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The Ribbit Review
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Ribbit Review
Champs
CHAMPS @ UT, Sunday, June 28
Lee & Joe Jamail Swim Center at UT
The entrance is on the third floor, which is also where you enter. The team will meet in
section 1 seating area for pre-staging. Down one flight is the concession stand. Down
another flight is the entrance to the pool deck. There is NO access to the pool deck from the
seating area. ONLY swimmers, coaches and volunteers (with badges!) will be allowed to enter
the pool deck. No photographers on the bulkhead, and NO flash photography anywhere. No
heat sheets will be sold - bring your own!
Meet Details
Arrival time 8:30am. If a swimmer cannot participate due to unexpected circumstances, please
email fastfrogs@yahoo.com as soon as you can; no-shows can significantly impact relays!
Volunteer check-in will be set up where you drop the kids off. Please come with swimmer's arm
marked, find your age group parent and sit with them. FAST Frogs will be sitting on the south
side of the pool under the Texas Flag. No chairs are allowed . The girls will swim in the south
pool ( Texas Flag side) and boys will swim in the north pool (US flag end. All races will finish at
the ends of the pool, so 25's will start from the bulkheads in the middle of the pool. Parents
cannot come down on deck to get their child when their races are finished; the age group
parent has to bring swimmers to parents.
Parking at Champs: UT will be charging the league for parking this year, $10.00 a car, there
is limited free parking on San Jacinto. We have attached the meet parking document for
further information. Please plan accordingly.
What to Bring
Bring everything you would for dual meets, but swimmers should bring an extra towel, blanket
or sleeping bag to sit on, again NO CHAIRS. NO COOLERS are allowed, but PLEASE pack
snacks, drinks, and a light lunch in your swimmer's bag! The concession stand is on the
second floor and swimmers cannot easily leave their age group parent to go and parents are
NOT allowed to enter the pool deck. No chairs or coolers for parents either!
Volunteers
There is NO access to the pool deck from the seating area. ONLY swimmers, coaches and
volunteers (with badges!) will be allowed to enter the pool deck.
You Must sign in and pick up your badge and coordinating dot to get you down on deck.
Don't forget to go to Manga after the meet!
Frogs of the Week: Girls Boys
6 & U-Ava Collinge Mathew Tweden
7-8 Kiana Nunez Andrew Jenkins
9-10 Reagan Rolston Grant Deloach
Elizabeth Hughes Claudio Ordonez
11-12 Kathryn Hamilton Jared Langenohl
Top three percentage drops of the week:
Miles Banister Mens 9-10 Back 28.41%
Kylie Brewer Womens 6 & U Back 27.29%
Addison Gutierrez Womens 6 & U Free 23.7%
Congratulations to you all!!!!!!
Awards Banquet Tuesday June 30 at 7:00pm
Join the Team for the Awards Banquet at the Forest Creek Park for our end of the year
awards.
Cake and refreshments will be provided, if you would like something else please bring it with
you. You might also want to bring a chair or blanket to sit on.
Family Folders
Please make sure to clean out you family folder this week, we still have t-shirts in there for a
few folks. The folders are getting full and we do not want to keep everything until next year.
We will not mail your items to you, if you want it you better get it out.
Parent Evaluation Forms
In order to keep the team going in the direction you would like, please take a few minutes to fill
out the attached parent evaluation form (also available on the website). It can be printed out,
completed and placed in the BOARD folder; or it can be filled out electronically and emailed to
fastfrogs@yahoo.com. It's your team - let us know what you think about it! Thank you in
advance for your comments and constructive feedback.
Parking at Champs: UT will be charging the league for parking this year, $10.00 a car, there
is limited free parking on San Jacinto. We have attached the meet parking document for
further information. Please plan accordingly.
Swim F.A.S.T. FROGS
Ribbit Review
Meet at Twin Creeks
Great Meet at Twin Creeks this past Saturday Frogs, you Frogs did and awesome job.
Make sure that you have signed up for the meet with Balcones Woods.
Meet at Balcones Woods
Check the meet entries on line at the website and if there are any changes to be
made please let the coaches know asap. You can send us an email or slip a note in
Coach Mark or Coach Tiffany's folder.
BW will be hosting their meet at Twin Creeks Pool, so we will be at the same pool
that we swam at last weekend. Please arrive on time our show up time is 6:45 am.
