Banquet details

The banquet is going to be Monday, November 28th at 7:00 pm. We will be in the lower commons and it would be best to park in the teacher and staff parking lot. Plan on eating dinner before you come as we will be doing desserts. If everyone could bring a dessert to pass that would be great!

*If the girls could please bring their swim warm ups to the banquet that would be awesome!

Congrats to a 9th place at state and the banquet date

Congrats to the lady eagles who finished 9th place at the state swim meet! Everyone should be so proud of the hard work they have done this past season, way to go. If you are interested in looking at results click here .

Banquet Details:

We will be having the swim and dive team banquet November 28th (Monday) at the high school. I will find out what time we can get the lower commons at and speak with the captains and their parents about details of the night.

Middle School Meet Success & State Schedule

Thank you for helping with the Middle School meet:

Thank you to all who came out to help work and support the middle school meet. We had a lot of people there and I think this will make a huge impact as some of these kids get ready to make a decision about swimming in high school. We also raised some money from selling concessions to add to the team fund (thank you to everyone for making donations).

Girls who are headed to State:

Monday- 6:00-7:30

Tuesday- 6:00-7:30

Wednesday- 6:00-7:30

Thursday- 2:30-3:30 (we have to practice before Calvin and I will talk with school about being let out at 2:00)

*I will send the girls home tonight with a schedule for the state weekend. We plan on leaving Calvin around 4:30, if parents would like to bring luggage or send a farewell between 4:15-4:30 that would be great!

Go Eagles!

Donations for concessions @ the Middle School Swim Meet

An FYI about concessions donations already. If you wish to help out, please get any concessions items to Megan Schroder either at practice or school by FRIDAY this week. WE can bring it all over at once. If you prefer to offer monetary donations, please give that to Megan by THURSDAY afternoon so that I can run out to get the rest. Thanks so much!

Items for concessions so far:

2 cases plus 2 packs Gatorade
Case of water
Case of Diet Coke
Individual Cheese Its


3 Coolers

Conference T-shirts & Second shave meet

Conference T-shirts:

If you are interested in getting a conference t-shirt print off a sheet here to view the information.

I know we have some interested in getting one. If you can bring money and your size to me tomorrow (to Ottawa Hills High School for the middle school practice or if you are going to state bring it to practice) I will print off the form for you and hand it in!

Second shave meet:

There is a second shave meet that is going to be held at Holland Aquatic Center on Tuesday for those who are looking to get that final cut. The meet is a 5pm warm up and 6pm start. If you are interested in going please email me at alyssa.ludema@gmail.com no later than 5pm tomorrow.

Lady Eagles Fund Raising Opportunity

Great Job at conference to all the swimmers and divers, what a fun meet!

Monday: If you are not going to state please come to Ottawa Hills High School @ 6:00 to meet the middle school swimmers. We are going to teach them cheers and help with turns/starts/ etc.

Lady Eagles Fund Raising Opportunity

Next week Saturday we will be providing concessions for the Middle School swim meet held at Ottawa Hills. We need parent help/support in two ways to make this happen. First, we need some help with selling- this can either be parents or swimmers. Second, donations of concessions or money would be great to give us a little boost- otherwise I will have to take money from the team fund to buy supplies. Below is a SPECIFIC list of items to donate- or I will buy before the meet. Please stick to this list- it is easier for pricing/selling if we have consistent products.

Gatorade- either small or medium- often sold in eight packs. We don't need the huge single bottles- any flavor
Propel Zero- multi-pack size - any flavor
Pop in cans- doesn't really matter what kind, but last year we sold out of Diet Coke
Fruit- apples, bananas, oranges
Individual size snacks- goldfish, ritz bits, granola bars, that sort of thing (Trying to stay away from chips)
Power bars of any kind
Donuts- I think I will just go out and buy these that morning
Juice- in small bottles, not boxes or pouches- apple juice, orange juice, etc

We might do some candy, though I was trying to stay away from that if we can. First of all, because I am trying to have stuff a little more healthy for the kids who are swimming, second, because it is SO HOT in there that chocolate, etc is not always a good fit.

Time frame is probably from about 8:30- 12:00. Perhaps a bit longer on both ends. We could also really use coolers and ice.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions! Thanks!

Jennifer Schroder jennschroder@gmail.com

Schedule for the week of October 31st

Conference is just a week away and practice times for those tapering for conference will be getting shorter. Make sure everyone is getting a lot of rest and eating extra healthy!

