Wells Branch Armada - Weekly Newsletter

We had a smooth and successful meet with the Pflugerville Piranhas. Congratulations to all the swimmers with time improvements. We had a number of new swimmers qualifying for Invitationals this week too. Great job!

This Wednesday, 7/14, is our annual Awards Night at the Recreation Center on Shoreline, from 7-9pm. Come celebrate the season!

Saturday is our Divisional Meet with Balcones Country Club and Block House Creek, at our pool. It will be a fun meet with lots of special treats. Then on Sunday at UT will be the Invitational Meet for those swimmers who qualified. Good luck to all!

This year our parent survey will be online. Click to take the survey

You can contact me with questions at board@wbarmada.org. For more team information, check our website at www.wbarmada.org.

Hi Armada!

Congratulations on another great meet against Pflugerville! Sorry I was unable to be there, I got hit with a pretty bad stomach bug Friday and Saturday. But I'm back and ready for our last week of practice for the season. This week is where it all pays off. We have one final meet, one championship meet left. We need all families and swimmers to come together to help us end the season with a bang! We have so many swimmers swimming faster than they ever have in their life. Make sure to get good sleep this week and work on the little things that will make your races even better and faster. Like streamlining, or less breathing, or faster turns. We will be tweaking everything this week in order to be prepared for Divisonals! It is very important that you guys show up this weekend and on time. We don't want or need to be arranging relays last minute! We are going to have a lot of fun- I can't wait to see the end product!

Hope everyone can make it to team awards this Wednesday at the Recreation Center. It's a good time to look back and reflect on the swim season and see how far you have grown. I am so proud to be a part of this team, and even more proud of all you swimmers. Thank you to the parents for your constant support and help volunteering numerous hours and for free. We would not be a team without you!

I want to take time to thank my amazing coaches. Gina, Andi, Brynn, Anna, Bethany, and Don- you mean the world to me and I, and the Armada, are so lucky to have you as our coaches. Thank you for your dedication, humor, and knowledge. We would not as as elite of a team if it were not for the patience, and great skills that you have blessed the Armada team with. Thank you so much!

And lastly, thank you to the amazing board members. You spend many hours not just in the summer, but year round to make the Armada a team that other teams are envious of- swimmers, coaches and parents alike. You are the most caring and approachable group of parents I've ever worked with, and I am truly blessed to have your help and dedication in my life. I know the other coaches feel the same.

Have a wonderful last week of swimming, and best of luck at Divisonals and Invitationals!

Thank you for another amazing season!

GO ARMADA!!

Coach Elisa
coach@wbarmada.org

Make your plans to attend the annual Wells Branch Armada Awards Night. The big event will be held at the Wells Branch Recreation Center on Shoreline Drive from 7-9 pm on Wed., July 14.

Each hard-working swimmer on the team as earned a special award for being a part of the 2010 WBA Swim Team. Each swimmer will be recognized by name and brought up to the front of the room to receive their award.

We will award "high-point" awards for the top three point-earners in each age group and each gender. Swimmers who have set team records will receive an award. Swimmers with perfect attendance at every dual swim meet will receive an award. In addition, the coaches have a number of other awards planned for hard-working swimmers.

Swimathon prizes will also be awarded.

There will be refreshments and a DVD presentation of the season.

There are many swimmers and we want each swimmer to be recognized. We ask that you talk to your swimmers ahead of time about the importance of sitting and listening during the ceremony. It does take some time to get through all the awards but each award is important.

This is our Championship Weekend! Hope to see everyone there for our grand finale!

Date

Saturday, July 17

Location

HOME meet- Divisionals
WBA vs BHC vs BCC

Meet Starts

7:45 am

WBA Arrival/Check-in

Ages 7-8	6:00 am
Ages 9-10	6:15 am
Ages 11-12	6:25 am
Ages 13-17	6:35 am
Ages 6 and under	6:55 am

Swimmers should be in their pit areas by this time.

WBA Warm Ups

Ages 7-8	6:30 am
Ages 9-10	6:45 am
Ages 11-12	7:00 am
Ages 13-17	7:15 am

Concessions: We are asking for donations from the 6 and under and 7-8 age groups this week. Other age groups are welcome to donate also.

