Contact Information Mailing & Billing Address Stingrays Swimming (T4L) 803 Savona Way, Woodstock, GA 30189
Head Coach - CAC Location & Billing Ian Goss (770-325-7292) Ext 0
Lead Coach - CCAC Location Pike Hightower (770-325-7292) Ext 2 Office Hours Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 9:00 am-1: 00 pm Tuesday: 10:30 am-1:00 pm Lead Coach - CAC Location Mark Keaveney (770-325-7292) Ext 4 Lead Age Group Coach - MVAC Allison Touart (770-325-7292) Ext 3 Lead Senior Coach - MVAC Ricardo Masiero (770-325-7292) Ext 6 Masters Coach at MVAC Location Michael Soderlund (770-325-7292) Ext 5
LAPS Director & Information Nicole Kunst (770-325-7292) Ext 1
STINGRAYS PROGRAMS LAPS The Stingrays offer our state-of-the-art LAPS program for Elementary and Middle School children. In LAPS, your child will receive vigorous and athletic practice while getting some of the finest stroke techniques and development in the Southeast. (Over 60 years of coaching on our Staff!) LAPS has, as its central mission, to make professional swimming instruction, structure, and athletics accessible to all children. We do this in 3 important ways: 1. We break the school year into 5-7 week sessions. (There will be 5-7 sessions throughout the year.) You are not committed to any more than the one that you are in. 2. This session approach allows for the freedom to do multiple activities without overburdening the calendar or the checkbook. Play other sports? Great! You can create a schedule that can run concurrently with your sport OR participate in the off-season. Not sure how much you want to swim? No problem. The 6-weeks-at-a-time format makes trying it out very low risk. If you want more (and you will!), sign up for the next session and add more days. 3. Finally, your cost is determined by the number of days you select. There is no flat monthly rate that you will be locked into. If you want to swim 2x per week, you will pay less than if you want to swim 3x per week. Your commitment is your decision. As you get older and more context is developed, your coaches will guide you to the appropriate levels of commitment. If interested in joining our LAPS program at any location, please contact our LAPS Director Nicole Kunst contact laps. Or you can call our main line at 770-325-7292 Ext 1 LAPS website link Pre & Post High School Program The Stingrays offers a quality program for pre-high School season and post High School season. The RAYS are Georgia’s finest swim program. Twice the American Swimming Coaches Association has named us the National Stroke Champions. This is an honor given to the program with the Best Stroke Technique in the USA. If you are participating in a High School swim team this school year, then this program will help you get a head start. This program is for current Non-USA-Swimming athletes. If interested in joining our Mountain View Aquatic facility, please contact Coach Allison at [email protected]. If interested in joining our Cherokee County Aquatic Center facility, please contact Coach Pike at [email protected]. Or you can call our main line at 770-325-7292 Master’s Program Stingrays offer a Master’s Program (21 & older) at the Mountain View and Cherokee locations. If you are looking for more information about joining our master's Team, please contact Coach Michael Soderlund at (770) 325-7292 ext. 5 or [email protected] Competitive Team Stingrays offer training and competition for all levels of swimmers seeking individual development and team unity within a nationally recognized competitive swim program. Anyone interested in becoming a Stingrays swimmer is asked to attend a swim evaluation at one of our facilities. Group evaluations for new swimmers are scheduled in the summer, while individual evaluations may be conducted at other times of the year. During the evaluation, a Stingrays staff member will observe the swimmer performing all four strokes, assign an appropriate group placement within the Stingrays program, and discuss the registration process. If interested in joining our Mountain View Aquatic facility, please contact Coach Allison at [email protected]. If interested in joining our Cherokee County Aquatic Center facility, please contact Coach Pike at [email protected]. Or you can call our main line at 770-325-7292 2023-2024 COMPETITIVE TEAM MEMBERSHIP FINANCIAL MATTERS Since your child is swimming for the Stingrays, we ask that you be aware of the important and various financial commitments that come with the membership. Please read the following information carefully and completely. If you have any questions, please email our Business Office, [email protected]. Team Billing: 770-325-7292 Ext 0. All outstanding balances must be paid in full before or during the registration process. Stingrays billing is done through T4L Swim Team Management, Inc. all payments must be made payable to T4L. REGISTRATION FEE For NEW members the annual non-refundable registration fee is $200 payable online through the Stingrays website is required for each new swimmer. [$25 will be credited to the family account when a family parent has completed the USA Swimming Safe Sport Course]. For subsequent years a rolling registration fee for returning swimmers is $175 due on July 1st of each year. [$25 will be credited to the family account when a family parent has completed the USA Swimming Safe Sport Course]. For more than one athlete per family. (Age Group, Youth, Senior, Future, and National groups only) there is a $20 discount per athlete for the yearly registration. The Pro-Rated Registration Fee drops to $150 on January 1st; $125 on March 1st; $100 on April 1st [$25 will be credited to the family account when a parent has completed the USA Swimming Safe Sport Course]. Additionally, USA & Georgia Swimming are requiring that each athlete registers and pays their fees directly to them online. ALL REGISTRATIONS ONCE COMPLETE AND APPROVED ARE NON-REFUNDABLE RECURRING CHARGES TEAM Swim Fees The swim year runs from August 1 to July 31 each year. All Swim Fees are non-refundable. DISCOUNTS 2023-2024 for Swim Fees *** Multi-Swimmer Discounts for families with more than one swimmer in the Age Group program or above level