Taper group:

Monday: Practice 6-7:30 (Practice 6-8 for State Taper)

Tuesday: Practice 6-7:30 (Practice 6-8 for State Taper)

Wednesday: Practice 6-7:15 (Pasta Party after for the swimmers and divers)

Thursday: Practice 6:7:15 & Diving prelims 3:00 warm up & 5:00 start (Practice 6-7:30 State Taper)

Friday: Swimming prelims - Meet at 9:30 at GRCH. Warm up @ 10:00 & Meet start @ 12:00

Saturday: Finals- Meet at EGR @ 9:45. Warm up @ 10:00 & Meet start @ 12:00

Pasta Party:

The pasta party is for the swimmers and divers after practice on Wednesday in the smaller room we eat in after meets. The captains moms are getting all of the food together!

Pizza after Finals:

We are going to go to Pietro's after finals on Saturday for a celebration. The EGR coach said the meet looks to get over by 3:00pm so we will get a room for 3:45.

Week of October 24th Schedule & Conference Details

Tuesday: practice 6- 8 pm

Wednesday: practice 6-8pm

Thursday : swim meet home against Catholic

• Senior Night!
• Girls be there at 5:15pm
• Meet start time- 6:30 pm

Friday: Practice 5:30-7 at Ottawa Hills (Calvin has a home meet)

Saturday: practice 10:30-12:00 pm

Conference Details:

November 3rd- Diving prelims

• Warm up @ 3:00,
• Start @ 5:00

November 4th- Swimming prelims

• Warm up @ 10:00 am
• Start @ 12:00 pm

November 5th- Finals

• Warm up @ 10:00 am
• Start @ 12:00 pm

Practice announcement:

• Practices from here on out will be closed to spectators. We want to support team bonding with the girls leading up to their final meets, thank you!

EK meet & Senior Night

• Tomorrow we will be meeting at 9:30 at East Kentwood. The meet starts at 11:00am. It is going to be a double dual meet and they will be scoring a jv meet as well. There will be three heats of every individual event- the first heat is JV and the last two heats will be scored for the double dual meet.
• Senior night is now going to be OCTOBER 27TH (not the 25th) Catholic central had a conflict. All students will be let in for free!
• Taper starts on Monday, we will go over what taper means at practice!
• We will be practicing at 5:30 at Ottawa Hills on October 28th, Calvin College has a home swim meet.

Final date for Northview swim meet

I just got an email from the Northview coach, sorry for the change again!

We are back to Tuesday, October 18th for the Northview dual meet. The funeral is not going to be possibly until Thursday now.

October 18th @ 6:00. Meet at the bus at 4:30!

-reminder= there is no bus home, just there

Northview meet change

Parents, swimmers & divers,

The Northview dual meet is now going to be held next week Thursday instead of Tuesday. The police officer that was killed yesterday in a bank robbery was a close friend to the Northview community and his funeral is going to be held on Tuesday. Please keep their family in your prayers!

The meet will start at 6:00 on Thursday October 20th and it is going to be away. The bus will leave GRCH at 4:30 and there is only going to be a bus there, not home!

Week of October 10th schedule

Tuesday: Swim meet home against EGR starts @ 6:30, be on deck at 5:15 to stretch

Wednesday: 6:30am-7:15 am & 6-8 pm (dry land)

Thursday: 6-8 pm (swim team sleep over)

Friday: 5:30-7? (dry land)

Saturday: 10:30-12

Meals for home swim meets

MEALS UPDATES

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who has provided the food for our past two meals. The girls appreciate it so much! I have made a few changes to the remaining meals, so please check your assignments again. On the right hand side of the website is a tab for Food Assignments for meets. Please click on that and you will see the updated documents. Most of the changes have been to the amount of chocolate and white milk we provide. ( Chocolate has been a favorite) We definitely had more food tonight than we thought we needed, but it is always better to be able to feed more than not have enough. ( A few families may be having chili this week!) In addition, East usually has a large team and plenty of coaches. Next week we will also move to the NEW ROOM to eat. This room is located on the West side down the hallway, before the racquetball court. It is much larger and will hold everyone very well! Thanks again for all the help making meals a success! Go Eagles!

Forest Hills Northern/Eastern Change of score

Parents, swimmers & divers,

I have great news... I went home and was going over the results and there was a mistake in scoring. I had the other coach check it as well and we have actually tied the meet 93-93!!!! Good job lady eagles!

