Undue Influence from GRCH

Parents,

The superintendent Tom Dejonge and Athletic Director Jason Herrema wanted me to forward you this letter on, it was also in the home bulletin.

-Coach Alyssa

Warm Ups!

• I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving with family and ate a lot of wonderful food! I think we can all be thankful for such a fun and successful season we had this year. 

• Congrats to the football team who won a state championship last night, what an exciting game!!!!! 

• Warm Ups:
• Girls I have quote a few missing warm ups after counting them all today! Please get them to the athletic office by Friday and I will collect them. If you have misplaced a jacket or pair of pants hopefully they will turn up by Friday from a teammate. I have a list of who had what number so I will contact you by next weekend to let you know if I am missing yours. They were really nice warm ups so we need to make sure we get them all back and don't have to charge anyone for any missing ones. (: 

• Bible study:
• We are also looking to start a Bible Study that will be headed up by coach Briana, so make sure you check out Facebook for the details. Sunday afternoon is looking to work out the best for most people that are interested. 

Swim & Dive Team Banquet

Congrats to the girls who went to the state swim meet and finished 9th place overall. So blessed to have such a great group of girls cheering each other on at the meet and back at home! There is a link in meet results showing all the final places and times.

Banquet:
When: November 20th
Where: All City Lobby
Time: 5:45-7:15 (winter sports parents have a meeting at 7:30)
What to bring:

• Your favorite dessert to pass 
• Team warm ups (washed)
• Any suits that were borrowed for conference or state!

Team pictures from the season

If anyone has any good photos from the season we want them! Linda Heys is putting together a slide show so if you could get pictures on a disc to Abby Heys by Wednesday that would be great.

*Also mandatory team meeting on Thursday will be in room 111 during lunch break!

Thursday Meeting & State Schedule

• Thursday:
•  During lunch break the whole team will meet to vote for MVP and team captains for next year! I will let you know ASAP where we will be meeting. 
• Suits:
• If you have any suits from conference please bring them to one of the captains during the week for us to bring to the state meet. At the very latest bring them on Thursday to me at lunch break! 

Schedule for the week:

Monday: Practice 6-7:30
Tuesday: Practice 6-7:30
Wednesday: Practice 6-7:30
Thursday:

• Vote for MVP and captains during lunch break
• Practice 2:30-3:30
• Girls get ready at the pool 3:30-4:15
• Parents come to send off 4:15-4:30
• Leave for EMU and grab dinner on the way!

Friday: 

• Warm up is at 10:00 
• Meet starts at 12:00. 
• Diving in conclusion to swimming prelims
• We will be going to dinner concluding prelims at Tower Inn. Please email Kim VanHarn no later than Tuesday night (vanharn5@sbcglobal.net) on how many people you will have attending. 

Saturday: 

• Warm up at 10:00 
• Meet starts at 12:00. 

Banquet and State Meet Schedule

Parents, Swimmers and Divers:

I first of all want to thank all the parents for being so supportive this season. You daughters could not get to every practice and get through all the hard work outs without you to vent too and drive them there.  All the other coaches as well as myself were so proud of how hard all of the girls worked this season and it definitely paid off at conference. I also want you to give yourself a pat on the back as I got too many compliments from other coaches, swimmers and parents about the girls. They said all the girls swam and dove great and how much they can see how they are there for each other. That truly brings me joy!

The banquet after going back and forth with school and trying to fit it into as many people schedule as I could is going to be November 20th from 5:45-7:15. The school is not available on Monday and we have to make sure all the winter sports parents get to the meeting that night at 7:30. We are going to be doing desserts that night. So eat something before you come, and bring a dessert to pass!

State girls schedule for this week-
Monday- Practice 6-8 (dryland)
Tuesday- Practice 6-8
Wednesday- Practice 6-8 (dryland)
Thursday- Practice 6-8
Friday- Practice 5:30-7
Saturday- Practice 10-11:30