2014 Fall/Winter Season Welcome 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

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

  Jill Carlson

Secretary

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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)

1 st Board meets Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.

Observation room WTHS O’Plaine

Blue Devil Committee Chairs

Committee

Volunteer Membership Social Fundraising Travel Meets Apparel/Team Gear Concessions/Hospitality Photography Awards Officials

Chair Person

Rosa Harris Michelle Kelly Kim Lobitz Stephanie Santa Peggy Goldman Kathy Gernady Kathy Aykroid/Tina Schuler Margie Pilling Sue Hoffman Neal Nash

Financial Snapshot: 2013-14

Registration $146,600.00

Payroll $138,600.00

Meet Income Coaching Fees Fundraising/Misc Income $59550.00

$10,300.00

$21,250.00

$237,700.00

Program Expenses Admin/Manage Expenses Team Expenses Expenses $36,400.00

$15,500.00

$45,800.00

$236,300.00

Fundraising allocation

2012-13 allocation

 Team suits, both formal winter and summer banquets, equipment for concessions, training equipment for swimmers (including an underwater camera system).

2013-14 allocation

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

2014 & future allocation

  2014 team suits & summer banquet Starting 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 Meets  Blizzard: January 16-18, 2015  May Mania: May 2015  Swim-a-thon  Car Wash  Employee Giving  Silent 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

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Bullying

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Communication

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Tardiness

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Team suit

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Meet fee/Billing

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Volunteerism

Coaching

  Head Coach: Chris Bertana 8 th Year as Head Coach at BDSC  Over 18 Years of Head Coaching Experience  WTHS Girls and Boys Varsity Swim Coach  Office Hours Mon-Fri: 10:00am-2:00pm.  Cell: 847-204-6997  Email: [email protected]

Assistant Coaches

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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