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I hope you will agree with me that 2010 has been the best year yet at Sleepy Hollow Bath and Racquet. The pool season opened with bright new showers, another row of new ca-banas and grounds with bright colored flowers and umbrellas. Due to your support and cooperation, the transition to a com-puter-based club manage-ment system was easy and relatively painless. Our fantastic board and staff provided a wealth of events and amenities. Kathy’s regular communi-cations kept us informed of the latest news and events. Sandy organized numerous fun and delicious parties for kids, teens and adults. Dave continued to enhance our relationship with Fro-zen Dairy Bar; Helen was instrumental in scheduling your special events as well as seeing to the success of our club management sys-tem. Rebecca and Kate ensured successful swim and dive seasons; Kevin worked with JEB Stuart
High School, tennis-playing members and Dave Lemair Tennis to make sure every-one had a court to play on when they wanted one.
Amy continued her work with membership so that as many families as possi-ble could join us for the season or the year. Mary saw to our budget and expenditures, and Jessi kept us on track with board and open member meeting schedules and notes. Nate oversaw the grounds and provided vision for our long term plans for new build-ings and remodeling. Raw-ley spent a lot of time mak-ing sure that the pools,
A stellar year! Bill Liberti
Falls Church, VA 703-532-0814
December 2010 www.shbr.org
Sleepy Hollow Bath and Racquet Club
Winter News
SHBR General Membership Meeting
Thursday, January 27, 7:30pm
Mason District Government Center
courts and grounds looked beautiful and he made sure our families were safe by managing our superb guard staff. Beth kept us and our books straight and helped Amy with membership issues. All of them made my job as president an easy and rewarding one. As is usual each year, the end of the year means changes in board mem-bership. Two board mem-bers, Dave Schulman and Amy Hammond, have de-cided to step down and enjoy SHBR life as mem-bers only. I appreciate their dedication, objectiv-ity, teamwork and willing-ness to make SHBR the very best that it could be. In addition, after many years as our bookkeeper, Beth Gilmore has decided to leave and devote more time to her many volun-teer efforts. We’ll miss Beth’s can-do attitude and her valuable counsel.
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Inside:
Capital Improvements 2
Swim Team News 2
A Word from the Snack Bar
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Diving Seals Still Division 1!
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Don’t forget to vote! 3
Membership Update 4
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Swim team news Rebecca Harrigal with incredible coaching experience, including experi-ence as a Division 1 head coach. I’ve already ordered team supplies, including new stop watches, pool buoys, kickboards, and a very cool storage system for our supplies. In January, Gail Solomon, Helen Power, Brenda Poole, Vicky Car-mody and I will begin our planning for the season, and in February we’ll learn our division for next summer and what teams SHBR will be swimming against and when.
I trust our swim families are thinking about the best six weeks of the year, and hopefully our swimmers are prepping with winter sport activities (swimming would be nice). And dear parents, hopefully you’re thinking about how you can help the team next summer. This will be the third year for Gail and me as swim team reps, and we’ll be looking for replace-ments. Have a great winter and we’ll see you in May.
We here at The Frozen Dairy Bar and Boardwalk Pizza would like to wish each and every one of you a safe and happy Holiday season. We would like to take this op-portunity to thank you for your continued patronage.
Our relationship with the club has been beneficial to our operation and we hope that you feel equally satis-fied with the food service that we have provided over the past three years.
We are proud to be rolling
out a new catering company with an exciting new menu for 2011. You can find the new “Natoli’s Catering” menu at fdbpizza.com by clicking the link for catering or by going directly to chef-natoli.com. We also have a new Boardwalk Pizza menu that has many new items for your family to try. We look forward to servicing the SHBR snack bar next year and as always are open to suggestions and comments. Thank you for your contin-ued support.
Capital improvements continue this winter Nate Carmody
worn-out areas of the club. A top priority this winter is upgrading the pump house for the upper pool, which is already in the early phase. Although not visible from the outside, we are having some problems with water seeping into the concrete roof, causing scaling and rusting of the structure. A
new roof will be installed, hopefully fixing this prob-lem and ensuring the build-ing stands for many more years. Depending on how the rest of the club survives the winter, this will not be the only off-season project, but it was the most urgent. If you would like to share any feedback or offer sug-gestions, please email me
Just because the pool is covered and frost is on the ground doesn’t mean your swim elves are taking the winter off.
Swim plans for next year are moving along. Our coaching staff has already been se-lected. Doug Burns will re-turn next summer as Head Coach, with Jamie Bugel and Callie Hyder as Assistant Coaches. Our new Assistant Head Coach will be Breanne Rodino, who comes to us
The last two winters have been full of projects to reno-vate our lovely club. While you can't see it from Sleepy Hollow Road, this winter will be no different. Thanks to the full member-ship, and long lines of inter-ested potential members, we can afford to keep up the fast pace of repairing and replacing the old and
Frozen Dairy Bar/ Boardwalk Pizza returns Mike Natoli, Manager
A stellar year … (continued from page 1)
I encourage you to vote in the upcoming election and attend the January open membership meeting if you’d like to see more of how the board works together. In January and February, we will begin planning for the 2011 SHBR tennis and pool season. We value your ideas and input; you are always welcome to send your thoughts to [email protected]. I wish all of you a very safe and happy holiday season. Thanks for your support.
