News
7/20/09
Dining to Donate
Dear Marlins,
Please remember that we have our Dining to Donate Evening at
Applebee's on Tuesday from 5 -9pm. Please bring the flyer to the
restauant. Flyers are in mailboxes and extras are in the back of the
mailbox.
Also, please return the Banquet forms.
Thank you
Susan Posner
7/18/09
Championship Theme
Hi Everyone,
The coaches
have picked the theme for Championships.
It is a "Western" theme. Get out your cowboy hats and
boots and join in the fun. Please feel free to dress in the
theme for the day. This goes for swimmers and parents!!!
Congratulations on our win against Holmdel today. Thanks to all
of our parent volunteers and coaches for their hard work during
the meet.
Please
remember our Dining to Donate at Applebee's from 5 - 9pm on
Tuesday.
Banquet forms
are due on Wednesday, July 22nd
Susan Posner
7/17/09
Practice Next Week and
Reminders
Dear
Marlins,
This is a
reminder that for all swimmers NOT
attending Championships, today is the last day of swim practice.
For all of those attending Championships, practice times remain
the same for next week. We have had a great response to
Championships and I am sure the kids will thoroughly enjoy
themselves at the meet.
If you are
not at practice next week, please get your Banquet forms in
today. Also reminder to get your Dining to Donate flyer's out
of your mailboxes for the 21st from 5-9pm at Applebees on Route
9.
Reminder
that tonight is another TGIF at the club and the swim team will
be scooping and selling Ralph's Ices as a fundraiser. They are
$2.00 each.
Also,
tomorrow is a home meet for us so that means we will have a
Hospitality table. Please purchase your water, coffee (iced and
hot), bagels, muffins, gatorade, snacks etc from our table.
Thanks for
your continued support
Susan Posner
7/17/09
Championship T-Shirt Orders
Dear
Marlins,
I have just
received the pre order form for Championship T shirts. I will be
putting a hard copy in everyone's mailboxes tomorrow. There are
2 attachments to this email- one is a picture of the shirt and
the second is the order form. The t- shirts are $13.00 each if
pre ordered. If you get them that day they are $15.00 each.
Sizes are not guaranteed if you wait until the day of the meet.
All t-shirts will be given to me the day of Championships and I
will distribute. If you are interested, please write a check to
the YWMC or cash. There will be a folder labeled "Completed
Championship t- shirt forms" in the front of the coaches
mailboxes. Please put forms in there. There are also folders
in there for completed Banquet forms and Championship forms.
Thank you
7
/16/09
Last Swim Meet
Dear
Marlins,
It is
unbelievable that Saturday is already our last meet of the
season. The weather forecast is predicting some rain for
Saturday. Let's hope they are wrong. If the meet has to be
cancelled, I will send out an email as soon as I know in the
early am. PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL BEFORE
LEAVING YOUR HOUSE . If the weather is bad, the
Management of the Hazlet Pool Club will contact me regarding the
meet. Let's keep our fingers crossed and do a sun dance.
If the meet
is on, please arrive at 7:45am at HAZLET and check in.
Thanks
Susan Posner
77/7/09
Revised Championship Events for Session 2
10/Unders
Dear Marlins,
As always is the case, as
soon as I distributed the Championship info , the league made
changes in the 10/under session. The event numbers on the 4th
page are incorrect in the original 4 page packet in your
mailboxes. I am putting a revised sheet in your mailbox today .
Please tear off the last page and reattach the new and revised
sheet for session #2 10/unders.
Sorry for the inconvienience.
Susan Posner
7/7/09
Winter Swim Team Tryouts
Dear Marlins,
I have attached the links of the winter swim
teams in our area. If interested, please click on each link
for try out information.
Freehold Y try out information
Red Bank Y try out information
Monmouth Barracudas please keep
checking for try out info to be posted
The Atlantic Club
TRY OUTS are August 18th
4:30-7:30pm 732-223-2100 ext 166
Old Bridge YMCA
Susan Posner
7/2/09
No Practice Friday and
Upcoming
Events on Tuesday July 7th
Dear
Marlins,
In
observation of the Fourth of July, practice is cancelled for
tomorrow. I hope you all have a safe and Happy Fourth of July.
Congratulations on our first win last night against Hazlet.
Thanks to all of our parent volunteers and coaches.
Please
note: Tuesday , July 7th
Team pictures at 4:30 for all ages.
Please wear your team suits. Most or all of you paid for
pictures in your initial paperwork. If you did not pay, please
contact the pool club office Tues am ASAP. The pool club office
will be closed until Tuesday morning. If you do not want an
individual picture, you are still welcome to partake in the team
group shot.
