GC Divers

GC Divers are #1 for the 8th year in a row at the USA DIVING JUNIOR WEST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

April 13-15, 2012, Oklahoma City, OK
GC Divers earned points for each team member who placed in the top 12 in an event. The higher the place, the more team points are earned. Many teams do not get a diver into the top 12 in a contest. It was a close race this year - Mission Viejo nearly caught us!

Total Team Points Earned: GC Divers - 228.00; Mission Viejo - 183.00; Rose Bowl Aquatics - 129.00; Longhorn Aquatics - 111.00

Thanks to all the divers on the West National Team, we were able to win again. The cheering was great and the diving was exciting. We are so proud of how you represented GC Divers!

West National Champions:

Jackson Miller (11 & Under) 1m, 3m
Bryce Klein (16-18) 1m
Bradley Christensen (16-18) 3m

Divers pre-qualified for summer Jr Nationals (placing top 3):

Jackson Miller (11&U) 1m, 3m
Alli Ward (11&U) 3m
Emily Grund (12-13) 1m, 3m
Shannon Lumbra (16-18) 1m
Brittany Wang (16-18) 3m
Bryce Klein (16-18) 1m, 3m
Bradley Christensen (16-18) 1m, 3m

National Team Accomplishments:

11 & Under:
Jackson Miller (1st, 1st), Reid Klein (5th, 12th), Elliot Bjorkman (8th, 9th), Kevin Doody (10th, 12th), Brady Ruth (15th, 15th), Alli Ward (3rd, 19th), Kinzie Etzelmiller (15th, 24th)

12-13:
Emily Grund (2nd, 3rd), Katie Crown (4th, 5th), Erin Palmer (29th), Kathleen Feuerborn (15th), Sasha Culbertson (26th, 30th)

14-15:
Sloane Papa (11th, 17th), MacKenzie Willborn (8th, 12th), Kathryn Seyer (18th, 23rd), Sara Voss (31st), Nathaniel Hernandez (6th, 10th)

16-18:
Bryce Klein (1st, 3rd), Bradley Christensen (1st, 2nd), Zak Rowton (9th, 10th), Calvin Morris (12th, 27th), Brittany Wang (3rd, 7th), Shannon Lumbra (3rd, 6th), Grace Kazmierski (12th, 19th), Lauren Crown (15th), Larkin Papa (11th), Sarah Musselman (23rd)

We hope that everyone will plan to attend this really fun meet! Go to www.divemeets.com to register. If you need a dive list, please send an email to Krista at gcdivers@msn.com.

There will be an open practice from 6:00-8:00pm on Friday, May 4th.

Date:
May 4th–6th, 2012

Location:
Josh Davis Natatorium, Blossom Athletic Center
12002 Jones-Maltsberger
San Antonio, TX. 78216

Springboard diving is a great way to combine a love for water with tumbling skills. Classes are available for students who just want to learn to dive in headfirst, and for those students who are anxious to flip and spin off the boards!

GC Divers is the #1 Junior Olympic team in the Country! We have won West Nationals 8 years in a row and have 5 divers qualified for the Olympic Trials. Come join us for some diving lessons and have some fun this summer! And bring a friend or two!!

Location:
Carroll Aquatics Center
1501 W Southlake Blvd
Southlake, TX

Morning and evening sessions are available.

Download the Registration Form by clicking on the “Lessons” tab on the GC Divers homepage. Email Krista at gcdivers@msn.com for more information.

Our Team Annual Season Kick-Off Party will be from 6:00-8:00 on Tuesday, Sept 27th at Skatetown, 2330 William D Tate Ave, Grapevine 76051. Divers should have received an invitation in their diving folder. If you have other commitments on Tuesday, please try to stop by to order your team suit, pick up your shirt and get the competition schedule.

If you want more information on the parent booster club, representatives will be at the party. The coaches at GCD really appreciate their support!

