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Join our Swim TeamAll kids ages 5 and up are welcome to join us for an exciting swimming experience. Contact our Head Coach (email Will or call 239-2806) to learn more.
The instructions for the Heat web site will be in brown color on this page. Some old content has been replicated here for instructional needs. Greetings new parents! We have all been in your shoes, inititally overwhelmed with the new information. Fear not, because you do not need to know it all at first. Let your swimmer find her/his way into the team. Make sure to read the current year Heat Handbook to get a good idea of what to expect. Regularly visit the Heat homepage to get the Latest News - not everything is communicated via the team e-mail. When comfortable, consult with their group coaches, register your swimmers for the Home Meets ahead of time and answer the calls from the Volunteer Coordinators around our home meets dates. Make sure to read the Meet Overview document posted on the Meet Schedule prior to every meet to get information about the most recent meet changes, especially the start of warm-ups and sessions. The rest will come over time. To get a good start, visit the Parents Section links on the left hand side menu. If things are unclear, ask the older swimmer parents, we are all glad to help you. Try to avoid pursuing the results information early in the new season. Swimmers develop at such uneven pace that the first several seasons comparisons are very counterproductive. Keep the English saying in mind "It is the journey that counts." Expect that your swimmer and you will be making new friends after some time. From now on, we will intersperse the web page content and the instructions of what the content means and how to pursue it. We always start with the Latest News of the current season for the last updates or messages. Under the Latest News there is a link to the current Meet Schedule where you can find the meets the team is participating in. The new swimmers are strongly encouraged to participates in all home meets. The time stopped on Aug 4 on this page, so always use the Heat homepage to navigate the website. Latest News (last updated Aug 4, 2011)2011 Long Course Meet Schedule (updated Aug 2, 2011)Next comes the link to the meets registration pages. Make sure to set up the account and get familiar with the process prior to the first meet registration. If time squeezed, do not procrastinate further registering for the meets, just send meet entries to Jane or Will via e-mail to make sure your swimmer will be able to swim. Link, see registration guide if needed, to YMCA on-line registration (Click on On-line registration tab or directly here).
disappear from the homepage. After the Calendar comes the info about the Heat Team Management, Heat Executive Booster Board members, various activities chairs, and practice group representatives. After a few seasons we would like you to find your way into one of the bodies and contribute to the team. The team competitive activities are run jointly by coaches and parents so we need active parents participation. You can find lots of useful information following the left hand side menu item links. Get familiar with what is there, but have in mind that it could overwhelm you. The best way to learn is by volunteering and talking with other parents. After that, you can go into details and read that material whenever needed. This concludes our quick guide to Heat website. Happy swimming! HEAT Team Management
HEAT Booster Club BoardNext Mtg: Tuesday, August 16th, 7:30 PM, at the YMCA Board Room, Church St. (all are welcome to attend)
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