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JUNE 2006 Newsletter.Pub Santa Clara Swim Club June 2006 “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF” Making Waves FROM THE DECK by Head Coach Dick Jochums Swimmers and parents, the summer season is now upon us with the International Meet only three weeks away. It's my hope that many of you will attend the reunion dinner on the Saturday evening following the meet and experience first hand the history of this proud organization, the Santa Clara Swim Club. I also want to congratulate all our high school swimmers for their outstanding efforts and accom- plishments during the high school championships. It's now time to double your efforts in the work- outs over this summer if any of you want the college coaches to pay attention to you in the coming months. Many of you due to your high school performances put yourself on their radar, but you won't stay there for long if your summer season performances don't show improvement. Let me remind you of something I said a little over a year ago in a letter to the membership. I can pick up the phone and get it answered by every college coach in the country, because of my program's reputation and my personal reputation for telling the truth about those I make the call for. This is something you earn and I do not do for you just because you’re a team member. It's for this reason that they will talk to me, listen to me, and continue to want swimmers from this pro- gram. I have always told them the truth when asked and they have learned I can be trusted in what I have to say. I coached college and learned quickly who and whom I could trust. I will not lie or ex- aggerate for you. In other words, if you want help you must earn it. FAMILY WATER SAFETY DAY Santa Clara Swim Club and Swim School is proud to announce our first ever Family Water Safety Day. On June 11, 2006 from 9 - 11 am we will be offering a number of educational and fun activities for the entire family. Centered on our safety theme, we will have a fire engine, a reading and art area, and an informative talk for parents highlighting where and how children drown and what can be done for prevention. This will be a free event to the public and hopefully will become a yearly tradition. Please come and support your swim club and participate in this event. For more information please call the swim school office 408-246- 5003 or look for our flyer on line www.santaclaraswimclub.org Page 2 Making Waves 2006 AD CAMPAIGN IS OVER By Denise Winer Even though the 2006 Ad Campaign did not reach the goal of $50,000, it was a great success!!!!! We are just under $30,000!!!! And we surpassed last year’s total by at least $13,000!!! I will have a final count in the next day or two. Congratulations to the Nunan family!!!!! They won the Ad Campaign Contest with $2,875 in ads!!! Lisa and her husband will get to spend a nice weekend at Sea Breeze Resort on the beautiful shores of Clear Lake. A big thank you goes out to all those families who participated in the Ad Campaign. Your support in obtain- ing ads, lane sponsorships and donations is greatly appreciated. Just remember that the money that you all raised goes to support the programs that Santa Clara Swim Club offers our swimmers from the Learn-to-Swim to the Seniors Group. In July’s issue of our newsletter, I will give everyone the exact total of this year’s Ad Campaign and updates on what’s in store for the 2007 Ad Campaign. Again, thank you all. Natalie Coughlin is coming to the Reunion! INTERNATIONAL MEET By Maggie Tannous and Barbara McGarvey The countdown to the International meet is on and we need help from everyone!!! We still have lots of empty places for people to work and we need them filled quickly. If you have not completed your hours please use this meet to fulfill your obligation. If you have completed your hours, please see this as an opportunity to help SCSC put on a fantastic meet. This club relies on our volunteers and all that you do is appreciated. This meet is an opportunity to work together as a team, meet other volunteers, and make great friends!! We have enjoyed getting to know all of the parents this year and we hope to see your smiling faces working hard at this meet. For those of you who have already signed up, please make sure that you can work all of your shifts. It is really difficult at this late stage to find replacements and we are counting on you to show up and work. Once again, thank you all for being great volunteers TEAM PICTURE DAY IS COMING By Stella Ezrre Wednesday June 28th @ 8:30am Please bring your team suit and a white SCSC T-shirt The group picture will be first. Tom Wilkens is coming to the Reunion! Age group swimmers will be first for the individual shots Seniors swimmers will be last due to the fact that the Age group team needs to get in the water for practice at 9am. Thank you for your cooperation Page 3 Making Waves INTERNATIONAL MEET HOUSING by Mete Karakucuk International Meet Housing Campaign is continuing. We would like to house about 30 more college age swimmers from several national swim clubs during the International Meet (June 22nd Thursday - June 25 Sunday). We need more families to sign up. Everyday, on my way to the pool I am passing in front of a cabana club. Interestingly this club has a sign advertising Donna de Varona is coming to the Reunion! for swim lessons and team workouts. I though about how it would be if my child practiced there; it would be tougher financially but my family wouldn't have any service obligation. Life would be easier. But that's not the case. We are members of Santa Clara Swim Club because not only we want our children to excel in swimming but we also want to contribute to this sport by organizing and working at a great event like the International Meet. The success of this meet depends on the good college teams we can "invite". Without these teams we would be left with high school level swimmers - if we can attract any be- cause they are coming to compete with college teams - and our meet would loose its excitement. To invite these college teams we have to reduce their financial burden by housing them for just four days. I would like to thank to the 20 member families who have signed up until now. However, in a club with al- most 200 member families this is a very low number. Fellow Swim Parents, We work already hard by driving our swimmers between pool, school and our homes and most of us do work at the club meets. I would like to invite you all to do more. Let's take these last 30 swimmers, let's do something for the future of the International Meet and the Club, let's distinguish ourselves further from cabana club members! For the four days of inconvenience you will receive 8 service hours per swimmer per day. Hosting two TV Star Joanna Kerns is coming to the Reunion! swimmers = 64 service hours Even if you have no ser- (She is Donna de Varona’s sister!) vice obligation yet any housing hours you will earn will be transferred to the next season. SCRIP AND eSCRIP NEWS by Judie Pouya Visit the eScrip website at www.escrip.com to sign up and update. Also, be advised Scrip will be available after June 16 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. Call Judie at 408 482-1038 or evenings at 408 866-2650. MONTHLY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING The next SCSC BOD meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 13 at 5 pm at the Rotunda at the pool. All members are welcome to attend the BOD meeting. For more information contact Krishna Hegde, Board Secretary Page 4 Making Waves SCSC Swimmers Experience Success at CCS Championships by John Bitter Another high school season has come and gone and many of our older swimmers again had successful swim seasons for their high schools. The season cumulated with CCS Championships held at Stanford University, May 12 and 13, 2006. Among the more notable swims during the championship weekend were Taylor Smith (winner of the 200 and 500 Free), Courtney Monsees (winner of the 200 and 500 Free), and Brandt Robinson (winner of the 50 Free). Besides these fine performances, Stephanie Wei had an excellent freshman season finishing 4th in the 200 Free and 3rd in the 100 16 members of the Haines Family are Back. Jamie Cisar had two breakout swims, going best times and Coming to the Reunion! International Swim Meet cuts in the 100 Free and 100 Fly. Travis Jepsen and Larry Wen also earned their first International Swim Meet cuts while finishing 3rd and 4th respectfully in the 100 Breast. Seniors Jonny Muir, Dominique Lazarovici, Amanda Mikaelsson, Scott Jackson, Scott Wong all made it back to finals on Saturday and represented their schools and themselves well for one final time in high school. Under- classmen David Kuo and Paul Kim had good meets, making it back for Saturday's finals in their events. Besides the above mentioned swimmers, congratulations to all our swimmers, Aly Meyer, Fred Hwang, Stacey Wong, Kimmie Smith, Eric Owens, Sean Fronczak, Anya Vo, and Mia Nielsen who competed for their high schools at this year's CCS Championships.
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