Corrected Apparel Order Form

There was a mistake on the apparel order form which yesterday said the Nike bag cost $26. It really costs $30. The correct form is now online.

MSG Varsity Covers Swim Across the Sound

MSG Varsity (channel 14 on Optimum Cable) did a story on the the Staples High School Swim Across the Sound team.

Team Suit & Apparel Order Forms

The 2011 order forms for the team suit and team apparel are now online.

The team suit is required and order forms must be turned in during the August 31st parents’ meeting.

Team apparel is not required, but order forms must be turned in no later than practice on Friday, September 2nd.

 

 

Staples Closed on Monday (8/29), No Practices

Because of Tropical Storm Irene, Westport schools will be closed on Monday, August 28 and everything that was scheduled for Monday will occur on Tuesday.

The first day of the school year will be Wednesday (8/31).

Reminder: Tryouts on Saturday 8/27

Awesome job at practice today girls!

Please make sure you have all your medical forms in today. You can find them on the Staples Athletic website or in the Forms section of the Girls Swimming & Diving website. Also, don’t forget to bring your Code of Conduct to tryouts tomorrow. They are 9:00-12:00 at SHS. Please show up no later than 8:50 so we can get in the water at 9:00. You will need a swim suit, goggles and a water bottle.

Although Staples says we are having tryouts tomorrow, Coach Laux views it as a first practice so he can see how well all the girls swim. We will be discussing the upcoming season and how and why swimmers are assigned to the varsity and junior varsity teams. Coach Laux may time us tomorrow, but will hold team time trials at a later date. They will consist of a 50 of each stroke and a 100 IM. We will be in the water the entire time tomorrow, so swimmers do not need clothes for dry land. But they must bring workout clothes starting on Monday, when we start running as part of our practices.

We will post an apparel order form this weekend, but swimmers are not required to purchase anything except the team suit, which we order directly form Speedo. (You can’t buy it at the Metro Swim Shop.) We order our other apparel from Athletic Shoe Factory. Parents and/or swimmers fill out a form, give us a check and we place one team order.

Parents do not need to attend Saturday’s tryouts. However, there is a mandatory parents meeting on Wednesday, August 31st at 7:00 PM in the Staples cafeteria. Apparel forms will be due at this time.

- Caroline, Gabby and Michelle

Captains’ Practices, Medical Forms & Reunion

A few reminders:

Number one: Please get your medical forms in as soon as possible, they are due August 19th!

Number two: There will be a swim team dinner for past, present, and future swimmers either Tuesday or Wednesday next week, so if you haven’t already done so please reply to the Facebook event or reply to this email.

Number three: Captain’s practices start on Monday, so please be at Longshore at 8:00 ready to go with a suit, cap, goggles, dry land clothes, towel and a water bottle.

See you all soon:)

Love,
Gabby, Caroline and Michelle

Captains’ Practices & Tryouts

Captains’ Practices Begin Next Week

Longshore Pool (260 Compo Road South)

Monday – Friday
August 15 – August 26
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Bring money on Fridays, we will go to the Sherwood Diner (901 Post Road East) after practice.

Mandatory Parents Meeting

There will be a mandatory parents’ meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 in the Staples High School cafeteria. Any swimmer who wishes to be a member of the varsity or junior varsity swimming and diving team must be represented by a parent or guardian.

Swimmers who did not order team suits and other apparel at try-outs should also attend.

Details and an agenda for the parents’ meeting will be posted at the end of the month.

Staples Finished Fifth in Swim Across the Sound

The Staples High School Swim Across the Sound team finished fifth among relay teams and fifth overall in the 24^th annual Swim Across the Sound Marathon, which took place on Saturday, August 6. The team, which was captained by Joss Abel, crossed the Sound in just over six hours (6:05:02) and was one of 35 relay teams that made the 15.5 mile journey from Port Jefferson, N.Y. to Captain’s Cove Seaport in Bridgeport.

The team included Joss’s sister Verity, his brother Larry, Gabrielle Wimer and Kyle Bacon. Gabrielle, Joss and Kyle will be seniors at Staples and co-captains of their respective SHS swim teams this year. Verity will be a sophomore and Larry, who graduated from Staples in 2010, is entering his sophomore year at Susquehanna University, where he swims for the Crusaders.

The Staples High School team raised over $11,000 for the St. Vincent’s Swim Across the Sound Foundation. (Last year the Staples team placed 14th, and raised over $10,000.) The St. Vincent’s Foundation provides cancer education, screening and prevention programs for the greater Bridgeport community regardless of whether people have health insurance or not. “We are fortunate to live in Westport, with all its facilities,” said Joss. “But right next door is Bridgeport, where 21 percent of residents live below the poverty line.”

The Staples team swam in honor of Masato Sakaguchi, the four-year-old brother of Fairfield swimmers Miki, Tomoya, Toshi and Yumi. Masato passed away last July after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Verity described him as a “ray of sunshine.” Gabrielle said that they lost a member of their “swim family” when Masato passed away. The Staples swimmers and the Sakaguchi siblings have swum together for years on the Westport Weston Family Y’s Water Rat Swim Team.

The swim also was a celebration of Paul Abel’s good health. The father of the Abel siblings recently passed his five-year cancer-free milestone after a bout with colon cancer.

Click to view photos of the Swim Across the Sound.

Photo above shows, left to right: Kyle, Verity, Gabrielle, Joss and Larry.