News and Announcements
Hello -
Activity Logs
We are getting a great amount of people sending these in – getting more detailed and consistent! Keep them coming :)
Team Meeting
Info below for this weeks team meeting… can’t wait to see all of your facesTopic: NBA Team Meeting
Time: Apr 13, 2020 03:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75559929360?pwd=TFE5SXdNQmlETCtxN21iQmtxMksvQT09
Meeting ID: 755 5992 9360
Password: 044348
Pushup Challenge
Once again – WOW! We have gotten so many people participating… including coaches, some of our masters swimmers, and even some parents! Keep it up NBA family
1710 Bruno Coelho
1700 Cat Watrous
1645 Luca Gissendaner
1505 Charlie Stewart
1400 Zev Schuman
1350 Sydney Brakebill
1200 Nicky Glenn
1021 Henry Harlow
850 Gavin Green
800 Alena Sharp
700 Kallen Wank, Ken DeMont, Ana Roudebush
600 Maddy Gruender
560 Dean Gustavson, Mia Solomon
540 Aliyah San Andreas
530 Kai Makino, Alanna Baker
430 Emma Keith-Brown, Maria Forney
420 Nina Lawson, Sophie Lee, Katherine Wu
410 Lena Wang, Kelsey Brakebill
400 Jane Thompson, Sophie Keith-Brown, Tor Aune
390 McKenzie Kwei
360 Holly Tarantino, Ben Bishop
350 Alisa Zhou
330 Alessia Root
320 Sarani Puri
310 Marc Watrous
300 Annabelle Kilgore
250 Andre Ignoffo
240 Emily Fee, Shawn DeMont
220 Alex Gershman
212 Brooke Bent
210 Reese Burns
200 Ines Lovato
160 Nina Bonte, Ali Kosmowski
150 Harry Wait
125 Reese Dahlgren
100 William Tucker, Joe Delaney, Mark Lutzker
84 Don Swartz
73 Tricia Wallace
70 Jeff Cooperman
60 Bob Schultz
50 Adeline Turner
45 Melissa Lewis
40 Andrea Salmi
35 Kate Lynch
30 Adam Engelskirchen, Miles Smith
25 Catherine Nottage
20 Matthew Sessions, Brandon Smith
Pump-Up Songs!!!
We are going to discuss this more in the meeting this afternoon – SEND US YOUR ALL TIME FAVORITE PUMP UP SONG! This can be a song you listen to to get motivated during dryland workouts, before races, songs that fire you up, etc. Let’s keep these appropriate :) We have a fun idea we are working on using these – so let’s get a ton of submissions!
Safe Sport
Just like last week – we need your help! Please both parents and athletes take some time to complete this free online course through USA swimming. This helps to certify our team as a Safe Sport team! All of your coaches take these courses annually and we need you to participate as well! See link below for information
The document Safe_Sport_-_Parents___Athletes__1_.pdf was attached to this post.
Hello!-
Hope all is well! Great to see so many of you on the Zoom call. We will do the next one on Sunday 4/19 at 10:30am.
FAMILY – Show some gratitude! A lot of people are working hard to keep things going…nurses, teachers, grocery store workers, parents, kids, pets, etc. I challenged everyone at the Zoom mtg. to do something to show some gratitude – chalk some thanks on the sidewalk, leave some flowers for your neighbor who is a fireman, call your grandparents, etc. It’ll make you feel good—and them as well!
SCHOOL – School is back!
Make sure to set up a routine which has some movement/exercise.
Don’t forget to breath…
SWIM
Keep up your fitness level and maybe tap into some new strength.
Be innovative in your workouts! There’s a lot of ways to stay fit. Lily Kilgore went for a swim in the lagoon, Esme is swimming in her new homemade pool , William is boxing, Sophia is entering a virtual running race.
BACKSTROKE -
We watched Ryan Murphy (Go Bears!) win 200 Back at 2014 NCAA’s
Also, Coach Marco has updated our website with lots of goodies
See you at the pool, eventually!, Coach Mike
Hello all
Team Zoom Meeting
We are having another team zoom meeting! This will be a regular 3:45 meeting on Mondays – make sure you check this email for the Meeting ID, it will also be texted out to the swimmers.