There should only be 2 things written on swimmers: name on shoulder and events
on right arm. DO NOT WRITE OR DRAW ANYTHING ELSE ON SWIMMERS (team tattoos
are fine)! Let's show the other teams our sportsmanship... Make sure to volunteer
to help at the last two meets, we have had a great turn out so far and your help is
greatly appreciated. We could not do this for the kiddos without your help.
If you can't beat em .... bribe em .....
Congratulations to the Dad's team for taking the relay cheese this weekend at the
Twin Creek's invitational. The Dad's had the good sense to grab a ringer from the
Mom squad, our very own Susan Carrigan. Those close to the negotiations believe
that in exchange for her services, Susan demanded a lofty price. So if you see her
tooling around the neighborhood in a silver Porsche over the next few weeks, you'll
know why. And it's a good thing they grabbed her too as she had to swim down the
Twin Creek's anchor from a fifteen meter head start by the time she hit the water.
Good job Dad's Plus One. Susan C and the Pips?
Champs June 28, 2009
Please start signing up for champs on Thursday June 18, 2009 in the binders at the
pool.
You must swim in two meets and have a legal time in the event in which you wish to
swim in. You may pick your event that you would like to swim. Please start this
process early we will not be allowed to enter any late entries.
We need your help at Champs volunteers, please use the volunteer link to sign up
to help. If you do not volunteer at Champs you will be sitting in the stands and are
not going to be allowed on deck during the meet. So if you would like to stay close
to your little ones and be where the action is you will need to volunteer.
Fast Frog Fun
Attention FAST FROGS and families you are invited to celebrate the 2009 Swim
Season on Sunday June 21st from 8:30 pm-10:30 p.m. at the Round Rock Rock n
River inside Old Settler’s Park.
There are OVER 130 families and 240 swimmers so, we are asking families to
bring snacks to share this year!
Last names starting with:
A-L bring a "salty snack" (chips...)
M-Z bring a "sweet snack" (cookies...)
Swim Team Night at the Round Rock Express.
Monday, June 29 @ 7:05 PM
Iowa Cubs vs. Round Rock Express
$1 Hot Dog and $1 Sodas
Ordering Deadline: Monday, June 22, 2009 The order deadline for discounted
tickets, has been extended to Monday, June 22, 2009. The team who brings the
most people will have a representative from their team throw out the first pitch.
-Order form is attached to the RR.
An extra special honor this year since another first pitch is being thrown by U.S.
Olympic Gold Medalist, swimmer Brendan Hansen. How cool is that!! We will have a
pre-game Swim Team Parade. All those wishing to participate will need to meet
under the Dell Diamond jumbotron clock at 6 p.m. The 29th is also a “Monday
Funday” with a Beach Night theme – so have fun and dress accordingly!
Awards Banquet Tuesday June 30, 2009 at 7:00pm
Join the Team for the Awards Banquet at the Forest Creek park for our end of
the year awards. Cake and water will be provided, if you would like something else
please bring it with you. Please bring a chair or blanket to sit on.
Photos
All you shutter bugs out there we have seen you at the meets and practice, we
would like to have a slide show at Rock N River, and we can use your pictures of
your little swimmers. If you would like to send us some pictures that would be great,
you can email them to us at fastfrogs@yahoo.com or put them on a flashdrive and
drop them off in the Board Folder or you can hand them to Mike Severe on Saturday
at the meet.
There is still time to order a team photo, just send us an email or you can drop off
your order in the FAST Board Folder at either pool. 8x10 is $ 12.00 and a 5x7 is $
8.00. The photo turned out great, you are going to want one of these.
Fire Sale on 2009 t-shirts and tanks.
T-shirts will be $ 5.00 and Tanks will be $7.00, if you would like one just send us an
email and we will place one in your family folder. We do have a limited number on
sizes so get them while you can. You can place your payment in the board folder.
Top Three percentage drops of the week
Ashley Rivoira women 7-8 Breast 50.22 %
Aidan Carrigan men 6 & under Free 32.92%
Sydney Johnson women 6 & under Back 24.4%
Frogs of the Week, Congratulations to all of you.
Girls Boys
6 & U 6 & U
Emma Bartholomew Andrew Simmons
7-8 7-8
Rachel Ledington Mateo Cordeiro
9-10 9-10
Emma Martinez Grant McCartney
11-12 11-12
Emily Schultz Danial Parks
13 & U 13 & U
Riddhi Patodia Trevor Sawire
Siddhi Patodia
Happy Fathers Day!!!!!!!!!!
