COACHES REPORT

Gold – Coach Chad and Steve
Silver – Coach Bob and Kristin
Bronze – Coach Åsa

BOARD NEWS

Board Minutes – 25 Oct 11

CHAMPIONSHIPS

HOME MEETS

No more home meet this season!

We would like to thank all of you for the great support you provided
to us throughout the season. The “SHAPE Seals” concession is
recognised as the best of the League and this would not have been
possible without your enthusiastic support.

Angela and Paola!

Thank you so much for all your hard work this past season!

AWAY MEETS

No more away meets this season!

ORDER OF EVENTS

Order of Events

QUALIFIED SWIMMERS FOR THE CHAMPS

Allready qualified

• Swimmers who make the qualifying time are automatically   seeded for the championships.
• Other swimmers will be selected (“pulled up”) by the seeding committee to fill a minimum of 2 heats per event.
• The pool has 10 lanes for all events and 8 lanes for the 100 IM.
• That means if only 22 swimmers have meet the Q-time in an event, the committee will pull up 8 more swimmers to fill three heats.
• So events will be filled in multiples of 10 swimmers with the exception of the 100 IM which will be filled in multiples of 8 swimmers.
• If you are not sure if your swimmer is qualified or close to being pulled up check out the latest EFSL standings or ask me at the pool and I can explain it to you (I have a copy of the standings with me).

Parent Meeting Minutes

Hello Seals,

New Group Practice Schedule took effect on Monday 12 September.

Welcome back and we are looking forward to another fun and exciting swim season.  We will start practice on Monday 22 Aug and I have attached the practice schedule and temporary groups.  This will be the schedule for the first three weeks of the season.  The dynamics of the groups will change after we have try outs in early September and once the coaches have had a chance to see all the swimmers and match them up to their proper groups.

Returning swimmers will start in the same groups that they ended last fall/winter season in.  For those that only swam in the spring season your schedule was a different format, so please see the groups attachment and if your name is missing, please let me know as soon as possible.  Caroline Rombaut, Caroline Ross, and Madelyn Coon, please see the groups attachment for your selected group.

Seals Group Practice Times

Seals Groups

Side note: If you are receiving this message and have left the SHAPE Seals team, please let me know so that we can remove you from the mailing list.

Thank you and if you have any questions, please let myself or John know.

David Westrick
Seals VP

Fall Schedule

22 Aug - WELCOME BACK – Workouts start

3 Sep – Home meet for returning swimmers with Stuttgart

5 Sep – Open Tryouts for swimmers who did not compete last season (contact shapeseals@hotmail.com to confirm)

6 Sep – Open Tryouts for swimmers who did not compete last season (contact shapeseals@hotmail.com to confirm)

20 Sep – Team selection and roster submission to EFSL
Meet Schedule for 2011/12

Kelly has created again a handful of photos about the banquet and I have added a new gallery out of them to our website:

For the original photos (better quality for download) check out her email on the parents list.

There is an article at Stars and Stripes about the EFSL Champs 2011 results. I have extracted the results of the SHAPE swimmers here (apologize if I missed anybody).

Also there is another article about the meet where some SHAPE swimmers are mentioned as well.

Results of SHAPE Seals

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SHAPE SEALS INTERNATIONAL SWIM TEAM

First row from left to right: Kristine Larsen (Coach), Claudio Messina, Lucas Scyeur, Paolo Col, Aurora Cuppone, Becca Dinunzio, Mackenzie Burgoyne, Katie Shepherd, Gregor Heim, Benjamin Balla, Lili Bartos, Anna Harnocz, Eszter Bartos, Marilena Massimo, Claudia Cuppone (Coach).
Second row: Cindy Cartagena, Dorka Balla, Moritz Heim, Dario Pizzolante, Lars Christian Primdahl, Brennan Seibert, Thomas Lennon, Akos Bene, Chris Reinhold, Mate Bene, Luca Leoni, Massimo Messina, Pedro Tourne, Andrea Buonanno.
Third row: Kerri-Ann Allan (swimmer and Coach), Jessica van der Laan, Josefine Seegert, Elena Pizzolante, Kaitlin Larsen, Kristoffer Seegert, Kai Wienerroither, Mara Grabski, Giulia Cicino, Sari Seibert, Gwen Davis, Vienna Morrison.
Last row: Heather Shepherd (Coach), Gianmarco Avolio, Marco Barbazza, Heidi Northshield, Vittorio Avolio, David Koch (Team Captain), Fabio Leoni (Head Coach), Helene Seegert (Team Captain), Pietro Col, Jens Peter Primdahl, Alessandro Conserva, Henning Seegert (President and Coach).

(not in the picture: Aasa Widen (Coach), Kristiane Larsen, Linnea Widen, Delilah Abraham, Helene Faury, Amy Shepherd, Devon Goszkowicz, Susan Northshield, Bryce Goszkowicz, Sebastian Larsen, Oscar Cartagena, Nick Goszkowicz , Stavros Stavrinos, Blake Westrick)

Dear Parents/swimmers

I would like to say how much I am proud of our Team. I would like to say thank you to all the parents for supporting the Team in whatever situation, because I can understand that it is not easy go back and forth travelling around Europe especially if you have more children. Then I would like to say thank to all the coaches for the great job we did in a complete harmony and especially for the trust you all put in me from the beginning. The way we share opinions and thoughts has gone only in one direction: make our team stronger and our swimmers outstanding. The way we received compliments from other team coaches, made us so grateful. The main merit is of course of our swimmers, but I have to say that this time the difference was made not from our top swimmers, but from all the swimmers, because our team level was so high that everyone was always in first line as a leader during his event, while, all the other team mates, were supporting him/her, showing other teams our great Team Spirit. I would like to spend a word to the swimmers that didn’t get any medal. I will not say names, but I have clear in my mind their outstanding performances. To most of them I asked to swim some difficult events and no one failed showing his/her determination. Sometime a medal is a combination about number of swimmers in the same age group, but if you take a 7th place (no medal) on 15 swimmers is more important than a 3rd place (with medal) on 3 swimmers…. The target was a team result and we got it. It is a team result, it means everybody contributed to achieve it. Everybody has to be proud at the same level. We are DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONS 2010/2011 and we won away that is more difficult than hosting the competition.

Go Shape Seals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Head Coach Fabio LEONI

Zippers are also forbidden as of 1 October 2009 as you can see in the Swimsuit Clarification etc etc.

Swimsuit Clarification

Letter to members about swimsuits