Swimmer Files & State Medals

We are sorting State medals and will have the swimmer file box available in the guard shack by Monday. If you missed the banquet, forgot to grab your items or have ribbons from the meets… stop by next week and check the box.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our last team event on Wednesday, July 30th. Remember not to arrive prior to 8:15 pm. Movie will begin around 8:45 pm.

Movie Night – Survey

Our final team event will be a team movie night on Wednesday 7/30 from 8:30pm – 10:15pm-ish for team movie night. This is a non-swimming event and is for our swim team only + siblings and/or parents. Swimmers are encouraged to bring blankets and pillows for a cozy night. – Please do not show up before 8:15pm. The lifeguards need time to clear the grounds and pick up before we head in. – Parents are welcome to stay or drop off and return around 10:00pm.

Want to help choose the movie! Click here for the survey: https://forms.gle/hxFCePwS2TQJTsbN8

Team Banquet + State Meet

Week of 7/21 (as we wind down and also ramp up!) Congrats to our League Swimmers! Our team placed 2nd this year right behind Applewood Knolls.

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: – Wednesday 5/23 @ 5:30pm: 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. Please bring your potluck item and a chair, then sit back and enjoy. This is a non-swimming event.

If you cannot make the banquet, stop by the Guard Shack at the pool to look through the Swimmer File box. It will be updated with any awards your swimmer might have won, ribbons from previous meets, an individual times report for the season and whatever else might come up.

State Meet:
The side bar has been updated with information. Please check the blog this week for updates on warm-up times, parking information, team tent area, etc. We will get it out to you as soon as we have it. Our team is responsible for the Heating Shed and the Boyz can’t do it alone. We will not have any timing shifts, only Heating shifts. Please volunteer here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090D4DABAC28A1FF2-57603523-state#/

League Congrats and State Entries/Practice

Congratulations to all of the swimmers who participated at league! It was a great meet! I am very impressed with everyone’s resilience and positivity throughout the long hot day. We had some excellent swims and lots of dropped time. Very well done!

Next week is practice for state swimmers. I will post a list of qualifiers later on today or tomorrow. Here are some things you need to know:

  • Entries are due Monday at 3. If you haven’t talked to me or Coach Devon please do on Monday morning at practice or email gmstgators@gmail.com. If you are not going to be there please let us know too.
  • If you swam in an A relay but didn’t make state individually, we will very likely ask you to swim a relay. I will reach out to those people on Monday if we don’t see you at practice.
  • Practice times will be slightly different for state week: 13+ 7-8 am, 12- 8-9am.

Please let us know if you have any questions!