MARLINS SWIMMING

Member: Northern Lights Swimming Association
Bemidji*Buffalo*Detroit Lakes*Fargo*Moorhead

Marlins Swimming & Diving

 (Northern Lights Swim Association)

 

http://moorheadmarlins.webs.com/Registration Form.pdf

 P.O. Box 251 Moorhead, MN  56560-0251

 701-261-9144

 

2009-‘10 Short Course Registration Information

 

Welcome to Marlins Swimming!  We look forward to an exciting season with your swimmer and family. 

 

Season: September 14, 2009 – March 2010

 

 

Practice Schedule:

A monthly schedule will be published and distributed to each family.  A typical practice schedule for this season will be:

 

Senior Team:

Morning Practice:    5:30am-7:15am     M-W-F

Evening Practice:    5:00pm- 7:00pm   M-F

Saturday Practice:  To Be Announced

 

Age Group Team:

Morning Practice:    By Invitation Only

Evening Practice:    5:30pm- 7:00pm   M-F

Saturday Practice:  To Be Announced

 

Developmental Team:

Evening Practice:    6:00pm-7:00pm    M-W-F

Make up practice Tuesday and Thursday

 

Diving Team:

Morning Practice: See Coach

Evening Practice:  7:00pm – 8:30 pm  M-T-TH-F

 

 

Monthly practice calendars will be available at practice.

2009 – 2010 TEAM FEES

 

Season Fees are the cost to participate with Marlins Swimming for the Short Course Fall and Winter season.  The season is approximately 6 months in length from September 14, 2009 – March 2010.  Season fees are not refundable, transferable and many not be deferred upon registration with Marlins Swimming.  They are payable according to the Fee Schedule when you register your swimmer for the Short Course 2009-10 season.  We understand, however, the inconvenience this may cause and allow for additional options for payment including our Scholarship program.  Please contact Bill Flickinger, Marlins Treasurer at 701-361-4913.

 

Swimmers will not be allowed to participate until there registration is complete and initial payment is received.  All past due accounts must paid-in-full to participate in Marlins Swimming for the Short Course season. 

 

When you sign your registration form you are accepting financial responsibility for the Short Course 2009-10 swimming season fees, registration fees, fundraising fees, and meet fees.  Season fees are due regardless of attendance or absences.   Allowances may be made for injury or illness that is 3 weeks or more in duration with written authorization from your physician.

 

In addition to season swimming fees, MSI dues for 2010 are $54.00 per swimmer.  These fees are due upon registration with Marlins Swimming.

 

TEAM FEES:

Development Team:                                                   $240.00

Age Group Team:                                                        $360.00

Boys Senior Team:                                                      $240.00

(High School Team swimming participants: Sept 14th – Nov 30; March 2010)

Girls Senior Team:                                                       $240.00

(High School Team swimming participants: Dec – March 2010)         

Senior Team (does not swim with High School Team)           $480.00

Diving Team: (High School Team participants)                    $200.00

Diving Team (does not dive with High School Team)             $400.00

 

Season fees DO NOT cover all of the operating expenses of Marlins Swimming.  We have a minimum fundraising commitment of $125.00 per family.  If you do not wish to fundraise, the commitment can be paid in full to fulfill your obligation.

 

 

Families with multiple swimmers receive discount off season fees:  2nd swimmer 25%, 3rd swimmer 35%, etc…the discount always applies to the swimmer(s) in the lowest level of participation.  Foreign exchange students DO NOT qualify for multiple swimmer family discounts.

 

Minimum payment expected at registration is 50% of applicable fees plus $54.00 MSI dues.  The balance is expected in 60 days.

