PSAC Blog no longer Active

As of November 1st, 2016, the Perth Stingrays AC blog will no longer be updated or active.  Please go to our new TeamUnify website or copy and paste http://www.teamunify.com/canpsac

Thank you and see you at the pool!

Spooky Meet - Correction on age groups and which session they swim

The last post was incorrect about which age group is swimming in which session. Here is the correct version:

We will now start at 10:15 for the 11 and over swimmers and expect them to complete around 1:00 followed by the 10 and under swimmers to complete around 4:00 pm

Still Need Officials for Spooky Meet

Due to the large number of swimmers attending, we have decided to split the meet into 2 sessions. See the attached meet package for the details. We will now start at 10:15 for the 11 and over swimmers and expect them to complete around 1:00 followed by the 10 and under swimmers to complete around 4:00 pm.

The officiating setup has been updated with the 2 sessions. If you have not signed up yet, please do so now. Because these two sessions are only about 2 hours long we are hoping that people will be willing to sign up for both sessions. Here are the instructions to sign up:

Go to the Stingrays website www.teamunify.com/canpsac
Go to Events
Select Spooky Meet Officiating
Select Job Signup
Login with your new account information that you set up during Registration
Scroll Down and select your position

Officiating Clinic-October 22

The club will be hosting the introduction to swim officiating clinic on Saturday October 22, 2016 at 8 am. It will be hwld in the multipurposeroom at the pool and is meant to be completed during the team swim between 8 and 9. 

This clinic is the first step in swim officiating and truly is the gateway to the best spot on deck during swim meets.  It will be conducted by Siobhan Muldowney, our club officials chair and Level 5 official.    Please sign-up by following the instructions below.

Here are the instructions to sign up for the TImer clinic:

Go to the Stingrays website www.teamunify.com/canpsac
Go to Events
Select "Level 1 - Introduction to Competitive Swimming/Timekeeper
Select Job Signup
Login with your new account information that you set up during Registration

Select the check box for the next available slot under "Time periods signup"

Click on the green + button that says "Signup"

If you have any questions about the clinic please send Siobhan an email at smuldowney@me.com.

Spooky Meet-Officials Sign-Up

The sign up for Officials at the Spooky Meet is ready on our new website. As with all home meets, we need to have a full set of officials so please sign up if you are available. If you want to help but are not sure about the positions, please contact Siobhan at smuldowney@me.com. 

Here are the instructions to sign up:

Go to the Stingrays website www.teamunify.com/canpsac

Go to Events

Select Spooky Meet Officiating

Select Job Signup

Login with your new account information that you set up during Registration

Scroll Down and select your position

Perth Stingrays Home Meets

Mark your calendars and save the dates for our three home swim meets! We will be needing volunteers on deck and behind the scenes to make our biggest fundraisers of the year a great success. Stay tuned for details regarding volunteer needs.

Dates of our home meets:

• Spooky Meet           Sunday, October 30th

• Times Will Fall        Sunday, November 27th

• Mike Brown             Friday, January 13- Sunday, January 15th

Reminder-Get Your Clothing Orders in Now!

Kathy Thayer and Melanie Hollywood have bathing suit and clothing samples available for swimmers to try on this week, plus a whole list of necessary swim equipment for your swimmer. Meet them in the foyer of the pool to place your order this Thursday, Friday and Saturday during swimming practice.  They are accepting cheques made out to the Perth Stingrays or cash.

Perth Stingrays Clothing Orders

Kathy Thayer will be set-up with order forms and equipment directly inside the front doors of the pool during each practice this week. Please visit her to get a clothing order form for this swim season and to order any needed equipment. Perth Stingrays clothing is also available in adult sizes for cheering parents! She is accepting cash or cheques made out to the Perth Stingrays.

Independent Grocery cards are also available for purchase-remember that 5% from each card purchased goes back into our club!

More Officials’ clinics: Amherstview

Hello Stingrays families! If you weren’t able to make it to the October 1 clinics in Ottawa, there will be another opportunity in Amherstview (Home of the Barracudas) on October 15th and 16th.  Given that the clinics are no longer online, these opportunities to do additional clinics are not to be missed!.  See the notice below. 

I will be running an Intro to Competitive Swimming/Time Keeper (level 1) clinic (hopefully) on Saturday, October 21st during the team practice.  I will also look to having a Stroke and Turn clinic in November or December before our Mike Brown meet in January.  

