Day - individual pictures start at 8:30am - team picture at 9:30 - Bullfrog Olympics' immediately following pictures Friday July 18, 2008 - Watermont Swim Team Pizza Party at the pool!!! For raising over $4,500.00 in the swim-a-thon, for the American Cancer Society. Dinner starts at 6:30pm with nail painting and fun after. Saturday July 19, 2008 - Final Duel meet at Rollingwood Pool - (if you missed my earlier email with directions, there are directions on the Watermont website also. Please be at the Rollingwood Pool NO LATER THAN 8:15am. Warm up start at 8:30 Monday July 21, 2008 - Modified Practice schedule - 10 and Unders 9:00 - 10:00am 11/12, 13/14, and 15/18 10:00am - 11am All swimmers are welcome and encouraged to attend Tuesday July 22, 2008 - Modified Practice schedule (see above) Wednesday July 23, 2008 - Straehle Invitational - NO PRACTICE Thursday July 24, 2008 - Modified Practice Schedule (see above) Friday July 25, 2008 - Modified Practice Schedule (see above) Saturday July 26, 2008 - Divisional Championship Meet at South Carroll Swim Club - Please arrive by 8am - allow 50-60 minutes travel Saturday July 26, 2008 - Watermont Swim Team awards and picnic - Starting at 5:00pm Last Names ending in Letters A - F Please bring a dessert G- R Please bring a side dish S - Please bring a 1/2 case of bottled water T - Z Please bring a 12 pack Coke, Diet Coke or Sprite Swim Team will provide burgers, hotdogs, paper products Directions to Straehle's at the 4 Seasons Swim Club, and Divisionals at South Carroll will be emailed early next week - or you may check the Watermont Website now. Peggy Gram: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Just a few reminders and confirmation on Dates that have been discussed and some just finalized. 1. Sat. July 11 - Final Pasta Dinner and Pep rally this Friday evening. Dinner starts at 6:30. Pep rally will start around 7-7:30. Pool set-up for meet will start around 8pm 2. Sat. July 12 - Final HOME meet this Saturday July 12 vs Meadowbrook. Please have your swimmers to the pool by 7:45 unless you have communicated a late arrival with me and/or one of the coaches. 3. Fri. July 18th - team pictures taken. Individual pictures will start at 8:30 with the team picture being taken at 9:30. After the team picture there will be a modified practice/Watermont Olympic relays. Fun for all 4. Sat. July 19th - Final Duel meet at Rollingwood in Catonsville 5. Wed. July 23 - Straehle Invitational at the Four Seasons Swim Club in Hampstead MD 6. Sat. July 26 - Division I Divisional Championships at the South Carroll Swim Club - 7. Sat. July 26 - Watermont Swim Team Picnic and Award banquet. Picnic to start at 5:00pm awards around 6:30 Web Guy Gram: Monday, July 7, 2008 I have posted the Straehle qualifiers through July 7th to the Straehle Invitational Meet section. To view them, click on the link, and when prompted, use the same password as you use for viewing the swimmers' meet results. The Web Guy (Paul Straub) Peggy Gram: Friday, July 1, 2008 Congratulations to the Watermont Bullfrogs for a great meet swum this past weekend against the South Carroll Serpents. We had over 150 best times, and 70 different swimmers scored points!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that is a team effort! That said - we have another exciting and very competitive meet at home against the Padonia Pooh Bears this coming Saturday - July 5th. WE WILL PRACTICE AS USUAL ON JULY 4th. Parents a few house keeping things. 1. Please sign up to help at the meet. With this being a holiday weekend - there are many families out of town. It is important that everyone that is able to help - to help during the meet. If you can help in more than one area, that would be wonderful. I know there are several of you that already do this. Last weekend I found myself recruiting someone to help me fill many voids in the volunteer sheet, and even at the beginning of the meet we were still short in several key areas. However, you guys stepped up, filled the voids and the meet ran very smoothly after that. So PLEASE sign up - help keep me from being frazzled Saturday morning. 2. At home meets, because of our limited space, we reserve the parking lot, and we also set aside a section of the pool grounds for our guests. Because of all the tents, If you come later than Friday evening, I know it can be difficult to find a place to pitch your pop up tent or even a place to sit. However, I ask that if there is no room to pitch your tent in designated Watermont area, please DO NOT set up in the visitors section until after 9:30AM on Saturday. The swim team does set up a large tent right by the entrance gate that is open to anyone who wishes to sit there. Or invite yourself in to sit with another swim team family that has a tent already set up. This is one big social event, and does become more enjoyable as you get to know new families. So don't be shy or come see me, and I will help you join the