We are going to have a little going away party for Matt Lashua after practice at DRAC on Sunday, July 13th. We will have some fruit and muffins. If you would like to bring some other snacks to share, it would be very much appreciated.

Matt has been an enthusiastic hard working teammate. So come hang out with us and see Matt one last time before he heads off on to the next chapter of his life.

Dress code is after practice casual.

See you at the pool!

Dan

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Due to some issues at Prairies, we will not have practice there tomorrow July 2nd. We hope to be there next week.

See you at the pool,

Dan

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Sharks,

We will be swimming outside more! Starting Now our schedule will be

Monday : Idle Hour 6:30 - 8:00am

Wednesday : Prairies 5:30 - 7:00pm

Friday : Idle Hour 6:30 - 8:00am

Saturday : Idle Hour 9:30 - 11:00am

Sunday : DRAC 8:30 - 10:00am

We also have a special 💥 4th of July 💥 practice at Idle Hour. Practice will start at 8:30am instead of 6:30am.

Drop ins at Idle Hour will be $10 if you pay with cash and $8 if you pay via Venmo. A monthly option will be available for $80 cash or $70 via Venmo. Please pay Franklin, Dan, or the coach on deck. We are going to count Monday, June 30th as part of July.

Here are some notes for Prairies.

Passes: Only base ID cardholders are eligible for a season pass ($50). All others will need to be sponsored by a cardholder and pay the $5 daily drop in fee. This means we need at least one ID cardholder at each practice for guests to get in. Since everyone needs to pay/show a pass at the gate, this will be monitored more closely than when we swam for free in the mornings.

Lane space: 3 lanes are available for lap swimming. The pool will NOT reserve lanes for us. We can move a lane line and open the 4th lane if rec swim isn’t too busy. Always ask the guard at the pass gate before moving lane lines. Leave the wall lane open for lap swimmers.

Flags: The guards asked that we check with them before putting the flags up. If the deck is too crowded they might ask us not to use the flags due to tripping hazard. When done with practice drape the flags along the fence.

Capacity: The usual capacity is 50, but in the event of short staffing, it might be reduced to 25. If the pool is at capacity, they will not let anyone in until somebody leaves. Anyone wanting to check pool status before leaving can call the pool at 937-203-2150.

Water temp: The water is very warm. Hopefully we’ll get some cooler weather to bring the temp down, but in the meantime, remember to hydrate and slow down or get out if you are not feeling well.

Speed limit: Obey the speed limit. 15mph means 15mph.

Above all, please be respectful to the guards. We would like to stay on good terms with them 😇

See you at the pool,

Dan

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Hello Sharks,

It is true! We will have practice outside at Idle Hour in Beavercreek on Saturdays from 9:30-11:00am starting this Saturday!

The cost for practice will be $8 if you pay with Venmo and $10 if you pay with cash.

They are trying to find guards for us on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Please stay tuned for more information.

Idle Hour Swim Club
3590 Kemp Rd
Beavercreek, OH 45431

See you outside at the pool!

Dan

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Hello Sharks,

We are going to continue the current practice schedule for the remainder of June, unless something happens with Prairies.

There are some LCM meets happening this summer.

Next Saturday, June 21st there is a meet at Spire near Cleveland. Here is a link to the meet. Online entries are due this Tuesday the 17th.

July 12th there is a meet in Indy. Here is the link.

If you are interested in swimming at the Masters World Championships, registration is due June 26th. Information can be found here. Registration information can be found here.

See you at the pool!

Dan

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Good evening Sharks,

This upcoming week we will have practice at Antioch from 6:30-8:00am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. We will also have practice at DRAC 6:30-8:00pm Tuesday and Thursday evenings and 8:30-10:00am Sunday morning.

Antioch is willing to reserve 3 lanes for us 6:30-8:00am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. With reserving the space they will require fees from both members and non-members. Essentially this will guarantee us the lanes which is super nice for us.

Members: $5 drop in or $25 monthly.

Non-members: $10 drop in or $50 monthly.

I appreciate that you work this out in a timely way with the Wellness Center front desk as they have been quite helpful with supporting us to have pool time on very short notice. We want to keep on good terms with them.

A big thank you goes out to Franklin for orchestrating this deal with Antioch.

See you at the pool,

Dan

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Hello Sharks,

We are still working on finding a pool to swim outside for the summer. I am talking to two pools that are very promising!

Here is the schedule for the upcoming week. Note: we will have the option to swim in the evening on Tuesday and Thursday at DRAC and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at Antioch.

See you at the pool!

Dan

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Hello Sharks,

The other day we sent out an email which accidentally said we will continue our normal schedule at DRAC until June 8th. Correction. it is only until June 1st. After that we will continue to have Sundays at our normal time at DRAC.

We are working out the details for where we will be swimming for the summer. Stay posted!

