Good morning Waves swimmers and families!  First thing first - THANK YOU!!!!!  Thanks everyone for a great meet!  Kudos to all of our veteran and  new officials as well as our fantastic ready bench team, and our wonderfully talented announcer, the voice of the WAVES, John Shingler who ran an extremely smooth meet!  You guys were fantastic and we appreciate your patience as the NWAL system took a hit from all of the teams running time trials yesterday! Thanks also to all who stepped in to volunteer.  You were all amazing and we couldn't do it without you. Hopefully you were all able to meet a few new families and make this big team a little smaller!  I would like to give a big thank you to those who helped and stayed to clean up the pool area.  It is so appreciated - every little bit helps.  Also a HUGE thank you to the Hudanish team who took home results to enter and print ribbon labels because the network was still slow at the end of the meet. They are the reason those of you at time trials can now register for dual meets!  And the last thank you is to our swimmers who showed up and swam a great time trials!  If you didn't stay for our co-ed freestyle relays at the end, you missed some great swims!!! 

 Later this week we will send out reminders, coaches' notes and notes regarding next week's meet. We have a few items that need some attention regarding meet check in, and things that will be addressed in practice.    A few quick notes before we head into the week.

 

RESULTS

Results from Time Trials are now up and posted.  To find results go to the red banner on our home page, double click swim meets tab. (This is not a drop down menu) Click on the first place icon to find results for the meet. You can set the filter for your swimmers only or see the entire meet. For those who want heat sheets and could not find them, you should see heat sheets listed here as well.  If you have trouble let me know.  All results are in and we will get the ribbon box out later this week.  Congrats to our swimmers - looks like a great season for our WAVES!

 

MEET SIGN UP

Starting now, and going forward all meet registration needs to be in by midnight the Tuesday night before the meet.  Coaches will begin to build relays on Wednesdays so if you are not registered by Tuesday midnight you will not be considered for relays.  You may only register for 3 individual events in dual meets.  If you try and sign up and see you have a NT it means you did not swim that event at time trials.  You will need to contact me in order to change that.  For those NOT AT TIME TRIALS I will be putting in your times today and tomorrow in order for you to meet your Tuesday deadline.  While we had a great turn out yesterday, we had over 60 swimmers not show.  That's a lot of entries I need to do - so please be patient.  If you WERE AT TIME TRIALS please register now.  Again, meet registration deadline going forward is Tuesdays midnight. 

 

SPIRIT WEEK and PICTURES

This week is spirit week and our spirit week team has a lot of exciting activities planned!  You don't want to miss practice this week!!!  We will be making posters and decorating cars as well.  Look for an email from Angie for more information regarding this exciting kick off!!!  Also individual pictures will be at practice on Friday.  Times for individual photos will be announced.  Look for forms at the  pool this week -OUR TEAM PHOTO WILL BE THIS SATURDAY  If you have a team suit please wear it, if not you may want to wear a black suit to blend in.  Because of the team photo, check in will start earlierthis week and will be a bit shorter so PLEASE DO NOT BE LATE!!!!  Angie will also need a few volunteers for team photos to run smoothly so look for that on sign up genius later this week if you would like to get in a volunteer credit! 

 

VOLUNTEERS

Angie will be sending out notes later regarding volunteer information.  However if you know you will not be at a position that your previously volunteered for, please remove your name on that sheet as soon as possible in order to open it for others trying to complete their volunteer times.  We need to be sure everyone can get their volunteer credits in! 

 

SPIRIT WEAR

Spirit Wear will be in soon!  Stevi has been working hard to get in all of your goodies as soon as possible!  When you see her be sure to give her a big thank you for all her hard work.  She does this for all of our Woodlands swim teams and dows an amazing job!  We are so lucky to have her with the WAVES!

 

If you have not signed up for remind101 please do so for team reminders and information.  https://www.remind.com/join/waves201

 

Thanks again and enjoy your Sunday!

Sign ups for our first dual meet next week at home are underway!!! 

See you at the pool!

Heather Monroe

Woodlands Waves Team Rep