Weekly Update Supplemental - Wednesday, December 15, 2021

REVISION - Meet Change for January:

We received word that our entry to the Clippers Meet was not accepted by the host due to the meet being "full".  As an alternative we are planning to enter the Marlins Pepsi Holiday Wrap Up - January 7-9. 

The meet information, sign-up and deadline is now posted on Events page.  Please sign up as soon as possible. 

We apologize for the inconvenience and the last minute change, but it is hoped that since this is not on the High School Classic weekend, more swimmers will be able to participate.

Message from your club president Brian Roeper:

Hello MAST families,

This is a reminder to submit your job sign-up by the end of the day for our meet this weekend.  Please visit the event page and click "Job Signup" and make your selection.  I recommend our new families volunteer for timing, concessions, hospitality, and marshal.  If you have experience with the timing system, please consider volunteering for this prior to the other positions.  Volunteering and filling these positions is absolutely necessary to run our meet.  Without our tribe, we can not host a meet!

Thank you to those who have already actioned.  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

https://www.teamunify.com/team/ohmast/page/calendar#/team-events/upcoming/1317116

Swim fast and have fun!  Go Eagles!

Brian

Update from MAST coaches,

1) MAST Sprint meet - Full meet information along with entries, warm-up times and heat sheets are posted on the website. One thing that is different from many meets for several reasons (a) It is a home meet at Milford, (b) It will be a short meet - see timeline - and the swimmers will get to race a lot in a short time window, (c) There is a special event called the "Sprint Shoot Out" -

This is how the "Sprint Shoot Out" works:  Swimmers will qualify for the Semi-Finals with their 25 or 50 Free swims on Friday night.  On Saturday we will insert semi-final and a final in tournement format.  The four fastest in each age category from Friday night will advance to the Saturday "Shoot Out".  The races will be one-on-one with 1st v. 4th and 2nd v. 3rd.  The winners of each race will advance to the finals later in the meet. The races will be as follows: 25 Free for 8 & Under Girls and Boys,  25 Free for 9 & 10 Girls and Boys, 50 Free for 11 & 12 Girls and Boys, and 50 Free for 13 & Older Girls and Boys.

2) CAC Virtual Distance Meet - Kristen Bruce will be swimming the 1650 at the CAC hosted Virtual Distance meet on Saturday, December 18.  Kristen's warm-up time will be 8:45 am and she is scheduled to swim at 9:05 am (Heat 3 / Lane 6).  Her entry time is 20:50.83 (that is 1:15.8 average per 100) -> Go Kristen! 

3) Practice Schedule Update (Dec. 22) - We learned yesterday that practice on December 22 will be cancelled due to a newly scheduled pool maintenance / needed pump repair.  It is unfortunate that we are losing so many practice opportunities during the last two weeks of December.  For that reason we will want to make the most of every opportunity we are afforded.  We understand that sometimes it is sometimes unavoidable but we want to encourage our swimmers not to miss any of their scheduled practices. 

4) Meet Results from MAKO - Meet results and time improvements are listed on the events page for the MAKOS meet.  MAST, again, saw a exceptional number of improved times and this is a credit to the competitiveness of our swimmers and the hard work they have put in this fall.  Even those who, perhaps, did not improve in a race still had the great opportunity to learn from that experience.  I have told the swimmers in the Black 2 & 3 groups that is it OK to fail sometimes as long as the effort is there and sometime of value is taken away from the "failure".  In fact, the process of training is all about trying to push to each individuals "limits" and then try to get beyond previous "limits"  This is hard to do and this process of challenging limits will bring about failures that eventually lead to later success.  Keep working hard MAST, the best is yet to come!

5) Meet Results from USA Swimming Winter Junior Nationals in Greensboro, NC - Here is the link to live results (copy the link and paste to your browser).  http://www.swmeets.com/Realtime/SC%20Juniors/2021/   The actual results are too large to post on our website.

6) New USAS Membership requirement - Safe Sport Update