Questions?  Answers?  Please do not hesitate to contact me:  Siobhan  smuldowney@me.com

Eastern Region Officials’ Clinic weekend

Ernestown Barracudas Swim Club (EBSC)

When:  Saturday October 15^th, 2016 and Sunday October 16^th, 2016

Where: W.J.Henderson Recreation Center, 322 Amherst Drive, Amherstview, ON.  K7N 1S9

Clinics Leader: Brad Coens, Level V Official and President of EBSC swim club.

Clinic Date: Saturday October 15^th    

9:15am - 11:50 am

Morning clinics run concurrently, you can kindly attend one clinic per time slot

·     Intro to Swimming/Time Keeper (level  I) – Lower Board Room

·     Judge of Strokes/Inspector of Turns – Library Board Room

(Judge of Stokes and Turns Clinic, Level II & must have completed Time Keeper clinic)

12:00 pm-12:50 pm       LUNCH BREAK

1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Afternoon clinics run concurrently, you can kindly attend one clinic per time slot

Level II Clinics:

·     Chief Finish Judge/ Chief Judge Electronic– Lower Board Room

·     Chief Timer– Library Board Room

Clinic Date: Sunday October 16^th

9:15am - 11:50 am

Morning clinics run concurrently, you can kindly attend one clinic per time slot

·     Intro to Swimming/Time Keeper (level  I) – Lower Board Room

·     Starter Clinic– Library Board Room

(Starter Clinic level II -Must have completed 3 clinics)

12:00 pm-1:00 pm       LUNCH BREAK

v Please register on EBSC website (Events and clinics) or by contacting EBSC official Chair (Sahar Mohamed) through email (officials@ernestownbarracudas.net or saharzaza@hotmail.com). Identify the clinic you will attend in the morning or afternoon session along with your full name, swim club and email to register for an Officials Clinic.

     Kindly attend one clinic in morning and/ or on clinic in the afternoon.

v Officials Certification as per swimming Canada website:   https://www.swimming.ca/en/certification/.                      

v Officials Clinics development Pathway as per swim Ontario website:  http://swimontario.com/page.php?id=2986

Deadline:  October 7^th, 2016

Ryan Cochrane Visit a Huge Success!!

The Perth Stingrays gave Olympian Ryan Cochrane a real small town welcome last Thursday night, with cheers and applause, as he approached the pool! Cochrane led the swimmers through dry land exercises, a multiple of drills, relays and then finished off with a motivational talk.  It was wonderful to see two Canadian Olympians on our pool deck, Ryan Cochrane and Nancy Sweetnam. Thank you Coach Rod for organizing this amazing event-what a great way to kick off the 2016-2017 swim season!

Practice Schedule Change

Due to Ryan Cochrane's visit tomorrow, Thursday, September 22, regular practices for Senior, Age Group, Bronze I and Bronze II have been cancelled.

Rod Agar,
Head Coach
Perth Stingrays Aquatic Club
psacheadcoach@gmail.com
613-200-0747

Welcome Back Breakfast this Saturday, September 24th

Join us for coffee and muffins this Saturday, September 24th at 8:00 am during morning practice. Come and order equipment for the new swim season and learn about our club.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

Officials' Clinic Day October 1, 2016 - SAVE THE DATE!

Welcome (and welcome back!) Stingrays families!  I know we just started back into the pool, but it’s never too early to start thinking about swim meets.  And swim meets need officials!  As officials’ chair for the club I will be conducting  some clinics locally this fall but the opportunity to get some of the less commonly held clinics is coming up in a couple of weeks.  If you have any questions, please contact Siobhan Muldowney at smuldowney@me.com

The first Eastern Region Official clinic will occur on 1 Oct 2016 at the Confederation Education Center located just beside the Nepean Sportsplex.  Please see the attached flyer for additional information                                                                                                                                                                                                                  .

The following clinics will be offered:

Clinics are run concurrently. 

You can attend one clinic per time slot.

MORNING SESSION

9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM

Level 1 –Timekeeper

Stroke & Turn

Chief Finish Judge / Chief Judge Electronics (09:00 to 10:25)

Chief Timer  (10:35 to 12:00)

 

MEET MANAGEMENT (ALL DAY) 

LUNCH 12:00 PM TO 1:00 PM  (Participants will be responsible for their lunch as funding is very limited)

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:00 PM TO 4:00 PM

Level 1 –Timekeeper

Stroke & Turn

Clerk of Course

Starter 

Meet Management (All Day) 

                                        

Please register to attend clinics through your club officials chair (COC) via this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CQ7K3XT

Chili with Ryan!

We are looking to provide a quick easy meal on Thursday at the Ryan Cochrane event.
If you are able to provide a crockpot of chili please contact Allison Fournier at: adhfournier@sympatico.ca
Thank-you!

