Green Mountain Swim Team

 Green Mountain Swim Club is looking for Lifeguards! If you are 15 years or older and have a current lifeguard certification, you can start immediately! If you are 15 years or older and able to get a certification ASAP, you can start as soon as you are certified. Please contact staffing.gmsc@gmail.com.  Head down to the pool and start the best summer job you’ll ever have.

Practice: the usual laps. Swim fast gators.

Dual Meet:  Saturday 6-12 @ GMSC vs. 5 Parks. – warm up for GMST @ 6:00 am. Yep 6am!
5Parks is a big team. Please prepare to be in a crowd. If you are unvaccinated, the CDC recommends wearing a mask outside in this type of situation.  You can certainly plant yourself on the hill and watch from a distance or grab a free mask from the concession area. 

A few swim meet reminders:
– Relays: If your swimmer signs up for the meet and checks the boxes to do a relay, they are expected to stay for their relays. If they can’t make the relay, it is the swimmers responsibility to let their Coach know ASAP so that the Coach can try to find a replacement. This puts everyone in a tricky spot, so please tell your swimmers to only sign up for a relay if they know they will be there. Also, not all swimmers will get a relay. You need four kids and sometimes the number of swimmers in an age group just don’t work out for everyone to get a relay. The coaches will do their best.
– The parent volunteer link is posted for our Saturday meet.
– Virtual Meet Results: We have posted the GMST only virtual results. As soon as we receive the combined results from Golden and AAC we will post those as well. 

Tie-Dye & Ice Cream Party:
We had to delay our tie-dye party and we now have a date!  Join us on Wednesday 6/16 @ 5:00pm for some creative team spirited fun.  We will be selling our white Gator t-shirts and tank tops for $5 and the whole family is welcome to join in to tie-dye their gear. We will have expert creative consultants onsite to help out. Ice cream will be served around 6:00pm.  You are also welcome to bring your own shirt or tank to dye. You do not have to buy our gear in order to participate. 
Note: this is NOT a pool party. We will only be using the grounds of the swim club for our creative fun, but please do not plan to swim. (The pool will not be staffed up to handle that).

 Details for Saturday:  The meet will be held at our pool and will be a “virtual” meet. This means that we will swim with our team only and will then combine our times with Golden and possibly AAC since they too are doing virtual meets as well. We will have relays and all the standard dual meet events.  We will need to create a new volunteer sign up sheet for our home meet. This will be done by Friday. Please check in Friday to sign up.  THANK YOU. 

 Calling all Gator Families! We are in need of A LOT MORE help to run the meet on Wednesday night.  Please go to the blog and click on the “Parent Volunteer” section. There are currently sign-ups for the first two meets. More will be posted soon. It takes a lot of help to run a meet and we actually can’t do it without the help. For all new families, just pick a random volunteer spot and we’ll teach you how to do it. For all our returning families, you know the drill… get signed up.  Thanks. 

Morning practices start Tuesday 6/1:
6:30 am – 8:00 am:  13 and older
8:00 am – 9:00 am:  10-12 year olds
9:00 am – 9:50 am:  9 and younger

Optional practices: 
8:00 am – 9:00 am: 13 and older dryland practice M/W only
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm: 13 and older only- Night Practice

INTRASQUAD Meet #1 + PARENT MEETING
This is our first meet and we will have a brief parent meeting to level set and answer any questions.  The coaches will work with your swimmers to get signed up for their races. There is a physical sign up sheet at the pool. All swimmers can swim in a maximum of 3 events.  Please allow your swimmers to choose their races and do the sign-up themselves. 
Note: all race sign-ups for Intrasquad meets are due by Tuesday (end of practice)

Wednesday, June 2nd @ GMSC
warmup:  5:00pm
parent meeting:  5:15pm
meet start:  5:30pm

We will have pizza by the slice for purchase, as well as Gator Gear (swim caps, shirts, tank tops, hoodies, etc) for sale. 

AWAY MEET #1:
We have our first in-person dual meet on Saturday, June 5th. We are still waiting for the schedule to be finalized to know who we are swimming, but we do know that it is an AWAY meet. Please check the “Next Event” for details regarding location, warm up times, etc. 
Note: all race sign-ups for Dual meets (home or away) are due by Thursday (end of practice)

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS ONLY:
We are working on an electronic sign-up for the HS boys only to use while they are still in season. You will not need to sign up at the pool (although you can.)  Same cut off dates above apply.  Do not expect to deck enter each meet. We need you to sign up if you want to swim.

PARENT VOLUNTEER – SIGN UPS:
Please go to the section of the blog titled “Parent Volunteers”. You will find sign up genius links for each meet and you can choose how you want to volunteer. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to do any of the jobs. We’ll teach you and they are all very straight forward. 

 Afterschool practices start Monday. 

Monday:  We are waiting for the pool to warm up and it will be close on Monday. We will either have the kids in the pool OR have dryland practice. Please send your kids with both swim gear AND sneakers so they are prepared for either option. 
Tuesday – Friday:  We are feeling confident that the pool temp will be where we need it by Tuesday. Swim suits and goggles needed.

Practice times this week:
4:00-5:00 pm:  10 and under
5:00-6:00 pm: 11 and older

Note: If your child is coming to practice this week to see if they are ready for swim team, please wait until Tuesday. They may not have a chance to get in the water on Monday.