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The SHBR Diving Seals con-cluded their NVSL Division I debut season with a 3-2 record, earning a return spot to the same division for 2011. The depth and ex-perience of the team carried us through several tough meets. We also welcomed many new younger divers to the team. In an effort to improve the quality of prac-tice time for such a large team, the coaches adopted new training techniques that incorporate land exercises, an approach we plan to ex-pand on next season. Five members of the Diving Seals participated in All Stars: Claire Cullather (Freshman Girls), Chloe Grishaw (Senior Girls), Mariana Hershner (Junior Girls), Garrett Ross (Freshman Boys), and Sean Paulson (Intermediate Boys). Every summer, the NVSL hosts the Cracker Jack Invi-tational. The League boasts that this is the largest one-day meet in the world and
this year attracted more than 350 divers. In 2010, SHBR had 14 divers compete in this meet and four others who were registered but were rained out.
Another specialty dive meet hosted by NVSL is the Wally Martin 3-meter Meet. This year the Seals were repre-sented by Alex Brady, Claire Cullather, Mariana Hershner, and Aidan Jones. Mariana took the Championship for the Junior Girls event. Other divers tested the 3-meter board at the league-sponsored indoor practices at Oak Marr Rec Center, and we are looking forward to additional participants next year!
At the awards ceremony, Coaches Anita O’Quinn, Chloe Grishaw, and Ryan Herron recognized two di-vers for their hard work and contributions to the team. Maria Torregrossa was pre-sented with the Jakabcin Sportsmanship award. This award is given to the diver who is nominated the mem-bers of the team for demon-strating good sportsmanship with his or her teammates, competitors and coaches. Garrett Ross was presented with the Coaches’ Award for work effort and dedication to the sport.
Division I dive team debut a success Kate Walter
2011 SHBR Board of Directors ballot Please vote for four (4) candidates and mail ballot to address on back by January 20, 2011. ** No copies of this ballot will be accepted.**
□ Sandy Arczynski: Sandy and her family have been SHBR members for the last 13 years. They have been actively involved in
tennis, swim, and dive. She joined the SHBR board in January 2010 to fill an interim appointment as social chair. Sandy runs a home-based business and volunteers actively in the community.
□ William DeVan: William and his family have been members of the pool since 2007. His kids have been active in dive and swim
teams, and his wife Tammi has been active on SHBR's GWTA tennis team. He is a lawyer at Howrey, LLP with a practice focused on construction and also serves as president of Lacy Hill Boulevard Home Owner's Association.
□ William (Bill) Liberti: Bill has lived in the Holmes Run Valley community since 1992. He served as the SHBR communications
director from 2008-09 and was elected president in 2010. Bill is an IT professional and lives in Falls Church with his wife, Eileen, and their daughter, Madeline, a Stuart HS senior.
□ Billy Peterson: Billy spent his childhood and teenage summers on the swim team and playing tennis at SHBR. Now having re-
turned and settled in Sleepy Hollow with his wife Emily and five year old son Wylie, Billy spends many summer days playing tennis and enjoying the new perspective provided by his son’s experience.
□ Write in___________________________________________________
Every year we need parent volunteers to run our dive meets successfully. The toughest category to fill is Referee/Judging officials. We still need to develop our skills in these areas for the upcoming season. If you would like information on off-season or early sum-mer programs to develop these skills, please call me at 703/560-0329 or e-mail me at [email protected]. As we head into the coldest part of the year, think sum-mer and SHBR!
Sleepy Hollow Bath
and Racquet Club
P.O. Box 2540
Falls Church, VA 22042
Phone: 703 532-0814
E-mail:
Internet:
www.shbr.org
Membership update Amy Hammond
Sleepy Hollow Bath and Racquet Club
P.O. Box 2540
Falls Church, VA 22042
The membership line is quiet at this time of year, but that changes after Janu-ary 1, when we begin to take new names for summer leases. Our waiting list for our equity memberships continues to grow longer each year. As always, if you have friends who are interested in joining SHBR next summer, please have them contact us as soon as possible. We continue to turn families away each year and we fill up earlier and earlier. As a reminder, we require a $125 nonrefundable deposit to place your name on the list. This deposit is then de-ducted from the first year membership costs. If we have the deposit by March 1 and the family does not clear the wait list by the
time the pool opens in May, we guarantee them a spot for the summer by saving a summer lease. The mem-
bership line is 703-532-0814 and the email is [email protected]. Please contact us with any membership questions you have. On a personal note--I will be stepping down as the membership maven after
12 years. Jessi Nadler has graciously agreed to take over. She will do a great job – please welcome her. It has been a true privilege to talk to so many delightful people over the years and brag about our wonderful club. I have been honored to work with some of the most dedicated volunteers on the SHBR board – people who have been so willing to give their time to make our club one of the most well run operations around. I would especially like to thank our amazing book-keeper, Beth Gilmore. We often laughed that between us we had one brain but there is no way I could have done this job without her. I wish you all a Happy New Year – and see you at the pool!!
SHBR General Membership Meeting
Thursday, January 27, 7:30pm
Mason District Government Center