Apparel Sale:Thank you to May
Garcia and Diana Ho for chairing our apparel this season.
Apparel will also be on sale Tuesday. Please bring cash or a
check to the Marlboro Marlins Swim Team.
Food Drive: We will be having a
food drive on Tuesday. Please bring in non perishable food for
our drive. Please check expiration dates. There will be a table
set up by the bathrooms so you can drop off your food.
I hope you
all have a safe and Happy 4th!!!
Please check
mailboxes on Monday for important information.
Susan Posner
7/2/09
Swim Banquet
Dear Marlins,
This year at the banquet we are planning on handing out
treat bags to all of the swimmers upon departure from the
festivities. If your child has any food allergies, please
let the banquet committee know so that we can create an
individualized treat bag safe for your child to take home.
If you could let the banquet committee know by July 10th
that would be wonderful. Please email
michelle_teitelbaum@yahoo.com
with any requests, questions or concerns.
Thanks so much!
Banquet Committee Members
7/1/09
Community Service
Opportunities
Dear
Marlins,
If you are
going to mapquest the Hazlet Pool Club for tonight and our
upcoming 2 home meets, the address is 319 Middle Road, Hazlet NJ
07730.
Also, there
will be 2 sign up sheets for Community Service Hours starting
tonight. This is for any swimmers 12 and older who need hours or
would like to help out. The Food Drive is on picture day. The
one sign up is for our Food Drive at the pool club on Tuesday,
July 7th from 3:30-5:30pm. They will be responsible for checking
expiration dates and packing up the food in boxes. Apparel will
be on sale during pictures and the food drive.
Secondly,
there will be a sign up sheet for our TGIF Ralph's Ices
fundraiser. The dates are Fridays July 10th, 17th, 24th.The
swimmers will scoop ices during the TGIF nights at the pool
club. There will be 2 time slots. 4-6pm and 6-8pm.
Please check
mailboxes by Friday for Championship info packet and Ronald
McDonald marathon envelope.
See you
later
Susan Posner
6/30/09
Meet at Hazlet
Dear Marlins,
I just wanted
to remind everyone that we have an away meet at Hazlet tomorrow
night. Please arrive at 4:45pm and sign the event corkboard. If
you are volunteering at the meet, please check in with Lisa
Bisogni ASAP. If there is any bad weather tomorrow, please
check your emails before leaving the house.
Thank you
Susan Posner
6/24/09
Rescheduled Meet
Dear
Marlins,
The meet vs the Freehold Y originally
scheduled for today is going to be THURSDAY, JUNE 25th.
I received a message from the President of the League (parent
rep of the Y) that according to our league constitution a rain
out of a Wed meet must be held on the Thursday following.
This puts Lisa Bisogni and our coaches under the gun. It is
very important that if you were scheduled to work the meet
that you time for us tomorrow. If you are scheduled to work,
please reply to this email by 11am tomorrow and let me know if
you will be able to help out tomorrow.
For
swimmers:
I know there
were a lot of people missing because of Graduation tonight. If
you can now make it, please reply to this email by 11am tomorrow
morning. On the flip side, if you were able to come tonight but
cannot come tomorrow, please reply to this email by 11am
tomorrow.
I know
this is last minute, but I hope we can all work together and
make it a great meet for all of the kids.
Arrival time
remains the same at 4:45 with a start time of 5:30pm.
Thanks for
your understanding and cooperation.
Susan Posner
6/22/09
First Meet
Dear Marlins,
I would like to thank
all of the parents who volunteered today at time trials. I am
relieved the rain held off and we were able to proceed as
planned.
APPAREL:
We had our apparel out
for the first time this season. We are
going to sell the apparel again this Friday during practice and
the Pasta Party. If you did not get a chance to "shop"
today, please stop by on Friday. Please bring cash or a check.
MEET VS THE
FREEHOLD Y:
Let's first hope for
sun on Wednesday. Our first meet of the season is this Wednesday
at the Freehold Y on East Freehold Road. There are directions on
the website www.marlboromarlins.net.
Please arrive at the meet at 4:45pm and the meet starts at
5:30pm. When your child arrives, please have them check in with
Coach Kristin ASAP. If you are scheduled to volunteer at the
meet, please let Lisa Bisogni know you are there ASAP. There
will be a corkboard displayed with the swimmers events, heats
and lanes. Please have your child write this info on their
hands. If you are new to the team, please ask someone to show
you how to write it.
Please bring several
towels, sweatshirts and a change of clothes. Also, parents
bring beach chairs. You can bring in refreshments or purchase
them at the concession stand.
