Dive Team
Welcome back to all East Gate Gators! The long winter is over, and we are ready to start the 2012 East Gate Gators Dive Season! We are looking forward to coaching all of your kids again this year. For as far back as we can remember, the East Gate community has been a wonderful part of our lives and our family’s lives. We hope to bring that same love and sense of belonging to all your children as we continue as the coaching team for our dive program.
Kat Chen and Yolanda Faerber will continue on as dive reps. Both the Chen and the Faerber families are long-time members of East Gate, with all of their children diving for the team since they were very little. Kat can be reached at kchen@on-go.com, and Yolanda at yfaerber@comcast.net.
Meet Your Coaches!!
David Zamkov: East Gate welcomes David as our new Head Coach for the dive team this year. He is finishing up his final year at the University of Louisville, and comes to us with many years of coaching experience. He used to be head coach at Regency Estates and currently coaches an age group program in Louisville.
Kali Becker: Kali joins us again this year as an Assistant Coach. Kali joined the team at the age of 7. She also continued diving throughout the winter, and is a nationally ranked diver, having dove in several Junior Nationals competitions. Her interests include music and athletics. She has a great deal of enthusiasm and has excellent fundamentals that will help divers of all ages succeed again this summer.
Elaina Faerber: Elaina joins us again this year as an Assistant Coach as well. She joined the team at the age of 5 and also is a nationally ranked diver, having dove in several Junior National Competitions. In addition to diving, Elaina loves singing. She also has great core fundamentals and she is looking forward to working with all of the divers on the team.
Practice Times
The practice times are set forth below. Afternoon practices begin on Tuesday, May 29. The 4:30 p.m. dive session is for the younger divers, up to 10 years old; the 5:30 p.m. dive session is for divers 11 years old and up. Morning practices begin on Monday, June 13.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 – 10:30 | 9:30 – 10:30 | 9:30 – 10:30 | 9:30 – 10:30 | 9:30 – 10:30 | |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | 4:30 – 5:30 | 4:30 – 5:30 | 4:30 – 5:30 | 4:30 – 5:30 | |
| 5:30-6:30 | 5:30-6:30 | 5:30-6:30 | 5:30-6:30 | 5:30-6:30 |
Meet Schedule
All dual meets are at 5 p.m. Please plan your vacations accordingly as we need every one of our divers at our meets!
Parent Volunteers
Finally, we really can’t do any of these meets without parent volunteers. Again, we will need parents to be judges, work tables and help with running the grill. These are all vital functions that allw the kids to have a memorable summer. Please email Yolanda Faerber at yfaerber@comcast.net or Kat Chen at kchen@on-go.com, if you can help with any of these. Here are the jobs descriptions of all volunteers needed to run the dive meets, in addition to the grill master.
Table Worker: There are several jobs at the table – score recorder, degree of difficulty calculator, meet secretary, and ribbon writer. Each of these jobs is learned on-the-job. East Gate provides three table workers for every meet.
Announcer: East Gate provides an announcer for all home meets. The announcer gives the name and team of the diver as well as the dive the child is planning to do and its degree of difficulty. MCDL publishes a guideline for announcing so the job is not particularly complicated. However, it is the most important job in a meet as the announcer is responsible for keeping up the pace so that meets are not excessively long. Gregg Hand is currently East Gate’s announcer but would love some help!
Dive Judge: The dives at all meets are judged by 5 parents – two from the home team and 3 from the away team. The league provides a brief training in the basics of judging to standardize judging at the meets. This training is mandatory and is held on three different dates at the beginning of each summer.
Dive Referee: East Gate provides the referee at all home meets. The referee provides guidance to the judges regarding maximum scores and failed dives. The referee may also act as a judge during the meets. Again, training is provided at the close of the judging clinics. See Yolanda if you are interested.
We want to personally welcome you or welcome you back and let you know that we can’t wait until the summer!!
All our best,
Kat Chen and Yolanda Faerber
