Owen Brown Barracudas

Welcome to the official site of the Owen Brown Barracudas, located in Columbia, Maryland.

We are looking foward to a great 2010 swim season. GO BARRACUDAS!!!

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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

SPORTSMANSHIP

As you are well aware this year all swimmers and their parents were asked to sign a code of conduct. We realize that not everyone actually read it in its entirety. The summer swim league is about competing in a friendly atmosphere. When there is taunting or booing, the atmosphere becomes more adversarial and ugly. There have been several complaints of taunting or booing from several different teams called into CA. The have had complaints of parents yelling that such and such team “sucks.” CA is trying to deal with the more severe complaints on a case by case basis. The coaches and managers want to take this opportunity to encourage and remind everyone that this type of behavior won’t be tolerated. We don’t want the kids taunting and we CERTAINLY don’t want the parents taunting. Keep it positive!!!!!

SWIM SUIT SALES

We are using Cy’s Swimwear this year. Please contact or visit them if you still need a team suit.

719 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD 21228

410-747-8760

www,cysswim.com

Swimsuit Prices:

Ladies Men’s

Youth Size $41.30 Youth Size $29.40

Adult Size $42.70 Adult Size $30.80

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.

Awards Picnic

We will be having the awards picnic catered again this year. Chicken nuggets, fruit, salad, and pasta will be served. The cost per person attending is $6.00 iwth a family manimum of $25.00. The managers would also like to put together a slide show of this year’s swimmers. If you have pictures from practices, pep rallies, events, meets and want to share please give them to the managers or send them to team@owenbrowswimteam.com,

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.

“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!

last updated 07/21/2010

Columbia, MD
ph: Dasher Green 410-381-1461
alt: Hopewell 410-381-1460