1. 2014 Fall/Winter Season Welcome Families! 140 swimmers

2. 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.

3. Time To Vote- Peggy Bell-VP President-Two year term to begin 10-1-2014 Jill Carlson Secretary –Two year term to begin 10-1-2014 Beth De Rosier

4. 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) Board meets 1 st Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. Observation room WTHS O’Plaine

5. Blue Devil Committee Chairs CommitteeChair Person VolunteerRosa Harris MembershipMichelle Kelly SocialKim Lobitz FundraisingStephanie Santa Travel MeetsPeggy Goldman Apparel/Team GearKathy Gernady Concessions/HospitalityKathy Aykroid/Tina Schuler PhotographyMargie Pilling AwardsSue Hoffman OfficialsNeal Nash

6. Financial Snapshot: 2013-14 Registration$146,600.00Payroll$138,600.00 Meet Income$59550.00Program Expenses $36,400.00 Coaching Fees$10,300.00Admin/Manage Expenses $15,500.00 Fundraising/Misc$21,250.00Team Expenses $45,800.00 Income$237,700.00Expenses$236,300.00

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. 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

11. Housekeeping Communication Website: www.swimbdsc.orgwww.swimbdsc.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swimbdsc or search Blue Devil Swim Club Gurnee and like the page.https://www.facebook.com/swimbdsc Officials http://www.ilswim.org/officials/index.htm Meet Directors

12. Policies Bullying Communication Tardiness Team suit Meet fee/Billing Volunteerism

13. 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: chris@swimbdsc.org

14. Assistant Coaches 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

15. Goals & Expectations Coaches Expectations Expectations of Swimmers Breakout session with coaches