SUNFISH TIMES EDITION 9: June 25th 2018 Weekly Newsletter

SUNFISH TIMES EDITION 9: June 25th 2018 Weekly Newsletter

IMPORTANT INFO Swim Meet Sign Up Sign ups are almost all online! Be sure to sign up with your swimmers name. Deadlines: Richmond Dev: June 27 Surrey/Cloverdale: June 29 Wrasa Races: July 6 CBSC Dev: July 11 North Delta Sunfish: July 13 Regionals: July 13 RUNNING SHOES and WATER BRING YOUR WATER BOTTLES, RUNNING SHOES AND SUNSCREEN! New schedule The new schedule will be coming-out this week and will be affective this Friday! The public swim starts to open more and that is why there are changes to the Friday evenings. RELAYS! Starting with the upcoming Surrey/Cloverdale meet relays will start to become serious. Up until now relays have been a fun time to get a swim in with friends and coaches. Now we are shifting the gears and aiming towards finding the best fits for our swimmers. Swimmers of the Week! Two swimmers (one developmental, and one group swimmer) will be chosen weekly as our swimmers of the week! This honour is given to those swimmers who have great attendance, a positive attitude, and try their best! One swimmer every couple weeks will be chosen to be put in a draw to win a prize from BCSSA! Congratulations to Nolan and Amira for winning swimmer of the week! Swim-a-thon Please bring in your swim-a-thon pledges to head coach Sam Loiselle. Swimmer Assessments Swimmer assessments are being handed out again this upcoming Friday. If you have not given your assessment back from May, you will not be getting a June assessment done. Upcoming Events - June 27th Wrasa Development - June 30/July 1st Merritt Away Meet - July 4th Stingback Development - July 5/6 Hootenanny Water Polo - July 7/8 Hootenanny - July 10th SUPER SLEEP OVER - July 11th Richmond Development - July 12th Biathlon - July 13th Movie Day! - July 14/15 Surrey/Cloverdale "Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, Listen to the DON'TS Listen to the SHOULDN'TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT'S Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be." SL Lost and Found If you have lost something ask the coaches to see the lost and found bin in the coaches room. @2018_northdeltasunfish @NDSunfishNOD

EXTRA EXTRA! North Delta Swim Meet The time is coming where we must plan for our awesome home meet at Sungod Recreation Centre. This is the meet before regionals and everyone comes out to compete to prepare for the meet of the summer, regionals! We need volunteers to start signing up for jobs at the meet, this includes roles like parking, food for officials, marshalling, and so much more! All hands on deck! We are also looking for donation for the raffle baskets we provide every year! Please contact a board member if you have something to donate to our meet. Mental training Mental training is a huge part to an athletes success. Believing in yourself and knowing exactly how your race is going to run will lead to a happy swimmer and a happy coach. The swimmers are happy because their hard work has paid off and they got a best time. The coaches are happy because they were right all along and the swimmer listened! You are all awesome! Now you just need to accept your awesomeness, put in the work, and kick some butt! Preparation and Confidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzhacuhp9e Michael Phelps talking about his mental preparation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swotgxbtww Movie Date Changed! Movie Day has been moved to Friday July 13th. We will be going to see The Incredibles 2 sometime during mid-day so we don't interfere with practices. We will know movie times when we come closer to the date. Stay tuned for an online sign up sheet so we can get some numbers. Looking for new Board Members! Have you fallen in love with summer swimming and want a bigger role within our club?! Well we are looking for new board members for the following year. The roles of registrar and secretary will be vacant and need tech savvy individuals experienced with Excel. An attachment will be coming soon with SPIRIT WEEK CHALLENGE WEEK a description of what board member roles there are and what they entail. Opportunities to shadow current board members will be available as well! @2018_northdeltasunfish