A couple of things to remember for the party:

• It is free to all team members - siblings may pay at the door to skate. (divers who don’t wish to skate can still have fun)
• Cake will be served. The snack bar will be open and available for food and drink purchases.
• D&J Sports will be attending with sizing kits and will be taking team suit orders and will have warm-ups and bags as optional items.
• We will have a fashion show early in the party and divers will vote on their favorite suit for this year’s team suits.
• Pick your favorite! Once the divers vote on a winning suit STYLE, each diver can pick their favorite color of suit to order. Boys will have the option of a jammer style or speedo brief style.
• National Team suit color will be BLUE, but they also have the option to order the general suit for an additional competition suit.
• T-shirts will be ready for pick up at the party. All team divers need a team shirt for meets.
• Folder contest! The folder you received in the file box at the pool is yours to decorate. There is a contest at the party for the most creative folder. Age groups: 9under, 10-12 and 13 older. Awards and prizes will be given for the top 3 in each category
Please don’t put your name on the outside of the folder, but put it on the inside. Pick up your folder before you leave as we would like you to keep all diving related handouts etc in your folder during the year.
• Parents and Divers - please fill out and wear a name tag provided at the door. This is a great opportunity for everyone to meet the newer divers on our team and for parents to get to know each other.

See you at SKATETOWN!!!

Sunday, December 5th at Keller Pool
2:00 - 5:00pm

The GCD Parent Organization would like to invite you to the 2010 Holiday Party on Sunday, December 5th at the Keller Pool. The party will run from 2:00 pm until 5:00 pm. A professional photographer will be on site during the party for individual and our annual team photos (Novice team, JO team, and National team). The photographer will begin with team photos at 2:15 pm. An order form for the photographer is available (please see email attachment).

Teams should wear following for the team photo:
National Team - National Team warm ups
JO - Team T-shirt and black or navy shorts or team warm-up pants
Novice - Team T-shirt with black or navy shorts or team warm-up pants.

Divers can wear whatever they choose for their individual photo.

The GCD Parent Organization is looking for donations for refreshments for the party. Please reply at this website if you are able to donate any of these items:

9 & Under age group:
Cheese & Crackers (2 Cheese Trays w/ Misc. Crackers)
10-11 age group:
Chips (4 bags of chips & misc. dips, 2 bags Chex Mix)
12-13 age group:
Drinks (2 cases ea. Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Water)
14-15 age group:
Fruit & Vegetable Trays
16-18 age group:
Cookies/Cupcakes (6 dozen cookies, 4 dozen cupcakes)

Once again thank you for your help. If you have any questions regarding donations for the party, feel free to email Leslie Christensen at lesliesc@airmail.net or Nancy Lumbra at nlumbra@verizon.net. We hope everyone will come enjoy the party!

Nancy Lumbra,
President
GC Divers Parent Organization

The New Year’s meet is up again on divemeets.com. Please try to register this week so that if there are any problems, we have time to adjust before the day of the meet. It is sometimes complicated to get registered for a meet with divemeets the first time. It will be easy for future meets. If you don’t have your instruction sheet on how to enter, or you don’t have the dives your diver worked on with his/her coach, let me know. When you register, it will ask for the dives your diver will do on each board. Use the dive numbers on your sheet to enter these. Once you enter the numbers, it will let you know what those dives are etc. Your coach will be able to go online and check the dives you entered to make sure everything is correct. If your coach decides that another dive is better for the meet, those changes can be made up to the day of the competition.

Synchronized diving sheets will be in the diver’s mailboxes on Tuesday of next week. Those can be returned to the team fees folder at the pool.

We are excited about our first home meet of the season.

Krista

Saturday, December 6, 12-3pm, Keller Pool:

The GC Parent Organization would like to invite you to the 2008 Holiday Party on Saturday, December 6th at the Keller Pool. The party will run from 12:00 - 3:00. A professional photographer will be on site during the party for individual and team photos (Novice team, JO team, and National team).