Schedule for the week of October 2nd

I will be handing out an October schedule this week!

The week of October 2nd:

Monday: Swim 6-8 & Dive 6:30-8:30

Tuesday: Swim meet @ 6:30 against Forest Hills Eastern/Northern meet at Calvin at 5:15 (dinner after will be in a larger room located in the hallway to the west of the gym

Wednesday: Practice 6:30-7:15 am & 6-8pm (dry land)

Thursday: Practice 6-8pm

Friday: Dryland 5:30-6:30 at Calvin (HOMECOMING!!!! Congrats to Janel DeGraaf and Megan Schroder for making it on homecoming court.)

Saturday: Swim 10:30-12:30

Team Social Dues & Meal Sign Ups

TEAM SOCIAL DUES

Thanks to all of you who have already contributed to the team social fund. Each swimmer and diver needs to contribute $20 to this fund, which helps our team with things like Senior Night, paper products for all home meets, and certain social events. If you have not turned in your money yet, please bring cash or, better yet, a check made out to GRCH to Megan Schroder. Thanks to much! Go Eagles!

MEAL SIGN UP

Please remember that after home swim meets, we provide a meal for both teams. Next week Tuesday, October 4, is our next opportunity. Please check to make sure that your name is included AT LEAST THREE TIMES among the three meals. We still have openings available- some for next week. If you are a parent of a swimmer of diver, please make sure that you have signed up. We really need help to make these meals successful! The girls all appreciate a good, hot meal after their meets. Thanks! If you would like to fill in an open spot, or have any questions, please contact Jennifer Schroder at jennschroder@gmail.com or 616-262-1518.

Schedule for the week of September 26th

Monday- Practice 6-8pm

Tuesday- Swim meet at Byron Center @ 6:00pm, meet at 4:10 @ Grand Rapids Christian

Wednesday- 6:30-7:15am & 6-8pm (Dryland)

Thursday- Holland swim meet @ 6:30pm, meet at 4:20 @ Grand Rapids Christian

Friday- Practice 5:30 -7: ? (Dryland)

Saturday- 10:30-12

Schedule for the week of September 19th

Monday: Swim Practice 6-8 & Diving 6:30-8:30

Tuesday: Unity Meet (held at Hudsonville High School) starting at 7pm (change from 6:30pm) meet at GRCH at 5:15pm

Wednesday: 6:30-7:15am & 6-8 pm (Dryland & swimming)

Thursday: Zeeland Meet starting at 6:30pm. Meet at GRCH at 4:20pm

Friday: 5:30-7...? (Dryland & swimming)

Saturday:10:30-12:00 swim practice

Announcements

Schedule:

Thursday: meet away @ Hamilition starts at 6:30, girls get the bus @ 4:10

Friday: Practice 5:30-7?

Sat: Either swim or dry land TBD @ 10-11:30

Concessions:

Swimming families: Please remember that this Friday night, many of you are scheduled in concessions at the football stadium. We need only one parent to help out, but occasionally have extra need, so if some want to stop by and check that would be great. Time listed was 6:30 pm, but we have had a recent request to come at 6 if possible (right after the Eagle Walk). Thank for all of your help! This is not only a great fund raiser for Eagle Athletics, but also a great way to meet other parents that you may be sitting with in the stands!

Meet Food:

Thanks for all of the help both serving and bringing food last night for our hungry swimmers and coaches! Everyone was well-fed! The food sign ups will be updated in a few days, so please check to see if you can fill an open spot or are willing to help with the set up/ service/ clean up. Email Jennschroder@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer!

Duck Drop/ Chuck a Duck:

What a great success on our first night! We raised $70! If you have anything that you would be willing to donate or can get a business to donate for prizes, that would be fantastic (current prizes available- "C" stadium cushion, Jet's pizza certificates, Eagles Nest Shirts, Sports keychains, Lake is Good Shirts). We hope to sell even more ducks and award more prizes next time. This will be held at EVERY home swim meet this year. Thanks for all of the support!

