“A Tradition of Excellence”

“There Are No Limits To What You Can Accomplish, Except The Limits You Place

On Your Own Thinking.” – Brian Tracy

We foster, through swimming and diving, citizens that will make a positive impact in

society by building a value system that leads to high levels of leadership and success both inside and outside the realm of swimming.

A national and state model of excellence established through hard-work, dedication, and

character development.

2020 Accolades

• UIL 6A Boys state champions• UIL 6A Girls Runner-up• Boys & Girls District 21-6A & Region 6 champions• Boys Public school NISCA dual meet National Runner-up;

Girls 7th nationally• 22 All-American swimming Events (Tie most in program

history)• 8 Academic All-Americans• NISCA Silver level academic team boys & girls• 37 All state event recipients• 12 Academic All State recipients• 6 school records & 1 freshman record

COVID-19 Regulations (subject to change at any time)

• Expectations for swimmers:

– Masks worn on deck at all times

– Maintain Social distancing on deck

– Wear Masks in the locker room

– One way entry and exit into locker room

– Sanitize equipment after use

– Maximum 32 athletes in the water at a time.

Practice Schedule

• JV has been published, but may change as pool occupant size increase or decreases or school schedule changes.

• Varsity: Currently week-to-week due to the needs of the group. Assume 5:45 daily unless otherwise told. Sent out weekly through remind.

• Diving: Daily during 2nd period.

Meet Schedule

• Posted on Website

– Subject to change at any time.

COVID-19 Changes for Parents

• As of today, we will not be allowing parents to attend home meets

• Only trained officials & computer (hy-tek & timing system) will be allowed to come to meets at this time.

• We will be live streaming meets to the best of our abilities (some through Texan Live, some like we have in the past)

• Away meets are at the discretion of the host. We will make sure you know whether or not you can attend and what the parameters are.

Dual Meet Format Changes

• No more than 3 teams at a meet except District, Region, & State

• No JV & Varsity Combined meets

• Plan meets according to social distancing guidelines

UIL Championship Changes

• District: Top 4 Qualify for Region (used to be 6)

• Region: 1 day prelims-finals meet;

– State Qualification = Region Champion and fastest next 8 finishers by time across the state. (Total = 16)

• State: 1 day prelim-final meet; Girls: Feb. 19-20 weekend; Boys: Feb 26-27 weekend

Transportation Travel Release

• If uncomfortable with sending athletes on bus, must fill out transportation waiver located on KHS website under athletics for EVERY meet.

• Linked on our swim website as well.

• Please turn in the release 1 day prior to the competiton.

Inhalers/Epi’s/Glucose Pumps

• If you use any of the products listed above, we MUST have one to keep throughout the year NO LATER THAN FRIDAY.

• Make sure they are not expired

• If not turned in, they cannot practice or compete. Same for if they expire(d).

Parent Involvement

• Objective: to gain more involvement in different areas (committees of people) to allow for collaboration

• Expectation: Underclassmen parents will be heavily involved.

• Senior parents focus on senior centered activities and work as “consultants”. They should enjoy their student-athlete’s senior year.

• This continuum ensures that there are always people we can lean on for advice/help

Current State of Activities

• Cannot have gatherings indoors

• Must mask and maintain social distancing

• We will not be sponsoring anything other than potluck at this time.

Team Moms

• Laurie Grafmiller-V

• Sandy Beals- V

• Kristi Hebert- V

• Karen Wadsworth- Diving

Merchandise

• Dawnshannon Lloyd

Miscellanous

• Nicole Green

– Treasurer/KASBC

– Mustang Cards either sent out today (Diving and JV) or Tomorrow/Thursday

• Goal due date: September 18.

Officials (Peter Parnham)

• We need at least 4 officials to run meets.

• Please consider becoming an official

• UIL swimming officials clinic

– Sept. 10 @ KHS 6:30-8:00 (more information will be sent out)

Athlete Expectations

• The next several slides will go over athlete expectations.

Team Culture

• Culture is vital in success so we consistently strive for the following in accordance with our vision:

Positive energy TeamworkRespectIntegrity filledConsistentOverall Excellence

• Be a great teammate first and foremost– We will spend much time discussing what this looks,

sounds, feels like

• Be respectful and show genuine care to everyone

• Be on time “MUSTANG TIME”

• Have goals both short and long-term and

in the pool and out of the pool

• Strive to be your best self every single day– ALL Outlined in the Student-athlete handbook

Kingwood Handbook

• You, as the athlete, are responsible to know the rules; Ignorance is never an excuse

• Every athlete must sign

• You will NOT compete until you have signed.

Rules and Regulations

– Social Media

• Monitor social media;

• Easy to prove bad behavior

• Has resulted in several meet suspensions

– Vaping

• Major problem amongst HS students in general.

• Illegal

• Will be suspended with possible removal from team

• Kids sent home from state meet at another school due to vaping

As a Kingwood Student-Athlete you represent many things:

– Yourself

– Your Parents

– Your Family

– Your Coaches

– Your Teachers

– KHS Swimming and Diving

– KHS in general

– Clubs and organizations

– And much more…With this in mind, our goal together is to provide you

with the best outlet to make the best possible choices. It is an honor to represent our top-notch program that is

steeped in tradition. Keep that in mind when you think a decision could jeopardize any of the aforementioned

parties, but specifically this one. If you think there may be a reason not to do something because of the list

above, then take a step back and don’t do it.

