The meet on Saturday, January 4th has been changed to an hour earlier.  Warm-ups will be at 7:00 am and start time at 7:30 am. Please be at the pool before 7:00 so we can be in the pool warming up at exactly 7:00 am.  Also, each team is required to provide five timers that need to be there and ready for the timer meeting at 7:20 am.   If you are able to come time please do (parents, siblings, friends..anyone!).  We need help so this meet can go quickly and smoothly. See you all tomorrow morning!  Please email me if you have any questions.

Goooooooo Golden Eagles!!!!! 

The address for the swim meet today is 454 North Center St., American Fork!  See y'all there!

December 15, 2013 Pre Region Meet in Provo

Itinerary

MMHS travel meet to Cedar City Jan 16-17^th

Thursday January 16^th:

11:00 AM- Leave MMHS on school bus

2:45 PM- Arrive at Crystal Inn: 1575 W 200 N, Cedar City UT 84720

3:15 PM- Leave for Canyon View HS for swim meet

3:30 PM- Arrive at Canyon View High School, Stretch and Warm ups

4:30 PM- Meet begins against Canyon View, Cedar City and Desert Hills

7:30 PM- Meet ends, team gets dinner

9:00 PM- Team arrives back at Crystal Inn

10:30 PM- Lights out

Friday January 17^th:

8:00 AM- Wake up, Continental Breakfast

9:00-11:00 AM- Study hall, free time

11:30 AM- Go out to lunch

1:00 PM- Arrive back at Hotel

1:50 PM- Leave hotel for swim meet

2:00 PM- Arrive at Snow Canyon High School, St. George.  Warm up

3:00 PM- Meet begins against Snow Canyon and Dixie High School

5:30 PM- Meet ends, team stops by a fast food place for dinner

6:30 PM- Team is back on the bus headed to MMHS

10:15 PM- Team arrives back at MMHS

 ALSO:

-The trip will cost $50 for each swimmer.  Pay at the finance office

- 4 students per room, 2 queen sized beds

-We need parent volunteers to contribute snacks and drinks for the trip. For example:  Costco sized Gatorade, water, granola bars, fruit snacks, etc.  These snacks are for the team during the meets and resting times at the hotel. Please email us what you will be bringing for the team so we can plan for it.

-Absolutely No boys in the girl’s rooms or girls in the boy's rooms. There will be consequences if this happens. If you want to hang out you can do that in the lobby.

We have a meet tomorrow! YAY! Students are excused at 1:50 and the bus leaves MMHS promptly at 2:15 (don't be late)!  The meet starts at 3:30 at the Provo Rec Center. We are excited for this meet tomorrow and to see everyone swim super fast.

We have the opportunity to do double practices with Springville High School on Mondays and Wednesdays. Our swimmers will be allowed to attend their practices on those days from 3-4:30 PM. Also, their swimmers are welcome to swim with us in the morning. This is a great opportunity to get in some EXTRA practices in and will be beneficial to whoever wants to do this. 

For Meet Results there is a link in the lower right hand column of this blog!

Awesome swimming on Friday!!  Watch for upcoming meet pictures!

Our meet against Lone Peak has been rescheduled. It will now be Tuesday, December 10th at 3:30 PM still at our pool. 

We are working on our travel meet and figuring out the costs.  A meeting about that will be soon. The fundraiser didn't go very well.  Any volunteers to be in charge of a fundraiser for our travel expenses and overall budget??

Here are the holiday Moratorium days we will NOT have practice:

November 28th and 29th

December 23-27th

January 1st

The Maroon and Gold meet is changed to THURSDAY Oct. 31st! Yes, Halloween morning (costumes are encouraged)!!  It will be at 5 AM and we need more parent volunteers for this meet.  Please email me if you can help. Our Spirit Week will be October 28, 29 and 30th, team meet on the 31st and no practice Friday. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS WEEK!
Keep working hard on selling those shirts to fund raise for our trip! 
I have only received a few physicals and receipts. Please get your physical done ASAP!  All orders for suits and warm ups are due FRIDAY THE 25th!  Make sure to let Londyn or I know your size. I will only be making one order for everything, so don't be late!
If you will be missing practice please text or email your coach!  Remember, you are expected to attend at least 80% of workouts. That's 4 out of 5 of the days we practice.

Thanks for working hard everyone!!!

Gooooooo Golden Eagles!