It is a Wednesday meet
so all 8/unders will swim 25 yards of back and free. The
corkboard will indicate whether your swimmer will participate
in a relay.
All girls 9/older will
swim butterfly and breastroke and all boys 9/older will swim
freestyle and backstroke.
The Marlins Swim Team
promotes good sportsmanship during the entire season. This
includes practices, team activities, and especially team meets.
We swim as a team. Please discuss with your swimmers the
importance of listening to their coaches, being mindful of their
events, cheering on their teammates, swimming as a team player
during the relays and overall good sportsmanship. Please stay
until the end of the meet for the team cheer and the reading of
the score.
We will be given an
area to sit as a team at the Y. Please make sure the area
is clean before leaving .
My older daughter Jane
is graduating from Middle School on Wed, so we will not be at
this meet. If there are any problems, two board members will be
there (Lisa Bisogni and Rosa Principe.)
I wish you all a fun
and fabulous meet......GO MARLINS!!!!
Susan Posner
6/22/09
Annual DVD
Dear
Marlins,
As the
season gets under way, we need to look ahead to our annual year
end DVD. This DVD is shown at the banquet. Please take pictures
throughout the season and put them on a disc. All discs can
be put in my mailbox "Posner" throughout the season. If anyone
would like to put our disc together for the end of the season,
please reply to this email. This would be a great opportunity
for a swimmer to get community service hours for their
time making the DVD.
Thanks
Susan Posner
6/18/09
Time Trials Postponed
Dear
Marlins,
Rain, rain
go away......For obvious reasons, time trials are cancelled for
today. Originally, tomorrow was the rain date. Unfortunately,
the weather forecast for the next few days is rain off and on.
I will keep you posted about regular practice tomorrow. Looking
ahead to the forecast for Monday it is dry and sunny in the
80's.
We will have time trials at 4:15pm on
Monday and we will also have apparel on sale that afternoon also.
Please have the kids wear their team suits. Some 8 /unders were
time trialed yesterday. I will contact you individually later
today. Those children do not need to swim on Monday. If they
have siblings on the team, the pool club is open on a daily
basis that day so they can play and have fun in the other
pools.
Below are a
list of parents who have volunteered to work at time trials
today, please reply to this email if you are still available on
Monday. I will forward all reply's to Lisa Bisogni.
Thank you
Susan Posner
Teitlebaum
Weingarten
Durbin
Barden
Glass
Kuba
James
Carcaldi
Viris
Zaidi
Mirza
Solidum
Warantz
6/16/09
Volunteering spots still
available
Dear
Marlins
First and foremost, I would like to thank all of you who have signed
up to volunteer to work the meets. Our schedule is almost full.
Once the schedule is complete, Lisa Bisogni will have it posted on
the website. If you have not put your name on the schedule yet, the
following spots are still open.
Time
trials Thursday June 18th 4:15 swim club
1 timer
1 deck manager
1 starter-- This is a great meet to acquaint yourself with the
starting system. Please consider learning this position.
Saturday July 11th home meet at Hazlet
1 across the board
2 scorekeepers
In
the next few days, Lisa and I will cross check the roster to make
sure all families have volunteered at a meet.
Thanks
Susan Posner
6/11/09
Volunteer needed to Chair Ice Cream Party
Dear Marlins,
I
am going through the volunteer sheets and you have all signed up to
help at the Ice Cream party on July 13th. I need someone to chair
this party. The responsibilities would be to purchase ice cream and
toppings. You will be completely reimbursed with a receipt. The
team will purchase the paper goods. You will also be responsible to
email the volunteers about their time slot . There should be 2
shifts. I will send you the list of people.
Thank
you
Susan Posner
6/08/09
Swim Officials
Needed
Dear Marlins,
As
the first meet approaches and our roster is growing, our team finds
ourselves without any officials. All of our officials from last
year are not returning to the team this year. This is a problem for
us. We need to have officials. I have brought this to the attention
of the league. Peg Kauth, Head Official for Freehold Y, has
generously offered to have a summer official training class on
Friday, June 12th from 6-8pm at the Freehold Y. This class is free
of charge.
It
is imperative that we have several parents from our team attend this
class. It is a great opportunity to learn more about the sport your
child is involved with. Being an official will meet your
volunteering requirements. You will not be thrown to the wolves at
the meets. You will be able to shadow an existing official until you
are comfortable enough doing it solo. There will always be more than
one official on deck at all times.
If
you would be able to attend this one time 2 hour class, please reply
to this email ASAP. I need to give the Y names by Thursday am. We
absolutely need to have officials for the season.
