ROSSI SPOTLIGHT: “PRESIDENT ED WOO”

Hi Everyone,

After such a wonderful and successful Labor Day meet where our team enjoyed food, sunshine, swimming and great success with a thrilling 2nd place win, I wanted to put everyone's mind at ease. With Ed's announcement that it was his last meet since Emily is leaving for UC Davis, we did not want everyone to worry about the leadership of the team.

Ed Woo, or “Uncle Ed” as he is affectionately known to all our swimmers, has kindly agreed to stay on as President of our team for at least another year. Maybe indefinitely? I say kindly since he enjoys telling everyone he is finally done. We all know too well he'd be sooo bored with nothing to do if he left us.

Ed joined the Rossi team when Emily was only 7 and has been with the team for 11 long years, 8 of them as President. It has been a great experience working side by side with Ed and he has made great contributions to our team. Be it encouragement, talking with the swimmers, handling questions and situations for and on behalf of our coaching staff to the extra little things, like otter pops and treats. He has always extended himself above and beyond to all Rossi members. Ed has sent out emails, given rides whenever needed, helped order t-shirts, sweatshirts and swim caps, ran Costco trips for Zone 3 hospitality and set up our 49er relays at Morgan Hill. What doesn't he do? He has been very generous not only with his time and energy but also with his wit, humor and sage advice! 

       Ed, we appreciate all that you do and will continue to do for our team!

Congratulations to our coaching staff, too! Our team roster is now the largest it's ever been with about 100+ swimmers. From what we hear our team reputation has gotten even better and stronger. On another happy note, to help out with all the extras, the Board and Coaching Staff have unanimously voted to bring on Irene Michaud, as Co-Vice President and Irene has, thankfully, agreed to help out. Irene is mom to our swimmers Kaitlyn and Emily and wife to Brian (need to give Brian some credit here.) We think she'll be a great addition to the Board. She is a real team player. Please join us in congratulating Irene!

Cheers to all!
Tina