Coach Snow has reserved a block of rooms for the NI Championships. If you know what nights you will be staying please call and reserve your room ASAP. When calling ask for HAST swim club block. If you have not reserved your room by February 15th, the block will be lost. Please let Coach Snow know when you have made your reservation. Here is the info:

Ramada Inn
2402 North Forest Road
Amherst, NY 14226
716-636-7500

Thursday- 5 rooms (double beds)
Friday- 16 rooms (double beds)
Saturday- 16 rooms (double beds)
Sunday- Check out AM

There will be a parent meeting on Wednesday, February 7th at 5:30.
Agenda- 1) By-Laws 2) Elections 3) Committees 4) April Fool's Meet 5) Spring and Summer Swim Sessions

Our tri-meet with SDSC and RRST has been scheduled for this Saturday Feb. 3rd in Penfield. Warm-ups will be at 5:30pm, unless I hear different from SDSC.

We were unable to get our pool for any dates before Championships, so we were forced to move the meet to Penfield. Sorry for the late notice, but we have been scrambling to set something up. We are going to assume that all 12&U swimmers will be there unless you let us know.

Coach John

There are many swimmers that still owe past meet entry fees. Please pay your account up to date ASAP. If there are any questions as to what is owed for your meet entries please let Janet know. We must have the meet entry fees paid when the events are emailed to me. Please place checks in Janet's folder the week the enries are emailed. The team must issue a team check when entries are due. Thank you for your cooperation.

Denise

Hello, There is a Rising Star Meet that has just been scheduled for February 4th. You will find the meet packet at the end of this blog. I apologize for the short notice, but entries are due Tuesday January 31st. Only swimmers that do not have championship cut times are eligible to swim. These swimmers are: Dana DeHollander, Hannah Fedeli, Lyssa Fradella, Elizabeth Franklin, Kelly Galloway, Zack Graham, Kellie Halladay, Ruby King, Derek Milgate, Jessica Mayer, Liyah Nolin, Deanna Palma, Eric Richardson, Cassandra Rivera, Tyler Schwertfeger, Molly Vandenburg, and Sarah Weber. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Denise

McDonald's of Rochester Swim League

Rising Star Meet

Sunday February 4, 2007

Location: Greece Olympia High School

Sanction Number:

Warmups: 8:30 AM

Start: 9:15 AM

Awards: All events are Timed Finals (Order of events is included).

Ribbons will be awarded for 1st - 3rd place in each heat.

Clerk of A Clerk of Course will be utilized. It will be the responsibility of Course: the swimmer to report to the Clerk of Course when their event is called.

Meet Mary Kleinhenz Meet Marshall: Katie Kodweis

Director: 192 Cedar Creek Trail 246 Haskins Lane North Rochester, NY 14626 Hilton, NY 14468

pmklein1@rochester.rr.com rkodweis@rochester.rr.com

Special This is a League Meet for swimmers who have not yet

Note: achieved any McDonald’s championship times.

All participating clubs are required to provide parents and officials to work! Timing assignments will be sent out before the meet.

Seeding: This is a pre-seeded meet. No deck entries will be taken.

Entry

Restrictions: Swimmers may enter and swim no more than three (3)

individual events

Entries: Entries must be submitted using a HyTek (Cl2 file)

Must submit entries no later than 9:00PM, January 31, 2007

Please e-mail all entries to: Dave Erb at

dave@erbcomputer.com

*Include with your entries a list of the Officials and their status working for your team.

Use date of Championships as age up date so that swimmers can compete in correct events.*

Conduct & Coaches and parents are responsible for the conduct of their Discipline: swimmers (and other children). Anyone causing damage to any of the facility will be asked to leave the premises.

Food: Food and concessions will be available during the meet.

Rising Star Meet
Sunday February 4, 2007
Location: Greece Olympia High School
Order of Events
GIRLS		BOYS
Event #	EVENT	Event #
1	12 & under 200 Free	2
3	8 & Under 25 Free	4
5	10 & Under 50 Free	6
7	12 & Under 50 Free	8
9	8 & Under 25 Breast	10
11	10 & Under 50 Breast	12
13	12 & Under 100 Breast	14
15	8 & Under 25 Back	16
17	10 & Under 50 Back	18
19	12 & Under 100 Back	20
21	8 & Under 50 Free	22
23	10 & Under 100 Free	24
25	12 & Under 100 Free	26
27	8 & Under 25 Fly	28
29	10 & Under 50 Fly	30
31	12 & Under 100 Fly	32
33	8 & Under 100 I.M.	34
35	10 & Under 100 I.M.	36
37	12 & Under 200 I.M.	38

Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)
Hi everyone!
I just want to remind everyone of the use of the Fitness Room on Tuesday and Thursday 5:30 - 7:30. It is such a great way for us parents to get to know each other. I know that I am really enjoying meeting new parents on our team. Also, the more parents we have participate, the better chance we have of utilizing this facility next year and maybe even picking up more days. So if you haven't already done so, stop by. I hope to see you there!
Janet

Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)

Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)
Hi Everyone,
I just want to remind everyone that all HAST parents have full use of the fitness room during practice on Tuesday and Thursday. It is a great way for us to get to know each other a little better while getting in shape for the summer. I have really enjoyed meeting everyone who is participating. The more parents we have participate, the better chance we have of utilizing this next year and maybe even adding more days. So next time you drop your swimmer off, check out the fitness room.
Janet

We have received our lane assignments for the Senior JO meet. HAST is responsible for 2 timers sunday morning in lane two. Parents who have swimmers at the meet sunday morning please discuss who will be timing with each other.