Topic: NBA Team Meeting
Time: Apr 6, 2020 03:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/676228358
Meeting ID: 676 228 358
Activity Logs
Great job to all those who keep sending these in – we love hearing from everyone and appreciate seeing what our swimmers are up to! More and more of them are getting creative with their workouts and leaning in – we are seeing more detailed reports and we love it! Keep them coming – reminder that we want these on SATURDAY every week.
Strength & Conditioning routines for this week:
Monday HERE
Wednesday HERE
Friday HERE
Pushup Challenge
50 of our swimmers decided to participate this past week and WOW we have some strong swimmers – lets see some more names on this list:
1324 – Luca Gissendaner
1200 – Cat Watrous
1176 – Riley Conklin
960 – Justin Wong
950 – Jonah Lee
780 – Henry Harlow
720 – Gavin Green
700 – Alena Sharp
615 – Ken DeMont
560 – Dean Gustavson
540 – Bruno Coelho
525 – Kai Makino, Maddy Gruender
500 – Aliyah San Andreas, Zev Schuman
470 – Alanna Baker
460 – Sophie Lee
430 – Lena Wang, Sydney Brakebill
420 – Ashkon Namdar, Ines Lovato, Mia Solomon
400 – Charlie Stewart, Kallen Wank
360 – Savanna Flynn
350 – Emma Keith-Brown
325 – Sophie Keith-Brown
315 – Alisa Zhou
300 – Ben Bishop, Micah Sher, Nina Lawson
280 – Vincent De la Tour
252 – Andre Ignoffo
250 – Tor Aune
235 – Emily Fee
220 – Holly Tarantino
210 – Jane Thompson, Kelsey Brakebill
190 – Alex Gershman
170 – Annabelle Kilgore
155 – Harry Wait
150 – Adeline Turner
124 – Alessia Root
111 – Brooke Bent
100 – Ana Roudebush
90 – Julia Thompson, Reese Dahlgren
69 – Nina Bonte
55 – Sophia Bell
30 – McKenzie Kwei
Online Media Resources
In an effort to keep things simple for everyone we have added a tab to our website homepage where we will link things that we have sent out over the past few weeks. Check it out as it has links to workouts, swim videos and more! Look for “Online Media Resources”
Nutrition Course
Week 1 video was sent out to all the swimmers who are participating – Parents I will email you this week with some more info. It is not too late to sign up! If you are interested in the course we are saving the videos so you are more than welcome to join. Email me with questions if you have them
Safesport – Team Effort
We are hoping with the extra time that a lot of us have to make North Bay Aquatics a USA swimming Safe Sport team! This requires that both our parents and athletes take a short online course. Please help out our team by doing so – it is pretty easy process that all our NBA coaches do every other year.
The document Safe_Sport_-_Parents___Athletes.pdf was attached to this post.
Hi All
Another week missing everyone – we can’t wait to be back on the pool deck! Important information below about our team meeting, nutrition course, activity logs and more!
Nutrition Course
Sent out a full email with information last week so check that for more details. We really want as many swimmers as possible to participate in this as possible. We can promise it won’t be too much added “homework” and we know right now it is a financial stretch for some. Suggested price is $200 – if you are not in a position to pay that, email me as we are willing to make it work for EVERYONE!
Starts this Wednesday – we need your swimmers email and a parent email to join.
LET ME KNOW BY TOMORROW LATEST!!!
Zoom Team Meeting
Every Monday at 3:45 – be there! We had over 60 people there last week & it was so fun.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/982917807
Meeting ID: 982 917 807
Activity Logs
WOW – what an improvement from last week. More people turning them in, though still missing a few… if that is you, we won’t chase you down for it but remember this is important to stay engaged and accountable in your swimming.
We also are attaching an excellent example from Alanna Baker (she gave us permission to do so) about what we are looking for in these activity logs. It doesn’t have to be as pretty as hers but she is really detailed and clearly putting time, thought, and consistency into what she is doing.
Send in your logs EACH WEEK on Saturday!!!
Push Up Challenge
Coach Ken challenged all to do 400 pushups last week… since we are a competitive swim team we thought we would keep this challenge going each week. This can be added to your activity log… lets get some more names on this list! I know there are a few who should be added but we need to know numbers not just “pushups” or “strength & conditioning exercises” – lets go Tuna!