Teams should wear following for the team photo:
National Team - National Team warm ups
JO - Team T-shirt and black or navy shorts or team warm-up pants
Novice - Team T-shirt with black or navy shorts or team warm-up pants.

Divers can wear whatever they choose for their individual photo.

The GCD Parent Organization is looking for donations for refreshments for the party. Please reply if you are able to donate anything from the list below.

9 & Under Cheese and Crackers (2 Cheese Trays w/ Misc. Crackers)
10-11 Chips (4 bags of chips & misc. dips, 2 bags Chex Mix)
12-13 Drinks (2 cases each Coke/Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Water)
14-15 Fruit & Vegetable Trays
16-18 Cookies/Cupcakes (6 dozen cookies, 4 dozen cupcakes)

Once again thank you for your help. Please RSVP to Laura Grund a lauragrund@charter.net. We hope everyone will come enjoy the party!

GC Divers Parent Organization

These are the instructions for the hotel in Houston for the Jingle Bell meet. I hope this helps. We are hoping to have a good turnout going to this meet. It is always a great meet with all of the effort they put into raffles etc. Most of the teams in Texas should be there. If you need help selecting dives for this meet, please ask your coach at your next practice. This meet is posted on divemeets.com as well. Let’s show up in force and show them how strong GCD again this year!!! They have events for future champs, novice and J.O.(FINA) so our whole team is elligible to go Krista

Unless you have made other plans for your stay in Houston, let’s try to stay together at the Hyatt.

Here are instructions to give your guests on how to make their reservations:
1. Call Hyatt Regency Houston at 713-654-1234 or 1-800-233-1234
2. Ask for Reservations Department
3. Say you would like to make reservations in the group block for “GC Divers”, grouping code “GCDI”, then give them your check-in, and checkout date.
4. They will then re-confirm the reservation, and give them a confirmation number.

Ciara Pettway
Sales Manager
Hyatt Regency Houston
1200 Louisiana Street
Houston, TX 77002
Ph: 713-375-4693
Fx: 713-375-4699

JO INVITATIONAL / NOVICE

SATURDAY - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 - 14, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
CAMPUS RECREATION AND WELLNESS CENTER
HOUSTON, TEXAS

Dear Coaches and Parents:

I would like to invite you all to the Jingle Bell Classic 2008 on December 13 - 14, 2008. We will be hosting this event in our awesome diving facility on the University of Houston campus. We hope you will come and enjoy this beautiful place and we hope to make this meet as fun as it always is.

Directions to the pool are on our website at www.cougardiving.com and/or use Yahoo Maps (not Map Quest)

Please register online at www.divemeets.com by Friday, December 5th.

HOTELS- GC Divers has a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency Downtown. Rooms are held under GC Divers with a group rate. This is where the coaches will be staying.

Hyatt Regency Downtown (5 min drive)
1200 Louisianna
Phone number: 713-654-1234

Holiday Inn – Astrodome (10 min drive)
8111 Kirby
Phone number: 800-465-4329

*Medals for top 3 places and ribbons for 4-6 place finish

T-Shirts, Raffle Tickets, and Concessions will be available in the lobby.

*Important Info: Entry into the diving facility is through the lobby only – we will have the meet entry table and registration table directly in the lobby. Please be aware that no athletes or parents may enter any other part of the facility. No parents will be allowed on deck – spectator stands only!!

We had a very successful meet in Conroe this weekend. The weather was a little chilly, but beautiful. This outdoor venue was at least covered by a very nice tent with built-in heaters all around.

Medals were awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers…

Our Novice divers won eight medals - congratulations Novice divers!

Our JO Team won twenty-five medals - way to go J.O. Team divers!

We also had a Master’s entry who won a medal, and we won three medals in the Bronze category.

Congratulations to all divers who traveled to Conroe and competed!