Thanks so much to everyone for your flexibility and good cheer. We made it through the first meet, relays and all! A big thank you to our coaches, especially Coach Andrea and Coach Irene. All our coaches are terrific. And thanks to our terrific swimmers -- the FLST team made a point of telling us that they really appreciated the good sportmanship of our swimmers. Our swimmers were high-fiving and encouraging each other and FLST swimmers in the clerk area. Thank your kids for making such a great impression and thanks to the coaches who set the tone for this kind of behavior. And we can't run a meet without the help of our volunteers, who were willing to step up two nights in a row. As usual, the first meet was unscored and served to give the swimmers official times for seeding in subsequent meets.
Special note to parents of 5&6-year-olds who couldn't swim: Please hug your kids and tell them we are so sorry that we had to make that decision. We've never done that before and don't anticipate ever doing it again. The weather forecast for last night was nearly as bad as the forecast for Wednesday night and we wanted to streamline the meet as much as possible to obtain as many official times as possible. (Seed times matter much less for the P events). All swimmers at Champs are required to have competed in two official JSL meets. All 5-6 year olds who were entered in the Wednesday meet but not allowed to swim WILL receive credit for attending a JSL meet since their non-participation was not their fault. If for some reason your family plans only allow you to attend one more meet, your swimmers will be eligible to swim at Champs.
When is our next meet?
We swim at home against FAST next Wednesday June 18. Because the home team warms up first, we need to have our swimmers there by 4:30, caps and goggles on, ready to swim.Note that no one will be allowed in the pool before 4:15 to allow for enough time to clean up before the meet. If your swimmer CANNOT swim next week, please do not forget to opt-outby 10:30 this morning. We still need volunteers -- please use the signup genius link. Our team is usually recognized for running an organized and efficient meet with unusually good hospitality. We need all our volunteers to make this happen!
Concessions
This year, the usual concession vendor will not be open during meets. We are therefore trying something different. A vendor has agreed to come sell hamburgers, hotdogs, drinks and other food. There may be some food trucks as well. The City Parents Committee will receive a percentage of the sales. We are therefore asking parents to contribute some food items -- they have been added to the signup genius. We've tried to make these items simple. We also need four large coolers for the time of the meet. You can bring these things to the meet and drop them off by the concession area.
Email
We typically try to keep our team emails to two per week. One typically comes on Thursday, after the week's meet. A second is usually sent on Sunday or Monday, giving information about the upcoming meet. Because of our rocky start, you've received a small flood of emails to keep you updated. Sorry about that! We'll try to get back to our regular schedule. We might need to send an extra email this week, so apologies in advance.
Questions? If they are general questions about logistics, volunteering, etc, send them to the parents committee at swordfishswimteam@gmail.com
You can reach Andrea Ross & Coach Irene, head coaches, at headcoachcity@gmail.com
GO SWORDFISH!
