WEEKLY UPDATE - Sunday, March 27, 2022

March 27, 2022

Hello MAST Families & Happy Spring to all,

1. New Swimmer Evaluations: April 4 – 7
   • New swimmer evaluations will be during the first week of April.
   • If you know anyone interested in MAST, please share this information with them
   • Evaluation Sign Up  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080C4FA9A72CA1FC1-swim
   • Posted on our website https://www.teamunify.com/team/ohmast/page/about/how-to-join

1. Start Spring Team Practice:  April 11
   • We will start Spring / Summer practices on April 11 - the week after Evaluations
   • Please see the practice schedule at the end of this update.
   • It is expected that this schedule will remain consistent at least through April, if not until the end of the school year.

1. Practice Groups
   • Everyone should plan to start the spring / summer season in the training group they were in at the end of the winter short course yards season.
   • Current Practice Groups (signed up as of March 26, 2022) follows practice schedule at end.

1. Group Performance Standards
   • Training group standards will be used to assist in putting swimmers into proper practice groups
   • Training group performance standards are currently being reevaluated
   • The anticipated time we will begin using the revised standards has not been established

1. Meet Schedule
   • The USAS meet schedule is posted on the MAST website in the Events & Competitions page
   • Meet information from the meet hosts is not yet available.
   • We will be setting very early “commit” deadlines for USAS meets.
   • There may be a few additions to the schedule, but we like the timing and locations of the meet we have put on the schedule.
     • May 8               MAST May meet* – one day (assuming pool is available) sprint events
     • May 20-22      Cincinnati Marlins Spring Invitational
     • June 3-5           CAC Summer Classic at Miami University
     • June 16-19      RAYS Summer Splash (tentative)
     • July 8-10          OSI Regionals (TBA)
     • July 14-17        USAS Sectionals at Cleveland St.
     • July 21-24        OSI JO Championship  (TBA)
     • July 26-30        USAS National Championships – Irvine, CA and USAS Futures – TBA
     • Aug. 4-7            Central Zone Championship – Jenks, OK and USAS Junior Nationals – Irvine, CA

1. SOSL Summer meets
   • The SOSL (Southern Ohio Swim League) traditionally has an organizational and planning meeting in April and in that meeting the summer league schedules will  be established
   • The SOSL meets are traditionally held on Tuesday evenings.  Since most of these meets are short course, we highly recommend that all swimmers in the Red Groups as well as Black 1 plan to make these meets a part of their summer program.
   • Those in Black 2 & Black 3 who will frequently attend USAS Long Course meets will not be required to swim in SOSL meets – but may participate if they will benefit from competing in these meets.

1. MAST Swim Banquet
   • We are planning a team banquet that will also serve to kick off the spring / summer season.
   • We hope to finalize a date in mid-April very soon
   • If you are willing and able to assist with the banquet, please contact Board President Brian Roeper

1. JO Championship Qualifiers & Outstanding performances
   • Congratulations again to all the MAST swimmers who qualified for and competed in the Ohio Swimming Age-Group Championship meet (Ohio JO’s)
   • MAST Swimmers who qualified for the meet: Tanner Besse (2 events), Carson Campbell (2 events), Elle Campbell, Dylan Chapman, Emmett Fentress (7 events + Relays), Cohen Johnson, Nora Lindley (6 events), Paxton Merz (Relays), Jake Nerl (7 events + Relays), Abby Roeper (2 events), Gavin Sheehan (2 events), and Ben Spence (2 events + Relays).
   • We had numerous season best times and several huge breakthrough performances
   • Emmett Fentress was State Champion in the 100 Butterfly. Emmett also made Championship Finals (top 8) in the 50 Freestyle (2^nd), 100 Freestyle (3^rd) and 200 Freestyle (5^th)
   • Abby Roeper and Jake Nerl also finished in the Top 20 in one event each.

1. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
   • Let’s continue to build on all the great things that we accomplished this past winter.  It would be great to have more swimmers continue to train with MAST for the Spring / Summer (Long Course) season.
   • Very often the work put in into the previous season shows up in the following season.  Swimmers who seem to have the best results usually continue to learn and build on what was accomplished in the previous season. 
   • For MAST to continue to grow and be more competitive we need to have as many swimmers as possible continue to be consistent in practice attendance and effort, persistent in pursuit of faster swimming, better skills and improving technique and resistant to the ups and downs that come with competitive sports.  Always working toward improvement every chance you get.

Have a safe spring break – See you at the pool,

Monty

April Practice Schedule