Parents and swimmers,

Spring season is upon us. Spread the word to your friends. We want to build a base for the competitive season.
Spring will work on technique for new swimmers and sprinting/speed/endurance/technique/ for returning swimmers
We have lost several of our coaches and will be relying on Asa, Kristin, Ben, Senior Swimmers and parent volunteers to make it through the season.
Any parents interested in assisting poolside should contact me right away, and if you wish to carry on coaching duties to the fall season, we may have an opportunity to send you to Austria for a coaches clinic.

Swimmers will be assigned to groups once they have confirmed that they will be swimming. Let me know soon before groups get too full.
Registration and fees to be completed and paid by next Friday (9 March). The fee for Spring season is €50 per child.

The SHAPE Seals have changed banks from BNP Parabis/Fortis to Banca Monte Paschi Belgio
Account # 643-0048328-02 or IBAN format: BE32643004832802
 
BIC Code is BMPBBEBB

Please enter your childs name in the remarks area so that our Treasurer can mark you paid.
Swimmers will not be permitted in the pool starting 12 March without completed registration and payment.

The workout schedule for next week with tryouts is as follows:

Subject to lifeguard availability this is the practise schedule for remainder of the the spring season is as follows:

A reminder that swimmers 10 and under need a parent (or other designated adult) poolside for the entire practise.
(Remember if you used to depend on them, Pam and Heather are gone so you will need to find someone else.)

John
President
SHAPE Seals

SHAPE Seals,

Congratulations on a fantastic weekend of swimming. We saw a lot of really fast swims. The team had 40 top-3 finishes and nearly 100 top-10 finishes.
The SHAPE Seals finished in 3rd place after the Champs results from this weekend and the Long Distance results from November are combined.
The team finished the season with 22 gold medals, just 1 gold behind the NATO Marlins and Kaiserslautern Kingfish.

1. NMS 23
2. KMC 23
3. SHP 22
4. STU 21
5. LKN 20
6. WSN 11
7. NPS 11
8. GLN 10
9. VZA 8
10. SIG 7
11. ESB 7
12. RTA 5
13. BLN 2
14. HDL 1

Highlights of the weekend were:

• 5 Golds for Gregor Heim
• 3 Golds for Benjamin Balla
• 3 Golds for MacKenzie Burgoyne
• 1 Gold For Heidi Northshield
• 2 Golds for the 10 and under relay teams

Added to Long Distance results:

• 3 Golds for Hiedi Northshield
• 3 Golds for Henriette Steinabkken
• 2 Golds for Jessica van der Laan.

Thanks to all the Coaches, officials and parents for their help at CHAMPS, especially the Bourgoyne and the Betza families for filling in extra volunteer shifts.

See you in the pool for the spring season.

GO SEALS GO

Team President

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

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)

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