TIME TRIALS ARE THIS SATURDAY

 

Please carefully read the following information regarding this Saturday's Time Trials.  If you are new to the team there is a lot of information to cover.  If you are returning there are a few changes to time trials, so please be sure to review this email carefully.

 

THURSDAY EVENING:

Thursday evening practices we will show new swimmers and parents where they will go for ready bench and a bit about how that process works.  We will also go over the check in process once you arrive Saturday morning.

 

FRIDAY EVENING :

Friday evening we will again go over ready bench and check in procedures.  Friday night we will set up for the meet so we will actually have benches and seats in place to allow the children to run through the process a few times.  It is very easy, and runs smoothly as long as we keep it to our head chiefs (our ready bench crew) and leave out the little Indians.  Please remember parents are not allowed in the ready bench area unless they are ready bench volunteers.  No one is allowed on deck behind the ropes during meets unless you are NWAL certified or collecting children as that designated age group parent. 

Ready Bench heads and workers.  There will be a meeting and run through on Friday afternoon.  Please look for a seperate email from Nicole regarding this.  Please do your best to be there or to have someone fill you in so our ready bench runs smoothly!

Also during practice Friday, individual photos will be taken.  There will be forms available at the pool this week so you can fill out in advance as well as the day of.  We encourage you to fill this out and have payment ready before the photos to speed up the process.  The photographers will be on hand by 4pm.  You can come at anytime, this does not have to be during your practice time.  Team photos will be taken Saturday before Time Trials at 7:20.

If you are looking to volunteer and not sure what you can do Saturday, please volunteer for Friday night set up!  Its easy and with enough volunteers we are done in no time!  If you volunteer for set up please see one of us or Frank Niznik upon arrival.  Frank is in charge of set up and does a fantastic job getting us out of there quickly!

 

SATURDAY MORNING :

Please arrive for check in between 6:45 and 7:15.  You must check in with Coach Morgan, Janet Beckman or Heather Monroe at the head check in table first!  Please do not go to your age group parent before you have checked in.  It helps us to know who is there, and who is missing.  In dual meets this information is vital for scratches in order to get sheets printed for our ready bench and officials.  After checking in with Coach Morgan or a Rec. Specialist, please go see your age group parent.  Like the Head Check in table, these parents will be located under the pavilion.  There you will get your events written on your arm.*  After check in - FOR TIME TRIALS ONLY - begin to line up inside the pool area with the photographers.  we will take the team photo at 7:20! 

After team photo please listen for coaches for warm ups and lane assignments.  This is a chaotic time if you are new to the team - but runs smoothly if you listen to our amazing announcer Mr. John Mills!!

At this time there will also be announcements for pre meet meetings for timers and scribes, officials, ready bench and age group parents.  PLEASE BE ON TIME AT THESE MEETINGS.  SWIM MEETS MUST START AT 8:30!!!

 

PARKING:

Parking in the Forestgate parking lot is restricted to officials, team representatives, lead parents and coaches.  Please do not park in these spots.  If you do not have a pass, please do not park here, you will be asked to move.  Plan to park along Forestgate and Flintridge.  You may drop off your gear at the park and then go park your car.  Please be respectful of our parking attendants and do not park in subdivisions along Forestgate or Flintridge. 

 

WEATHER:

Plan to show up rain or shine to the meet.  If you haven't done so already please sign up for Remind 101 for weather updates.  This is the same system we are alerted from, so we won't know if a practice or meet is canceled until we are alerted. 

 

*We will follow up with an email regarding particulars and a time line for the Time Trials this evening or tomorrow.  If you cannot attend time trials do not panic!!!  There will be no make up times as in years past, however once the meet is completed, if your swimmer did not swim or was a NS (no show), they will be given the slowest time for their age and gender based on the results of Saturdays time trials.  Again this will be explained in greater detail with the Time Trials time line in a subsequent email.  Also if you have not received a team t-shirt yet, there are more on order.  Hopefully those will be here next week.  We do have few YS and YM from last season if you would like to inquire about those on Friday evening. 

 

One additional note from your coaches:  For all swimmers 11/12 and 13 and up....starting next Tuesday, all practices for these age groups will be 7:00-8:00 pm.  At this time, this is for evening practices only.  If you are in the 8:00 pm practice currently and would like to start coming to the 7:00 pm practice this week, feel free to do so, just please notify a coach upon arrival on deck.  If you have any questions regarding your swimmer or your swimmers session, please do not hesitate to contact Coach Spoon at [email protected].  However, any questions regarding  policies, time lines, volunteering, practice, absences, meets, photos, times, ribbons etc... please contact us.  It's what we are here for!  Feel free to text or email us.  We will do our best to get back with you that day! 

 

Please don't forget today is the last day to order your personalized swim caps!  There will be an envelope at the pool.  Also please verify your swimmer is listed for Saturday's Time Trials.  If you will not be there - that is ok.  Please still check so we can be sure your swimmer(s) are in our Meet Management system.  We would hate for your swimmer to not be able to swim because they are not listed!  PLEASE DO NOT SCRATCH YOUR SWIMMER FROM THIS MEET OR ANY EVENTS FROM THIS SATURDAY.  If they are listed for an event they will not swim - we will explain how that will work on Saturday.

 

Again, we know this is a lot of information so please please, please read carefully.  We are also making corrections to our rosters and just received an updated roster from the Rec Center this afternoon to verify any new swimmers and families.

 

We look forward to seeing you at practice and this weekend.   Going to be an awesome season!!!!

 

Janet Beckman and Heather Monroe