I just learned that some of the Sharks emails have been going into my spam folder. Please, mark these emails as not spam. You don't want to miss all of our exciting news!

Finally, I would like to say that I am very honored to be Head Coach/Administrative Assistant. I have some big fins to fill and I will do my best to keep up the fintastic work that Franklin has done these past 13 years. I am grateful for this opportunity .

LET'S GO SHARKS!!

🦈

See you at the Pool!

Dan

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If you have any energy left after practice tomorrow, Sunday morning, Barb and I will play pickleball with you at Lofino Park directly across the parking lot from DRAC.

If you've never played we will teach you and we will have plenty of paddles and balls.

As dryland sports go...it's pretty fun!

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

While many of you may already know, I want to be sure and get word out to everyone. We are making a leadership change with regard to our designated Head Coach.

Dan Glaser-Garbrick is moving into that role!

Dan has been a leader on our team for many years and is already one of our core coaches. Dan is an accomplished swimmer with much success. He has competed all over the country and the world. He has many USMS top tens including #1's, World Championship Medals, and a MOUNTAIN of YMCA Nationals Golds. He has great coaching leadership qualities.....he is dedicated, thoughtful, smart, is as nice as anyone...and is a talented improv comedian too!

DAS will be in great hands!

After 13 years of helping to keep things going I feel it's time to pass on duties to others. It's been an honor to help lead our team. Of course one thing that makes our team special are all the talented folks who work together to get it all done. My goal was to turn my position into being the head Administrative Assistant, and I feel I had success with that!

And in to answer in advance. No, I'm not leaving the area and have no plans to stop swimming with the best team on the planet....DAS! I look forward to continuing to train with you, coach practices in rotation with our other core coaches, and to help out as needed anyway I can.

Thank you all for allowing me the privilege of supporting each of you with your DAS swimming goals.

I look forward to seeing you all at the pool and elsewhere!

Go Sharks!!!

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All,

We will be at DRAC on our regular schedule through the end of next week., June 8.

After that we will for sure continue at DRAC on Sundays at our regular time.

We are working on our summer plan and looking at several options. The details are still in process. We will let everyone know as soon as we have it figured out.

Unfortunately it looks like Prairies will not be available for us, though it will be open with some times available for those of you with base access, though not at times that will work for our team.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

The first ever team hats are in! I will bring them to practice on Friday.

We did the hats this year instead of a

t-shirt.

They are $20 each and would make a great gift for all of your personal and team fans!

A few dollars from each one goes to the team for general expenses.

I have 40 of them and first come first served with this limited DAS edition.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

This Saturday, May 24 will be our last UD practice for the season.

Come get in a great swim and join us for an outing to the nearby Old Scratch Pizza immediately after.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

Another YMCA Nationals is finished. 11 Sharks participated. As always, it was exciting with many great races and a very well run meet. There is a reason I've been to this meet 23 times.....it's as fun and well run as any meet I've ever been to!

A few highlights:

Beth Whitehead swam both the 1650 and the 1000 on Thursday. She won the 1650 and was the team leader after day 1 for the annual high point race!

After day 1, Emma took over doing something that has never been done by a Shark.

12/12 individual events.....all golds, plus 4 relay golds and one silver! What beautiful swimming she did....and her husband and parents were there as fans.

Barb, Margaret, Morgan and Emma won all 3 of the women's relays. And though it pains me to mention it, they beat our guys in the 400 free relay! (Franklin, Tom, Brad, Craig)

Of course they wouldn't let us forget that!

Every Shark scored a significant number of points. Even with only 11 swimmers we finished 8th overall with the women 6th.

And yes, the ladies outscored the guys.

Brad posted some great times and did a great job swimming against one of the top masters swimmers in the world who happens to be in his age group. (For you old timers, it was an Adam Mania type of situation!)

Tom, Margaret and Amy came down from Georgia with plenty of happy swimming smiles and great energy.

We had some fun team dinners and I'll for sure be looking forward to doing it again next year.

For those of you who missed this one I hope you will consider joining us next year.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

UD will be closed for pool maintenance this coming Saturday May 17.

We will be back there on the 24th for our last UD practice until fall. Let's get a good turnout so we can go up to 3 lanes and do a food outing afterwards.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

In case you haven't yet heard we had 3 swimmerw participate in recent USMS National Championships......with great results.

At the recent Short Course Yards Nationals Mary Sullivan won the 1650!

She swam in the 50-54 age group and also placed 2nd in the 1000, 3rd in the 200 back, 4th in the 500 free and 6th in both the 400IM and 200 free.

At the Open Water 1 mile championship, Dan placed 2nd in 30-34 and Cody placed 5th in 45-49.

In the 5K Open Water event Dan placed 2nd and Cody 6th.

Congrats to each of them for some great Sharks swimming!

See You at the Pool

Franklin