 

 

Required Equipment:

Practice: Swim Suit, goggles, and a tennis ball (Senior & Age Group team)

Swim Meets: Team Suit (TYR, solid Black or Navy Blue) and Team Swimming Cap

 

Meet Schedule:

The meet schedule is created by Coach Anderson and shows the up-coming swimming meets that your swimmer may participate in.  (Swimmers are encouraged to participate in meets, but they are not required)  The coaching staff does all entries for swimming meets.  The coaches will place swimmers in events that they would like to see them compete in.  Swimmers that do not want to swim a particular event may be asked to do so anyway.   Should they choose not to swim a particular event, they will be asked to leave the swimming meet and a conference will be set up with the swimmer and their parents.

 

Swimmers are encouraged to participate in swimming meets, but they are not required.

 

Swimming Meets:

There are different types of swimming meets and they are usually classified by the level of swimmer that is allowed to participate.   Senior and Age Group swimmers will be invited to participate in swimming meets by the coaches via sign-up sheet in their mailbox.  Developmental Team swimmers will be invited to participate in selected swimming meets at the coach’s discretion.  Meet sign-up sheets will indicate the type of meet, cost, who can compete and what level they must be.  The coaches will try to help with this process by not sending home sign-up sheets for which your swimmer is not qualified.  Extra meet sign-up sheets will be available at the pool.

 

 

 

 

 

Please note:           

·         It is your responsibility to sign up for swimming meets.

·         If your swimmer is absent for more than a week, they may miss out on bringing home a sign-up sheet and they will not have the opportunity to participate in that meet!

·         Please make arrangements with the coach to sign up for a meet if your swimmer will be gone more than a week.

 

Parents are not allowed on deck at a swimming meet!  It is against USA swimming rules and can jeopardize insurance policies; parents may only be on deck when helping serve in an official capacity in the running of a swimming meet.  Please stay in the spectator area and your swimmer will come to see you when they can.  In the case of emergency, the coach will send someone to get you if you are needed on deck.  If you need to talk with your swimmer or the coach, please wait until they are available.  Parents, please allow your swimmer to go to the team area on their own and return on their own.  If your swimmer forgets something from the team area they can come back and the coaches will help look for it.  Please help your swimmer by following these rules.

 

Communications:

 

Mailboxes:  Each swimmer will have a mailbox at the pool.  Calendars, meet sign-ups, team fundraising information, etc will be sent home via your swimmer’s mailbox.   Swimmers need to check their mailbox every time they attend practice and return the information to their parents or guardian.  Please ask your swimmer if they checked their mailbox each time you see them following practices.

 

Email:  We will be sending email blasts out to all families that we have an email address for.  Please check your email regularly.

 

 

 

 

 

WELCOME TO OUR SWIMMING & DIVING FAMILY

WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE HERE! J

 Code of Conduct:

 Any swimmer who is known to use alcohol, drugs or tobacco is  subject to suspension from the team.
Never interfere with the progress of another swimmer, during practice or otherwise.
At all team functions, whether practice, meets or social gatherings, we expect each swimmer to behave in such a way that their actions reflect positively on the team.
All members of the team, whether parents or swimmers, continue to protect, develop and improve the excellent reputation of the Moorhead Marlins throughout the state.
All Moorhead Marlin members will be required to sign the "Honor Code."
Any form of harassment/hazing, sexual or other, is subject to immediate suspension from the team.  Parents will be notified immediately in such cases.
The use of fireworks is forbidden during any Marlins swimming function.
Curfews set by the coaches/chaperones during team trips will be strictly obeyed.
Inappropriate or destructive behavior will not be tolerated.  Swimmers will be held responsible for all actions while representing the Moorhead Marlins, Minnesota Swimming and USA Swimming.  Great care should be taken to avoid guilt by association! (i.e.  If your teammates or others are doing something they should not be, do not be caught with them or around them, report any knowledge of such activities to coaches and chaperones immediately.
Swimmer will acknowledge that any TEAM TRIPS are a privilege and accept those responsibilities associated with them.
Swimmers are expected to honor and obey the coaches/chaperones and any drivers on any TEAM TRIPS.