A note about meals for home swim meets

Greetings parents of swimmers and divers! As part of the meet tradition, teams meet for a meal after each meet. The home team coordinates and provides these meals. We have four home meets to provide meals for this year. Many of you signed up at the Holland Christian meet already. If so, this is a reminder for you. If you have not signed up, please send and email to jennschroder@gmail.com to fill in somewhere. Please sign up for at least THREE spots. Each meal has a team mom as coordinator, but if you would be willing to help set up/serve/clean up on a night, that would be great. You may also send an email about that. Some tips about bringing in food: Meals are served in the classroom just outside of the pool entrances. (Between the bathrooms, facing the old gym) Typically, things are brought in at the beginning of the meet, but if not then, at least by the end of diving. Coolers are not provided, please bring milk/drinks in coolers if possible. Serving utensils are also not provided. If you have something that needs utensils, please bring those as well. Please label anything that is not disposable. If you are doing the baked potato meal, parents from the past have discovered that baking the potatoes, wrapping them in foil, and placing them in coolers actually works very well to keep them hot. Thanks for all your help! The girls have had a great start to the season. Thanks coaches, and GO EAGLES! The list of meals and who has signed up will be up on the right hand side panel shortly!

Fall is here!

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!

We have a great start to our week with a swim meet tomorrow night starting at 6:30 pm again Holland Christian. It will be at the Holland Aquatic Center. Meet where we did for the last meet at 4:20.

Wednesday: 6:30-7:15am & 6:00pm-8:00pm (dry land)

Thursday: 6-8pm

Friday: 5:30-7:15pm (dry land)

Saturday: West Michigan Relays! Swimmers the bus will meet at 10:30, I will update divers this week.

This will be held at Zeeland.

Schedule:

8:00am Diving Warm-up

9:30 am Diving relay competition

11:30 am Swimming Warm-up

1:00 pm Swimming competition

Also check out the concession schedule on the tab to the right as well as the girls top times and scores for the season thus far! We will put the parent meal schedule up soon. See you all tomorrow.

Coach Alyssa

Back to school!

I hope everyone is ready to go back to school and has all of their last minute shopping done. I just wanted to go over details for this week!

Monday: There will be no morning practice due to orientation conflicts and those that can not make practice from 6-8 I will post alternate work-outs below. If you are a freshman I will assume that you won't be there if you are not a freshman and are volunteering please email me!

Tuesday: 6-8pm (dryland)

Wednesday: Practice will be from 6-8pm for both divers and swimmers!

-There will be practice Wednesday morning will be from 6:30-7:15am and upper class men can bring the under class men to school.

Thursday: 5:30-7? Football game!

Friday: 5:30-7:30 pm (dryland)

No practice Saturday or on Labor Day! Enjoy your last taste of summer.

Alternate work out for Monday:

If you can get in the water:

40 x 100's

1-5 @ 2:00 - Warm Up

5-10 @ 2:00 - Build

11-15 @ 2:00 - 50 Kick/50 Swim

16-20 @ 1:30/1:35/1:40/1:45/1:50

21-25 @ 1:45/2:00 - Stroke/Free:

#21: 25 Stroke sprint, 75 easy free

#22: 50 Stroke sprint, 50 easy free

#23: 75 Stroke Sprint, 25 easy

#24: 100 Stroke - Build

#25: 10 Stroke - ALL OUT

26-30 @ 1:50 - 50 Kick/50 Swim

31-35 @ 1:20/1:25/1:30/1:35/1:40

36-38 @ 1:15/1:20/1:25/1:30/1:35

39 & 40 Warm Down

If you can not get in the water:

-run for 30 minutes

-Do 15 minutes of abs & Stretch

West Ottawa Meet

Parents, Swimmers & Divers:

Get excited for the first meet tonight at West Ottawa which starts at 6:00pm. I just got a call from Mr. VanderKamp that the bus will be there a bit earlier due to some problems with being late last week for another sport. It is now coming at 4:00! Meet at the Plymouth side of the high school right by the CAW. Bring a lot of energy :)

Thanks,

Alyssa

Parent Meeting

It was great to meet most of you at the parents meeting tonight. If you ended up missing it I will send your daughter home with all the forms I handed out tonight! One form needs to be filled out and turned back into me in order to get into our home meets free of charge.

Tomorrow we will be handing out the girls warm ups. If you already have one from last year please come to practice with the number of the warm up.

This Saturday we will be meeting at GRCH at 10:30 and doing a little work out and then heading to Holland for some fun in the sun. We should be back a little after 5:00. The captains handed out what each girl needs to bring, check with them!

Next week Tuesday is our first meet, get excited! We will meet at GRCH at 4:15/4:20 and traveling to West Ottawa High school. The meet starts at 6:00pm.

Thanks!

Alyssa

Beginning of season details!

