Congratulations and keep up the good work MOO

With the ending of the team's stellar performance at the YMCA Nationals meet this past May in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and now with the Olympics, there has been a lot of positive energy on the pool deck and pride and excitement about swimming. Congratulations and keep up the good work MOO. Here are a few announcements:

1. There is an short course yards meet on September 20th in Ocala. Entries are due Sept 13th. Check out the website for more info: http://www.dixiezone.org/Meets/0809ocala.pdf

2. We will be instituting a new feature at MOO. Drum roll....starting next month, we will be featuring a monthly MOO spotlight swimmer. This is a chance to learn more about your teammates. To kick things off, we will feature Coach Bruce. Each monthly spotlight will be featured on our team blog. Be sure to check it out next month, http://www.mooswimming.blogspot.com/

3. The annual Masters meet against Rollins is right around the corner. Several MOO swimmers have competed in the past years. This is a fun meet where master swimmers from the Orlando area at all levels compete against the college swimmers at Rollins. No registration with USMS is required, just show up. This year the coach of Rollins is looking to have the meet on Saturday, October 18th or on a Wednesday night during the month of October. The coach of Rollins wants to know which option works better for our team. Please e-mail me back your thoughts if you want to attend. Here are the order of events:
200 medley relay
200 free
50 free
200 IM
100 fly
10 min break
100 free
100 back
500 free
100 breast
200 free relay

4. Show your creativity and artistic ability! We are looking for new T-shirt designs this fall. MOO will be holding a t-shirt contest and will have the team vote on their favorite design. If you are interested, please submit your design by Tuesday, September 30th to Diane or Sean. We will then vote on them during the next week at practice.

5. Looking ahead.....mark your calendars for next year, the YMCA Nationals will take place from April 16-19th in Ft. Lauderdale.