Green Mountain Swim Team

Excellent job to all the swimmers who participated in league today! We had many outstanding time drops, some new state qualifiers, broken records, and nail biter relay wins. All of the hard work paid off and we beat out Golden for 3rd place!

I have league ribbons, so they will be sorted and available for pickup at the banquet Wednesday. Kayli and I are doing state entries tomorrow, so check your email or phone because we can fill relays if they have at least one state qualifier, so we will pull some swimmers for just relays. Entries are due Monday at noon, so we will be as quick as we can and finish the entries for review. We will see state qualifiers and relay swimmers for practice on Monday! Upper division 7-8, 12 and under 8-9.

Huge congratulations again! Your hard work paid off!

Week of 7/24 (as we wind down and also ramp up!) Congrats to our League Swimmers! Well done everyone.

Summary:
Monday: State Meet Practice Times (see below)
Wednesday: Team Banquet @ 5:30pm
Fri-Sun: State Meet

Details:
State practice this week:
7:00-8:00 am: 13 and older
8:00-9:00am: 12 and under

Banquet: We have our end of the season Team Banquet on Wednesday night (rain or shine). This is a wonderful time to honor all our swimmers and reward them for their hard work this season. We will have awards, certificates, ribbons, trophies, medals and more! The team will provide pizza and water/lemonade. Each family should bring a dish to share….
Last Names A-L: side dish / Last Names M-Z: Dessert.
The coaches will be dressed to impress and many of the swimmers like to dress up too. For everyone else, flip flops and t-shirts are excellent choices. If you cannot make the banquet, please let us know and we will make sure your swimmer file is updated with any awards your swimmer couldn’t pick up that night.

State Meet:
Entries for State are due on Monday by noon. If your swimmer is qualified and can’t swim, please let the coaches know ASAP. The age groups and times of the events are a little strange this year, so please check the right side of the blog for your swimmers day/time/location to stay up to date. We will need timers for the meet at each session. I will post the sign-up genius as soon as we are given our team assignments.

Meet Location: Ken Caryl Pool
7676 S Continental Divide Littleton 80127
Facility: 8 Lane Pool, 25 Short Course Meters, Outdoors

Meet Results: They will be using SwimTopia to run the meet. (This is different than Simmingly that was used at our AAC meet). Our team does not use SwmTopia, but we can still use the app as a guest. Please use the link below to access further information. They will also post results on StateMeet.com and all results will be posted to the Gator blog (per usual).

https://help.swimtopia.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028834791-SwimTopia-s-Mobile-App-Parent-Information#h_01EGW4Q4DTSWZ2ZY75DGAW0FMS

Friday 7/28 (start 6pm, warm up TBD)
400 Freestyle – Ages 13 and older
100 Freestyle – ages 8 and under
200 Freestyle – Ages 9 – 18

Saturday 7/29 (start 7:15am, warm up TBD)
Lower Division (12 and under)
all events excluding events swam on Friday

Sunday 7/30 (start 7:15am / warm up TBD)
Upper Division (13 and older)
all events excluding events swam on Friday

Night practice is cancelled tonight predicting severe thunderstorms

Reminder upper division will late start at 7 am tomorrow. If that schedule prohibitive, I will be there by 6:30 to let people in. Also, if you are interested in doing sharpie decorations (e.g writing “eat my bubbles” on your back, drawing a gator, and/or applying temporary tattoos) for league, that will happen after practice. Bring a marker if you have one. We have some, but the more the better!

Due to the detection and persistence of lightning within a couple miles of the pool, the 8:00 am – 9:00 am practice has been canceled for this morning (07/20).

Linked below are the psych sheets and and timeline for Friday and Saturday. Be aware that the timeline is computer generated sand does not account for any DQ pauses, or timer marches for 25’s, so the farther into the meet, the less accurate it is, but it will serve as a good baseline. Also, a psych sheet is not a heat sheet, it only shows predicted placement based on seed times.

Timeline
Saturday Psych
Friday Psych