Desire
Dedication
Determination

-Rachel and Londyn

Meet Schedule Updated

The most current Meet Schedule is now posted on the blog. 

Meet updates!!  Thursday, Nov. 21st - Home Meet with Lone Peak and Springville at 3:30.  Tuesday, Nov. 26th - Home Meet with Spanish Fork and Springville at 3:30. 
Jan. 16th - Canyon View meet at 4:30
Jan. 17th - Snow Canyon/Dixie meet at 3:00

After Monday, Sept. 23rd you can pay the team fees online at this link:   https://secure2.myschoolfees.com/start_v2.aspx
The week of the State Swim Meet we can get 20% off at Poco Loco on suits, bags and warm ups.

The newly posted Meet schedule is incomplete, so watch for updates!!

OPTIONAL CAPTAIN PRACTICES:  Starts Sept. 18 at the Springville Pool on Mon., Wed. and Thurs. from 5-6 AM.   All swimmers come and get in swim shape before the season starts!!

October 7th at 5:00 am - Team tryouts and official practice begin. 

Practice Schedule: MWF 5-6 AM and TTH 5-6:30 AM.  T/TH practices include 30 min. of dry-land after swimming.

Required Fees:  $55.00 participation fee and $60.00 player pack (includes team suit and cap).

Optional team wear:  sweat shirt $25, sweat pants $20, team shirt $15.
Payment for player pack and sweat orders due Friday, October 25th.  Participation fees due by Friday, November 1st.

Optional  equipment: Goggles, hand paddles and fins
Try Poco Loco swim shop at 1774 W University Pkwy, Provo.
Paperwork and Physicals:  You can get this information from the MMHS office, on MMHS website or from this blog. Art City Pharmacy does sports physicals through the walk in clinic from 10-5:30 for $25.  Students in fall school sports are covered. 

Fundraiser:  We will be selling swim team shirts for $15 each.  We'd like each swimmer to sell 6 shirts to help cover the cost of our travel meet.  I will have more information on this when the season starts. Start getting orders and sizes now.  We are looking for some good fundraisers.  Please email me with any ideas you have.


Information:  If you haven't already, please send me your swimmer and parent information (Names, phone numbers, emails and grade).  We will be contacting swimmers through emails, group texts and the blog.

Congratulations to everyone and the great season our team had. We finished strong at regions and had 8 qualifiers for state. It was a great year and I'm already looking forward to seeing what we can do next year! Please try and stay in shape and get in the pool as much as you can, it makes a big difference. We will be having our swim banquet coming up. Here are the details:

Swim Team Banquet:
When: Wednesday March 6th
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM
Where: MMHS cafeteria
Attire: Church Dress
RSVP: By March 1st to Rachel by email or text- swimmers name and guests names

Dinner will be catered by Olive Garden and served at 6:00. Swimmers are free and all other guests will be $10.00, kids under the age of 10 are $5.00. Anybody is welcome, parents, siblings, grandparents, friends etc. Everyone must RSVP and pay by Friday March 1st. Go to the finance office at MMHS to pay for guests. If you don't RSVP you will not be able to come, we need an exact count and we'll have a guest list at the door so don't forget to RSVP for you and those coming with you!

It's going to be a fun night and our chance to celebrate an exciting and successful season so be there!

Go Golden Eagles!!

- Coach Rachel and Marnie

Hello everyone!!!
I cannot believe our season is coming to an end already! You have all done great so far!  Let's finish off with a BANG at Regions this weekend. This is the meet we've been training all season for.  No practice Friday morning as we will be competing in the afternoon.

First things first:
We will be having a team party/dinner this Thursday from 5:30-7:30 PM. Don't be late because we're going to be making shirts for regions and having dinner!  It will be at Erin's grandma's house:
1248 S 2200 E, Springville.
Please come! The captains and I are working hard planning and we want everyone there.
If you have any questions about it ask one of the captains.

Second, Regions:
On Friday the bus will be leaving at 2:15 PM, on Saturday we will be leaving at 7:15 AM, from MMHS same spot we've been meeting at for every away meet, south side. I will have you all excused early at 1:45 PM on friday. DO NOT BE LATE! WE WILL LEAVE WITH OUT YOU AND YOU'LL NEED TO FIND YOUR OWN WAY TO THE MEET.
The meet starts at 4:00 PM on Friday and 9:00 AM on Saturday. It is at the Orem Fitness center.
Friday events:
200 medley relay
200 free
200 IM
50 free

Saturday events:
100 fly
100 free
500 free
200 free relay
100 back
100 breast
400 free relay

Make sure you shave down for this meet! And yes BOYS TOO! Legs, arms, backs the whole Shabang! Don't shave until Thursday night so you'll be slick and ready to zoom through the water Friday!

