Happy Father’s Day to all our amazing Shark Dads! 💙 We’re so grateful for your support and cheering on the deck. We hope you’re having a well-deserved, relaxing day!
Starting Monday, we officially dive into weekday morning practices, and the season is about to pick up speed. Below is your must-read update for this week—swim meets, pancake breakfasts, buddy groups, and more!
📌 Important Notes for the Week
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Read Coach Paul’s Note- Lots of good info!
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Make sure to sign-up for both the dual meets this week TODAY!
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- June 17 – ECC @ BAC (Home Meet)
- June 19 – BAC @ GPYC (Away Meet)
- Caps will be available for pick up Tuesday at practice or the swim meet.
📅 Morning Summer Schedule Starts This Monday!
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Review this week’s practice schedule carefully. Check it out below or in Commit
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Coach’s Corner
Hello, Sharks!
With our first dual meet this week and our Blue & White meet in the books, I want to provide some background on how we use these results and their relevance for lineups and event selection in meets.
The Blue & White meet is a great opportunity for the Sharks to establish a baseline for the season. Seeing our team race helps the coaching staff determine where our focus needs to be in practice, what we look like when ‘the lights come on’ during competition and see how we developed since last summer.
Additionally, during the Blue & White meet, the coaching staff marks down DQs, or disqualifications. Like holding in football or offsides in soccer, infractions in swimming related to stroke technique, turns, or starts result in a disqualification. Because the results of our meets are sent to our league, MICSA, swims that result in a DQ do not count towards the top times database for the league.
Regarding top times, MICSA posts a league wide top 16 times document for each event weekly once dual meets start. This is a document that can help you see where your swimmers stack up with the rest of the teams in the league. This helps the coaching staff create meet lineups and the selection process for MICSA Finals. More info about the latter is in the parent handbook.
So, where can you find these results? First is an app, MeetMobile. The results from the meet are posted in real time. Not every host club will use MeetMobile but BAC does. You can download it in the App Store. Additionally, we will post the results to our team website, www.bacsharks.com and on www.commitswimming.com. The Commit Swimming website allows you to filter age groups, events, or even show all of your child’s swims in one place. Finally, MICSA will post the top times weekly on their website, micsaswim.com. Dual meet times will be broken out by age group by event.
Get excited for some racing this week!
GO SHARKS,
Coach Paul
🌞 Morning Practice Schedule
Please check your swimmer’s group below and arrive on time.
🕒 Summer Schedule:
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Jaws: M/W/F/Sat – 8:00–9:30 AM | T/Th – 7:30–9:30 AM
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Hammers: Mon–Sat – 9:15–10:30 AM
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Tigersharks: Mon–Sat – 10:30–11:30 AM
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Fins 1: M/W/F – 10:00–10:30 AM
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Fins 2: M/W/F – 11:00–11:30 AM
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Fins 3: T/Th/Sat – 10:00–10:30 AM
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Fins 4: T/Th/Sat – 11:00–11:30 AM
🏊 Swim Meets This Week
👕 All swimmers should wear:
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Blue team t-shirt, Team suit, and Team cap
New to meets? Be sure to check out our recent blog post: “How to Prepare for your first swim meet.”
📍 June 17 – ECC @ BAC (Home Meet)
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Jaws & Hammers Warm-Up: 3:30 PM
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Tigersharks: 4:00 PM
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Fins: 4:15 PM
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Timers’ Meeting: 5:00 PM
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Meet Start: 5:15 PM
🚌 June 19 – BAC @ GPYC (Away Meet)
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Arrive at BAC: 2:45 PM
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Bus Departs: 3:00 PM
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Warm-Up: 4:30 PM
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Meet Start: 5:15 PM
Bus sign-up is available in the BAC App or Member Portal – $25 per swimmer (one-way only). Limited Spaces Available.
🌟 June 20 – BCC Rising Stars (for 9/10 Swimmers)
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Arrive: 8:00 AM
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Warm-Up: 8:15 AM
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Meet Start: 9:00 AM
Good luck and have fun, Rising Stars!
🍴 Pancake Breakfasts Begin Wednesday!
Who’s hungry?! Our first weekly Pancake Breakfast starts this Wednesday, June 18 from 9:30–11:30 AM in the Shark Tank. Fill up on pancakes, bacon, and good vibes after practice.
🥞 Cost: $10.50 per person
🎽 Caps & Apparel
Team caps will be available Tuesday at practice or at Tuesday’s swim meet. Sorry for the delay!
You will be notified when pop-up shop orders are available.
🤝 Buddy Groups
Each week, our coaches will assign Buddy Groups—small teams that support each other throughout the week at both practice and meets. The goal is to build team camaraderie and to help new swimmers learn what it means to be a Shark! We hope weekly buddy groups will give kids the opportunity to get to know their teammates better. Coach Paul will provide the kids with more information about the buddies at practice on Monday.
📝 Groups will be posted weekly near the Guard Office.
🎨 Poster-making and more fun details will be shared Monday at practice.
No need to buy gifts, but cheering and team spirit are always encouraged!
🏊♂️ Stroke Clinics
Want to sharpen your swimmer’s technique? Sign up for a Stroke Clinic—small group sessions with a 5:1 swimmer-to-coach ratio.
💰 $20 per session
📲 Sign-up in the BAC App or Web Portal
Go Sharks🦈,
Alyson
swimteam@bacmi.net
IMPORTANT SHARK DATES
6/17 – FIRST HOME MEET: ECC @ BAC🦈🦈🦈
6/19 – BAC @ GPYC
6/20 – BCC Rising Stars (9 & 10 yr)
SHARK WEEK STARTS 6/23- MORE DETAILS NEXT WEEK
6/24 – 📸Team Pictures and Breakfast (8:30-11a)
6/24 – BAC @ CCD
6/26 – BAC @ LOCHMOOR
6/27 – 11 & 12 Firecracker Meet @ PHCC