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Banquet–Wednesday, July 22nd

It is hard to believe that 55 days ago we had our first Intrasquad meet of the 2015 summer swim team.  I can’t believe that we will be celebrating our end of the season banquet on Wednesday. 

Wednesday night, July 22nd at 5:30 will be our Gator banquet.  The swim team board will be providing pizza and will have water and lemonade available.  We are will having a pot luck style dinner.  If your last name begins with A-L we are asking you to bring a dessert to and if your last name is M-Z please bring a side dish to share.  Please remember to bring serving utensils with your food item and please take all items with you when you leave. 

During this evening, we will be celebrating all the Gator swimmers.  Please remember to check your swimmer folder before you leave for the evening and collect everything that is in there.  We will end this evening with our rescheduled coaches relay.  (So parents this is your warning that we need you to bring your swimming suits and be ready to make a relay team). 

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Look forward to celebrating an amazing season!

Great Job Gators!!!

AWESOME JOB this weekend Gators, I am so proud of all of you!! We had tons of best times, a few new State qualifiers, several Gator records broken, and FOUR new League records!!

The new League record holders are:

13-14 Boys Medley Relay: Andrew Penn, Quinn Meinert, Alex Granquist, Ben Hofstra broke the Golden Marlin’s record from 2012 with a time of 2:09.67

Ethan Schick broke the 17-18 Boys 100 fly record set in 1999 with a time of 59.56

Amanda Ballard broke the 13-14 Girls 50 free record set in 2011 with a time of 29.13

15-18 Boys Free Relay: Ethan Schick, Dylan Jacob, Tristan Gess, Quinn Trussell broke AAC’s record from 1988 with a time of 1:43.29

The new Gator record holders will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday 🙂 Great job!

We will still be having practice tomorrow (Monday morning) for State qualifiers and relay swimmers. Practice times will be the same as this past week: Upper division 7:00-8:30am, 12 and unders 8:30-9:30am. We will get State entries posted as soon as possible so that swimmers and families can plan ahead.

Thank you all so much for an amazing weekend! I had a lot of fun, and I hope everyone else did too. The swimmers did an outstanding job!

LOTS OF INFORMATION, PLEASE READ!!

We are getting very close to our League meet! I hope all the swimmers are getting super excited to swim fast this weekend! I have a lot of information for you regarding this weekend, so please read this entire post.

LEAGUE

  • Friday Events 1-6 (400s): The 400s will be held tomorrow afternoon. Swimmers in these events should show up to practice tomorrow morning around 7:30am for a nice long warm up and some pace work. It is extremely important for the 400 swimmers to come to practice tomorrow so we don’t have to do as much warm up at the meet in the afternoon. Warm ups for the 400s will begin at 4:15pm tomorrow, with the meet starting at 5pm. The 400s will be at the Stingrays’ pool.
  • Saturday (Events 7-64) and Sunday (Events 65-110)–ANDERSON POOL: On Saturday and Sunday, Green Mountain will only have 4 lanes for warm up at Anderson Pool. Since we have 97 swimmers going to the meet, the coaches have decided to split up the warm-ups
    • Upper Division (Ages 13&Up) will warm up at GMSC on Saturday and Sunday with Jaimie from 6:15-6:45am. We will then head over to Anderson and arrive well before the meet starts at 8:00am. There will be sprint lanes available from 7:40am-7:45am at Anderson so we can do some starts once we get there.
    • Lower Division (Ages 12&Under) will warm up at ANDERSON with Porter from 6:00-6:20am.
  • It is EXTREMELY important for the swimmers to attend warm up for this meet. I know it can be tempting to sleep in since warm ups are so early, but warm up is very important for swimmers…Not only does it wake them up, it helps get their muscles ready for racing, it allows them time to practice starts on unfamiliar blocks, it allows them to check their stroke counts and practice turns in a different pool, and most importantly, it lets us know you’re at the pool which saves Coach Jaimie from having a heart attack because someone is missing. 
    • Relays are going to be crucial for us this weekend, and it would be a huge bummer for the entire team if someone misses a relay because they are late due to road construction, traffic, etc. Please come to warm up!
  • Parking: The parking lot closest to the pool is reserved for coaches. There will be plenty of parking in the surrounding areas, but plan ahead and get there as early as possible to avoid walking several blocks (another reason to come to warm up 🙂 )
STATE
  • The link for State entries is up on the Blog. As promised, we will let you pick your own events for state.
  • If you do not have State qual times, but will be available to swim relays, please go ahead and mark that you are available. As with League, we would like to take as many relays as possible, so we need lots of swimmers who are willing to swim at State to sign up!!
  • Please sign up by Sunday at 5pm so we can get those entries in on time.
If you have any questions regarding League or State, please see me at the pool, email, call, or text me 🙂 Thank you! Jaimie