others. Help Watermont continue to be the excellent hosts we are!!! 3. Please have your swimmers to the pool no later than 7:45am on Saturday for check-in and warm-ups. Some swimmers come from a morning practice, and can not be at the pool until later. I know who you are, and we will see you when you get here. Thank you for all your help. Peggy McKissick P.S. If there is any of you looking for an excuse not to go to the fireworks on Friday evening, we could use help in getting the pool ready for the meet. We will start set up around 7:30-8:00pm (depending on how crowded the pool is). Peggy Gram: Friday, June 27, 2008 Swim-A-Thon for the American Cancer Society! Watermont Swim Team will be hosting our Annual Swim-A-Thon and this year the proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. All swimmers are invited to participate. The American Cancer Society was chosen this year as the Swim-A-Thon cause since cancer has touched our members closely. We are doing this in honor and celebration of Coach Lynn who is a breast cancer survivor, Eileen Bednar who is an ovarian cancer survivor, and Caroline Herrmann a 14 year old member of our team currently fighting brain cancer. Let’s do our best to raise money to find a cure! The date of the American Cancer Society Swim-A-Thon is Tuesday, July 8. Each child is asked to return the attached sponsor form to his/her coach on the day of the swim-a-thon. Please list the individual sponsors and the amount each person is sponsoring per lap. Some of your donors may prefer to give a set donation to ACS rather than an “amount per lap”; that is fine too! The children will swim as many laps as they can, and will be encouraged along the way. A treat will follow as a way to celebrate the children's success. When the children have finished swimming, sponsor sheets will be returned (that day or the following day) showing the number of laps your child swam. We will do the math to determine their sponsors’ final contributions and will indicate the total due. The ACS and Watermont Swim team are working together to have fun and incentive prizes for the participants. A list of prizes, and prize levels, is attached. Donations may be cash or checks (payable to The American Cancer Society.) All donations are tax deductible and your check will serve as your receipt. If you have any questions, or would like to volunteer to help with the Swim-A-Thon, contact Donna Smith, 410-379-5496. **Thank you in advance for taking part in this worth-while event. Please deposit your collected donations to the swim team mailbox. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!* Peggy Gram: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The final score to Saturday's meet against Forest Hill was Forest Hill 243.5 Watermont 236.5. Even though we lost, we had many great swims from our team. Two of our team records were broken, 141 best times were had, 34 different Watermont swimmers helped contribute to our points scored, and 31 swimmers swam their first meet on Saturday. This Saturday we host our first meet of the 2008 season against the South Carroll Serpents. To get ready for our first home meet, we will start once again with a Pasta Dinner Friday evening. Dinner will start around 6:30. Please bring a dish to share IN A NON BREAKABLE CONTAINER, swim team will provide, paper products, drinks, bread and salad. There will be a $5.00 per family charge to help cover the costs. Our pep rally will start right after dinner and will include nail painting - tattoos, poster making and if the T-shirts arrive, the kids will have an opportunity to decorate their shirts with "puffy" paint. Along with many other fun activities with our amazing coaches! Set-up for the meet will start Friday evening around 8:30pm. All help is welcome. Saturday: *Please arrive by 7:45am to be ready for warm-ups that begin at 8am sharp. *Anyone interested in singing the National Anthem on Saturday or at one of our other 2 home meets, please email me at pmckissick5108@verizon.net *If you haven't had a chance to sign up to help at the meet yet, please do so, the signup sheets are located in the clubhouse on the swim team bulletin board. *Reminder: we do save our parking lot for our visiting team. Please park out on Bellanca or Gardenview. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Peggy Peggy/Crazy Coach Lynn Gram: Monday, June 16, 2008 Below is new sign out procedure for each swim meet. It is important you email Lynn as early in the week as possible. Please no later than 11am the Thursday before the meet. If you know now, what meets you will be missing and did not have a chance to write it in on the sign out sheets, you may email Lynn now. Please do not assume your swimmer will not swim Divisionals or Straehle. If you know you are unavailable for those meets, please sign out. Any questions, you may contact Lynn or myself. Peggy *** FROM COACH LYNN: SIGN OUTS Please take a look at the BULLFROGS SWIM MEET schedule. Swim Meets June 21 at Forest Hill June 28 home vs South Carroll July 5 home vs Padonia July 12 home vs Meadowbrook July 19 at Rollingwood (in Catonsville) July 23 - Straehle Invitational at 4 Seasons July 26 - Divisionals at South Carroll For any meet that you know that your child will not be swimming, please send me the following... 