Good day, NSD Families! Here's some updates and reminders for the week. 

Updates:

• December Swim Meets - we have three swim meets available to swimmers during the week of December 4th. All of these are now open for you to declare your swimmers. Go to Meets & Events SwimTopia page and declare your swimmer!
  • 12/6/2023 (Wednesday) - ODAC & NSD 8 & Under Meet. USA and non-USA swimmers 8 and under are welcome! There are no fees for this meet and majority of events are 25yds. See the meet info for more details. This is a great opportunity for our younger athletes to compete with another team and begin building ties with another local swim club! Coach Maurice will be at that meet supporting our swimmers. There is discussion of an ice cream social (or similar) afterwards.
  • Where: Great Bridge Swim & Racquet Club (1200 Back Road Chesapeake VA)
  • When: Wednesday from 6 - 8PM (warmups at 6PM, meet starts at 6:30)
  • 12/9 - NSD Intra-squad Meet (all ages USA and non-USA)
    • Where: Northside Pool
    • When: 8:30AM - 12PM (estimated) (warmups at 8:30AM)
  • 12/8 - 12/10 - USA ONLY CGBD East Coast Winter Fest 9-12 year olds 
    • Where: Hampton Aquaplex
    • When: Friday - Sunday 12/8 - 12/10
    • Note: 8 year olds may compete if they have a BB time or better in that respective event. See meet info for more details.
    • Please work with Coach Maurice and Hillary on scheduling if you're planning to compete at both this USA meet and our Intra-squad meet 12/9.
• The city is continuing to work with us to expand pool use for our growing team and we have been in recent communications with them about this. We are hopeful something can be arranged; however, we also are aware these things take time within the local government. 
• Coach Wayne resigned this week due to other competing obligations. We wish him well in his other responsibilities! We are actively recruiting assistant coaches; if you know of anyone interested, please contact us.
• Please welcome Rosemary Carreon as our newly elected member of the Board of Directors! She is active duty military and very passionate about youth sports and the value it brings to the community. We're excited to have her join the team!

Reminders:

• Practice only Monday and Tuesday next week. Enjoy the Thanksgiving break Wednesday - Friday, 11/22-11/24! We hope you have a safe and relaxing holiday!

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• Pick up your pre-ordered merch (or free season shirt), 11/4 meet ribbons, and team photos this week if you can! We'll be investing in a drone delivery system for dropping these at your house if you don't pick them up!

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Have a great weekend!

NSD Board