UPCOMING EVENTS Blue = SPIRIT WEEK PINK = CHALLENGE WEEK Upcoming Events - June 27th Wrasa Development - June 30/July 1st Merritt Away Meet - July 4th Stingback Development - July 5/6 Hootenanny Water Polo - July 7/8 Hootenanny - July 10th SUPER SLEEP OVER - July 11th PJ Swim - July 11th Richmond Development - July 12th Biathlon - July 13th Movie Day! - July 13th PARENTS vs SWIMMERS - July 14/15 Surrey/Cloverdale - July 17th Super Stair Day - July 18th CBSC Dev Meet - July 19th Super Hero Boot Camp - July 21/22 Wrasa Races Movie Day! We are going to see The Incredibles 2! Stay tuned for movie times and an online sign up sheet, us coaches are all very very excited to see this movie! Super Stair Day Before practices swimmers will partake in a challenge at the Seaquam stairs! Stay tuned for more details! SUPER HERO BOOT CAMP SUPER SLEEP OVER NO PRACTICES THIS DAY - Come with dinner in your bellies and get ready to have an awesome night! ARRIVE: 5:45pm Parents can set up there kids stuff once they have dropped them off with the coaches. ACTIVITIES: 6:00-6:30pm SPIRIT SWIM: 6:30-7:30pm PIZZA AND SNACKS: 7:30-8:00pm Stay tuned for a sign up sheet and prices. JUNIOR MOVIE: 8:00- bed time! The movie is The Incredibles! A perfect precursor to our Movie Day. PJ Swim Morning practice will be shared with everyone who came to the sleepover! Once we wake up we are hoping straight in with our pyjamas on! So please bring your swim stuff to the sleepover. After the swim there will be a potluck breakfast outside the lobby. Please prepare to bring something to share. Biathlon Instead of afternoon practices there will be a biathlon taking place. Swimmers will start with a run at the track field by a near by high school, then a swim at our pool! Stay tuned for more details. Before practices swimmers must complete a Super Hero Boot Camp run by our trusty coaching staff. Get ready, we must find out who really is the strongest Avenger! PARENTS vs SWIMMERS You heard it right...some parents have challenged our swimmers to a swim off relay on Friday July 13th! If you are a parent with a need for speed come out and challenge our Sunfish swimmers to a relay! If you are reading this then pay close attention...if you find Head Coach Sam and tell her who you think the strongest avenger is, you can win a prize!