1- write the Date of meet- 2- write SCRATCH (if you will miss the entire meet) or 3- write NO RELAYS (if you need to leave before the end) PLEASE NOTE that most swimmers will have an opportunity to participate in a relay sometime this season. Despite being at the end of the meet, the relays are always very exciting for the kids! Swimmers are expected to stay for the entire meet and cheer on the team . Please send your sign out information to Coach Lynn at crazy-coach-lynn@hotmail.com Crazy Coach Lynn Gram: Sunday, June 15, 2008 Hello Bullfrog Families! Looking forward to another exciting and fun-filled season with the Mighty Bullfrogs! Thanks to so many of you for sending your swimmer's event preferences and strengths/weaknesses. Please do so if you haven't had the chance yet. Send to crazy-coach-lynn@hotmail.com We recognize many of the returning names and have a good idea what events those swimmers feel strongest and most confident in swimming. It's still good to hear what THEY select as their top choices. As for the new Bullfrogs...welcome and don't worry!! The most important goal for Summer swimmers is to enjoy taking part in this highly spirited sport. We strive to provide a fun, safe environment with lots of planned activities each week. Asking for preferences is just one way to help us get the 1st meet lineup ready. With newer swimmers, it gives you a chance to mention a possible strength that your swimmer may have that we have not had an opportunity to observe yet. Being just a few weeks in total, we will try our best to cover and teach much about the mechanics of each stroke and the competitive aspect of swimming. **Most new and very young swimmers will be entered in free and back, and sometimes a relay. If your new swimmer has a strength in breast or fly, please let us know. It takes many, many hours of time to construct a matrix for each swim meet and any input from you is of great help!! See you poolside! Crazy Coach Lynn Crazy Coach Lynn Gram: Monday, June 9, 2008 WELCOME BULLFROG FAMILIES!! With the heat this week, our pool will be warm and ready for our Bullfrogs to begin!! In preparation for the start of our season...a little input from our families is needed. Please send me any special information that the coaches may need to be aware of... the more informed, the better for all! If your swimmer is a NEW BULLFROG- please send me a little information about abilities, favorite strokes/events, strengths-weaknesses, previous team experience, special needs, etc... If your swimmer is A RETURNING BULLFROG- please send me a note with favorite events listed in order of preference. This information is extremely important so that the season will start smoothly! Looking forward to another super season with the MIGHTY BULLFROGS!! See you poolside! CRAZY COACH LYNN ***Please respond to crazy-coach-lynn@hotmail.com Peggy Gram: UPDATED AGAIN Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Our 1st swim practice will be Monday June 16 starting at 8am. Below is the break down of how the age groups will practice. There will be parent meetings to go over procedures during each Monday June 16th practice at Watermont pool. All families are encouraged to attend, especially if you are new to the swim team. 8am - 9am: 8 and unders 9am - 10am: 9/10 and 11/12 10am - 11am: 13/14 and 15-18 Tuesday / Thursday evening practice will start on Tuesday June 17. The first session will start at 6:15pm and go to 7:00pm, the second session will start at 7:00pm and go to 7:45pm. These sessions will be limited to those that sign up (because of limited pool availablity, we can only allow 15 kids per session). Our meet schedule will be as follows: Saturday June 21 at Forest Hill, Ellicott City Saturday June 28 home against South Carroll Saturday July 5 home against Padonia Saturday July 12 home against Meadowbrook Saturday July 19 at Rollingwood, Catonsville Wednesday July 23 Straehle invitational at Four Seasons Saturday July 26 Divisionals at South Carroll If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you Peggy McKissick Web Guy Gram: Sunday, April 6, 2008 I have UPDATED the 2008 Summer Swim Bullfrogs Registration Form found at the "Contact Info / Handbook / Docs" link of this site with Mark's correct street address. Web Guy Gram: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 I have added the 2008 Summer Swim Bullfrogs Registration Form to the "Contact Info / Handbook / Docs" link of this site. Web Guy Gram: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 I have added the 2008 Spring Swim Bullfrogs Registration Form to the "Contact Info / Handbook / Docs" link of this site. Peggy Gram: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 With the weather so dreadful outside - it is hard to believe that summer is just around the corner!!! With summer just around the corner, it means that our summer swim season will be starting soon too! Once again, we have made arrangements for some coach supervised spring swimming warm ups at UMBC on Sunday late afternoons in April and May. The details are as follows: Dates: Sundays April 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4, and 18 Time: 4-5pm Cost: $40.00 per swimmer Who's eligible to participate: Any pool member ages 4-18 that can swim a lap Attached is the registration form. Please complete and mail to Mark Gretz at the address listed on the bottom of the form. We are working with UMBC on swim lessons for those kids who would like to join swim team, but may not be quite ready (can not swim a lap) If you are interested in these swim lessons please contact me at pmckissick1@comcast.net or 410-796-8142, so we can make sure we have enough instructors available at the practice times, and have those kids registered thru UMBC. Lessons will be 30 minutes at a cost of $60 for the 6 weeks. The registration for lessons will be done seperately because the lessons are being taught by UMBC. Directions to UMBC: Route 1 to 195 West towards Catonsville, take the UMBC exit. At the bottom of the exit turn right. At the 1st stop sign turn left. Parking is available in the parking garage - underneath $.50 (quarters only) or on top is metered parking If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank You, Peggy McKissick Web Guy Gram: Monday, September 3, 2007 I have added about 15 pictures to the Team Pictures section. Web site space is limited so I reduced the size and quality of the pictures. Next year, I expect to remove many old pictures from years past, and results from long ago, that are taking up our web space. That'll make more room for more, newer, 2008 pictures from all of you shutter bugs. So next year, send me your best pictures! This concludes my updates for the 2007 season. See you next year! Peggy Gram: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Swim Team Picnic * Saturday August 25 * All the Fun Starts @ 2pm * The Chromatics, an a cappella band, will be entertaining us from 2:45-3:45 while you eat * Awards immediately following If your last name begins with A – L please bring a side dish M – Z please bring a dessert (Please be sure your dish/dessert feeds 12) Swim Team will provide hotdogs, hamburgers, and drinks RSVP By Wednesday August 22 to Peggy @ pmckissick1@comcast.net Please include the number of people attending and approximately the number of hotdogs and hamburgers you think your family will be eating. We could use about 15 people help set-up, grill and serve. If you are able to help in Any of these areas, please let me know when you RSVP. Peggy Gram: Friday, July 27, 2007 Congratulations RYAN SHEA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ryan currenty hold the 100 Free Style record with the CMSL and improved his swim by .64 seconds at the Straehle Invitational. The new CMSL record is now 52.04 - WOW! Way to go Ryan!!!!!! Great swims were also had by Brad Reitz, who took 1st in every one of his events, IM, Fly, Breast and Relay; Erin Shea who took 2nd in Free, 1st in Relay, Ryan Shea who took 1st in Free, 2nd in Back and 1st in Relay, Melanie Rebecci who took 1st in Relay, and Zeke Wolfgang who took 2nd in IM, and Back and 3rd in Fly. All of our relay teams did amazing - each team took multiple seconds off their seed time, and swam their hearts out!! Congratulations to all of our relay teams! 9/10 Girls: Alison Bracken, Ellie Graef, Claire McKissick, Allie Caulfield 9/10 Boys: Evan Straub, Clay Rund, Peter Krol, Mikie Caulfield 11/12 Girls: Erin Hunter, Clare Stavely, Bridget Graef, Rebecca Hawley 11/12 Boys: David Bracken, Daniel Shea, Andrew McKissick, Zeke Wolfgang 13/14 Boys: Conor Colclough, Dan Eakin, Matt Norwicz, Drew Hammer 15/18 Mixed: Melanie Rebechi, Erin Shea, Ryan Shea, Brad Reitz We are down to our final meet this weekend with divisonals at Forest Hill. Our warm ups start at 7:45 am - please try to be at Forest Hill by 7:30, so you can get yourselves settled before warm-ups start. I wanted to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all of the Watermont Swim Team Families! You are an amazing group of people. I feel very fortunte to have this opportunity to work with you all. Your kind, and "how can I help" attitudes have made this job so much easier, and very enjoyable. If I was ever grumpy with you, please know, it was NEVER you, but rather the overwhelming moment I was having at the time. As tired as I am right now, I know I will always Cherish this summer. And I Thank you all for that! See you at Divisionals tomorrow, and the awards picnic on Saturday Aug 25, 3pm |
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