The season has finally started! I have a few details regarding the beginning of the season:

1. I sent the girls home with a the school handbook. Please make sure everyone brings the blue half sheet back tomorrow to practice signed.

2. The girls are not able to practice if they do not have a physical form turned into me or the school. I let the girls know today who they are.

3. We have a team pictures on August 16th at Grand Rapids Christian High School. Show up 10 minutes before the picture please! We are wearing black on top and jeans on the bottom.

-Seniors at 8:00 am

-The whole team 8:05 am

4. We will have a parent meeting Thursday August 18th at Calvin in the bleachers at 7:45pm. We will be going over the schedule for the season and it will be a great chance to meet other parents!

5. We are going to have a cottage party August 20th (Saturday) at Katie VandenBerge's grandparents out in Holland. The upperclassmen will drive the girls, there will be more details to come!

Diving

Dear swimmers, divers & parents,

I have found a diving coach after searching high and low! She is a Calvin College student and is going to be a senior this year. Her name is Kelsey Bosmeijer! However if you can spread the news that diving practice is going to be from 11:30-1:30 until Labor Day weekend due to her work schedule. If there are any conflicts please let me know. The first diving practice will be on August 10th at 11:30 and Calvin!

If you have any questions please email me at alyssa.ludema@gmail.com

Thanks,

Alyssa Ludema

The 2011 swim season!

Swimmers & Divers!

Get excited for the new season that is starting on August 10th. Plan on practice starting at 6pm-8pm until school starts as of right now. I need to finalize with the coach at Calvin after he gets back from vacation on August 1st. We will start morning practice the second week, once I talk to the Calvin coach I will be able to fill you in on the exact days and times! We will have some sort of Saturday practice which might be swimming or dryland. I am extremely excited for the new and upcoming season. Check out our upcoming meet schedule on the right panel!

If you have any questions feel free to email me at alyssa.ludema@gmail.com

Thanks!

Alyssa Ludema

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Meet Results

2015 Swim Meets 

• Northview Invite
• Unity Christian 
• Holland Christian 
• Forest Hills Central 
• Muskegon Mona Shores
• HC Invite 
• EGR 
• Grand Rapids Catholic Central
• FHNE
• Byron Center
• Northview 
• Jenison
• East Kentwood
• Conference Prelims
• Conference Finals 

A Letter from Coach Becky

Swimmers & Parents,

It is with much sadness that I have to tell everyone I will not be coaching the girl’s swim team next year. This has been a very difficult and emotional decision for me to come to, but one that I am confident in and at peace with.

Coaching for me has always been one of my greatest passions and joys. To be able to take my experience of swimming in high school and college, and be on the “other side” of the gutter has been exciting yet challenging. My two years at GR Christian High has been an amazing experience. Everything from the athletic staff at the High school, supportive parents helping when needed, great coaching assistants, and energetic swimmers, have all contributed to a great two years.

The hardest part of saying goodbye, however, is not the parents, AD’s, or even the free food after meals. The hardest part for me is saying goodbye to “my girls”. I refer to “my girls” so often. Luke and I are not parents yet, but during the swim season I feel like I have 26 teenage girls of my own. I will truly miss their laughter, hard work, smiles, cheering them on from the sides, and watching them accomplish things that they never thought they could!

But, I have reached a point in my life where I need to focus on my own family. And while having 26 teenage girls is sometimes fun, it is probably not realistic. For four years Luke and I have tried to balance the many tasks in our lives of both working full time and coaching full time (and adding a puppy into the mix, whose idea was that?!). We have missed meals and time together, said no to obligations at our church, been absent at family functions, and so forth. We are ready to spend more time together as a family, explore new avenues of church and community involvement, focus on our careers as a teacher and salesmen, and simply enjoy some free time!

As I said, this was NOT an easy decision. I am not exactly sure how I will feel when August roles around and I am not on the pool deck with “my girls”. But, we have prayed over this decision and are trusting that God will continue to provide direction and peace in our lives as wait and see where He leads us next. I love the Bible verse “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT). God is good and faithful. He has been good to me; He has been good to this team. I know that His faithfulness will continue in the coming seasons and years, as coaches and swimmers change.

So THANK YOU! Thank you for your support, friendship, and allowing me to be able to work alongside you all. This is not good bye for good. You will always be “my girls”, and you never know when I may just show up in the stands or on deck to do the roller coaster cheer!

In Him and His time,
Coach Becky Bagnall
bbagnall@grcs.org
616 322 4188