F.A.S.T. Board 2009-2010
At the last Board meeting the Nominating Committee presented the following slate
for next year's Board of Directors for the FAST Frogs, and it was unanimously
approved. The new board for 2009-2010 will be announced at the Awards Banquet.
2009-2010 F.A.S...T. Frog Board
President - Mike Tweden
Vice President - Allison Johnson
Secretary - Debbie Pilcher
Treasurer - Tara Harris
Meet Director - Richard Hallum
Assistant Meet Director - Drew Hall
Please Check yes or no for approval of the nominations and cut off the bottem and
put it in the F.A.S.T Board Folder by June 26th 2009
Yes _______ No________
Ribbit Review
No Practice tomorrow June 3, 2009
Meet vs Great Hills:
Congratulations to all swimmers for a GREAT first meet! And a huge thank you to all coaches,
volunteers and parents for all that you did. What a tremendous job by the entire Frog family
for a terrific first meet! Frogs-363.50 and Great Hills- 229.50
Meet vs Westover: Make sure that you have signed up for the meet this weekend.
You will need to check your name off in the FAST binder next to the family folders at the pool.
Check meet entries at the pool or they will be posted on the website as soon as they are
available. Meet will be at the Gilliland Creek Pool again this weekend. Join us at Manga Pizza
after the meet for a great buffet and drinks. The team had a lot of fun at Manga last weekend
after the Great Hills meet.
Sign up in the FAST binder by the end of practice on Monday
Review preliminary meet entries on line or in FAST binder
Submit any errors in meet entries (i.e., missing swimmer, wrong age, more than 3 individual
events, etc.) to coaches in writing by noon Wed.
Review final meet entries on line or in FAST binder Thursday & Friday
Print out your heat sheet for the meet on Friday
Team Picture: Don't forget that Friday June 5, is team picture night. Please arrive in your
team t-shirt at 6:00pm, and find your age group. We will line up and the picture will be taken
at promptly 6:30pm. After the photo we will head to the park for a hot dog dinner sponsored
by Taylor Meats, if you see the Ivy's please tell them thank you. Remember to bring the side
that you signed up for. Please walk or carpool if you can so we will not have a parking
difficulties. By the time you find a parking space it would have been faster to walk.
Individual Photos: The individual photos will be taken the week of June 8-11 in the mornings
during practice. Sign up for a time slot at the pool that you will be practicing at.
The sign up sheet is in the Frog binder next to the family folders. We have a great new
photographer this season, Mrs. Jennifer Hitt has agreed to take photos for the team and she
does great work...
Tadpole Graduates: Congratulations to our newest Tadpole Graduate Kayley Stoner.
Good Work. A big thank you to our Tadpole instructors they are doing a terrific job!
Here are your Frogs of the Week: Great Job guys.
6 & under girl's-Kennedy Hall 6& under boy's-Evan Escobar
7-8 girl's-Ashley Rivoira 7-8 boy's-Mackey Thompson
9-10 girl's-Mia DelMonte 9-10 boy's-Matt Cartwright
11-12 girl's-Laura Woodfin 11-12 boy's-Scott Schoeder
13 & up girl's-Caitlyn McGill 13 & up boy's-Manuel Torres
Practice at Forest Creek Pool: Forest Creek Pool is now open and we will begin practicing
there on June 4, 2009 when the morning practice starts. Everyone in Forest Creek III Pool will
need to move to Forest Creek. Morning Groups have been posted on the website and the
Tadpole schedule will be posted as soon as it is available.
We will be raffling off a Coolhut backpack system at the Westover swim meet. You can
purchase you ticket at the meet on Saturday. Make sure to by your $1 raffle for a chance to
win this cool backpack system. What is a "CoolHut?" (visit www.coolhut.com) It is a fully
integrated gear quality backpack system that is designed to get you and your cooler, shade,
groundcloth, chairs, and music all to your event, hands free, while keeping you cool when you
get there.
*Backpack – CoolHut is a fully functional backpack *Cooler – A hard shell removable cooler,
intense insulation, 24 can capacity *Ground Lounge – 50 sq/ft ground cloth with 2 fully
integrated lounge chairs *Shade Awning – With 62 sq/ft of UV protected open air shaded
space *Portable Audio Unit – That plays your digital music or satellite device *Versatile Piece
of Luggage – Pack it, take it, use it… ever try to fly with an umbrella, cooler, chairs, audio
system and a blanket… oh, and your clothes?
