TNT Newsletter
The New Team on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay
January 2006
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCKS
TNT welcomes new teammates: Emily Nix, age 11, level 2. Rachel Nix, age 11, level 2. Amanda Pierce, age 12, level 2. Payton Pierce, age 9, level 2. Kaitlin Simison, age 9, level 2. Kyle Simpson, age 11, level 4. Ryan Simpson, age 8, level 2. You’re going to have a lot of fun and swim really, really fast.
TNT SCHOLAR ATHLETE HONOR ROLL
Congratulations to those swimmers of TNT who achieved “A” and “A-B” GPA’s during the 2nd quarter academic marking period. We are proud of your hard work in and out of the pool.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF YOU
Congratulations to swimmers of TNT who celebrate birthdays during the month of January: Cameron Milroy 9 on 1/9, Ashlin Gross 12 on 1/13, Jordan Simison 12 on 1/28, Forrest White 14 on 1/23. Another year older and another year faster.
EXTRA SPECIAL
Jordan Doucet, 5th grade at CKCS received an award for the DWP (discipline with purpose) Skill of Listening.Daniel Doucet, 7th grade at CKCS, received a DWP award for Communication and Cooperation. Kaitlin Simison, a student at Daphne Elementary, serves on student council, is a member of the school choir, as well as the school safety patrol. J.D. Powell was selected by his teacher to serve as a member of the Rockwell Elementary Citizenship Club. His selection was based upon good citizenship, good conduct, leadership qualities, willingness to work hard, great attitude, good manners, ability to get along with others, and as one that puts forth his best effort on school work.Emily and Cameron Grant will be taking their first mission trip with their parents January 24 – February 1 to Yucatan, Mexico. The two swimmers and their parents will be doing construction work and installing water purification systems for the Mayan Presbytery. Emily Gunn, a member of the CKCS Scholars Bowl and Science Olympiad Team, recently qualified for the Duke Tip Program. The program is a one time opportunity for 7th grade students to take the ACT based on the top 5% of Iowa Test results. Kyle Simpson, a 5th grade student at Daphne East Elementary, won his school spelling bee and will go on to compete in the county bee in Loxley. Forrest White completed a successful hunt for a large 8 point buck during the holidays.Ryan Walker, while on holiday in California, trained as a guest of the Vacaville Swim Club. While there, she enjoyed watching the sunrise each morning, as her practices were outdoors and began at 6 AM. Jefferson Hudson and Thomas Kinsey represented Fairhope High School at the Alabama State High School Swimming Championships, held December 10. FHS boys finished 11th in the state (the best finish in the area, beating Murphy, St. Paul’s, McGill and UMS). Jefferson was a member of the 200 medley relay and the 400 free relay that both placed 8th. He also made finals in the 100 back. Thomas was a member of the 200 free relay which just missed qualifying for finalsLET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT…WHAT?
TNT will be going to the Bay Bear Snow Park on Saturday, January 21 from 5:00-6:30. The Snow Park is located at Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile. They have a small sledding hill and areas for snowball fights or places to build snowmen or just play in the snow. The group rate will be $6.54 per person children and adults. Tickets may be available at the park if the session has not sold out at the regular prices of $8.72 for children and $10.90 for adults. Visit the web site at: http://www.mobilebaybears.com/snowpark.asp
PLAN ON IT
The date for TNT’s 2nd Annual Spring Awards Banquet will be Tuesday, March 14, 2006, at 6:00 PM, location to be announced. We are still working out the details, but please set this date aside and plan to attend. The banquet will include dinner and award presentations for all
swimmers of TNT.
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE… AND SOME DO
A new meet has been added to TNT's 2006 February meet schedule: The Auburn Aquatics Orange and Blue Classic. This meet is scheduled for the weekend of February 3 - 4 and will be held at Auburn's James Martin Natatorium. All swimmers of TNT are welcome to attend this meet. Please respond to Coach Jan Mittemeyer if you plan to attend. TNT will still attend the PNY Polar Bear Invitational, scheduled for February
18 – 19 in Pensacola, FL. Meet notices will be distributed once they have been received from PNY.
A BIG THANK YOU
Jan and Mary Beth extend their sincere thanks to everyone who contributed towards the purchase of their Christmas gift. The gift certificates for two massages and two pedicures at Nou’Veau, and lunch for two at Ciao Bella are very much appreciated and will be put to good use.
A DEFINITE NEED TO KNOW BASIS
Most information about TNT is sent to team families via email. If you are not receiving regular email from TNT, or would like it sent to an additional email address, please notify Jan Mittemeyer as soon as possible so that you can be added to the team email address list.
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
In order for families to have a more accurate accounting of TNT finances, you will now receive a family account statement on the first of each month. Special thanks to Andrea Doucet for making this happen. Please make sure to check your file folders to receive your monthly accounting.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM
TNT wishes to thank following people and and businesses, and to welcome them to our family of web site advertisers: Richard Bounds.
Jan Finney, CPA. Gray Finney, Attorney at Law. Haley Dermatology, and Gaitlin Hudson Architects.
THE GOOD GUYS
Fundraising is a normal function at most privately funded organizations and supplements TNT’s comparatively low training fee structure. An effective and relatively painless way of fundraising that is available to our membership is the advertising of businesses through TNT. Special thanks to those local businesses that support our program by advertising on our web site. Please visit them at http://www.swimtnt.com/advertisers_page.html