Thank you,
Denise

Entries for the Silver meet are due Wednesday January 31st. Your swimmer must have a silver time to swim this meet. Swimmers may swim 3 events per day plus two relays and no more than eight individual events total. If your swimmer has one silver time they may choose two bonus events to swim. These bonus events may not be gold times. Any questions please let me know.

Denise

Practice for Tuesday night 1/23/07 will be from 6:30-8:30 due to a time change in the Hilton Boys Modified swim meet. I apologize for the late notice.

Coach John

Hi All, Thanks to all who came to the parents meeting last night, if you were one of those who could not be there here is what was discussed....
The possibility of paying for the coaches Hotel room when they are at away swim meets and how that would be funded, through dues, swimmers families who attend such meets, many options were discussed and will be brought up at the next board meeting..

Elections for new officers..President, VP, Treasurer, Secretary and Safety coordinator...As of right now these are to be held by parents of swimmers that have been with HAST for at least 1 year.

The need for volunteers for our upcoming meet. Volunteering is going to be required in the future, or a fee will be charged. It is in discussion...

The board will be taking a look at the by laws and coming up with the changes we feel needed to make this a sucessful club..
Thanks Tammy





Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)

Hi everyone,

For those senior swimmers going to next weekends Senior JO meet, there is still time to sign up for a clinic being run by Olympians Josh Davis and Randall Ball. The clinic will be held on Saturday
afternoon before the meet starts. You need to go to the Niagara District web site and follow the directions on the main page in order to sign up. You must be attending the meet in order to sign up. Please do so ASAP, the 9-12 year old clinic is already full, but there is still room for the senior swimmers clinic. Any swimmer ,9-12 or senior, who doesn't make it into the clinic can watch from the deck or the stands.

Thank you,

Coach John

Hast swimmers and familes where outstanding.
First and formost, thank you to all the parents that helped with timing, from my point of view it appeared their was 100% participation from all families, nice job. Thank you also for having your swimmers to warm up early or on time and allowing them time to cool down, despite the nasty weather we had. The swimmers where not rushed and made for a smooth transition to get the work done.

HAST swimmers started the meet out with some really big drops, and also finished the meet just as strong Monday night with big drops. Very nice.
Swimmers where outstanding on deck, it appeared they made hard work fun. I am proud of everyone of our swimmers, the hard work they have been putting in at practice was definately worth all the effort. HAST swimmers had so many best times it will be hard to recall them all, without the results in front. So I am going ot list the some highlights..
Morgan Burns(12), 400IM 5:04, 200 Breast2:38.91,100 Breast 1:11.97 ; Zone Qualifier
Jamie Barber (12)100Back 1:08.38,100 fly 1;06.41, 200 free 2:07.93; Zone Qualifier
Emma Dorschel(13) 400Im 5:22.21, 200 IM 2:35.09,1000 Free 12:06.34;
Christie Engle, (12) 50 Free 29.64 , 50 Back 36.06;
Mary Jurgens (14) 50 free 27.88, 200 free 2;16.64;
Miranda Klein (13) 400 IM 5:21.--, 200 breast 2;49.20, 200 back 2;29.65; ZOne Qualifier
Natalie Lacourt(11) 100 Back 1:14.16, 200 Free 2:22.80, 200 back 2;36.00; Zone Qualifier
Ellie Price(14) 100free 58.39, 100 fly 1;09.59, 50 free 27.11;
Mary Spengermen(10) 100 Free 1:05.10, 50 Back 36.59,100Im 1:18.59; Zone Qualifier
Sean Oniell(14) 200 Free 1:58.91, 200IM 2;15.25,100Free 54.09;

Monday's 12 under 400 Medley relay swam to a 1st place(Lacourt,Burns,Barber,Spengermen)

Now what, first in store is recover from the long weekend, so in order to do that I need everyone in practice on Tuesday, yes. We have much to fix and work on before NI-Championships in March and also Eastern Zones for the top 2 swimmers in the NI-District.

Senior swimmers are getting ready for their meet in two weeks, our 12 and under swimmers are getting ready for the Go the Distance meet. Yes Distance events, Regarless of the meet we have 2 weeks to fine tune the strokes and build the aerobic base up more. In order for this to happen we need the swimmers at the pool. Swimmers make good choices, see you in practice.
Nice Job, once again. Coach Snow

Hi All, My mistake, the parent meeting is on Wed. the 17th at 7:00 not the 16th.. See you there!!!!!

Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)

• 14 and Under Gold Jo Meet is almost upon us. This will be a long weekend for some swimmers and families, so make sure to eat healthy, get good rest, get really good rest inbetween Prelims/Finals. Naps are great, walking in the mall would not be a good choice.
• Lane Timing
  Hast is required to time Lane 10 Sunday prelims and Monday prelims. This duty is to be shared and not put on the few families that always time at meets. To make this duty go smoothly, I would suggest the parents in the stands communicate with each other, work out a schedule that benifits everyone. 100% team participation.
• Warm ups-
  Please do not come late to warm up. Doing this makes the swimmer rush to get a warm up in. Please remember your swimmer will perform better when they are relaxed and can focus on what they have trained for. Also we have relays that start right away and if your swimmer is late for warm ups and Relay cards are called to be turned in, I would be forced to scratch the event. Relay fees still are applied.
  
  
• -The Meet schedule goes as follows-

• HAST /USA TEAM IMX Ranking
  -USA National Ranking (804 out of 2117 teams)
  -NI-District 14 out of 71 teams.
  December 1st, HAST was ranked 18th in the NI-District. Their has been much improvement, this weekend our swimmers have an oppurtunity to really push the team forward. This will be a team effort, so swimming hard in prelims and making finals is how each swimmer can contribute to team points. Then in finals get fired up to improve even more, for another Personal Best time.

• How can the Team improve Nationtional Rankings?

• WarmDown

Hi All, There will be a parent meeting at 7:00 on Wed Jan 16th during practice! We will be discussing the upcoming meet and filling positions needed to run it, as well as answer any questions that you may have! Thanks Tammy

Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)

Entries for both the "Go The Distance" meet and the Senior JO's meet are due Tuesday January 16th. The "Go The Distance" meet is January 26 and 27th. The Senior JO's meet is January 27 and 28th. Both will be held at the Webster Aquatic center. There will be a clinic with Olympian Josh Davis on Saturday the 27th. More information on the clinic will be to follow. Please email entries to dlajuett@hiltonswimteam.org. Have a great night.

Denise

Hi All, The practice for Tuesday the 9th of Jan. will be held after the boys Varsity meet from 7:00 til 9:00. Also there is NO practice on the 15th due to the MLK holiday. Thanks.....
Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)

Practice on Tuesday January 9th has been changed to 7:00 - 8:30 due to a boys swim meet. Please review the calander for updates. There may be more updates to follow. The fitness room will be still open from 5:30 - 7:30.

Hello everyone,

dual meet #3 is scheduled for January 20th. I was approached by SDSC (dual #3) and RRST (dual #4) and asked if we would like to combine the last two meets into one tri-meet that HAST would host on February 3rd. This seems like it would be a good idea for a couple of reasons. We could free up a Saturday in January and save on pool costs by hosting only one meet, instead of two. What I need to know is if we have any 12@U swimmers who have not participated in at least one of the first two dual meets. Remember that to swim in MCDR Championships in March your swimmer must compete in at least two dual meets. A tri-meet is only considered as one meet. Please let me know as soon as possible if your 12@U swimmer has not competed in either of the first two dual meets.

A quick reminder for those attending this weekends Bronze Meet. This meet is being run in Championship format. This means that the twelve fastest times swam in pre-liminaries for each event come back that evening to swim again in finals. From the time that the pre-lim results are posted for each event you have 30 minutes (to scratch), to let me know that you can't make it back to finals at night. I then go to the scratch table and scratch your swimmer. Only a coach can scratch a swimmer. If we fail to scratch your swimmer and he or she does not come back to finals to swim, you will be fined $25 by the district and your swimmer also cannot compete in the next days events.

Thank you,

Coach John

It has been brought to my attention (again) that there are several swimmers that still owe for past dues as well as meets. It is extremely important that those fees are paid NOW. The club is beginning to feel the effects of a tight bank account, with many bills still coming in. We do not have the option to pay a pool bill or a swim meet bill on time ,therefore it is not fair that we have to wait for a dues payment.
We have been fair in giving plenty of time and notice, but it is only forcing us to make changes to our pay schedule for the years to come.
Many of you still owe for caps. When you got a suit you also paid for a cap. Many of swimmers recieved silicone caps at he Pentathlon meet, those caps are $10 each, so far I only have record of 4 people that paid and I believe 14 were handed out. Please pay for those ASAP and note on your check that that is what you are paying for.
It seems as though some of you are confused about the cost for swimming with HAST. If you are a swimmer that swims only for HAST and do not do a school sport, the cost is $350 for the season. If you do a school sport and do not swim while doing that sport it is$250 to swim. A Second family member is also $250. If you do a school sport but swim in the morning it will be the regular fee of $350. ( we are still paying for a coach and pool time for you to swim.) It is not $50 per month to swim, it is either $250 or $350 but to make it easy for you to pay we let you do it in $50 monthly installments...Sept thru March, or November thru March. 5 payments or 7 payments. This is for swimmers that have been with us for the season. New members have been told what they will owe depending on when they join in the season.
You can send payments to HAST, PO box 174, Hilton 14468
Thanks Tammy

Hilton Area Swim Team (HAST)