Author: greenmountainswimteam

They kept us waiting but warm up times and parent volunteer slots were finally released.  Please see the side of the blog.  Note:  they are splitting up the 8&unders to their very own warm up time.  If you are a Saturday swimmer, please make sure you pick the correct warm up time. We have two different slots based on age.  See you at State. SWIM FAST GATORS!

We look forward to seeing all of our Gator families on Wednesday!

Congratulations to all our League swimmers and all our non-League swimmers that helped the whole team swim faster! We took 3rd in League and had some amazing record breaking swims.  Good night do we have some fast kids!!

Monday 7/22: practice for State swimmers only (see time details below)
Tuesday 7/23: practice for State swimmers only
Wednesday 7/24:  TEAM BANQUET @ 5:30 pm!!!
Thursday 7/25: practice for State swimmers only / State T-Shirt-Making Party @ 5:30-6:30pm
Friday 7/26: practice for State swimmers only / State 400’s
Saturday 7/27:  STATE – Lower Division
Sunday 7/28:  STATE – Upper Division

– Photos:  I will have all the team photos that were ordered on picture day at the Banquet. If you miss the Banquet, your photos will be in your swimmer file in the Guards Office at the pool.
– Practices:  Upper Division(age 13+) practice will be from 7:00 am – 8:00 am ALL WEEK / Lower Division(all age 12 and under)  practice will be from 8:00 am – 9:00 am ALL WEEK
– Team Banquet: We will get together to recognize our swimmers and coaches for an outstanding season, share our thank yous and hand out some awards. We would like to invite all swimmers and their families to our end of the season banquet.  This will be at the Green Mountain Swim Club (which will be closed for our event). The team will provide pizza and water/lemonade.  We are asking families to bring a side dish and/or dessert based on your Last Name to share in our potluck style dinner. 
Time:  5:30 pm – 8:30 pm (or early or later. Hard to say exactly)
Date:  Wednesday, July 24
Place:  GMSC
Bring:  last name begins with A-L: side dish //  last name begins with M-Z: dessert
Also, you may want to bring a camp chair to sit in, a camera to take pics, and cocktails for the board members 🙂
– State T-shirt Party:  Every year we like to spray paint t-shirts to pump up for State! Please bring a white t-shirt/tank top and $5. We will supply the spray paint and stencils.  We will be at the pool from 5:30 – 6:30 pm on Thursday night.
– State Meet:  The State Meet is at Stapleton this year. I will have volunteer opportunities posted as soon as they assign our team the responsibilities. We will have a few pop-up tents, so feel free to add to the tent village when you show up. We love having all our swimmers and parents in the same area 🙂

We have open spots for Deck Marshall at every single shift for League!  We don’t exactly know what this position does, but they’ll tell us when we get there. You’ll probably just get to boss people around and tell them to get back to the parent side of the pool. Could be fun 🙂 If your child is swimming, you are expected to help in some way.  The Board has been working overtime filling in missing volunteer spots and we can’t do it alone.  Thank you in advance for stepping up.

Friday 7/19:  400’s are at the Stingrays pool
Saturday 7/20: Events 7-64 @ Splash
Sunday 7/21:  Events 65-110 @ Splash
** see blog for warm up and start time details **

We are not allowed to have our circus tent at League.  We will bring all 4 of our pop-up tents to make a team area. It will be HOT so please bring your own pop up tent to add to the team village if you can.

Night practices will not be held during League and State week.