COACHES CORNER Head Coach Sam L Aquaman Hello group 4! This upcoming week we will be working on freestyle and backstroke. We will also be adding in more and more sprint work along with our increasing endurance work. As we continue to push ourselves everyday in the pool, we must maintain the changes we have made to our technique and strive to make them habits. Everyone did really well this weekend at Super 7, lots of best times and technical improvements were clearly seen! I want to make sure every knows that you ARE GREAT, and you CAN accomplish your goals. I have been hearing a lot of 'I can't', 'I gave up', 'I suck', and we shouldn't let that negativity weigh us down! This week we will try and work on some mental training, and learn how to approach a race. For this I will need focus and absolutely no goofing around. So I really hope we can work on this as I feel its very necessary for a successful season. sam.l@ndsunfish.com Coach Alyssa Superman Hello everybody, great job last week with our endurance and IM swimming. I saw a great improvement in attitude and behaviour last week, so let s be sure to keep that going strong. Lots of us also had great races this weekend at the Super 7 swim meet, I m very impressed with our group this week. Since school will be out soon (yay) I would like to see more and more of us at morning practice. It s a great opportunity for more training and a quieter practice. This week, it s all sprints sprints sprints. See you at the pool :) pacealyssa1@gmail.com Coach Paul Batman Hello Batman Swim Group. Everyone who raced this weekend at Super 7 can be very proud of themselves, best times and beautiful swimming. Shaving off time is one thing but correcting our stroke week in and week out, is how we become better swimmers. These next two weeks are going to be important ones as they re not typically race weekends, so our focus is going to be on heavy drill work and making sure our fitness doesn t levels dip too far down. We are already half way through our seasonal plan and now is the time in our season when we start to really iron out quirks in our stokes, and build up our race plans so that our mental preparation is on par with our physical. Please be wary of tech time and try make an effort to be there, they re only there for your benefit and it isn t another swim practice. Also, don t forget water bottles, trainers for dry land and if you haven t already could you hand back your goal sheet that I slipped in with your Assessment. Coach Paul. paulandrewduplessis@gmail.com Coach Sam F The Flash Hi group 2! I m sorry for not being there this weekend but I heard all of you that went did amazing. I m happy to see all the progress you have made from the beginning of the season. This week is a high intensity practice focusing on endurance with fast sprints with short amounts of rest. Trying to hold our best average possible. As the days do get warmer I expect to see all kids bringing a water bottle to practice as well as to maintain there safety for dry land have them bring runner and make sure they are wearing them for dry land. samf590@gmail.com Junior Coach Holly Captain America Hey Group Captain America! I had a blast at Super 7 with you guys this weekend, I got to see some of your awesome races! Last week we mostly worked on freestyle and a bit of butterfly. This week we are going back to the basics and going to work on freestyle and backstroke. This weeks Swimmer Of The Week goes to Amira! She always has an great attitude and listens during practice and dryland, nice job Amira! We have the first development meet is this Wednesday hope to see lots of you guys there! Also don t forget to sign up for up coming development meets and swim meets. See you at the pool! Coach Holly beanfriesen@gmail.com Junior Coach Olivia Hulk Hey Hulk Group!! This weekend we had some swimmers from our group race and everyone got some killer best times! I was very happy to see that those of us that swam 50 or 100 free did flipturns and streamlines off the walls! This week we will be working on using our hips even more in our dolphin kick and will begin working on our butterfly. We will also be working a little bit more on our freestyle and breaststroke body positions and turns! I can t wait to see you at the pool! Remember to bring your running shoes and water bottle! oliviaroschat@gmail.com Junior Coach Tony Hulk Hi group Hulk! Awesome, awesome, awesome job this weekend at the super 7 meet! We've improved so much sjnce our last meet and I'm super proud of all of you who showed up! Last week, we worked on breaststroke again and we also started to learn our dolphin kick, a.k.a. our 'belly-bum dance', which we have been getting pretty good at actually! Leaving breaststroke aside for now, this week we will continue to work on our dolphin kick, trying to improve our feeling and rhythm as we prepare to learn the Butterfly stroke. We will also do some front work and work on our flip turns as well. See you all at the pool! Coach Tony aquadash@outlook.com Junior Coach Oscar Hey group Iron Man! Who is ready for the development meet this week? I hope to see many of you there. Congratulations to Francisco for coming out to his first big swim meet at Super Seven! He swam well (and got candies too)! Last week we learned backstroke and continued to develop our freestyle. This week we will get race ready by practicing flip turns and dives. That s all, see you guys in the pool! oscarure49@gmail.com Ironman

COACHES CORNER 2.0 Synchro Info Synchro Coach Abby Dear Sunfish Polo. Water Polo Info Head Water Polo Coach Paul It is an exciting email I send to you, as we are kicking off our summer with our first Water polo Tournament next weekend at Watermania, the date for this tournament is next week Thursday July 5th. It is a tournament for age groups u12, u14 and u16. In an ideal world we d like to field 3 times, one in each age group but with numbers that might not be possible. I ask that if you are interested in going to this, you send me an email so I can add you to the sign-up sheet, and if possible would you be able to carpool. A Google Doc will be sent out tomorrow morning to make sign up easier, but in the interim an email to myself or Coach Sam F will suffice. Can t wait to get this Polo season on the go. Coach Paul.. Assistant Head Coach Sam F Water polo please make sure you are signed up for the tournament as we need to make sure we have a team and everyone had rides. Coach Sam

HEALTH & NUTRITION Week Eight: Smoothhhhh Alright so one of my favourite things growing up has been smoothies! I still have one every morning to this day! Now this recipe takes a simple smoothie to a whole other level. Smoothie bowls are thick, creamy, delicious and fun! You can create your own recipes and add your own toppings! A great breakfast for our strong swimmers. Here is the link to the recipe! https://minimalistbaker.com/favoritesmoothie-bowl-5-minutes/ I encourage you to cook with your kids to promote healthy eating and good family fun! Ps. Strawberries and bananas are a must have! - Sam L