LOOKING AHEAD

 

With the last meet of 2022 taking place this weekend I urge each of you to look at your goals and tweak them if you need to.  Look at your event to see if you need any for qualification purposes.  Following is the schedule of meets through FEBRUARY for your planning purposes.  Figure out what you need and please don’t wait until the last moment.  Do it now before the holidays get busy.  Your swimming is just that, yours.  TAKE OWNERSHIP.  Excuses are only a reason for failure.  Don’t go down that hole where you can’t climb out.  You have questions, write them down, bring them in and ask?  We are here to help you but you need to ask.  Just so you know my objective is to qualify as many swimmers for 14 and under champs and the national meet in Florida.

JANUARY DISTANCE MEET

January  7 1650 (mile)

January 8 1000

This is a great opportunity to come in and knock one of these events off our list.  You have an estimated time to come in warmup swim and go home.  Start the new year off by doing one thing that is scary 😧 .

In order to do this you need to be swimming during the holidays or need our permission.

JUMP START TRAVEL MEET (No qualifying times)

January 13-16

It's been a while since we have had a travel meet and this meet offers a great opportunity to race at a new facility with new competition.  It's a prelims finals meet on Saturday and Sunday and timed finals on Monday to allow travel back home and prepare for school on Tuesday.  This meet allows you to have a total of 10 individual events and yes I know you're thinking it's a lot, but that's a good thing.  We are going to use this as a training meet which is going to involve a lot of swimming which will get us ready as we charge into championship season.  Let's sign up for a full schedule for this meet.

POLAR PLUNGE MEET

January 14-15

This meet is our Mako meet and if you are not going to the travel meet you should be signing up for this meet.

IMX CHALLENGE (University of MD.)

January 27-29

This meet is a qualifying meet and one that I think is a good experience for our swimmers.  The swimmers will get both a regional and national ranking at the conclusion of swimming all events.  In order  to qualify a swimmer needs to have a minimum of 1800 points in the following events;

9-10 year olds

200 free

100 fly

100 breast

100 back

200 IM

11-12

500 free

100 fly

100 breast

100 back

200 IM

13-14

500 free

200 fly

200 IM

200 breast

200 back

400 IM

You will sign up for all three days (9-10 Saturday  and Sunday) and swim ALL THE EVENTS.  It's not the type of meet where you are only swimming events you like.  Understand that as you sign up 

MAKO QUALIFIER 

February 4-5 

This meet is for swimmers who are still trying to achieve qualifying times for any of the championship meets in March.  I f you have all your events set for the March meet you should NOT enter this meet.  If you are still trying for qualifying times for Florida you should swim those events.  Focus on the events that you have a chance for qualifying times and focus on them instead of swimming a bunch of events.

We are aware that after this meet we have about 4-5 weeks before the championship meets.  With this we are working on trying to get a meet in mid February as a last chance meet to achieve qualifying times.

SUMMARY

This is what your swimming schedule looks light through the month of February.  Take the time now to figure out which events you need so that you can plan accordingly.  Do not wait until it's to late.

Take note that if you are swimming the IMX meet you will be swimming all your long events suited up so plan for that when looking at the other meets.   Another detail to pay attention to are those events that you have qualifying times in now.  Those are the events that we want to put away until Championship season unless we do a few of them at the travel meet.  An example is that if you are 11-12 and you have a lot of the 50 times already it might be wise to just focus on 100's and 200's. Your 50 times are hard to drop coming off of this past weekend.  Just my thoughts.

Again if you have questions, need help or need to talk just ask.