Green Mountain Swim Team

The end of our regular swim season is upon us.  We enjoyed watching all swimmers compete and improve in their events.  Starting this week practice will be held for kids who have a League and/or State qualifying time.  If you are not participating in the League and/or State swim meet we will see you again on Wednesday, July 27th for the end of season banquet.

If you are swimming at League this weekend you need to make sure you have emailed the events you want to participate in to gmstgators@aol.com or talked with Coach Porter.  You must do this by practice tomorrow.  Please refer to the list of League eligible swimmers and the qualifying events

As mentioned above practice this week is for kids who will be swimming in the League meet.  If you did not qualify for an individual event you may be contacted to see if you can swim in a relay.  Swimmers will be contacted Monday if needed for relay events.

Monday, July 18th:  swimmers must select events they want to swim in at League at the beginning of their age group practice (if they haven’t done so already)

Monday-Friday (July 18th-July 22nd):  morning practice for league swimmers
6:30-8:15am:  Upper division practice and dry land (8-8:15am)
8:00-9:00am:  10-13 year olds
9:00-10:00am:  9 year olds
9:00-9:45am:  8&under

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (July 18th, July 19th, and July 21st)
7:00-8:00pm:  12&under night practice for league swimmers

Tuesday, July 19th and Thursday July 21st
8:00-9:00pm:  Upper division and parent practice

Friday, July 22nd:  League Meet @ Stringrays 6th Ave West Pool–All upper division 400s

Saturday, July 23rd-Sunday, July 24th:  League Meet @ Splash

Great swims today Gators!  Today was our last regular season swim meet.
Tomorrow our team will host the Last Chance meet.  This meet is for swimmers that are trying to get a league qualifying time.  If you want to participate you must send an email to gmstgators@aol.com by 5pm tonight.  The results from today’s meet are posted and the Top Times have been revised to include these updates.

If you are going to swim tomorrow morning warm-ups begin at 5:55am at the Green Mountain Swim Club.  The meet will begin at 7:00am.  If you have a swimmer at this event we ask parents to volunteer.  Also if you don’t have a kids swimming come on down to the pool and volunteer to support the team and other swimmers.  Thanks in advance.

No upper division night practice tonight (8-9). It’s been a long week, get some rest.

See you in the morning,

Porter

Congratulations to those swimmers who have qualified for League!  Now it is time for our coaches to do entries for this meet.  Since this meet is for swimmers with qualifying times we need to get verification that your swimmer will be able to participate in this meet (July 22nd for 400 swimmers and July 23rd-July 24th for all other events).  You must email gmstgators@aol.com to confirm your swimmer will be able to attend the meet or talk with Coach Porter by Sunday 7/17 at 5pm.  If swimmers are qualified in more than 3 individual events you must specify in your confirmation email or discuss with Porter what events you want to swim (or the coaches will place you in the events they want you to swim).

Instructions for swimmers/parents:

1. Please check to see if your name is on this list
2. If your name is on this list send an email to gmstgators@aol.com or talk with Coach Porter to let them know if you can swim at this meet
3. If you are qualified in more than 3 individual events please pick the ones you want to swim

On Sunday our swim team will host the Last Chance meet.  The Last Chance meet means just what its name says….this is the swimmers last chance to get qualified for League.  If a swimmer is within a few seconds of qualifying for League and they want to try to get qualified they can swim in this meet.  If swimmers want to swim in this meet you must email gmstgators@aol.com by 3pm on Saturday afternoon.  Please include the event they want to swim in.

Can you believe that Saturday is our last regular summer swim meet?  What happened to the summer?  It is amazing to see how the swimmer have developed and improved in their skills.  We are excited to have their kids bring their “A” game to the meet on Saturday and finish the season strong.

Due to the size of the team we are swimming against we are only sending a maximum of 2 relays per age group.  We wanted to let everyone know this so you understood if your swimmer wasn’t on both relays.  We are going to try our best to let all swimmers that are able to swim in one of the relays for their age group.

We will have all the individual and relay entries posted tomorrow morning.
See you all Saturday!  Go Gators!