Owen Brown Barracudas
Welcome to the official site of the Owen Brown Barracudas, located in Columbia, Maryland.
We are looking foward to a great 2008 swim season. GO BARRACUDAS!!!
To receive our newsletters electronically, special email, weather related information please follow the link. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/owenbrownswimteam
The official website for the out door pools is www.columbiapools.org.
To check the scores of each meet go to www.cnslswimming.org
Columbia, MD
ph: Dasher Green 410-381-1461
alt: Hopewell 410-381-1460
Important Information
The managers want to extend a special thank you to Owen Brown Liquors. They will be providing the ice for our pep rallies, home meets, swim fest, and awards picnic this swim season. Please stop in and thank them for their support of our team!
AWARDS PICNIC
The Barracuda Swim Team Awards Picnic will take place at the Dasher Green Pool on Tuesday July 29th, beginning at 5:30 pm. Families with the last names beginning with the following letters are asked to bring enough of their assigned item to feed 15-20 people for our pot luck dinner:
A-D: Main Dish
E-L: Dessert
M-Z: Side Dish
If you will not be attending the Awards Picnic, please contact Maria May (410) 381-1507 to arrange to pick up your trophy after the date.
SWIM MEET ETIQUETTE 101
Please remember that if you have a question for the coaches, don’t approach them during practices, as they are busy supervising yours or somebody else’s kids in the water. You can leave them a note in their “mailbox” or send an email.
If you have questions about something at a meet, either a judge’s call or coaching decision, please do not ask the meet officials or timers, they need to attend to the swimmers currently on deck and in the pool. Please ask a manager and we’ll do our best to get you an answer.
Parents please review a few rules with your swimmers for appropriate behavior at swim meets:
· No playing in the volleyball court during meets.
· No part of your body can be in the water unless you are competing in a current event. This includes the diving well and the rim of our pool – you must be completely on the concrete deck area, no feet hanging over the side. This is to insure that all competing swimmers have the same opportunity to swim in a lane with no distractions like feet in their faces!
· Swimmers will be asked to leave the meet if they do not respond to an official’s request the first time they are asked.
Pool Etiquette
Please do not enter the guardhouse for any reason. The guardhouse is for guards ONLY! If there is something you need PLEASE see one of the guards to get if for you. DO NOT ENTER or let your children enter the guardhouse.
YOU’VE GOT MAIL!
The team mailbox will be available after the time trials. The mailbox is a black box found at pool side or near the office during practices. All families' have a folder with their families’ name on it. Please check the team mailbox on a regular basis. Newsletters, ribbons, etc., will be placed in your mail folder for you to pick up at least once a week. The coaches and managers have folders in the front of the box if you need to leave them a message. Extra newsletters can also be found at the Dasher Green Pool on the bulletin Board.
“DQ” means Don’t Quit!
As everyone has learned by now, each meet is governed by officials who have been trained, either by US Swimming or CNSL, to insure fairness in the competition. This means enforcing the rules laid out by US Swimming for each stroke. Every swimmer who has been involved in the sport for any length of time has been “DQed”, even at the national and international levels. It is important that we as parents respect the training and knowledge of the officials and support our swimmers by encouraging them to talk to their coaches and work hard in the week following an event where they were “DQed”. Help your swimmer see this as a learning experience and one they can overcome. Fair play in sports is important, as is mastering a new stroke. Officials hate “DQing” a swimmer, but they understand that their efforts not only insure a fair “playing field” for everyone, but help our young athletes learn the sport, too. Remind your swimmers that everyone gets “DQed” sometimes, even Michael Phelps!
As everyone has learned by now, each meet is governed by officials who have been trained, either by US Swimming or CNSL, to insure fairness in the competition. This means enforcing the rules laid out by US Swimming for each stroke. Every swimmer who has been involved in the sport for any length of time has been “DQed”, even at the national and international levels. It is important that we as parents respect the training and knowledge of the officials and support our swimmers by encouraging them to talk to their coaches and work hard in the week following an event where they were “DQed”. Help your swimmer see this as a learning experience and one they can overcome. Fair play in sports is important, as is mastering a new stroke. Officials hate “DQing” a swimmer, but they understand that their efforts not only insure a fair “playing field” for everyone, but help our young athletes learn the sport, too. Remind your swimmers that everyone gets “DQed” sometimes, even Michael Phelps!
Columbia, MD
ph: Dasher Green 410-381-1461
alt: Hopewell 410-381-1460
