The fees for Greater Omaha Aquatics members which you may see on invoices can be categorized in three areas: Practice dues, USA Swimming registration fee, and meet fees.
1. Monthly Practice Dues: (covers coaching and pool rental expenses for GOAL practices) Montclair Penguin - $75; Montclair Dolphin - $85; BT Penguin - $60;BT Dolphin $70 Note: the BT Penguins & Dolphins are only offered 2 x week, as opposed to the 3 x week for the Montclair Penguins and Dolphins).Shark - $100; Senior-2 - $105; Senior-1- $115.
GOAL provides the Team Unify team management platform for its members.With the secured Team Unify website (www.goaquatics.com), GOAL members can view their current account balances as well as set up automatic payments of their account.An invoice will not be sent to you, since you can view your account balance at any time when logged into your account on the GOAL website.The website automatically places the monthly dues charges onto your account on the 21st of the preceding month.
Attending one or more practices in a month obligates you for the entire monthly fee.There are no prorated months, with the exception of the spring (usually late-March) and summer (usually mid-August) break months. If you take a month off, you must notify us by the 16th of the preceding month in order to not be obligated for that month’s fees. If GOAL is at capacity for number of swimmers, your spot is not guaranteed to be saved if you take a month off.
The beginning month for a first-time GOAL swimmer will be prorated. High school swimmers will be prorated for November and February, based on the first day of the high school swim season, and the swimmers last competition of their high school.
High school swimmers who attend GOAL practices during their high school season will be charged at a rate of $8 per practice, but the monthly charge will not exceed the monthly dues for their group.
2.USA Swimming Registration Fee $53 per year (2011 membership runs from Sep. 1, 2010 until Dec. 31, 2011).
Every member of the Greater Omaha Aquatics must be a registered member USA Swimming, the American amateur swimming national governing body. USA Swimming is divided into 59 Local Swimming Committees (LSC’s). Midwestern Swimming is the LSC that administers most of Nebraska and parts of Western Iowa. USA Swimming lists among its membership benefits the following:
Subscription to “Splash” Magazine (provides news, interviews and profiles of elite athletes, posters, techniques and tips); Excess accident and liability insurance (covers all USA Swimming sanctioned activities); Competition and instruction through club programs; Opportunity to participate in USA Swimming sanctioned meets; Many other benefits are listed on the USA Swimming website at www.usaswimming.org
For swimmers brand new to USA Swimming, you will need to give us a copy of your birth certificate by the end of your 1-week trial period. This is because age needs to be verified upon the initial registration with USA Swimming. The registrations will be processed, and your account subsequently billed, in the following order. New swimmers will be registered for 2011 immediately following their trial week, should they decide to join GOAL. Non-high school swimmers already registered for 2010 will be registered for 2011 in December. High school swimmers already registered for 2010 will be registered for 2011 in February, before their conference meets, if they so desire, or when they return after their high school season concludes.High school swimmers who attend GOAL practices between Jan. 1 and their conference/state meets will need to be registered before their first practice in 2011.
3. Meet Fees Entry fee: Typically meets charge by the event (usually anywhere from $2.00-$3.50 per individual event). Local meets within the Midwestern LSC will have a $5 Midwestern Swimming (MWS) fee surcharge per swimmer.In order to compensate the GOAL coaches for their meet time, there is also a $4 GOAL fee per swimmer. Relays are paid for by GOAL. A typical meet where you swim 6 events over the course of 2 days would then be charged as follows: 6 x $2.50 = $15.00 + $5.00 MWS fee + $4 GOAL fee = total $24.00.The meet fees are placed on your GOAL account as soon as the entries have been sent to the meet host.At that time, there are no refunds for any reason. Your meet entry will not be submitted if you have a past due balance on your GOAL account.
Out of Town Meets (Where coach’s hotel stay is required): The coaches hotel and transportation bill will be divided up by the number of kids entered in the meet and billed to each swimmer entered in the meet. For Sectionals level and higher championship meets, this coaches expenses fee will not exceed $50.
Payments information:
Payments can be done in 3 ways., the first 2 ways being automatic setups on the website.1 – payment by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) , 2 – payment by ACH (e-check, or bank account debit), 3 – a check made payable to Greater Omaha Aquatics and mailed to Coach Tom at 2805 S. 76 Ave.Omaha, NE 68124.Checks may be handed to Coach Tom or Becky at practice as well. Please do not hand checks to anyone else other than Coach Tom or Coach Becky..
If you set up a credit card or ACH to pay your bill, those payments will be processed on the 1st of the month, in the amount equal to the balance of your account.A credit card transaction shows up on your account right away on the 1st of the month, while the ACH transaction may take 5-7 business days to show up on your account. If your initial setup for autopay is after the 1st of the month, the first payment would not occur until the 1st of the following month. It is not an immediate transaction on the initial setup. You may need to send a check for that first months balance to avoid having 2 months worth of fees on the first payment.
Payments are due by the 10th, and balances not paid in full by the 20th are subject to $10 late fee.
Balances more than 60 days past due will result in the suspension of your GOAL membership.
