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FALL Practice Schedule ***NOTE CHANGES*** 11/12 Practice Cancelled THS Basketball
***NOTE Venue change during HS & College Swim Season***
Most practices will be held at THS during VHS and King's Swim seasons.
Check for updates here often as THS meets and HS basketball home games may cause practice to be cancelled if VHS is not available.
BASA will not Practice on Fridays during High School Football Season.
Our practice Schedule for the next 2 weeks is as follows:
Monday Nov. 9th 5:30-7:00pm at Tennessee High School
Tuesday Nov. 10th 5:00-6:30pm at Virginia High School/THS meet vs. GHS
Wednesday Nov. 11th 5:30-7:00 at Tennessee High School
Thursday Nov. 12th Practice Cancelled due to Basketball Games at THS
Friday Nov. 13th No Practice High School Football/H2okie Meet at Va. Tech
Saturday Nov. 14th H2okie Meet at Va. Tech
Sunday Nov. 15th H2okie Meet at Va. Tech
Monday Nov. 16th 5:30-7:00pm at Tennessee High School
Tuesday Nov. 17th 5:30-7:00pm at Tennessee High School
Wednesday Nov. 18th 5:30-7:00pm at Tennessee High School
Thursday Nov. 19th 5:00-6:30pm at Virginia High School/ THS VMS meet v. SHMS
Friday Nov. 2oth No meet High School Football
Monday, October 5
Time to....FLOAT!
BASA will have a float in the Bristol Christmas Parade - which is December 3rd at 7pm. Anyone who can participate should contact Beth Dingus dingusx4@bvunet.net before November 5th.
Monday, October 5
BASA Board Notes -
BASA Board will meet this Monday October 19th at the aquatic office at VHS 5:30-6:30. This is in addition to he regularly scheduled meeting on November 5th at 5:30 to discuss the 2009 Christmas Meet.
Sunday, September 27
2009 Fall Challenge Meet Results
Parents, THANK YOU for your help and participation throughout the meet. All the kids had some great swims and I think a good time too. The meet results are attached.
Handout: 2009 Fall Challenge Meet Results
Sunday, August 16
BASA Home and Travel Meet Schedule
BASA will host two home meets in the remainder of 2009, see below.
In addition, all swimmers are highly encouraged to participate in
the two local meets that BSC hosts in Johnson City and Kingsport.
The rest of the meets listed below are ones that have been chosen based
on travel time and quality of competition.
October
24th-25th BSC Pumpkin Patch Meet Kingsport, TN
November
We will be attending the H2okie meet in Blacksburg, VA instead of the Pilot meet in Knoxville, TN. We will be posting the entry and hotel information asap.
13th-15th H20kie Invite in Blacksburg, Va
December
4th-6th Nashville Aquatic (prelims/finals) at Tracy Caulkins in Nashville
11th-13th BASA Christmas Challenge
19th BASA Christmas party
24th BASA's 12 sets of Christmas workout
January Meets under consideration--please give your input.
8th-10th HYCAT Huntington, WV --a long drive(4+ hrs.) but really fun meet in a nice facility. HYCAT really supports us at the Ultimate Challenge.
15th-17th Pilot in Knoxville and Baylor in Chattanooga both have meets this weekend.
23rd-24th BRY Taco Bell Invite in Beckley, WV small meet really close to great night skiing at Winterplace.
30th-31st BSC Polar Bear Meet in Johnson City, TN Maybe our numbers will be up enough to take the team high point!
February Meets under consideration--please give your input
5th-7th ACAC in Oak Ridge, TN Last chance before Districts and SES Championship
20th-21st District East Championships Chattanooga, TN This is the Championship meet for 8&under swimmers and last chance to make southeastern cuts for older swimmers.
25th-28th Southeastern Swimming Championships Nashville, TN swimmers must have qualifying times to enter see handouts for time standards.
Tuesday, August 25
Swim and Tri BASA team portal
Swim and Tri swim shop in Knoxville has established a team portal for BASA in their website. Simply click on team portal on the upper left hand side of website then enter "thesharks" in the login prompt and you will be taken to special team deals on suits, goggles, bags and more. If you don't see something you need let them know and they can most likely put it on our portal. The website is www.swimandtri.com .
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2009-2010 BASA FEE SCHEDULE
BASA is open to swimmers of all ages. Swimmers must be able to swim 1-lap of acceptable freestyle.
3 practices per week - $ 75 session fee
4 practices per week - $100 session fee
5 practices per week - $125 session fee
6 or more practices per week - $150 session fee
If at any time during a session the coaches and swimmers feel that another day of practice is needed, the swimmer will be charged the additional $25 for the extra day per week. All swimmers will still be required to register with USS swimming at an annual fee of $50.
The swimming year will is divided into four (4) sessions.
Spring Session - March 2 through May 15 (2009)
Summer Session - May 16 through July 26 (2009)
Summer Break - July 27 through August 9 (2009
Fall Session - August 17 through November 15 (2009)
Winter Session - November 16 through February 21 (2010)
Winter Break - February 22 through March 7 (2010)
The practice schedule will be posted weekly.
All swimmers need to complete a new BASA Swimmer information sheet. Any swimmer who does not have a current 2009 USS registration on file with BASA, SES, and USS needs to complete the Athlete registration form and return it to a BASA board member. Any parent who wishes to serve as meet officials need to have completed the necessary requirements and must have completed a Non-Athlete registration form. All of these forms can be found in the handout below.
Handout: 2009 Registration Forms
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The top 10 BASA times for Short Course Yards, Short Course Meters and Long Course Meters in each age group event are now listed in the "Handouts" section of this web site.
The Long Course Meters times were updated on July 31, 2006. There are several new additions to the lists. Congratulations to all of the swimmers who have achieved new times on the list!
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We're having some problems again with the parking situation during and after practices at Tennessee High...especially parents who are picking up their children after practice!
Parents, swimmers, and coaches MUST park in legal parking spaces at and around Tennessee High/Viking Hall. All areas painted in RED are fire lanes. The areas painted in YELLOW are no parking zones (several of those will soon be changed to RED). All of the parking spaces along the fence next to the track are reserved for the Tennessee High athletic busses. The police will begin ticketing and towing any vehicles that are parked in the fire zones.
BASA would like to suggest two areas that you can park...
1. In the THS back parking lot. This would require that you cross Southside Ave.
2. On Edgemont Ave. in front of Viking Hall and the THS track. There are no streets to cross.
BASA must abide by all rules and laws. By not following those rules, we could put ourselves in a position of not being able to use the swimming pool!