Student-Athlete Responsibility

• Student comes before athlete for a reason. • No PASS = NO SWIM or DIVE • 1st grading period:

– 6 week Progress reports Sept. 18; – 9 weeks Oct. 2

• Use Zoom for your tutoring needs• If you are struggling, please discuss with us. We

are here to help guide you and we have athletes in our program that are willing to tutor as well.

• All athletes sign a code of conduct will be posted on the website

Parent Responsibility

• Be your swimmer’s biggest fan

• Ensure swimmers are receiving their basic needs

• Aid in arrangement of transportation if needed

• Positive Support structure

• Communicate positively

• Help our athletes development of proper time management

• Be a perspective taker and listen to your athlete

Communication

• Swimmers must communicate with BOTH coaches if they are going to miss practice or meets (email, text, etc.) Athletes are responsible to do this, not parents. We are teaching them responsibility.– The reason for this is just about reliability and checks and

balances.– Failing to do so could result in a meet suspension and/or

makeup practices.

• Please be patient if we do not respond to an inquiry until the next day. If we don’t get back the next day, I am perfectly fine with a gentle nudge!

• We are partners in development of our student-athletes as athletes and people first and foremost

Communication Take 2

• All Parents should be signed up to kingwood.swim.dive@gmail.com to receive emails

• All athletes are on Remind for information

– Schedule changes will be announced through remind.

• Twitter @khsswimdive

mailto:kingwood.swim.dive@gmail.com

Communication Take 3

• Humble ISD Policy:– If we need to text an athlete one-on-one we need to

follow the following protocol:

• Parent or other coach MUST be on the text• USA Swimming has adopted an 8 p.m. -> 8 a.m.

policy to contact individually as well which may or may not impact Coach Robinson’s ability to communicate with athletes.

Therefore, if we receive a text that is informational, we likely will not respond with a typical “thanks” answer unless you have copied both parties.

Chain of Communication

• Please if there is any issue that arises or questions that you have that is swimming & diving related contact the coaches first. – Admins and AP’s will need to contact us about it

anyway and typically are not aware of the nature of the problem.

– We can likely problem solve together – This typically makes for a speedier and more efficient

process

• If your needs are not met, please contact Coach Melton or Coach Willis our athletic coordinators on campus before contacting Troy Kite.

Website

• Please use the website as your reference to all important information in regards to the program except daily practice which includes:– Meet Schedule

– Practice schedules

For Breaks

– Handbook

– KHS Top 10

HS & Club Relationship

• We MUST be partners in developing our swimmers

• Communication is vital

• Regular discussions with swimmers about how they feel (broken down, injuries)

• December Rest/Taper meets

• HS Championship Season

Attendance

Student-athletes are expected to be at ALL practices and Meets

unless arranged otherwise. Communication is vital!

Equipment

• Team Equipment:– A majority of the equipment is in excellent shape.

Let’s keep it that way!

– Clean up equipment every time you are in the pool.

• Personal Equipment:– Lockers (keep clean and tidy if not lose privilege)

– Store bags outside in contained area

• Keep the Locker Room area clean.

• IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES! This includes areas at meets, eating in the cafeteria after practice, the bus, etc.

Equipment Cont’d

• Club athletes are prohibited from using our equipment during club practice, but can use during HS practice.

• If you swim club once our afternoon practice has ended, you will not be able to access the locker room to retrieve your belongings.

If I am on JV, can I move up to Varsity?

• Yes, we will evaluate specific cases at the end of the JV season and determine if move-ups are warranted.

– We had several move up and compete at the district meet last season.

• See next slide about District participation

How the District Team is Composed

• Top 4 eligible swimmers in the program in each individual event with each swimmer swimming a maximum of 2 individual events.

– NOTE: if the top 16 swimmers each swim 2 events, there could be a minimum of 16 swimmers compete at Districts

• Relays are composed of the top 4 swimmers or at coach’s discretion swim-offs, etc. may be considered

District team composition cont’d

• Depth charts or mock district lineups are created throughout the season and shared with the athletes. – We post top times, but not mock district lineups. These

are strictly internal and not to be shared.

• Are only this season’s times considered?– We look at a variety of considerations: First, in

season times. Second, we look at past performance. Third, did a person taper to earn that time or were they suited, when someone who has the same time hasn’t been allowed that opportunity? All of this information must be taken into consideration when completing a district lineup.

If I don’t make the district team…

• Our coaching staff’s goal is for everyone to get a “last” shaved, suited and rested/tapered swim.

• We will use Senior Night against The Woodlands for a last chance for those on the “bubble” as well as possibly Non-TISCA invite and JV districts

• We will be assessing and communicating consistently with our athletes to be as transparent as possible

Relays

• In dual meets, we will swim up to four relays

• In Championship meets:

– In most cases (District, Region, State) there is ONLY an “A” Relay

– This “A” Relay is a TEAM relay. When the relay advances from District Region, there can be changes to the relay and then again from Region State

– Examples on the next page:

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