Good morning, families! 

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Check your Spam folder if you're not getting our weekly email updates! You won't see this anyways if our emails are going there! 

Updates:

• Over 17 baskets! Thank you so much families who donated to the ODU Swim Thanksgiving Basket Fundraiser to help families this holiday season in our area! Simply amazing! 
• This weekend, NSD swimmers of all ages will be competing at the USA Swimming CGBD Carl Warner meet in Hampton, VA for the first time in 15 years! Good luck to all our NSD swimmers participating this weekend! This is an incredible achievement and milestone for NSD. A lot of work went into getting NSD ready for this moment so thank you to all who have helped us get to this point! The start of a new chapter!

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• Individual/Sibling/Team Photos - If you purchased an individual/team photo - they should be arriving to NSD this weekend for distribution next week during practice. 
• Upcoming Practice Content Changes - Our data shows that many of you are choosing to stick to one pool for practices during any given week. Coaches' current practice plans have skill building exercises change throughout the week, regardless of the practice location. Based on this data and some helpful feedback, coaches are exploring changing the content of practices each week so parents who want their swimmer to focus on a certain skill can get that skill at their practice pool of choice. This will result in repetitive skill work any given week (i.e., you will get the "same" practice throughout the week, regardless of the pool you choose to attend). We recognize (and hope you do too) that it's difficult to balance skill building for all swimmers along with pool locations and parent feedback/preferences. This change may not be preferred by some parents. Please note though - repetition is a key tool to any successful skill building. Coaches will explore this new approach for some time and solicit feedback on how parents and swimmers feel about it and adjust accordingly, if needed. 

Reminders:

• No practice tonight (11/10) - Pools closed for Veterans Day. Thank you for your service!

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• Merchandise - If you have not yet picked up your swimmer's free "We Run These Lanes" season t-shirt or pre-ordered merchandise (hoodies, proud mom shirt, etc.), please try and pick these items up next week! They will be available at practice Monday - Wednesday next week! We're going to invest in a t-shirt cannon and drive by your house if you don't pick them up soon! 

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Have a great weekend!

NSD Board