Hello Waves Families and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and grandmothers of our Waves swimmers!  Janet and I want to let you all know how much we appreciate how many of our swimmers were available to attend time trials yesterday and say a BIG thank you to all of the volunteers!  With new officials, a new computer system running our meets, an entirely new ready bench crew (amazing job yesterday!), new age group parents and a bunch of new swim families the meet was very successful!!!  We are looking forward to this week's practices and our first official Dual Meet with the Riptides!!!

You can now sign up online to register your swimmer for next weeks meet.  There you should see times from yesterday's time trials, even if you didn't swim.  If you did not swim or did not compete in an event, you were awarded the slowest time from the meet.  We did these as place markers so everyone could register for the meet next weekend.  There are some discrepancies we are working on, however this will only effect seeding and you will still be able to register.  You will have until Monday (tomorrow) at 2:00pm to register your swimmer.  Remember you can only register your swimmer for 3 events and the coaches will build relays by end of practice Wednesday.  If you will not be at next weeks meet, please sign your name in the relay binder at the pool and RSVP no to next weeks event.  If you will be at next weekends meet, you do not need to RSVP, your registration of events acts as your RSVP. 

To register please log onto the web site and go to the section on the left and find the meet for next week against the Riptides, and find the swimmer icon.  Select the  swimmer you are registering, and go to add events and select up to three events for your swimmer to enter.  YOU MUST HIT SAVE OR YOUR SWIMMER WILL NOT BE IN THE SYSTEM!!!!  If you are new this year,and having trouble, there is a link on our home page with detailed instructions. 

There will be a binder on Tuesday and Wednesday at the pool that will have all registered swimmers and their events.  PLEASE INITIAL YOU HAVE SEEN YOUR SWIMMER AND THEIR EVENTS!  PLEASE VERIFY THIS AT THE POOL EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT AT PRACTICE!!! We cannot make changes after Wednesday. We can scratch a swimmer on race day, however adding a swimmer on meet day is not possible!  It is your responsibility or that of your swimmer's to check the binder to be sure your swimmer's events are correct.

We know next weekend is Ironman and you will be receiving lots of information regarding next weekend's meet including routes and arrival times.  Because we work for the township, we are working closely with an entire team to make this a success!  We know there are a lot of concerns however, all Woodlands teams are staying in the Woodlands to avoid traffic returning home which has left most of us tired and frustrated! 

Again, we are here to answer any questions you may have.  We know for families that are new a lot of this can be overwhelming but we are here to help you and make sure all of our swimmers HAVE FUN!! For returning swimmers we know there are quite a few changes this year and last, however we are trying to make changes that will help this team run more effectively and efficiently with growing technology and needs of our families.  Sometimes there are growing pains with this, but we do try our best to carefully consider all of the factors involved.  We have thoroughly enjoyed running this team and getting getting to know all of you and your families.  We have enjoyed our new coaching staff and are so excited and thrilled about some of the changes we have made.  However, after three years we are now going to be headed back into volunteer roles.  After this year we will stepping down and just volunteering.  If you are a parent or two parents that would be interested in our positions, let us know.  We would be happy to talk with you and let you join us in a transfer process. 

Again we are still correcting a few things from yesterday's meet, but this will not effect your ability to register your swimmer.  We are hoping to have the first round of personalized caps available for next weekends meet.  Thank you again to all of our Waves swimmer, families and volunteers. 

 

Go Waves!

Heather Monroe and Janet Beckman

2015 Waves Representatives