2014 Fall/Winter Season Welcome Families! 140 swimmers.

2014 Fall/Winter SeasonWelcome Families!

140 swimmers

Overview

Elections-Peggy Bell- Vote by voice. Meet Board of Directors/Committee Chairs- Jill

Carlson Treasure’s Report-Miriam Rinaldi

In-depth look at Clubs financial income/expenses. Allocation of past fundraising/future fundraising. Changes to budget.

Housekeeping and Policies-Jill Carlson Coaches-Chris Bertana

Meet with your swimmers lead coach.

Time To Vote- Peggy Bell-VP

President-Two year term to begin 10-1-2014 Jill Carlson

Secretary –Two year term to begin 10-1-2014 Beth De Rosier

Meet the Board of Directors Elected Board Members

President – Jill Carlson Vice President – Peggy Bell Treasurer – Miriam Rinaldi Secretary –Beth De Rosier 12U M-A-L – Rosa Harris 13O M-A-L – Jackie Kroc

Appointed Board Members Head Coach – Chris Bertana GPD – Kara Moss Meet Director – Molly Shumate (Past President – non-voting)

Board meets 1st Monday of eachmonth at 6:30 p.m.

All are welcome.

Observation roomWTHS O’Plaine

Blue Devil Committee ChairsCommittee Chair Person

Volunteer Rosa Harris

Membership Michelle Kelly

Social Kim Lobitz

Fundraising Stephanie Santa

Travel Meets Peggy Goldman

Apparel/Team Gear Kathy Gernady

Concessions/Hospitality Kathy Aykroid/Tina Schuler

Photography Margie Pilling

Awards Sue Hoffman

Officials Neal Nash

Financial Snapshot: 2013-14

Registration $146,600.00 Payroll $138,600.00

Meet Income $59550.00 Program Expenses

$36,400.00

Coaching Fees $10,300.00 Admin/ManageExpenses

$15,500.00

Fundraising/Misc $21,250.00 Team Expenses

$45,800.00

Income $237,700.00 Expenses $236,300.00

Fundraising allocation2012-13 allocationTeam suits, both formal winter and summer banquets, equipment for concessions, training equipment for swimmers (including an underwater camera system).

2013-14 allocationLED Scoreboard ($25K)Team suits for 2013-14 Fall/Winter season ($7K)

2014 & future allocation2014 team suits & summer banquetStarting blocks

Budget changes

Adjust Income Change fundraising efforts Adjust group sizes Anticipate increase in registration fees for 2015 Fall/Winter

season; majority of increase in senior groups

Adjust Expenses BDSC will pay for swimmers only at 2015 Fall/Winter Banquet Decrease budget for team equipment Eliminate purchase of team suits for 2015 season

(Subject to change)

Planned fundraising for 2014-15

Hosted MeetsBlizzard: January 16-18, 2015May Mania: May 2015

Swim-a-thonCar WashEmployee GivingSilent Auction & Raffle at F/W banquet

Other Adjustments

Meet Schedule changes Wednesday night use of Warren pool starting

Jan 2015. Discontinue use of Hunt club Facilities for

Morning practice summer 2015. Vendors- American outfitters, Swim-team store Saturday Morning Bagels-

Sign-up for families to contribute

Housekeeping

Communication Website: www.swimbdsc.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swimbdsc

or search Blue Devil Swim Club Gurnee and like the page.

Officials

http://www.ilswim.org/officials/index.htm Meet Directors

Policies

BullyingCommunicationTardinessTeam suitMeet fee/BillingVolunteerism

Coaching

Head Coach: Chris Bertana8th Year as Head Coach at BDSCOver 18 Years of Head Coaching ExperienceWTHS Girls and Boys Varsity Swim CoachOffice Hours

Mon-Fri: 10:00am-2:00pm. Cell: 847-204-6997Email: [email protected]

Assistant Coaches

Greta Nash- Lead Coach Junior Devils Madison Rinaldi- Assistant Coach Junior Devils Kevin Kowalski- Lead Coach Bronze Linda Jackson-Assistant Coach Bronze Tanner Nash-Assistant Coach Bronze Stephanie Kramer- Lead Coach Silver Jimmy Gray-Assistant Coach Senior Group Karin Brown- Assistant Head Coach, Senior Group

Lead Coach-(Yellow,Green and Elite Groups) and Dry land Coordinator

Chris Bertana- Head Coach- Age Group Lead Coach, Lead Gold and Blue Coach

Goals & Expectations

Coaches Expectations

Expectations of Swimmers

Breakout session with coaches