practice groups are applied as follows (after ordering swimmers from most expensive to least expensive): • 2nd swimmer = 10% off • 3rd swimmer=20% off • 4th swimmer=30% off • 5th swimmer and above = free ***By registering with the Stingrays Swimming program, you agree to the Service and Financial responsibilities listed in this Commitment Agreement. *** Family Commitment Charge There will be a mandatory $150 commitment/charge per family Stingrays Swimming is proud to sponsor and help promote and subsidize USA Swimming programs as well as fund scholarships, travel, water fees, and team equipment costs for Stingrays Swimming. Stingrays Swimming will host the Annual Swim-A-Thon fundraiser in the fall to help achieve these goals. The Online Fundraiser will be active on the website in September, so everyone can start early. The Fundraiser system on our Website offers easy templates for emailing prospects and track your donations. Details on the Swim-A-Thon events and prizes will be communicated by the coaches and on the website once the program is finalized and active. (Note that 5% of the proceeds will go to USA Swimming and the remainder will go toward scholarships, travel, and team equipment costs.) The family commitment charge is due December 1st of each year. Although the commitment charge is mandatory, the Swim-A-Thon allows the swimmer’s family to defray costs by raising money that would otherwise have been a direct charge to the swimmer’s family. Alternatively, the funds contributed by the swimmer’s family may be tax-deductible, in part or whole, as a charitable contribution. Consult your tax professional as Stingrays Swimming is not a tax expert and does not purport to be such. Should the swimmer’s family elect to pay the $150 charge, said the amount can be divided into two installments of $75 each (December 1st and January 1st). You MUST contact the Billing Department via email by November 15th if you wish for the fee to be split. If a swimmer registers in December, the commitment charge is $100; From January 1st to March 31st $75; which is invoiced as part of the registration fee. Email Billing [email protected] NON-RECURRING MONTHLY CHARGES Please carefully review your courtesy Billing Summary that is emailed to the primary email on your account around the 20th of each month to make sure you are aware of and prepared to pay the correct amount due. Non-recurring charges such as meet fees, cap fees, or special t-shirt fees may be added to your recurring monthly dues and are due in full on the 1st of each month. A $20 late fee is automatically billed to any account for which the Total Outstanding Balance has not been received and posted to an account by the 15th of each month. For each swim meet a swimmer signs up to attend, an $8 fee to cover Stingray's administrative and club costs at each meet is charged to the swimmer’s account in addition to the host team's individual event and surcharge fees. All fees are noted in the notes section when an athlete signs up for each swim meet. Because meet fees must be paid by Stingrays in advance, these fees will not be reversed if a swimmer fails to attend a meet for which s/he signed up to attend. When the sign-up deadline ends the athlete is considered in the swim meet and no refunds will be given. MEET Service COMMITMENT (For All Swimmers Participating in Swim Meets) Family Participation Policy (01/2016) If your child is swimming in a Stingrays-hosted swim meet, your service is required to work each session they compete in. For instance - if your child is swimming in only one (1) session, you will only be required to work one (1) session. In a prelim/final meet, all parents of Stingrays swimmers who make finals will be asked to work during finals in addition to the above requirements. NOTE: There is no Service Requirement for meets that we do not host. Notification If you do not sign up for the service hours and do not report to the service desk at the swim meet, you will be subject to a $25 fine per session, which will be invoiced to you on the monthly billing statement. A record will be kept of your service time. Service Sign up (Job Sign Up) To streamline the process, volunteer sign-ups are handled via the Stingrays website www.stingraysswiming.com. Go to the event page and click on Job Sign Up and choose a position to fill. If your child is swimming in the meet and the Stingrays are Hosting, it will be a (fun) working weekend for you. If you need to decide on childcare so that you can enjoy the experience more fully, please make arrangements ahead of time. We only host one (1) meet per month at the most in general, so let us make the most of it. Positive attitudes go a long way in making our swimmers feel energized and our guests welcome. If you are not able to sign-up on the website (the list is usually locked out one or two days before the meet), you are responsible for coming to the volunteer desk at the beginning of warm-ups to sign up and fill in where the meet manager needs you. NOTE: If you are unable to fulfill your Service Requirement you must contact Lori Windham at [email protected] or Coach Pike at [email protected] before the start of the meet. For meet-service questions please contact Lori Windham at [email protected] or Coach Pike [email protected] Family Participation Options You may choose different ways to fulfill your service obligation. Parents may work one (1) session or parents may work a session in which their child is not swimming. There are also other jobs behind the scenes (cooking for hospitality, shopping for concessions, moving supplies/trailers, concession runs, etc.) for those who are looking for something “outside the box”. Inquire with any of the meet managers if you are interested in any of these options or contact Coach Pike at [email protected] Credit for service is only given for Stingrays Hosted Meets. To earn credit for each session worked, you can become a GA Official. All training and USA Registration are paid for by T4L. Contact Coach Ian at [email protected] and he will help get the process going. ***By registering with the Stingrays Swimming program, you agree to the Service and Financial Responsibilities |