Good morning team!  Wow, what a great week we had last week!  Thank you all for your participation, encouragement, and sharing your kids with us!  We worked through so much last week and we are excited to build on that next week!

A few things to think about and plan for...

Next week we will have a full week!  Regular practice times every day, except Thursday will have NO LITTLE RAY practice, because we have the Red & Black meet.  There will also be regular practice schedule Friday (our first Fun Friday will be Fri 6/14).  ALL swimmers can swim in the Red & Black meet, including Little Rays! Please go online ASAP and RSVP for your swimmer.  

Here are the steps to RSVP....

swsr.swimtopia.com, Then click on "Schedule", Pick the meet you want, "Red & Black", then click "Entries", then select your child's age group/gender on right middle screen, find your child's name once in their group, and click on the pencil on the row with their name.  A new box will appear in the screen, with their name, and you click "Attending" or "Not Attending".  PLEASE do this for every meet.  If your child isn't attending, please still do this!!  As we approach each meet, we start asking the swimmers if their name still hasn't been changed.  It only takes a minute or 2 to go through the whole season and make these selections, but it saves us coaches so much time to be clear that a parent just hasn't forgotten to do it.  Thank you for your help with this!

We close the RSVP options 48 hours before each meet so we can make the lineup, so if you need to change it after that, you MUST text me 207.8878 or Coach Jacob 661.1316

As we move into regular and harder workouts, please remind your swimmers to bring their water bottles!  It is hot out and they are working hard and need to be drinking water!

Parents, you are doing a good job allowing the coaches to focus on your swimmers, so thank you for respecting that we've asked not to need to discuss schedules, lanes, swimmers during practice.  Of course, if there is a pressing situation, please let us know.  We work hard to get your swimmers what they need and with approx 165 of them, we stay busy!  Thank you for your grace and understanding as well as we get to know these swimmers again, see their strengths, and areas we want to help them improve.  Please know that they will be in lanes, group, areas, and times that we think best for them.  There are many factors we consider and sometimes ones they, or you, are not aware of when we place them where we want them.  Everything is done to the best of our ability for the good of the team, and we thank you for understanding that.  

Again, thank you for all your help and your kids!  We are loving this year so far and know it's going to be a great season!  Please remember to check the website for any info you need, and remember to RSVP ASAP for the meets!

Also, if you haven't already, go into Coach Jacob's email about the Remind App, and send a text to join that group, and please have your kids with cell phones do it too, we think it'll help make some minor communication easier!

Thank you!

Coach Jodi