Good afternoon RAY Nation!  Hope you all are enjoying this beautiful sunny day!  It makes me excited and ready for our summer season!

I just wanted to send out a quick note, we have been working very hard behind the scenes wrapping up details and planning out our summer, so we want to update you all on what we know at this point....

First of all, we hope and pray each of you come back this summer!  We've grown a lot in the past few years, and we've worked out some kinks, strengthened some areas, we've added some great swimmers and families, and some fun times, so please join us again.  We are planning to open EARLY registration (this will also include the early registration discount!!) on March 20th.  This will be a time for ONLY previous SWSR families and Sugarwood residents.  On April 10th, we will open any available age groups to anyone and the price will increase.  So mark your calendars and look for that registration email!  We appreciate the way you all speak so kindly about our team and share that with your friends!  Please be sure to tell them to email me at [email protected] to get on our waiting list so we can try to include them when we start adding new families!  

Second, please feel free to look around our website, swsr.swimtopia.com  We have made some updates and the new practice schedule is on there.  We MAY adjust slightly as the registration numbers come in, but that should be close to what we'll use.  Special note that this summer we are going back to our traditional split of 11-12 age group from 13-14's.  We split into technical/training the past 2 years to best work with the swimmers we had, but everyone is really thriving now, and we're confident that this split will be beneficial again.  Also, we slid the seniors into an earlier slot.  We were having some trouble with them needing to leave early or miss practice due to jobs, so we're trying this to see if we can better accommodate more of our oldest swimmers.

Timeline of the summer: We will begin all regular practices on Tuesday May 30th.  Smoky Mountain Invitational will be held 7/8 (11 &Ups) and 7/9 (10& Under).  City Championships will be held Thur July 20th-Sat July 22nd.  Only swimmers who compete in City Championships will practice that final week of swim practice (7.17-7.20).  Our SWSR End of Year Party will be the afternoon of Sunday July 23rd.  We are working within our league to set up our dual meet schedule, but tentatively plan on a meet every Thurs in June (except the 1st) and then our final dual/senior night July 13th.  We will get the meet schedule out as soon we we finalize it.  Fun Fridays will follow the dual meets.  More specifics will of course come about this as soon as we get them!

EVALUATIONS: Every new SWSR swimmer who is 10& Under will need to be evaluated before their first practice.  These will be held Thur May 25 and Fri May 26, sometime in the morning.  We will be sending out more info as we see how many we will need to evaluate.  No new swimmer under the age of 11 will start practice without an evaluation.  If the dates don't work, we will find another way to make sure they're safe in the water before we have them practice.  Thank you for understanding this important policy!

Swim suits: We will be using the same suits as last year, so that info will be on our website, and we will hold another suit fitting this spring.  As usual, all boys will need a brief or jammer style suit, and girls will need a one piece competition style suit.  If you need any recommendations, please let me know! We want to be sure to get these items before the start of the season!

Thank you all!  We're so excited to be with you again!  Please reach out if you have any questions!

Coach Jodi  [email protected]  865.207.8878