In Attendance
Jeff Clowes, Rhonda Tompkins, Diane Foreman, Shelley Palmer, Eileen Saunders, Head Coach Stephen Dibblee
1) Call meeting to order.
2)Coaching update: Nicole Thobodieau is potential to help out with the beginners coaching. Eileen will follow up with her this week to see if she can commit. Need someone that can commit 3 hours per week to teaching the kids basic stroke. With only 2 devo meets left for the year we may need to have some sort of time trial in April to keep the kids engaged.
3) Need to focus our recruiting efforts around 8-9 year old kids. Get them in the pool teach them the basic strokes and have them start competing. There is a wide gap today between the Senior group and the beginners/Juinors. Need to focus of efforts in closing that gap and competitions are the key. Need to fill in Coaching with the beginners group so we can probably use Randy Laura and Stephen on the Junior and Intermediate group
4) Jeff will talk to Bob Mcnally as potential beginner coach swimmer. Report at next meeting.
3)The Sobeys fund raising event happens at the end of February. Eileen will check on basic white tee shirt that they can wear for grocery bagging with our logo
4)As part of next years sponsorship efforts maybe offer sponsoring a swimmer s as potential form of support
5) Tony will talk to Kelly at the Civic center about letters to go to all kids at a certain level of swimming lessons. Also need to do sort brochures and posters for the elementary and middle school..Additionally are there any correspondent's that the civic center does that we could piggy back on
6) It was agreed to run ads in the local papers in Woodstock and Houlton at the end on March offering free swimming for the last 4-5 weeks of the season. That would get some new swimmers in the pool for that period of time that are potentials for the next season. Target the younger age group where we want to focus our efforts
7) Meeting adjourned and next Meeting February 10, 2009 at 6:15