Thank
you
Susan Posner
6/02/09
Swim Team Dues
Dear Marlins,
If you have not already paid your swim team dues, please do so at
your earliest convenience. Until then, your child is not on the
roster or allowed to practice until the office has your
payment. Also, if you are not swimming this year, please let me know
so I can remove you from the email list.
Thank you
Susan Posner
5/28/09
Tryouts
Dear
Marlins,
I wanted to let you know that we had a great turn out for try outs this afternoon despite the weather. We had a lot of brave swimmers jump into very cold water today. We had about 30 -35 new swimmers try out. If you were unable to make try outs today, please come to the pool club on Monday at 4pm. Please ask for Head Coach Kristin upon arrival
Thanks,
Susan
Posner
5/28/09
We have our Banquet Committee!! & Video Volunteers Needed
Dear Marlins,
I am very happy to announce that we have a Banquet Committee. I am very thankful for these ladies who have volunteered to plan our Annual Year End Celebration. Our committee members are Camille Reinhold, Ruth Mirza, Myriam Kuba, Rosa Principe, and Michelle Teitelbaum. I know they will do a great job! Please mark your calendars for Thursday, July 30th at PNC Reception Center. If anyone else would like to help out, please let me know.
We also do a DVD chronicling the season. This
is always shown at the Banquet. If one of our swimmers 13 years or
older would like to do the video, they can keep a running log of
time spent on the video. These hours can be used for Community
Service hours. It is a great opportunity to earn hours during the
summmer. Or, if a parent would like to do the video, that would also
be appreciated. You will need to take pictures during the season and
use the pictures that fellow swimmers and parents take for the
video. They will give you the photos on a disc to be used towards
the final DVD. The final DVD should be accompanied by music. The
video should be about 15 minutes long. We have the projector to show
the video. If anyone would like to do this year, please let me
know.
Thanks
Susan Posner
4/21/09
Swim
team payment deadline extended
Dear Marlins,
The
Swim Club Office wanted me to pass on that the deadline for swim team payments
is now extended to Thursday, May 7th.
Also,
the swim club needs families to fill out sponsorship forms for those families
who do not live in Marlboro and would like to join our club. If interested,
please fill out the attached sponsorship form and mail back to the swim club
office.
Thanks,
Susan Posner
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04/08/09
Open
Parent Board positions
Dear
Marlins,
I hope
you all have a Happy Easter and/or Passover. Today you should have received
the swim team paperwork. Please complete all of the forms. It is important to
fill out the volunteer form,application and picture order form. Our team relies
on all of our families volunteering throughout the summer. Please take note of
the change in payment. You must write out 2 checks. It is explained very clearly
in the packet.
As our
season is approaching, I would like to share with you the changes in our Parent
Board positions. I would like to welcome Rosa Principe to our Board. Rosa will
be our team Secretary.
We have
2 open positions for the upcoming season. We need a Vice President and a
Banquet Chair(s). These positions must be filled this year.
There
are also 2 positions that will be open for next year(2010). According to the
guidelines of the Parent Board you cannot serve a particular position for more
than 3 consecutive years and you can only serve on the Board for 6 years. That
is the point where I will be after this season ends. I have enjoyed my 3 years
as President of the Board and I am looking forward to a wonderful 2009. I will
be stepping down from the Board at the end of this season. It is imperative
that someone take over this position. I strongly urge someone to step up and
volunteer and shadow me this summer. It will be much easier for the new
incoming President to work along side me this summer.
The
other position open for next summer(2010) is Treasurer. Jeff Warantz has been
our faithful Treasurer for 3 seasons and he will be stepping down at the end of
the summer. If anyone is interested in this position for next summer, please
let me know. Jeff can show you the ropes this summer.
I urge
everyone to consider volunteering for a position on the Parent Board. The Board
is an essential and integral part of the Marlboro Marlins Swim Team. If anyone
is interested in any of the above positions, please contact me as soon as
possible.
Swimcerely,
Susan
Posner
03/24/2009
Sponsorship forms
Dear
Marlins,
I
stopped by the pool club office today to inquire about the sponsorship program
for families who used to be members at Strathmore. These families will need to
be sponsored again this year. For all of our Strathmore families, please go on
to the website below and fill out the pool club paperwork and return it to the
office. Please fill out your portion of the sponsorship form. For all of our
Marlboro resident families, please consider filling out a sponsorship form from
the website and drop off or mail to the pool club office. We want to make sure
all of our returning families are sponsored to return to our team.
Thanks
for your consideration and support
Susan
Posner
http://www.marlboro-nj.gov/swimclub/