Fresh fruit - cut up and packaged - iis our biggest need. For example: package grapes in snack sized ziplocks or cut-up watermelon in plastic cups covered with plastic wrap. We need alot of fruit.

If you are willing to cut-up and package fruit purchased by WBA the night before please contact Trish Koester.

Baked good such as cookies, cupcakes, muffins etc are also a good choice. Please stay away from chocolate because it melts quickly.

Parking: There will be police and parking attendants directing traffic. Please stagger your arrival according to the schedule listed at left so we don't have a horrible traffic jam.

If you would like to drop your chairs and heavy items at the pool the night before, you can do so from 8:30 to 9 p.m. You MAY NOT bring anything before 8:30 p.m.

Check out the menu for Saturday!
Come by and support your WBA!

Papa Murphy's Pizza
Roasted Corn
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Breakfast Tacos
Round Rock Donuts
Hamburgers
Cheeseburgers
Hot Dogs
Sausage wraps
Nachos
Homemade muffins
Chips
Candy
Sodas
Gatorade
Water
Coffee
Kona Ice

View our Invitational entries. Swimmers who qualify for Invitationals at the divisional meet should notify Mindy Lewis by the scoring table before they leave the meet.

Date	Sunday, July 18
Location	UT Swim Center
Meet Starts	11 am
WBA Arrival/Check-in	TBA

Parking:
You cannot park at the lot outside of the UT Swim Center (Lot 80) without the proper UT permit - You will be ticketed.

The Trinity Garage will be open - it usually costs $10 and is across from the stadium. There are State of Texas garages nearby that have free parking on weekend.
http://www.tsc.utexas.edu/parking.php

We will send out more information as it is available.

Directions: http://www.tsc.utexas.edu/directions.php

If you purchased a WBA swim bag this season and are not happy with it, we will give you a full refund if you return it by July 14.

Please fill out the orange form that was put in your family foldercompletely and place it inside your defective bag. Put both into the box located by the team folders. If you have more than one bag, please tie your bags together.

We will process refunds and let you know soon how to pick them up.

Requests must be made by July 14 and refunds must be claimed by end-of-season. Any refunds remaining at the end of our season will be forfeited. Contact Trish Koester.

There is still time to buy raffle tickets to support your WBA swim team.
Win an IPOD Touch or a Romantic Evning on the town.

Tickets will be sold at Awards Night until the end of the evening when we hold the drawing. Buy one for $1 and 6 for $5. You choose which item you want to try to win.

Romantic Evening Basket Raffle
Buy a chance to win a basket filled with everything you need for a romantic evening

One night stay in the Historical Guestroom of the Driskill Hotel- $250
5 course chef’s tasting menu for 2 at Winks Restaurant & Wine Bar - $145
A pair of tickets to La Traviata on Friday, Nov 12th at the Austin Lyric Opera - $225
Romantic Basket with champagne, glasses and other things

IPOD Touch Raffle
Win an IPOD Touch - valued at over $200!

Tickets are $1. Tickets are sold seperately for each basket.

The drawing for both raffles will be held on Award's Night - July 14.

2010 T-Shirts (all styles) $5.00

HATS - Regularly $15. SATURDAY ONLY: $10.00

KOOZIES - BOGO (Buy one get one free!)

Each week the WBA honors the swimmers in each age group that record the largest time improvement. In swimming, the goal is to try to beat your previous best time each week by recording a new personal best.
Great job against Pflugerville.

6 & Unders	7-8	9-10
Elizabeth Jander (-82.60) Jack Robertson. (-29.65)	Riya Kumar (-14.38) Brendan Lanicek (-26.35)	Bethany Freeman (-8.07) Patrick Scruggs (-11.92)
11-12	13-14	15-17
Laura Vargas (-20.97) William Yoder (-3.96)	Ashton Huckaby (-3.13) Stephan Young (-6.68)	Joshua Bradberry (-11.50)

The coaches are proud of how hard all the swimmers are working and want to congratulate all the swimmers who are improving their times!

These WBA swimmers excelled by placing first in one, two or three individual events against Pflugervfille!

