[FAST News] Practice Notes for Next Week

[Fort Worth Area Swim Team Mailing List]

Hello all FAST members.
  We hope that you have enjoyed your fall break and hopefully you have been 
able to get time to watch just an amazing Olympics and the historic swimming 
being done by Michael Phelps, not to mention some other amazing races taking 
place.


  We want to make sure that everyone knows a few notes for practices 
starting back up for next week:

1)  We are starting back to practice on FALL/WINTER HOURS.  That means that 
ALL practices will start 30 minutes later than workout times over the summer 
(for example, if your group started at 6:00p.m. over the summer, it will 
start at 6:30 now).  Parents please make sure to note this change, 
especially with regard to pick up times.

2)  The practices on Monday, Thursday and Friday this week will take place 
at Wilkerson as normally scheduled.
     PLEASE NOTE:  Tuesday and Wednesday practices for ALL groups will be 
held at our FOREST PARK facility.  Workout times will stay the same.  This 
is due to previously scheduled FWISD large scale events being held during 
these evenings.
     A map to Forest Park can be found on the FAST website 
(www.fastswimming.org).

3)  FAST would like to welcome a new coach aboard.  The Marlins group this 
fall will be coached by former FAST standout swimmer (and daughter of Coach 
Janet), Georgia Steenberge.  Georgia has recently graduated from Notre Dame 
where she was a distance and butterflier for the Fighting Irish.  Welcome 
home Georgia!  Parents please feel free to introduce yourself to Georgia. 
We know she will do a great job with the Marlins.


Two other parent notes of importance:

1)  Parents, we really need to have everyone understand that there are NO 
FAST swimmers allowed inside Wilkerson until 4:45p.m.  PERIOD.  You may not 
drop off swimmers before this time.  This is an arrangement we have agreed 
to with the FWISD due to overlap with the high school teams training up 
until this point.  Please respect this request so that we do not run into 
problems with our landlord.  Swimmers who can drive, please do not enter the 
building until this time also.

2)  NO swimmers may be dropped off unsupervised longer than 20 minutes 
before their practice time.  FAST is not a babysitting service and neither 
FAST , it's  coaching staff or anyone in the FWISD is liable or  responsible 
for monitoring swimmers whose parents leave them unattended outside the 
acceptable arrival times. Supervision outside the 20 minute pre-practice 
window is the PARENTS sole responsibility.  Conversely, swimmers are 
expected to be picked up promptly upon conclusion of practices.  Swimmers 
are not to be left unattended for extended periods of time after the 
specific swimmers workout has finished.