Parent volunteer job description

Calling all Parents!  We are still in need of parent volunteers for the League meet.  This is a big few days for all of us.  All parents are needed this weekend (even if your kid is not swimming). I am providing a brief job description to let you better understand what each job entails.

Friday night:  this includes being at Anderson on Friday night from 6:30-7:30pm.  Other teams will be dropping off their tents during this time.  These people will need to be there to make sure these are put in the correct location and secured over night.  There will also be small tasks to be completed. 
Set-up (Saturday and Sunday) before the meet:  These people are very important.  We need as many people each morning starting at 5am to get this meet set up.  This will include setting up all tents needed for the meet, the heating area and our team tent. There is no planning or layout for this just physical labor.
Clean-up/take down (Saturday and Sunday) after the meet: this job will go quickly with more people. This will just require taking tents down on Saturday at the end of the meet and securing them as needed. On Sunday it will include packing items up for the responsible parties to collect.
Trash duty(Saturday and Sunday) during the meet: with enough help this task should be a job that each person can take an hour shift to empty trash as needed around the pool as needed.  The lead will coordinate shifts.
Hospitality (Saturday and Sunday) before the meet:  these people will make and/or pick up breakfast and lunch items for the coaches and officials. All of this work is done before the meet. There is no volunteer time for this during the meet.  You will be contacted by the lead on how to help with this. 

No job is too big or too small.  Everything is important to make this swim meet successful.  I am also sure we forgot some minor details too but together this will be successful.  Thank you in advance for your support in your kids sport.  Please sign up

League Entries and Practice Times for Next Week

Hi Gators! Awesome job at our last dual meet today! We had several best times and new qualifiers.

We are fast approaching the deadline for League entries. The coaches will have a meeting to decide on entries this Sunday afternoon. It is very important that EVERYONE has signed up, regardless of whether or not you have a qualifying time yet. Having the fastest relays possible will make all the difference next weekend.

Please remember that the Medley relay will be the first event next Saturday, and the Free relay will be the first event on Sunday at League. Swimmers who are only swimming in relays will be done swimming very early both days, leaving plenty of time for any plans you may have later those mornings. Both the coaches and especially teammates really appreciate the swimmers who come to the meet for relays. Please, please do your best to come!!

Lastly, practices next week will only be for League and State qualifiers, and relay swimmers. Since we will have fewer swimmers, we have decided to condense the practices into just two practice times. Because of this, we do ask that anyone not swimming individual events or relays at League or State please go ahead and sleep in!

Upper Division: Practice will be held 7:00am-8:30am.
All 12 & Unders: Practice will be held 8:30-9:30am.

The coaches expect everyone with qualifying times to attend practice. Since the League entries will not be posted on the blog until Monday, if you are unsure whether or not you are in a relay, please come to practice on Monday. If it turns out you are not swimming on a relay, you can start sleeping in on Tuesday.

Thank you parents for all you do for the team! I know several of you have moved or rearranged plans to get your swimmers to the League meet, and both the coaches and your swimmers’ teammates truly appreciate it.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions. Thanks!