may 12 2008 - Dynamo Swim Club

Dynamo Swim Club – Weekly Swimmers Ear

May 12, 2008 Vol. XXVIII No. 32

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practice schedule cHANGES

CHAMBLEE swim center

Alpharetta swim center

Upcoming Events:

May 16-18	Dixie Classic
	Last day to RSVP for Dynamo Awards Banquet
June 1	Dynamo Awards and Senior Recognition Banquet
June 5-8	Charlotte Ultra Swim
June 6-7	Dynamo IMX Blast
June 8	Dynamo Sunday Afternoon Special
June 13-15	Capital City Inv. – SR2/AG1/AG2 (must have 1 A cut)
June 19-22	Y-Sparta Firecracker Inv. – SR3/AG2/AGD
June 19-22	Speedo Florida International Ft Lauderdale – SR1
June 20-22	Coaches Invite
June 29-July 5	Olympic Trials
July 11-13	Senior Sectionals – Georgia Tech
July 12-13	CAD Meet
July 18-20	GA Age Group State – Savannah, GA
July 25-27	GA Senior State – University of Georgia
July 29-Aug 2	US Open – Minneapolis, MN
Aug 4-8	US Junior Nationals – Minneapolis, MN

Dynamo Additions to Meet Schedule

To supplement the long course meet schedule, Dynamo will add two Dynamo meets to the long course schedule. All Dynamo swimmers are eligible to compete in either meet, however, swimmers must choose to either compete in the Saturday or the Sunday meet. Swimmers may not compete in both meets.

June 6-7 Dynamo IMX Blast Meet

On Friday, swimmers will compete in either the 800 or 1500 freestyle. Saturday, Dynamo swimmers will compete in a limited list of IMX events for their age group. 12 & Under swimmers will compete in the morning and 13 & Over swimmers will compete in the afternoon.

June 8 Dynamo Sunday Afternoon Special

This meet will be a traditional Saturday Special line up events for swimmers (less the 800 and 1500 free).

Dynamo Awards and Senior Recognition Banquet – June 1, 2008

The annual Dynamo Awards and Senior Recognition Banquet is scheduled for June 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM at the Atlanta Hilton Northeast. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend! ($20 per person charge will appear on your Dynamo Statement. Complimentary for Senior Swimmers). If you did not receive an email "evite", please contact Sue Daniels and one will be sent to you immediately. Questions? Please contact Sue Daniels @ 770-350-0686

Aside from recognizing our graduating seniors, the Dynamo coaches take the time to recognize many, many awards including:

annual attendance award
recognition of 1^st year swimmers
5 year and 10 year membership awards
Dynamites
100 Second Club
Dynamo Appreciation Award
Dynamo Distinguished Service Award
Dynamo All Time Top 10
Dynamo Team Records
Georgia State Records
Scholastic All American
USA Swimming Top 16
Dynamo Excellence Awards

Dynamo Offers Summer League Clinics

Summer League Clinic at Dynamo

Dynamo will offer a clinic for summer league swimmer ages 7-14 years of age. The clinic will begin May 28 and run through June 25. Please pass the word to all your summer league friends about this great clinic opportunity. A link to our clinic flier is here.

Dynamo Coaches a Clinic at Your Summer League Pool

A Dynamo coach will visit your pool and conduct a clinic at your summer league pool. Your team chooses the focus of the clinic – free/back, fly/breast, or starts and turns. A link to our clinic flier is here.

AG State Hotel Information

We have reserved 35 rooms for the AG State meet in Savannah for Thurs., July 17th with check out Sunday, July 20th.

La Quintal Inn

6805 Abercorn Street

912-355-3004

July 17th: $75.65 + tax

July 18th and 19th: $92.65 + tax

These rooms all have 2 double beds and a continental breakfast is served daily in lobby area. This is a 15% discount on the room rate. If you want/need to stay Sunday night as well, need to let them know. Let them know that you are part of Dynamo Swim Club group.

Swim Meet Announcers Needed to Volunteer – 12 & Under Parents Needed

It is that time again – time to race! During the 2007 Long Course season Dynamo made a commitment to elevate the level of service at our swim meets in an effort to help our own Dynamo swimmers and staff, keep current teams returning and to attract new teams to our facility and meets. The biggest step we took was creating a group of trained Dynamo announcers to help facilitate the flow of the meet. We got great revues about this meet enhancement from both Dynamo parents as well as visiting teams during the past two seasons. If you enjoy “running the show” and don’t mind speaking into a microphone then this is the job for you! If you are interested in training and ultimately volunteering as a Dynamo announcer, please contact Coach Beth at bethwinkowski@hotmail.com or 770-457-7946 ext. 16.

Swim Meet Computer Operators Needed to Volunteer – 12 & Under Parents Needed

As with many of our volunteer positions at meets, our core group of volunteers is moving on. Many of our current volunteers have swimmers who are now 13 & Over or even now graduating and moving on to college. Currently, Dynamo only has 1-2 computer operators to run our 12 & under sessions at our Specials and invitational meets. The program we use is windows based and very user friendly. We are happy to train you and feel confident that you will be comfortable using this system after only a few sessions of training. As a bonus, this is a system you can use to help your summer league teams as many of them have gone to this system to manage their own meets. If you are interested, please contact Karen Kenny and she is happy to answer nay further questions and arrange for your training sessions. kkenny3@comcast.net

Dynamo Officials Needed – Upcoming Training

Georgia Swimming Officials who volunteer at home or away meets (anywhere throughout the United States) are well-taken-care of with up-to-date heat sheets (even when none are sold), free food in hospitality, free admission, and often free parking as well.

Georgia Swimming is the governing body for USA Swimming in our state. Dynamo is looking for volunteers interested in becoming certified as Administrative Judges, who deal with swimmers` entries, timing equipment and scoring, working with Clerk of Course. Georgia Swimming will be offering an

Administrator Clinic - Saturday, May 24, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, Mountain View Aquatic Center, Marietta Ga. If you have interest to attend this clinic, please contact Jeff Seiden, bigmonkey42@hotmail.com no later than May 20 so that training materials can be provided. Attendees for ADMIN only (Clerk of Course) who are not current USA Swimming Non-athlete Members will need to bring two checks made payable to GA Swimming, $49 for USA membership and $15 for the clinic.

Not only does officiating fulfill your volunteer commitment at Dynamo, the time spent is satisfying and yields great friends and experiences. We have a great group of officials with Georgia Swimming at Dynamo. We’d love to have you join us!

Interested to find out more about this great volunteer opportunity? Contact Dynamo parent, Julie Allen, at allen.julie@sbcglobal.net.

Dynamo Parka Orders

Don’t forget to place your Parka orders. Orders are placed the 1^st and 15^th of each month with a four week turn around time. For your convenience the order form can be found on Dynamo’s website.

Facility Reminders:

+ When paying for dues with a Credit Card, always write the name of the swimmer account on the receipt. The same is true for the memo portion of a check that is submitted for dues payment.

+ Please stay alert when driving through the parking lot – look out for Dynamo swimmers participating in dry land activities.