1. Summer 2018 Grand Haven Swim Club Season Minnows 6:00-7:00 M-F
You’re Invited to:
Summer 2018
Grand Haven Swim Club Season
Head Coach Bill Hamm & Assistant Megan Reenders & Assistant Arin Wiegand
Cell (951) Cell (269) Cell (616)
Where: Grand Haven High School
When: May 2, 2017, 7:00 pm
Time: evenings
Minnows 6:00-7: M-F
Snappers 6:30-8: M-F
Dolphins 6:30-8: M-F
Sharks 7:00-8: M-F
OUR FIRST PRACTICE WILL BE EVALUATIONS 5/14/18:
All new swimmers :00-7:00
All others :00-8:00
Swimming is easy, it’s getting the pool that’s hard.
Natalie Coughlin
So let’s get in the POOL!

3. Who we are:
We are a competitive swim team. We compete in the WMSL championships. We have
league record holders. We have finished as high as 4th in one of Michigan’s largest
swim leagues. We are here to teach kids how to become competitive swimmers and create
a team that offers swimming to all levels in our community.
Who we are not:
* Baby sitters.
* Exercise instructors there only for your athlete’s exercise.
* Perfect
USA – we are age group swimming, which generally equates to teaching. We are here to
build a program that will feed into our high school and middle school programs. If your focus
needs to be USA, we cannot offer that to you.
We get that kids are nervous and you would like them to try it out. Let them race… that’s
How they will try it out!

4. How to contact us:
I use … I will see your tonight or first thing in the morning, and usually respond shortly thereafter. I have yet to see a swimming emergency.
Follow online…
Follow Facebook – Grand Haven Swim Club
Check the bulletin boards inside pool main entrance – daily, signups, meet info, results
I have a smart phone, and I am smart enough to use it infrequently… I don’t hear it and rarely check it, but you can text it… (951) Never text if you need an immediate response… then call and make sure I know your number… I don’t pick up strange numbers

5. I will also use remind: Take out your cell phone: Enter 81010
Text this message: @ghscsu
Or send an to
That’s it… you will get texts from me. Please do not respond with thank yous, thumbs up, yeahs, or the like… 100 of those can really be a downer!

6. All these forms are on web page:
*Athlete questionnaire
*Concussion Forms
*flyer/Registration
Calendar
Meet Schedule
Successful Parents Article – Etiquette guide
What to do the day of practice, or the day of the meet
How to get disqualified – a parents guide
How Parents Affect Athlete
Equipment list
* Means these forms must be returned to coaches prior to entering the water

14. Successful Sports Parent
Do as I say, not as I do. You may have heard me at a water polo game.
#1 goal of kids – to have fun. Otherwise they are likely doing it for you!
Your Do’s… support, love, smile, give/make them responsible, help make it all fun, and volunteer
Your Don’ts… criticize, critique immediately afterwards, allow a sport to dominate a child’s life, exert pressure, treat them differently dependent upon success, make insulting comments about – any athlete, coach, parent, official, and do not coach – that’s why we are here!!

18. We will offer apparel again through ASC. The store
Will open with our first day of practice, and close one
Week after that. I am not an artist and am open to
Ideas and offers of help. Otherwise, it will look
Similar to last year, save for my wardrobe is full of green,
Perhaps a heather, white or black is in order. None are
Required.

19. USSA Code of Conduct… the 10 other commandments
Thou shall not impose thy ambitions on thy child
Thou shall be supportive no matter what
Thou shall not coach thy child
Thou shall only have positive thinks to say at a competition
Thou shall acknowledge thy child’s fears
Thou shall not criticize officials
Thou shall honor thy child’s coach
Thou shall be loyal and supportive of thy team
Thy Child shall have goals besides winning
Thou shall not expect thy child to become an Olympian