Week 5: Gear-Up & Important Reminders for Parents

May 31st

Swim Team Friends,

We hope you all had a meaningful Memorial Day Weekend with your family and friends.

This email serves to help us all get our heads in the game for swim team this week. Here's what you can look forward to, but first some key items for parents:

1) Always declare your swimmer with a "yes" or a "no" for every swim meet.

2) If you have a last-minute volunteer change, please email the Team Reps.

3) Volunteers are very busy during meet days, please make any necessary childcare arrangements for your little ones. We cannot have children with parents during volunteer times, we will need to ask you to leave and sign-up for another job later in the season.

4) When it is time to switch to 2nd shift volunteers, the announcer will call it (the switch happens by EVENT not by TIME). Meets can run early and/or late. Your cue comes from the announcer.

5) For any swimmer who is a last-minute scratch or needs to unexpectedly leave the meet, it is critical you let the coaches know ASAP. We lose serious points by not having swimmers in heats when they are supposed to be.

6) For backstroke events, only timers are allowed to place their hand on the wall to help protect the child's head as they complete an event. We got called out by the official on the last meet that parents were putting their hands in the water. We will get disqualified if it continues. Parents should also not be on either end of the pool, this area is for our timers.

Here's your week ahead:

Tuesday, June 1st & Wednesday, June 2nd: PRACTICE
- 8:30 AM-9:00 AM 6&U
- 9:00 AM-9:45 AM 7-8
- 9:45 AM-10:45 AM 9&UP
Tuesday, June 1st (morning): drop off your concession items
- PLEASE – read the item you signed up for very carefully and purchase exactly what is requested (size, brand, quantity). Trust us…our concessions team knows what they are doing. Don’t mess with them! :-)
- Your concession items must be brought to the pool on Tuesday, June 1st between 8:30 AM – 10:45 AM (and placed on the table near the microwave in the upper pavilion). THIS IS CRITICAL. Do not deliver your item before 8:30 AM or after 10:45 AM. Concession Chair, Anne Koch, will be on deck to receive your items.
- If there is an exception to the delivery time on an item, it will be clearly marked on the sign-up page.
- When dropping off, please be sure your item is marked with your name so that we can check you off.
Tuesday, June 1st: HOME (virtual) meet against Briarwood
- 4:30 PM arrival athletes and 1^st shift volunteers
- 5:00 PM warm-up
- 5:30 PM meet start
- 6:30 PM arrival for 2nd shift volunteers
- Meet theme is “out of this world” (parents, guests and athletes can come to the meet wearing crazy outfits – think space, aliens, mermaids, planets, rockets, etc.)
Thursday, June 3rd: INDIVIDUAL & TEAM PHOTOS 9:30 AM-10:30 AM
- All athletes should wear their 2021 team t-shirt for the team photo (please make sure you have it, shirts were distributed in practice the week of 5/24)
- A note from PhotoVentures – the photo vendor that will be onsite:
Thursday, June 3rd, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM SWIM CLINIC: the focus is on dives, flip turns, starts & finishes (all ages welcome, no need to RSVP, just show up at the pool)
Friday, June 4th 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Ribbons & Swimmers of the Week Ceremony