Monday, April 3, 2023

Parents,

I have four items of interest for you:

1. Due to the proximity of the schools, busses for our swim meets this week are one way. Please pick up your athlete at Pioneer HS (Tuesday) and Whittier HS (Thursday) between 5:30-6pm . You can also instruct them to walk home from either event. Of course, I would love to have you there for the whole meet so I can update you on our home pool situation.

2. We are asking students to fundraise with DONATION SCRATCHER CARDS. Each card will have a sticker to scratch off (like a lotto ticket) but it reveals how much of a donation the scratcher will give. Basketball did this and Coach Porter reported it as a success. Donations will be from $1-10. Your swimmer will be briefed on how to offer the scratcher to family and friends so there is no confusion. The min amount per card is $7. Our goal is $25 per swimmer (roughly 4 cards). If you prefer, you can "buyout" for the $25. This $25/athlete will be used to pay for the athlete's dinner at our end of year banquet.

3. We are asking for donations for our three softball snack bars. Please check the InstaTeam App/have your athlete show it to you. We need donations (chips, candy, sodas, etc) and parents to help run the snack bar for three days only! 4/5, 4/11, & 4/18. This money will be used for DJ and photo booth for our end of the year banquet. Athletes can either make a food/drink donation (listed on InstaTeam), sign up to run the snack bar (3 athletes/parents per day), or a $25 donation to the snack bar can be made as a "buyout".

4. Senior Swim Meet will be 4/13 against La Serna. Seniors will receive special recognition during the swim meet. Senior Parents, please join us in recognizing our athletes!

CIF SS Division IV - Summary Result

Girls Relay teams (Medley and 400 Free) and Lorelei Rojo (100 Fly and 100 Back), as well as the Boys 400 Free Relay team and Raphichy Olvera (100 Breaststroke) were in attendance for the Division IV Preliminary Swim Meet. 

Prelim Results - Lorelei Rojo qualified for the Championship Meet in both her events. The Girls Medley Relay team DQ'd and the 400 Free Team finished in 22nd place. Raphichy Olvera finished his 100 Breaststroke in 25th place and the Boys 400 Relay Team were 2nd alternates, but did not get the opportunity to swim in the final event.

Final Results - Lorelei Rojo completed in the Championship Meet for both of her events. She took 4th place in the 100 Back and the "Bronze Medal" (3rd place) in the 100 Butterfly.

CIF SS Division IV watch (update)

The following is a list of swimmers that have officially met the Automatic (Auto) or Consideration (Con) times to qualify for CIF. Swimmers will still have a chance to qualify or improve their qualifying times in Friday's finals. Times will be submitted before the Saturday morning deadline, but we will have to wait until Sunday for CIF SS to consolidate all league entries and rank them. The fastest 32 swimmers will compete in the CIF SS Div IV Prelims Monday, May 2nd, at 9am for a chance to qualify for the top-16 Finals/Consolation Finals on Saturday, May 7th at 2pm. 

🚨New School Record🚨

Congratulations Adrianna Lopez on clinching the #5 ERHS All-Time Women’s 100 Free record with your 1:06.89 swim against Alhambra. This time displaces Madelyn Meneses’ 2017 time of 1:07.69.

You can see all of our Top-5 Records here.

April 7, 2022

El Rancho HS Boys and Girls Swimming has been reclassified as Division IV. This means we should have more than just our club swimmers qualifying for CIF. To see the new qualifying times, click here.

Facility Update

During the Jan 18 School Board Meeting, the Architects gave a presentation regarding the plans for the aquatic center. If you are curious to see all three options, you can find them on the School Board's Online Agenda.  My choice would be the Option C, for the following reasons:

1. Does not take away from any building's current use or any athletic field use. Option A takes the R and S buildings for storage and office space, displacing the teachers and staff that are currently there. Option B takes away valuable field space between the Old Gym and the Football Field.

2. Construction can take place independently from future sports venues and locker room facilities. We don't have to wait for future plans to be approved, which will only lengthen the total project time. ERHS swimming and water polo have already spent one full season without a practice facility. Swimming is starting its 2nd season practicing at another high school. Practices start and end after other schools are done. Our athletes shouldn't have to have practices that late in the evening.

3. When the Football stadium and other fields are being worked on, we won't have to shut down as well. Once the pool is finished, we can get some of our athletes back to normal. And, we can look into starting an after school swim club that our Junior High students can walk over and learn both competitive strokes AND the basics of water polo

Parents, please drop an email to our board members and encourage them to select Option C2.