Stingrays Swimming Newsletter
September 30th, 2021
2021 RAYS SWIM-A-THON
We're excited to kick off the Stingrays 2021 Swim-A-Thon! Each year our team steps up and raises money that helps our RAYS swimmers as well as USA swimmers all over the country.
This year's Swim-A-Thon will begin the week of NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Here is more information regarding our Swim-A-Thon:
Family Commitment Charge
There will be a mandatory $150 commitment/charge per family
Stingrays Swimming is proud to sponsor and help promote and subsidize USA Swimming programs as well as fund scholarships, travel, water fees, and team equipment costs for Stingrays Swimming. Stingrays Swimming will host the Annual Swim-A-Thon fundraiser in the fall to help achieve these goals. The Online Fundraiser will be active on the website in September, so everyone can start early. The Fundraiser system on our Website offers easy templates for emailing prospects and tracking your donations. Details on the Swim-A-Thon events and prizes will be communicated by the coaches and on the website once the program is finalized and active. (Note that 5% of the proceeds will go to USA Swimming and the remainder will go toward scholarships, travel, and team equipment costs.) The family commitment charge is due December 1st each year.
Although the commitment charge is mandatory, the Swim-A-Thon allows the swimmer’s family to defray costs by raising money that would otherwise have been a direct charge to the swimmer’s family. Alternatively, the funds contributed by the swimmer’s family may be tax-deductible, in part or whole, as a charitable contribution.
Consult your tax professional as Stingrays Swimming is not a tax expert and does not purport to be such.
Should the swimmer’s family elect to pay the $150 charge, said the amount can be divided into two installments of $75 each (December 1st and January 1st). You MUST contact the Billing Department via email by November 15th if you wish for the fee to be split. If a swimmer registers in December, the commitment charge is $100; in January $75; in February 1st $50; in March $25 which is invoiced on the day they register. Email Billing coachian@stingraysswimming.com
This year's Swim-A-Thon will begin the week of NOVEMBER 1 with the format conducted at all our sites, at the discretion of each group's coach.
Is It Time To Have A One-On-One Meeting With Your Coach?
The Sammy-Save Up. The Sandbagger. The Lane Rope Puller. The Leaves-Three-Seconds-Early-on-Every-Repper.
Going through swimmer stereotypes is fun, usually because we see an element of someone we know in them (and usually a bit of ourselves, too).
The less fun ones, though, don’t really make us laugh all that much.
It’s the ones that we identify with and can pinpoint as a reason why we aren’t successful.
You know…
The ones we privately struggle with and often feel hopeless in the face of…
It’s those mental hang-ups.
Perhaps you see yourself in one of the following mental types.
Maybe even a couple of them.
Don’t be alarmed—this list started out with the ones I knew best…because they were my own when I was an age grouper.
Additionally, if you heave a sigh when you read one of them because it makes you feel hopeless, take a breath—I’ve got some help if you want it later.
Tell me if any of these sound familiar:
- You’ve got the swimmer who is an emotional and performance yo-yo in practice…and then repeats this in competition (and usually wonders why).
- You’ve got the training stud, the swimmer who works their tail off every single day in training…and then can barely swim faster when they step up on the block.
- You’ve got the “when I feel like it” athlete…who swims crazy fast when and only when they are 100% motivated (which isn’t often enough).
- There’s the athlete who can’t stay mentally focused long enough during a workout…and then wonders why their performance is shaky at race time.
- You’ve got the swimmer who has a hard time mentally dealing with injury…and they end up quitting or not doing the recovery program as intended (and sooner than later getting injured all over again).
- There’s the swimmer who is so wound up before competition that they could spin off the planet…leading their performance to crater when they get behind the blocks.
- There’s the swimmer who compares themselves constantly to other swimmers and their own past performances…causing them performance-crushing stress and anxiety.
- And you’ve got the natural born racer…who would be even faster if they actually showed up and competed that hard consistently in practice every day.
So the next question becomes…
What are you doing to address your own particular hang-up(s)?
Do you sit down with a mental game plan for each season to be a more confidant and consistent swimmer?
Or do you prefer the white-knuckle approach, hanging on for dear life every time you rattle across another one of those rough patches?
Fitter+Faster Swim Clinic
It will be a great experience to learn from some of the best athletes in the world. If you are interested, check out the link below:
All Star Towels
https://www.teamunify.com/SubTabGeneric.jsp?team=lscszgs&_stabid_=204325
To be eligible you must have a AAA time standard - you can find those here:
https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/timesdocuments/records/age-groups-2024-agmts.pdf
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Stingrays Short Course 2021-22 Meet Schedule
27th RAYS Pentathlon - Sep 11th
RAYS Fall LC-SC Invite - Oct 9th-Oct 10th
ABSC Invite (11&Older) - Oct 23rd-24th
RAYS IMR/IMX Invite - Nov 13th-Nov 14th
SR State (Qualify) - Dec 3rd-Dec 5th
JR Nationals (Qualify) - Dec 8th-11th
TWS Invite - Dec 10th-Dec 12th
29th RAYS Coaches Invite - Jan 14th-Jan 16th 2022