Hi everyone,
I am attaching the meet packages for the Belleville meet and for Gatineau. There is a lot of information here, but in the interest of fewer emails, I am including it all here.
The Belleville meet is open to all swimmers Youth and above. We will be attending on the Friday evening for swimmers 11 and over interested in swimming a 400, 800 or 1500. I will need to know if your swimmer will be available to attend. The warm up begins at 4:30. If I don’t have enough interest, we will just attend Saturday and Sunday. Please note that this meet runs finals on Saturday evening for ages 13+ (if they qualify in the morning on Saturday). So to keep it clear, 13+ swim Saturday morning and possibly Saturday evening as well as Sunday afternoon. 12 and under swimmers swim Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Please let me know by November 6th and send payment of $122 to Annette if your swimmer is attending Saturday and Sunday, or $142 if attending Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Payment and confirmation is due no later than November 6th, no exceptions. Please let me know if your swimmer is only attending 1 day of the meet and which day. Please let me know if your swimmer is NOT attending at all.
The Gatineau Grand Prix is a Qualifying meet. This means that your swimmer must be 11 and older and have 2 qualifying times. The times are shown on the last page of the Meet package. We can use both Short Course and Long Course times to qualify. Swims done at the Pickering meet will count towards this meet, Belleville is too late. The following swimmers have already qualified: Zara, Micah, Blake, Aurora, Anna, Edward, Amelia, Ronan, Alyse, Lucas, Nadia, Gena, Ali, Michael, Aiden, Lucy, Edgar, Nola, Evan, Aleya, Sofia, Adrian, Molly, Jill and Maria. The cost to attend the Gatineau meet is $100. I will need confirmation of participation and payment sent by November 10th, no exceptions.
We have a hotel block at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Gatineau-Ottawa 11 Impasse de la Gare Talon Gatineau, QC J8T 0B1 You will have to call the hotel directly and let them know we have a group rate 819-503-8800. The code is NAC and the cost per night is $169+tax. There is no way to book the group rate online. The deadline to book a room with this rate is November 23rd. This is a great away meet for our team, with fast swimming and awesome memories made. We will have a team dinner on the Saturday night.
This will wrap up our swim meets for 2023. Further information regarding swim meets in 2024 will be sent as they become available. If you have any questions, please let me know..
Thanks,
Trish MacNeil
Head Coach, NORAC