Ribbit Review
Meet with Great Hills:Get ready Frogs, we are hosting our first swim meet this Saturday. Check
the link under Meet Schedule for a map to Gilliland Pool. Show up time is 6:45, warm ups are
at 7:00 and the meet starts at 8:00am.
Sign up for meet:Sign up for next weeks with Westover, use the binder at
the pool next to the family folders. Remember if you do not sign up, the coaches will not know
if you are swimming or not, and you will not be entered in the meet.
Marking Swimmers
To help the early morning go smoother, PLEASE make sure you have your name on your
right, rear shoulder and your right arm marked with all your event, heat, and lane numbers
diagram is on meet info page on website . When swimmers show up with
this done, it leaves enough time for the age group parents to fill in the relay details. There
should only be 2 things written on swimmers: name on shoulder and events on right arm. DO
NOT WRITE OR DRAW ANYTHING ELSE ON SWIMMERS (team tattoos
are fine)! Let's show the other teams our sportsmanship
Heat Sheet: Please don't forget your heat sheet, you will be able to print it out Friday night
on the Meet Schedule web page.
What to Bring to a meet ** Please label everything**
Team Uniforms:
Team suit or black suit
Team shirt & cap
Swim cap (if you choose to wear one);
Plenty of towels, goggles, sunglasses, and SUNSCREEN.
Warm clothing (early mornings OUTSIDE can be cool).
Chairs, blankets, or sleeping bags to sit on.
Shade/tarp if you have one.
Out of courtesy , we ask everyone to please pick up after
themselves...
Goals: Have fun and relax! Take care of yourself! Encourage Teammates
Parking at the meet: Please park in the back lot when you come in, we would like to leave
the front lot open as a courtesy to Great Hills. There will be signs and balloons, directing you
to the back parking lot. We could use some one to help direct traffic to this lot, if any one is
interested. We can't let another pregnant lady to help direct parking again. Although she did
a great job last year, thanks Tanya.
Volunteers: Even though you have signed up on the registration sheets, please check our
website for volunteer sign up, we have put a link on the volunteer page at the top, just click on
it to sign up for the meets. Mike really wants everyone to sign up this way, it is easier for all
involved. It would make him really happy if you used his new toy, he is so proud of this find.
Tadpoles you are not required to sign up for meets until your swimmer is competing in the
meets..
Age group parents: If you have signed up to be an age group parent, we are holding a small
clinic to help prepare you for meet day. The clinic will be held on Thursday May 28, 2009 at
the Lake Forest Clubhouse at 7:00 pm. If you are new to age group parenting I think you will
find this clinic very helpful. Remember parents, we cannot run a successful meet without your
help, please sign up on the volunteer spot, you can use the link sent to you or you can use
the link on the volunteer page on the website www.fastfrogs...net Part of the requirement to
be on the team is volunteering to help.
Manga Pizza After Meet:
Don’t forget to join the team at Mangia after the meet! Mangia will be offering a buffet for the
FAST families (kids and adults) to include a selection of 5 pizzas, salad and drinks. The cost
will be $5.00 for kids (13 and under) and $8.00 for adults. The pricing includes the tip. The
Mangia staff will run individual tabs for each family in order to make the option of ordering
additional/alternative items from the menu available. Each table/group within the restaurant
will have a server to bring them drinks and
additional menu items ordered, and who will also serve as cashier. If you plan to order off the
menu, remember to buy a $20 Mangia food coupon. This can be used to pay for menu items
only (not including alcoholic beverages) and half the value of the coupon goes back to the
swim team. The buffet will be available after the meet is over. Thanks, Mangia!
Team Picture and Dinner: Be on the look out for information on the team photo and
dinner. The photo and dinner will be on June 5, the picture will be taken at 6:30 pm and the
dinner will follow.. Make sure to sign up for the dinner at the pool, We would like to thank
Taylor Meats for catering this event for us, when you see them let them know how much we
appreciate their support.
The dinner consists of 1 drink, 1 sandwich, chips and cookies.
Non-swimmers will be charged $1, swimmers free.
Folks have choice of hot dog or chopped meat sandwich.
Every family should sign-up to bring either a bag of chips or a bag of cookies—
Sign-up sheets will be at each pool.
Deadline to sign-up is 6/2.
Also, big thank-you to pepsi—they are donating drinks
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