Green Mountain Swim Team

The rain yesterday has messed with the pool temp this morning. We are still holding practice but swimmers that are small or have less body fat may have a rough time. Please use your discretion.

Summary:
– Tue/Thurs: Night Practice (upper division only). Parents welcome!
– Saturday 6/17: Home meet against GOLDEN!
– Qual Times Corrections
– Facebook updates

Details:
– Night Practice: Don’t forget that parents can swim with the Gators at Night Practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-9pm.
– We have our first home meet against our favorite team: Golden! We have a friendly rivalry with the Marlins and we always have fun swimming against their team. We will need A LOT OF HELP since we are at home. Please sign up.
– Qual Times: Every year the Qual Times for League/State are calculated based on the previous year’s League and State finisher times. Our League times have been adjusted for 2023, however their was a couple of mistakes buried in the computer file. They didn’t specify which events this affected, so if you notice a discrepancy, we should be up to date now. The posted times are correct.
– Facebook: Follow our team on Facebook to see team updates, as well as photos from most of the meets.

We’ve got some new (and exciting) things happening at our Saturday meet with AAC. If you will be at Applewood Athletic, please read through so the meet can run a smoothly as possible.

The meet will be run by a new software system called Swimmingly. This may be an in-the-weeds type thing for parents, but we do need you to take action.
– Parents: you can download an app called SWIIMINGLYFAN that will allow you to see real-time results from the race. (please note: results will be available on our website (as usual) after the event. So this is not mandatory.
– Timers: you will need to download an app called SWIMMINGLY to time the swimmers during the race. (you will use your smartphone instead of the timing watches) – if you are an Adroid user and having troubles, we’ll figure it out on Saturday. Don’t panic. We’ve got this!
– Officials: you will need to download the SWIMMINGLY app to officiate.
– Swimmers: You will be assigned an athlete number (e.g. 26) and this number will be sharpied onto your shoulder when you arrive at the meet. You can NOT enter the pool without this number on your shoulder.

Finally, we always get instructions of where to camp out at AAC and here is the latest for Saturday:
– The grass is OFF LIMITS. (this also means that kids will not be able to walk through the grass to get to the playground. Sorry)
– Please do not bring tents and limit the amount of chairs you bring.
– Our team will be under the pavilion (on the east side) at picnic tables and AAC will have the west-ish side.
– It will be tight, so plan to be cozy. Please tell your swimmers to keep it tidy and not spread out. If you are not standing/sitting on concrete for this meet, you are doing it wrong.

As always, thanks for your flexibility. We will have fun checking out a whole new system that may show up at other pools throughout the year 🙂

Our first Intrasquad is Wednesday! A few reminders:
– Warm up is at 5pm /start 5:30pm
– We still need 4 timers, Please sign up.
– We will be selling pizza, nachos, drinks, and snacks to fuel up all the kids and families.
– We will have Gator gear to sell (shirts, caps, tanks, sweatshirts).
– We will be taking orders for the custom Gator slides at the merch table. We will put in the order for all shoes on Thursday. Come by the table and check them out if you aren’t sure what this is all about.
– Let’s have fun at our first home meet!

Summary:
– Tuesday 6/6: Upper Division Night Practices start
– Wednesday 6/7: Team Intrasquad #1
– Saturday 6/10: Dual Meet @ AAC

Details:
– Night Practice: This practice is for swimmers 13 years and older and will run on Tuesdays/Thursdays from 8-9pm. Parents are also welcome! We leave one lane open for parents to swim with the Gators. (You can do the sets the kids are doing or just do your own thing. It’s up to you.)
– Intrasquad: warm up at 5:00pm / start 5:30pm. This is our first team intrasquad, which is a swim meet with only our team. There will not be any relays at the Intrasquad and swimmers can sign up for a maximum of 3 events. We need LOTS of volunteers so please click here and pick an open spot. Don’t worry we’ll teach you how to do any of the jobs.
– Dual Meet vs. Applewood Athletic: We will be at the AAC pool on Saturday. warm up: 6:30am / start at 7:00am. Please note that AAC does not allow us to use any tents that require stakes. We will need timers only for this meet. Click here to sign up.
– Meet results from our Wheatridge meet can be found on the side of the blog.

The Green Mountain Gator’s have a long-standing tradition of matching younger swimmers with an older ‘buddy.’ This pairing is meant to help swimmers connect across age groups and gives younger swimmers someone to help them navigate swim meets. While the full list of pairings is still a work in progress, all 8 & under swimmers competing in Saturday’s (06/03) swim meet have been assigned an older buddy. If you are an 8 & under swimmer competing in this weekend’s meet, please talk to Coach Kayli to get the name of your older buddy!