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.
Split warmups for State, other schedule changes:
Please check the meet page (see red link on left) for new warmup times, psych sheets, etc. We will do our best to update you with new meet information.
Cooling in the Mercer facility:
One of the cooling zones in the Mercer building has had a mechanical malfunction. Before the meet, The City of Iowa City Building Manager will do a final examination and tweaking of the air circulation measures that have been put in place until the repair is accomplished. The pool area itself is not involved in the problem.
Be prepared for plenty of fans in the building, and realize that the lobby and locker rooms will be warm. The City and ICE will monitor the situation over the weekend. Encourage swimmers and parents to crash in the gym when possible.
Iowa City Eels Fall stroke clinic
Iowa City Eels will be hosting a stroke clinic for swimmers who are interested in joining a competitive swim team. The clinic will be August 23rd - September 3rd. For more information and the registration form click here. If you have any questions please contact Coach Adam Osweiler at aosweiler@iceels.org or call 319-594-6694. Spread the word if you know anyone who is interested.
(Masters: Practices listed on the Google calendar are correct. Pay attention to the location).
Save your legs, swimmers:
Remember, the coaches don't want you running around between swims. Parents, make sure your kids eat and drink and rest up between events. The coaches worked hard to get everybody in great shape and then slow the swimmers down to taper for the meet. Don't waste that energy -- use it for your swims. You'll be glad you did.
Sportsmanship: When everybody wins ...
Coach Don reminded everyone at the picnic tonight that we want to shoot for the sportsmanship award at the meet! Parents -- all the kids want to hear you cheering for the team. Practice yelling "Go, ICE!" You'll be doing it a lot.
Let's welcome our visiting Iowa swimmers and parents, and show them every courtesy we can. We're going to be hot and sweaty and tired at times, but ... ICE always tries to set the highest bar possible when it comes to true hosting. Try to meet a parent or two from another club. Some of them will become friends over time -- lots of nice folks out there in the swimming world.
Swimmers -- the coaches want to see your best athlete manners. Wish your competitors good luck. Shake hands after a good race. Tell your teammates "Great job!" Cheer for ICE! If you see one of your teammates in a really tough race, cheer them on to the end. You can help them finish! Make your parents and your coaches proud of you for being true good sports.
ICE Parents, You Are the Best!
I am absolutely sure I speak for every one of us when I say that I am amazed and touched to see how hard everyone is working to make this monster meet happen. Every single minute of your time is appreciated. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are making it possible for our kids to have a truly fine championship meet, and providing the support that our coaches need to do their best by our kids. This is what ICE stands for, and always has. Remember -- we won't be doing a meet like this alone again.
Concessions Donations still needed:
Beth Anne Pigge tells me that we still need 20 people's worth of puppy chow, and more pasta salad. I know everybody's tapped out here, but these are not bad activities for kids on taper, and they are not hard recipes. Apparently we always sell about 30 pounds of pasta salad. It's just rotini and vinagrette salad dressing in gallon ziploc bags. You can do it a bit ahead.
The recipes are posted in the Volunteer area. i recommend doing the powdered sugar part of the puppy chow outside to keep your kitchen less messy.
ICE Pictures:
We’ll have a digital photo frame with an ICE picture slideshow in the trophy case at Mercer during the swim meet. See instructions about how to submit your photos!
LC State Meet Volunteer: Please keep signing up!
Volunteer for meet work | Concession food donation | Officials' signup
Club communication questionnaire: We'd like to hear from all of you.
We’d like to be better at guiding families through the puzzling spots.
Please fill out our survey online.
Practice Schedule (changes start 7/17): download document, see changes on Google calendar.
Non-State Qualifiers (from FROST, Cubes, WAVES): pm practices as usual 7/19-7/23.
Tech training: If you're interested in a try, contact Kelly Eyanson (eyanksbj@msn.com) to discuss potential future training. When we have a new trainer in place, this information will be posted on the website.
Attention Photo Parents! Help us document ICE seasons?
If any parents have swim pictures and are willing to have them displayed either in a slideshow in the Mercer lobby, or collect them under the tag "iceels" on Flickr so that we can all admire them, please gather your files and await instructions. We'd like to get that digital picture frame loaded and ready to go for the meet!
Summer Meet Preparation: Download information sheet
Summer Meet Survival Tips || Avoiding Dehydration || Swim Meet Basics
Facebook: Be a Friend of the Iowa City Eels!
The Iowa City Eels are on Facebook! Become a fan. We post updates there, plus whatever the coaches find interesting. Help us build a big group!
Click on the new ACHIEVEMENTS tab for more ICE athlete accomplishments!
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.
