Mandatory Parent Meeting Monday Night

There will be a mandatory parent meeting on Monday night at 6:30pm in the South Campus Cafeteria.  I will go over the team handbook, meet schedule, answer general team questions and then turn the meeting over to the booster club. 

Welcome Back!

 I would like to welcome everyone back for what I believe will be a great year for everyone! 

All parents should have received an email that included a team handbook and schedule for both August and September.  Please let me know if you did not recieve this and I'll add you to my email list.  We will have a mandatory parent meeting on Monday, August 29th at 6:30pm in the South Campus Cafeteria. I will address season expectations, and answer questions. We will then have our first Booster Club Meeting of the year. I will then stay after for a meet and greet time with new parents.

A little information you may need right now:

1- If your son, or daughter is NOT planning to swim this year, please let me know. This way I can help get their schedule fixed before the start of school.

2- All athletes are required to have a new physical EACH year (it used to be every other year, but has changed). This means that all athletes must have their athletic packet filled out, get a sports physical, and have this paperwork turned into the trainer’s office before the start of school. You can get the athletic packet online from the athletics page.

3- All athletes/parents must read and sign the Athlete Code of Conduct and return the last page to me on the first day of school (this is also found online at the athletics web site).

4- 1st period swim team is reserved for varsity level athletes and must have permission to stay in this class period. To be considered a varsity level athlete, swimmers must be able to complete 16x100 Free @ an interval of 1:30. This test will be done the first week of school. If an athlete is not able to make this set, they will be moved to 7th period swimming.

5- THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF SCHOOL: Monday morning, all students will report to their campus and go to an advisory classroom. They will be given a new schedule (some will have changed, some will be the same as the one they received at registration). After advisory, South Campus swimmers will report to my classroom (RM 1271) and the North Campus swimmers will report to the cafeteria (I will not be there on Monday because I’ll be at South Campus). 7th period swimmers do the same thing…South Campus will see Coach Willis in RM 1271, and North Campus swimmers will report to the Cafeteria (I will be there). Tuesday will be the same, but I will be on the North Campus Tuesday morning for 9th grade varsity swimmers.

6- On Wednesday, swim practice will start. 7th period swimmers must HURRY after 6th period to get on the bus that will bring them to South Campus and they then report to the pool. They will be picked up from the pool at 4:30pm (Parents may pick up students on the south side of campus by the tennis courts / NO Parents should be parked on the North side by the football practice fields).

Please let me know if you have any other questions before the start of school. My email is dhuffman@dpisd.org



Varsity Practice Schedule

Varsity Swimmers will maintain their current practice schedule until the end of TAKS week at the end of April.  It is as follows:

Monday - Friday 8:00am-9:00am (9:00am-9:40am = Change, and eat in the cafeteria)

Monday/Wednesday/Thursday = Dryland and Weightroom
Tuesday/Friday = Swim

If athletes need to miss off season conditioning for any reason, they need to discuss it with a coach beforehand.  Otherwise, the absence will be considered unexcused.  If they are ill, coaches will expect a parent email, or Doctor's note.  Skipping practice and then attending the rest of the school day is considered an unexcused absence from practice.

NO Board Meeting on Monday

The School Board has postponed our visit until next month b/c Ryan will be out of town at a Championship level dive meet, and they'd like for him to be there.

Updated Region Meet Schedule

This is the new schedule posted by Fort Bend ISD for the Region Championship Meet:

Swim Prelims is now Saturday February 5, 2011 at 2pm (OUR BUS WILL LEAVE AT 10:30AM)
Swim Finals is now   Monday, February 7, 2011 at 4pm
Diving is now            Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 3:30pm.
 
THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY - - - This means there will be no practice.
DON COOK NAT. WILL NOT ALLOW SPECTATORS INTO THE POOL AREA UNTIL 1:00PM

2011 District 22-5A Champions!

Both the girls and boys won  by a large margin.  The boys won all 12 events and took 22 out of 27 top three medals.  The girls won 10 events and took 20 out of 27 top three medals.

We have 34 athletes moving on to the Region VI Championship Meet at Don Cook Natatorium next week.  Athletes will recieve an itinerary on Monday.

Thanks go out to all the parents who helped put together a great meet.

Freshman shows work does payoff!

Congratulations to Corey Duke for achieving the Men's Open Water National Cut for his excellent swim in the 1650 Free at last weekend's club meet with First Colony Swim Team.  This qualifies him to swim in National level meets this summer in California and Florida! 

Meet @ Clear Lake High School

Thursday's meet at Clear lake High School:

We will leave school at 4:00pm ( I will pick up AM practice 9th graders at the North Campus - they need to get out front as quickly as possible, they will be able to go to the locker room and change when we arrive at the South campus). 

The meet is at Clear Lake High School, 2929 Bay Area BLVD. Houston, TX  77058

It is a six lane pool, so events were more limited than normal.

All athletes should have extra food, water, towels, clothing.