The Wave of the Future

THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE

July 2013 Volume 4, Number 7

In This Issue Aquafest 2013 One Month Away!  One Month to Aquafest 2013! Saturday, August 17th  Meet Allison Schmitt Visit SNCAquatics.org to buy your tickets now !!!  Help Promote Aquafest 2013 Aquafest 2013 is only a month away! Sierra Nevada Community Aquatics is pleased to announce the featured athletes for this year's event: Rowdy Gaines, Allison Schmitt and Chloe Sutton.

The day will begin with several aquatics clinics oriented toward the local youth, masters, and triathlete club swimmers. This will be followed by a fun relay meet SNCA where you can swim with the featured athletes. We will have a BBQ lunch Mission Statement: available for all participants and spectators. Next on the schedule will be a "free swim day" for the general public from 1-4PM. We plan to host water safety Our mission is to courses during this time and attempt to promote the value of aquatics and the promote, facilitate need for support to the community. The day will end with an evening and coordinate the dinner/fundraising event at the California Building where the athletes will share sustainability and their experiences and help us express the dire need for new aquatics facilities in expansion of aquatic the region. resources within the Truckee Meadows. Aquafest would not be possible without the generous support of our event sponsors. SNCA owes a great deal of thanks to our primary event sponsor the Raymond Rude Foundation. We would also like to thank all of the additional supporters of the event for their generous donations: American Assay, NV Contact Us Energy, Atlantis Hotel / Casino, Men Wielding Fire, The Dolan Automotive Chip Hobson, Group, The Reno Area Triathletes, and Todd's Body Shop. Also a special President thanks to the City of Reno for their co-sponsorship of this year's event, along [email protected] with the Neighborhood Advisory Boards - Ward; 1, 2 south, 2 central, 3, 4 Northeast, 5 Old Northwest and 5 Northwest. www.sncaquatics.org Fun Relay Swim Meet & BBQ at the Idlewild Pool Find us on 11am to 1pm Facebook! Swim Meet Entry fee $15, includes event t-shirt & BBQ Lunch BBQ Lunch only $10, Event t-shirts only $10 Click here and become a fan today! Evening Fundraiser at the California Building in Idlewild Park 5pm to 8pm Tickets: $35, includes dinner, beer & wine.

Allison Schmitt to Attend 2013 Aquafest Event

SNCA Mission Statement:

Our mission is to promote, facilitate and coordinate the sustainability and expansion of aquatic resources within the Truckee Meadows.

In her Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Allison Schmitt won a bronze medal as a member of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Four years later, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won a total of five medals, three of them gold, in the 200-meter freestyle (in which she set a new Olympic record), in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and in the 4×100-meter medley relay (in which a new world record was set); and she also won a silver medal in the 400 meter freestyle, and a bronze medal in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay.

In total, Schmitt has won fourteen medals in major international competitions: nine gold, three silver, and two bronze spanning the Summer Olympics, the FINA World Championships, and the Pan Pacific Championships. She was also a four-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national champion in the 200 and 500-yard freestyle swimming events during her collegiate swimming career at the University of Georgia. Along with other Bulldogs, she Contact Us won the NCAA Division I Women's team title in 2013. Chip Hobson, President In regards to her tremendous success, Schmitt has said: "I didn't start [email protected] swimming competitively until I was 10 and didn't really focus on it until I was 12, yet it's such a huge part of my life and I can't imagine my life without it. It's been www.sncaquatics.org an amazing journey, but more than that, it's shaped who I am as a person."

Don't miss your chance to meet and swim with Allison.

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Help SNCA Promote Aquafest 2013

Please be sure and share our event poster with your friends and contacts and SNCA invite them to attend the event. The poster is available from our website as a Mission Statement: PDF so it can be downloaded for printing or e-mailing.

Our mission is to promote, facilitate and coordinate the sustainability and expansion of aquatic resources within the Truckee Meadows.

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