hi Poolsharks!

What a fun and exciting night to start off our racing season at Time Trials.

Thank you to all of our parents, families, coaches, swimmers, lifeguards and Board support for making the meet possible and run smoothly for our first competition of the season.  

We had almost 80 athletes swim either their first race EVER, or first 50's ever - an extra big shout out to both our new swimmers & our 11 year olds who are racing 50's for the first time.

Here is our informal team pic in the forest yesterday before the meet - and because the kids listened SO well, we finished this in record time (~ 5 minutes).  

5 Reminders:

1) Professional Pictures - tomorrow with Lindsey Lingenfelter - sign up for your 10 min slot HERE (9 spots left).  If they are all gone and there is demand, Lindsey will return next week during a morning practice.  

2) Deadline to declare YES/NO for Meet 1 is tomorrow (Thurs May 23, 11:59 pm) - home May 28th vs Leafmore HERE. Starfish can swim at this meet because it is HOME.  If there is a preferred race you want your child to swim - please include it in your notes when you declare (ex: Olivia would like to try the IM).  Coach Maddy/Jayla/Owen are our coaches building the lineups this year and will try to honor requests as much as appropriate and possible.

3) Results HERE & Speeding Bullets HERE from Time Trials 

*Note about results - Event #0 intentionally should have no times as it is an assisted swim.  I think we are missing #99 (6U relays) because we were still getting technology adjusted.  With ~ 800 entries per meet - sometimes there are errors (watch stopped early/late/broke/etc).  If you notice a glaring error (more than 1 second wrong), please let me know.  We will either delete the time, or if you have a video with the actual time, that is fine to email me what the accurate time is.  Regarding place - swimmers in Heat 1 will be considered the 'scoring heat.'  So if a swimmer in Heat 2 beats a swimmer in Heat 1, their time does matter, but it will not affect Heat place / ranking.  The most important thing is your swimmers actual time.  Heat Ribbons starting next week will be based on place in each Heat.  For example if we have 4 heats for a race, we would have 4 blue first place ribbons, etc.  

4) Crack of Dawn Memorial Day practice BREAKFAST & GROWNUP PRACTICE - 

*potluck breakfast signup HERE.  We have 100+ signup genius slots for families to help make smoothies, bring bagels, cook pancakes. We are doing well with signups for our Starfish/6U/8U practice and 9-12 practice - our teen practice breakfast could use some more love if  teen parents are able to help out during that 3rd practice time.

*Parent practice signup HERE (all levels welcome - our goal is to have 24 parents join - we are halfway there!!!).  

5) Upcoming Practice Reminders:

Thurs May 23 - regular PM practices (4:30 - 7:15 pm)

Mon May 27 - Crack of Dawn practice (my favorite practice of the year)

Crack of Dawn Practice Times:

6:15 - 7 am ages 9-12

7 - 8 am ages Starfish/6U/8U

8 - 9 am ages 13-18

9 - 9:45 parent practice (all levels welcome) signup HERE (no equipment needed, just your suit & goggles)

Have Fun, Race Hard, Do Your Best, Go Poolsharks!

- Beth