Even if you aren't swimming on one of the days you will still be required to come both days because we will be practicing there and you need to be there to support and cheer on your team mates. We have a few swimmers and relays really close to making state and we need everyone there to support and cheer one another on!

Third:
The weekend of state (Feb. 8,9) the Poco loco swim shop will be having a big sale for all high school swimmers, everything will be 25% off or more. It's a great time to stock up on swim gear for next year! ( those who didn't have fins this year)

Go Golden Eagles!!!

Coach Rachel And Marnie

Hey everyone!

A few announcements:

1. First away Meet tomorrow against Orem!   We will be taking team pictures at 1:45 before we leave on the bus at 2:15.  MMHS students- Meet at MMHS next to the sports commons at 1:45.
Junior High Students-  Meet at MMHS next to the sports commons ASAP.  Wear black tops (preferably solid) and jeans.  At exactly 2:15 we are getting on the bus from the south side of the school and leaving for the Orem Rec Center.  Parents you are encouraged to come to the meet which starts at 3:30.

2. Starting this week and for the rest of the season, students will have the opportunity to do doubles (2 swim practices in one day). This is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We are joining with the Springville HS team to make this happen. Their swimmers can come to our Tu/Thu morning workouts and our MMHS swimmers can go to their Tu/Thu afternoon workouts. Their practice is from 3:00-4:30 PM. This is NOT a replacement practice if you miss our morning practice. You still MUST come to morning practice AND you can go to afternoons. You are on the Maple Mountain team and our practice is the #1 priority.  I encourage you to use this opportunity to improve your endurance and times. It is not required but will definitely help swimmers of all levels.  We don't get a lot of pool time, so this is a great chance for more training. Please consider trying this out! If you're unsure, try a double once a week and then build up to twice. I especially encourage the upper level swimmers to take advantage of this opportunity.
Let's swim fast tomorrow! Both our Mens and Womens team had awesome wins over Herriman last meet so lets keep it going!

Go Eagles!!!!

Coach Rachel and Marnie

Congratulations on your excellent swimming for the first meet!  The girls came close to a win over Springville for the first time ever!!  Let's get them next time!
IMPORTANT INFO:   If you look in the right hand column of this blog there is a link to the State Wide Meet Results.  This link takes you to  http://www.utswimcoach.com/  which will show your times for every meet.  On the web page you go to the 4A column and scroll down to MMHS.  You can click on Meets or Swimmers.  If you click on Swimmers you can see a graph of MMHS swimmer's best times for the 2012-2013 season.  If you look at the column to the left on this site you can click on the 4A 2012-2013 Top 50 and you will see the top 50 swimmers in the State in each event and their times for this season.  They update this list every few weeks through the season.  If you can make it into the top 50 you have a good chance of qualifying for State in your event. 
We had 5 swimmers make it into seven events in the top 50 list after our first meet!!  That is a significant improvement from last year!  Way to swim hard EAGLES!

Important Information From Parent's Meeting

All fees and physicals are due this week!
Required Fee: $40
Player Pack (team suit and cap):  $45
Optional:  Jacket- $34.40 (w/embroidery +$16)  Pants- $27

Practice Schedule
Mon, Wed, Fri - 5:00-6:00 am
Tu, Thur - 5:00-6:30 am
**No practice on Swim Meet Days!

Swimmers must attend 4 out of 5 practices a week.  For extenuating circumstances contact a coach.

Swim Meets
Parents please come and support your swimmer!  We need parent help at home meets!
For home meets swimmers provide their own transportation and arrive 45 min. before the start for warm up.
For away meets the bus will leave from the south side of MMHS at the scheduled time.
Swimmers should participate in every meet unless cleared with a coach ahead of time.

Moratorium
November 22-25th
 December 24-28th
January 1st
Coaches are not allowed on deck to run practice.  Swimmers will need to schedule their own workouts.

If a swimmer decides to quit during the season they must talk to a coach first!