Ryan Cochrane Session - Registration Link

As promised, here is the link to sign up for the Ryan Cochrane session on Thursday Sept 22 at the Perth Pool.

PLEASE REGISTER NOW http://swimmingsmart_perthon.eventbrite.ca 

We need at least 30 swimmers and would love for them all to be from our own club. If we don't have 30 by early next week, we will advertise with other nearby Swim Teams.

This is an amazing opportunity so don't miss it!

Olympian Ryan Cochrane is Coming to the Stingrays!

Save the date of Thursday Sept 22 for an incredible experience swimming with Ryan Cochrane!

Ryan will be visiting a select number of swim clubs across Canada presenting one-day clinics and motivational talks on how to be a better swimmer, and the Perth Stingrays are on the tour!

The event will start at 4:00 p.m. and will provide the following:

• 30 min introduction
• 15 - 30 min dry-land (depends on age of group)
• 90 min swim including:
  
  • drills
  • stroke technique
  • racing skills
  • dives and turns
• “Ryan Relay” Relay teams of 5-7 are against the 1-man team in a fun race!
• 30 min wrap up / cool down
• 30 minute Inspirational talk and Q&A with Ryan Cochrane

The cost is $90 per swimmer (includes gift bags for each swimmer) and parents are welcome to attend at no cost. We need a minimum of 30 swimmers so we need to get the word out.  If we do not get 30 swimmers signed up by early next week we may invite another one or two clubs.

Check out http://www.sportbrand.ca/ryancochrane for details.

There will be online registration setup for swimmers to sign up. We will forward that information to you as soon as it is ready. 

This is a unique chance for your swimmer to work with one of Canada's top swimmers! More information coming soon.

Weekday Morning Practices

Senior & Age Group
Weekday morning practices will start in October.  Stay tuned for details.

Rod Agar
Head Coach
Perth Stingrays Aquatic Club
613-200-0747

Registration Reminder and Start Dates for Fall 2016

Stingray families,

Our 2016/2017 swim season will start Monday September 19th (silver, gold, and age group) and Tuesday September 20th for bronze. Masters and Intro will begin October 4th.

Our new registration system is up and running. Please see previous post for registration instructions or go to http://www.teamunify.com/perthstingrays/. Swimmers MUST be registered in order to start swimming next week due to insurance requirements.

All returning swimmers should have received an email in August with swim group placements. If you did not receive the email, please email Carrie at hopper.family@xplornet.ca for swim group placement information. 

Thanks

Carrie

Thank You to all Perth Fair Volunteers!

We would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all the families who volunteered their time at the Perth Fair on Labour Day weekend!  We had a fantastic turn out this year for the Perth Fair Gate and the money raised will go back into our club. Fantastic job Perth Stingray families!

Registration Now Open!

Thank you all for being patient as we needed to set up a new Registration system this year. Our previous system was being discontinued so we are moving to a system called Team Unify. This system is being used by almost all of the swim teams in Eastern Ontario and is set up to meet the needs of Swim Teams only. The big advantage for you is that it will truly be a "one stop shop" ie. you will go to one place for registration, online meet entry and general team information. We can send emails out to families directly from the system and we will most likely move away from using this blog tool. Please ensure ALL your contact information is correct when you first login.

For registration in the Competitive and Para programs (Bronze I, Bronze II, Silver, Gold, Age Group, Senior, Para), you will receive an email in the next day with login information to do your registration. If you do not receive an email, then just go to this link and select "Competitive and Masters Registration" on the right of the page and follow the instructions. Please ensure ALL your contact information is correct. We will be doing all communications from our Team Unify tool.

For Masters registration, you will follow the same process as the competitive groups except that you will choose Masters 1 x week, 2 x week or 3 x week and the fee is set accordingly.  Just go to this link and create an account and follow the prompts. There was no way for us to customize this setup for Masters completely, so you will need to enter "Father Information" and "Mother Information"  - just fill it in with a repeat of your information, and all of the waivers that the competitive swimmers sign.

For the Introduction to Competitive Swimming registration go to the new home page here and then select "Intro to Comp" on the horizontal menu bar across the top of the page just under the Perth Stingrays name. You will automatically be place on the "Waitlist" until Head Coach Rod has done all of the assessments and you are placed in one of the two groups. There are two different sessions, 4:25 to 5:10 and 5:15 to 6:00, and when you register you can pick which one you prefer. We will try to accommodate your request but it will depend on the overall number of registrants and their ability levels.

Note that your first payment will be charged to your credit card when you register. If you choose the monthly payments, you will be charged on the first day of the month.

Please contact Shannon Baillon at thebaillons@gmail.com if you have any questions or issues.