State 5A-II Champs and Parents,

Here’s wishing you a wonderful warm-down to the summer! Please pass this info on to incoming frosh or to others interested in trying out for the team!! Long email...haul those calendars out.

Great news:  2005 Season DMHS Girls placed 19^th in the nation (large public schools) in the NISCA Power Point tabulations. Well done! Congratulations to Chelsea Lopus, Joanna Weinstein, Emily Barton, Angela Duckworth and Whitney Lopus for their repeat All-American performances! Congrats to Caleb Precevecz for an awesome "off-season"!! Look for some press in the next District E-News.

Graduates, best of luck in your freshman year at college. We’ll miss you, but keep in touch and return to cheer us on (and time, perhaps?) at Districts!

Please read the following items thoroughly regarding our 2006 season and place the noted items on your calendars. We’ve had to juggle a bit, as you’ll see:

• Tryouts are the first week of school. ALL come on Mandatory Monday, August 21 at 6:30 pm (we'll be there at 6 pm) , with “GO” passes in hand (available upon presentation of a doctor’s physical report and filled out paperwork in the DMHS office). USS swimmers bring printouts of best times and prepare to stay about ½ hour filling out forms, including suit sizes, t-shirt sizes and parent email info. All others also come equipped to start workouts that evening. Drivers: Practice concludes at 8:30 pm. Please be prompt in picking up swimmers/divers.
• The location is Cactus Park Pool, for practices and home meets. The promised (and yet incomplete) MMR pool was to be our new home, but delays have postponed the opening until mid-November (??) Cactus Shadows will be back at Cactus Park also, sharing the evening session with DMHS.
• The tentative schedule, which was published in May and is available in the DMHS office (blue paper), is therefore not accurate. The Wednesday AWAY meets will stay the same, the first Wednesday HOME meet vs. Mountain View will remain as scheduled, but the other Wednesday HOME meets will all change to most likely Thursday (or Tuesday) of that same week. ( Cactus Park has lessons on Wednesdays.) Steve Harris, DMHS AD, and Nick Pyle, Cactus Park pool manager, will be working out the new schedule, in cooperation with Mesa and Desert Valley personnel. I’ll update you as soon as I am notified.
• This change includes Districts, which is now scheduled for Tuesday, 10/10.  The Districts Meet is very much a focal point for us this year, again. The entire team participates and attendance is mandatory.
• Thursday, August 24, at 5 pm , is our Mandatory Parent Meeting, with suit/booster payments and volunteer signups. Have two checks ready: one for the DMHS Swim and Dive Booster for $85 (includes District Psych outfit, three pasta parties, bagels on bus, administrative items, end of year awards banquet, awards, etc), and one for the team uniform (suits, caps, t-shirt.) made out to "Swimmer's Edge."  The boys' suit package will be approximately $65, and the girls' approximately $84. This includes our generous cap distribution that seems to clone itself.
• Friday 5:15–6:45 AM practices are mandatory for all. On Friday, August 25, we will be taking a team picture at 6 am , necessary for inclusion in the glossy football/fall sports program.
• HUGE NOTE:  Regionals (State qualifiers) take place DURING OCTOBER BREAK this year: October 26 (dive), October 27 and 28 (swim). Regionals are absolutely mandatory for all of the boys and most of the girls (selected qualifiers.) Schedule your Break accordingly.

A big “Thank You” to those parents who have already contacted me to help run Districts, judge meets and otherwise participate. Parents, if you have a special category in which you would like to volunteer, email me back and we’ll lock you in even before the parents’ meeting. Think pasta parties, water for meets, booster positions, head timer, scorers, etc. Your kids appreciate it. J

Below please find the schedule "AS-IS".  I will update you as soon as I receive the home dual-meet information. Seniors, I will see you Monday, August 14 at noon at Mountainside MS for our preseason meeting. Again, have a jam-packed or restful end to your summer. Either way, swim into shape for the season. USS swimmers, that means some sprint training! 

DESERT MOUNTAIN SWIM AND DIVE 2006 Tentative SCHEDULE

Those highlighted in red will change, most likely to the next day, Thursday.

Tryouts:  Monday, 8/21/06 (first day of school) through Wednesday, 8/23/06

6:30-8:30 pm

Practices:  M-Th 6:30-8:30 pm , Friday 5:15-6:50 am .

Tentative Team Schedule:

Thursday      08/24  Mandatory Parent Meeting 5 pm-6:30 pm

Friday            08/25  Mandatory Friday Practice, Team Program Picture

Wednesday  08/30  HOME Mountain View

(Wed              09/06  HOME Desert Vista )

(Wed              09/13  HOME Horizon)

Wednesday   09/20  @ Shadow Mountain

Thursday        09/28  @ PVHS

(Wed              10/04 HOME B/X)

Tuesday        10/10  DISTRICTS at Cactus Park (DMHS Hosts)

Thursday        10/19  @ St. Mary’s

REGIONS      10/28  Dive

                        10/29  Swim @ Brophy Swim Club    PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE DURING BREAK

                        10/30  Swim @ Brophy Swim Club

STATES        11/05  Swim and Dive @ ASU

                        11/06  Swim and Dive @ ASU

DISTRICTS counts as one of our Invitationals. We are allowed to enter a total of three, so be prepared to possibly add the Brophy/Xavier Invitational (9/28 Dive and 9/30 Swim), the Chandler Thunderwolves Classic (9/16) and/or the Mesa Relays (date?) to our schedule.

We will continue to hold practice over Scottsdale Schools’ October Break at the normal times.   

See you soon. Coach Bodmer