725 – Nicky Glenn
510 – Ken DeMont
420 – Alanna Baker, Bruno Coelho
400 – Kallen Wank
315 – Jonah Lee
300 – Sophie Lee
280 – Harry Wait
250 – Sydney Brakebill, Micah Sher
210 – Emma Keith-Brown
175 – Luca Gissendaner
140 – Alex Gershman
135 – Alena Sharp
120 – Vincent De la Tour
105 – Sophie Keith-Brown
100 – Savanna Flynn, Dean Gustavson, Adeline Turner
60 – Andre Ignoffo, Kelsey Brakebill, Jane Thompson
57 – Lena Wang
34 – Nina Bonte
10 – Kim Keith-Brown
Pre Senior Phone Numbers
I have almost all the PS phone numbers – please send them my way. This way in the spirit of accountability I can message swimmers updates/reminders.
See you (virtually) this afternoon!
Devon
Hello-
It looks like Saturday might be my new weekly update day! Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well – I miss seeing all of the youngsters at the pool.
FAMILY – We are doing well and having fun exploring our new routines and reality. It is not without some trials and tribulations, but overall a pretty exciting time! (I taught the kids dominoes last night).
SCHOOL – Homeschooling is a breeze! (‘jk’ as the kids say). We are making our way through the new platforms and expectations from our teachers. A special shout out to the teachers who are learning how to teach all over again – very challenging! A side note: Coach Don (who coaches the Senior Team with Coach Ken) would be irate if any of us said that anything was ‘hard’. Diamonds are hard. Our circumstances are challenging – and, fortunately, as competitive swimmers, we embrace challenge.
SWIMMING – I must be honest, I have not been keeping up with my push-ups, but I am re-motivated. Ken has challenged the PreSr/Sr team to do 400 push-ups/week, so my goal this week is 401 – one better than those guys.
I was talking to another coach today, and he told me he suggested to his swimmers that they ‘unplug’ and walk outside at least 2X/day. What they did outside, was up to them (hike, bike, jump rope, skip, do cartwheels (be careful), etc.)—but, get away from the ‘screen’. It’ll probably be great for your mood/mind/mental well-being. We should all heed those words.
ZOOM – We will have a quick Zoom meeting tomorrow, Sunday at 10:30am. If you haven’t used ZOOM yet, it is a pretty easy web-conference interface that will allow us to see each other’s smiling faces! Info for joining the meeting is at the bottom of this email.
GO SWIM – If you haven’t heard, GOSWIM is offering free access to its vast video library. For those interested, please see email below the ZOOM link. In the future, I will curate the videos, but as for now, have at it!
QUOTE – Change alone is unchanging. – Heraclitus
See you online, Coach Mike
Mike McDonald is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Swim Team NBA/TPC
Time: Mar 29, 2020 10:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 858 111 350
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Supporting Swim Education during the Coronavirus-
For nearly two decades, our mission at GoSwim.tv has been to help people of all ages and backgrounds to swim better and reach their full potential in the sport. In this challenging time of COVID-19, with pools closed, meets canceled, and swimmers stuck at home, we are determined to continue — and even expand — our mission. Because of our long-time commitment to virtual learning, we believe we are in a unique position to step up right now, to serve the swimmers and coaches of our shared community.
Here’s how we’d like to help right now…
For the next few weeks, when you sign up for a free GoSwim account (or if you already have a free GoSwim account), you will have free access to ALL of GoSwim’s content. In addition, you will receive a daily email from us, with a link to a video we’ve chosen as part of a weekly theme.
If you’re a coach and pick up a free account during this time, you have the added benefit of looking through GoSwim’s entire site and selecting videos to share with your swimmers. You can share as many videos as you want with as many swimmers as you want. Because of COPPA and MAAP regulations, each swimmer will need to create their own account. But once everyone has an account, you will be able to share any GoSwim URL through your own internal communication system with your team.
We invite every swimmer and coach, of every age and ability, to set up a free GoSwim account during this challenging time, and to experience what we have to offer. We hope this will give everyone the opportunity to expand their swimming knowledge, get new ideas, or be inspired by the swimmers who have shared their talent in our platform. For coaches especially, we hope this provides answers and solutions as you search for ways to stay in touch with your swimmers, to keep them engaged, motivated, and in command of their own swimming.
We know from personal experience that the simple act of watching great swimming can improve our swimming. We hope you will use GoSwim’s videos to help visualize the kind of swimmer you want to be when you get back in the pool. Stay healthy and safe, everyone.
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