The Iowa City Eels Swim Club provides a competitive swimming program committed to instilling the spirit of success in its athletes through teaching the value of dedication, achievement of personal goals, and teamwork. The Iowa City Eels Swim Club strives to develop integrity, self-confidence, physical fitness, sportsmanship and a winning attitude in its athletes; and in so doing, provide skills that will benefit them for life.
New "Q" times this January
Congratulations to the following swimmers for achieving new Q times this past month:
Ariel Roghair- 50 fly
Emma Hruby- 500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free
Bennett Yeo- 1000 free, 1650 free, 100 breast, 50 fly
Anna Spellman- 50 free
Nate Katalinich- 200 back
Carlyn Haas- 200 back (first-ever Q time)
Abbie Dehring- 100 back (first-ever Q time)
Paris Sissel- 200 back
Great job and keep up the hard work!!!
ICE Championship / End of Season Schedule Changes
In preperation for ISI Regionals and Championship Meets, USA-S Short Course Sectionals, and the high school boys season ending (and many of those swimmers coming back to ICE workouts) we will have several changes to our practice schedule after Feb. 14th. If you have any questions as to what group(s) or workouts your swimmer should attend during this time period contact Coach Don (Morays & Senior) or Coach Adam Osweiler (Frost, Cubes, Waves). The schedules are set up with the intent to get each set of swimmers ready for thier main meets, allow non-qualifiers time to practice during the end of the season, and accomodate special events for each group. NOTE: COOKIE NIGHT for Regionals swimmers will be Feb. 18th, Pasta Night for ISI Age-Group Champs will be on Feb. 23rd, and the Senior Champs team dinner will be on Mar. 3rd.
Submit Coach Evaluations by 2/12/2010
Evaluations due to cindy-opitz@mchsi.com by 2/12/2010. Let the board know how you think our head coaches are doing, during this annual evaluation process.
Upcoming Events!
--Cookie Night at Mercer for Regionals swimmers, Feb. 18.
--Pasta Night at Mercer for 12/under Champs qualifiers, Feb. 23
--Senior team dinner, location tba, Mar. 3
Reminder - End of Season / Championship meet planning
Check with Coach Adam Osweiler (Frost, Cubes, Waves) or Coach Donald Spellman (Morays & Senior) with any questions you may have about the approiate meets that you / your swimmer should attend for the end of the short course season. The main meets for 12 & Unders are: ISI Regionals (Feb. 20/21 in Bettendorf - non Q time swimmers/ events) and ISI 12 & Under Champs (Feb. 26 to 28th in Iowa City - qualifiers only). The main meets for 13 & Over swimmers include: ISI Regionals (Feb. 20 & 21 - non Q time swimmers / events), ISI Senior Champs (March 5 to 7 - qualifiers only), and USA-S Sectionals (Wed. March 10 (1000 Free) to Sat. March 13 - qualifiers only). If you / your swimmer has not attained any ISI Q times by the end of Jan. please make plans to attend the ISI Regionals meet as your main taper meet.
ATTENTION FROST and CUBES - New start times at North Liberty Rec. Center Pool starting Jan. 5th, 2010!
Swimmers should arrive at 6:15 PM on the pool deck and we will be getting in the water at 6:30PM. Frost will swim 45 to 50min. and Cubes will swim for one hour.
ICE December NEWSLETTER posted!
Click here for the latest Eels Newsletter!
Complaint with UI Committee on Competition and Community Concerns
On 11/20, the ICE Board filed a complaint with the UI about the recent formation of the IFLY swim team. The board feels that the UI should not own and operate a swim team in competition with private, parent-run swim clubs. The board filed the complaint after discovering that the UI Committee had met about the UI team's formation (on 10/29), wanting to make sure that our concerns were heard before any UI decision was reached on the matter. The ICE board, parents, and swimmers do not have anything against healthy competition between competitive clubs on equal footing. We are concerned, however, about competing against a team that is subsidized by UI resources and was formed in violation of UI and Iowa Regents' policies. The media contact regarding the ICE complaint is Paul Soderdahl.
ICE IS CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF SWIMMING EXCELLENCE
(1969 TO 2009) IN THE IOWA CITY / CORALVILLE AREA!
This season marks the 40th anniervsary of the Iowa City Eels (formerly the Iowa City Swim Club) as the premiere swim club in the Johnson county area. Founded by a group of hard-working swimmers, knowledgeable coaches, and positive parents in 1969 the club has grown to become a powerhouse at the state and regional level under AAU and later USA-Swimming sanctioned competitions having produced numerous state qualifiers, Sectional and Zone level swimmers, Olympic Trials participants, and many swimmers who competed in college competition at NCAA Div.I, II, or III institutions. We are currently in the process of setting up an ALUMNI page on our website which will feature quotes from people that were part of ICSC / ICE and helped the create the club our current members enjoy today.
If you are a ICSC / ICE alum, parent of a former swimmer, or coached with the club in the past feel free to send an e-mail to Head Coach Donald P. Spellman (dspellman@iceels.org) about your experience with the sport while on ICE and what lessons / life skills swimming with the club has taught you (or any stories you may also remember). Those will be reviewed by the ICE Board of Directors and then certain quotes and testimonials will be added to the site.
New Eels Calendar Now Available
Check our new Google enabled team calendar!
Email Updates
In addition to posting information on the web page, we will continue to send periodic reminders to club members via email. If you are not receiving club-wide email announcements, please send an email to: communicator@iceels.org.
