Great job from all our Thunderbolts swimmers Tuesday night at our first meet! It was so great to have a actual face-to-face meet again!  Thank you to ALL our volunteers. It takes all of us to make the meet run smoothly and to be able to finish in 3 hours!

The final score of the meet was Twin Lakes 325, Echo Ridge 380. Although we came up short in points we saw some great swimming, spirit, and sportsmanship. Much anticipated ribbons will be in your family’s ribbon file under the swim team bulletin board by the concession stand this morning. The coaches wanted to recognize the following swimmers with these shoutouts:

• Great job to all our swimmers who swam in their first swim meet!!!
• 7-8 Boys Medley Relay - First 1st place of the year for TLTB!
• Graham Bennett great backstroke race
• James Deaver amazing swims
• Shep Hutsell stepped up for relay & amazing backstroke
• James Baggett - great freestyle
• Emily Coil - great backstroke & good dive on your freestyle race
• Jax Dye - great solo breaststroke
• Hamp Cooper - great solo fly
• Abby Baggett - great first race
• Olivia Kavtaradze - wonderful fly & great job on your first IM!
• 11-12 Girls Medley Relay - awesome relay!
• Ethan MacGregor - good flip-turn & great job finishing without goggles
• Maddie Benedict - great IM
• Lewis Heston - great IM
• Ansley Littlejohn - great sportsmanship
• Graham Benner - awesome underwater
• Jackson Keen - good backstroke
• Luke Hinderlang - awesome breaststroke race
• Daphne Sapp - good start
• Emily Coil - really good backstroke
• Tate Linsley - great sportsmanship
• Sean Ziegler - very good backstroke
• Alex Heston - great spirit
• Ava Cooper - very good butterfly
• Olive Freas - very good backstroke
• James Baggett - very good butterfly race
• Weston Canale - good dive on your freestyle relay
• Charlotte Nash - great job on your flip turn in your freestyle race!
• Boris Kavtaradze - good job in your first swim meet and great job filling in on the free relay
• Frances Kennedy - great job cheering on the team!
• Cypress Smith - great backstroke finish

Please remember to declare for next week’s home meet against Venetian. Here’s the link for easy access: https://tltb.swimtopia.com/swim_meets The deadline for declarations is Friday (tomorrow) by 8pm. Please let us know as soon as possible so coaches can start planning lineups. Also, we still need some key volunteers, including:

• 2nd shift Bullpen Coordinator
• 2nd shift Concessions (2 needed)
• 2nd shift Finish Judge
• 1st shift Finish Judge Recorder
• 3 more timers needed
• Ribbons
• A few bullpens need a 2nd bullpen parent

Good luck to our Jr. Bolts this weekend as they have their first Jr. Bolts meet on Saturday at 9am. Go Jr. Bolts!

Also, did you know that there’s a way for you to find the important emails that were sent on our website (without having to search your email inbox). This is a feature we have just discovered on our new website, so it does not show all the emails we have sent this season, but going forward we will make sure to post the important ones here. On the main page (TLTB.swimtopia.com), there is a side menu with the 5 most recent news emails sent. You can see all news emails sent by clicking on the About tab in the top menu bar and clicking on the News tab. 

Enjoy your weekend!

Swim Team Council