Single Winners	Double Winners	Triple Winners
Alexander Buckley	Tucker Lewis	Logan O'Reilly
Zackary Casper	Katherine Turner	Preston Truong
Alyssa Grunloh	Jacob Tolfa	Heather Wu
Kaleb Hawley	Demi Waworuntu
Brennan Huckaby	Sydney Yang
Esther Lee
Lauren Prendeville
Zina Sator
Miranda Wadehra
Ramey Williams
Ethan Wu
Felix Zuo

Gold Medal Medley Relays

Girls 7-8: Waworuntu, Demi; Prendeville, Lauren; Kane, Jennifer; Yang, Sydney
Girls 9-10: Taffinder, Amy; Wu, Heather; Grunloh, Alyssa; Williams, Ramey
Girls 11-12: Huckaby, Brennan; Wadehra, Miranda; Black, Courtney; Lee, Esther
Boys 11-12: O'Reilly, Logan; Hammack, Kyle; Hawley, Kaleb; Casper, Zack
Girls 13-14: Gavin, Alix; Sator, Zina; Turner, Katherine; Maurer, Megan
Boys 13-14: Truong, Preston; Zuo, Felix; Cho, Ethan; Bradberry, Caleb
Boys 15-17: Gavin, Greggory; Utsler, Cody; Lewis, Tucker; Prosper, Maurice

Gold Medal Free Relays

Girls 7-8: Carter, Anaya; Waworuntu, Demi; Kane, Jennifer; Yang, Sydney
Girls 9-10: Williams, Ramey; Chatfield, Madison; Grunloh, Alyssa;Wu, Heather

Boys 11-12: Casper, Zack; Hammack, Kyle; Stehling, Matthew; O'Reilly, Logan
Boys 13-14: Bradberry, Caleb; Zuo, Felix ; Cho, Ethan; Truong, Preston

The Northwest Swim Circuit holds a Championship Meet at the end of the season for qualifying swimmers. Congratulations to Ashton Huckaby, Lauren Prenderville, Abby Jahnke and Matthew Stehling who qualified at the Pflugerville meet and to Sydney Yang who is now qualified in all 5 events offered in her age group.

Qualifers from the Divisional meet will be added to the Invitational meet.

Name	Age Gp	Short Free	IM	Back	Brst	Long Free	Fly
Aalim Abdullah	7-8				X
Caleb Bradberry	13-14	X	X	X		X	X
Alexander Buckley	9-10		X
Zackary Casper	11-12	X	X	X	X	X
Jocelyn Chambers	13-14	X	X	X		X
Stephanie Collins	15-17		X		X
Douglas Dalke	15-17		X			X
Alix Gavin	13-14*		X		X	X
Greggory Gavin	15-17			X
Keegan Gavin	7-8				X
Alyssa Grunloh	9-10		X	X		X	X
Robby Hale	13-14			X
Amy Hammack	15-17		X	X
Kyle Hammack	11-12		X		X
Kaleb Hawley	11-12		X		X		X
Ashton Huckaby	13-14		X
Brennan Huckaby	11-12		X	X		X
Abby Jahnke	6			X
Tucker Lewis	15-17	X	X	X	X	X	X
Justine Maeurer	13-14				X
Logan O'Reilly	11-12	X	X	X	X	X	X
Jeffrey Padavick	9-10				X
Lauren Prendeville	7-8				X
Maurice Prosper	15-17	X
Delany Quinn	13-14*	X	X	X	X	X
Zina Sator	13-14	X			X	X
Alisia Shamblin	13-14		X			X
Matthew Stehling	11-12			X
Amy Taffinder	9-10			X
Jacob Tolfa	7-8	X				X	X
Kamaryn Truong	13-14*		X		X
Preston Truong	13-14		X	X	X	X
Katherine Turner	13-14	X	X	X		X	X
Cody Utsler	15-17		X		X
Miranda Wadehra	11-12			X
Demi Waworuntu	7-8			X
Ramey Williams	9-10	X		X		X
Bryce Williams	15-17	X	X	X			X
Ethan Wu	7-8	X			X	X	X
Heather Wu	9-10		X	X		X	X
Sydney Yang	7-8	X		X	X	X	X
Felix Zuo	13-14				X		X

*These swimmers compete in a higher age group than their age because they continue to practice with a USA Swimming club team during our season and are under the age of 13.

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