We hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! Here’s what you need to know about swim team this week:

Monday, June 6th:

Normal morning and afternoon practice sessions. Spirit Night after the afternoon practice session. Come paint your nails and get some thunderbolt tattoos in preparation for Tuesday’s meet.

Tuesday, June 7th:

Normal morning practice sessions at 8:30, 9:15, 10, and 10:30.

Meet #2 at home vs. Venetian *note the time change from the original schedule

• Swimmers arrive between 3:45-4:00 pm
• Our warm ups: 4:15-4:45 pm
• Venetian warm ups: 4:50-5:20 pm
• Meet starts at 5:30 pm

4:00 arrival means in the bullpen at 4:00, not parking the car. It is VERY important that swimmers are there and ready. They have limited time for warmups and for coaches to make changes. If you are not there, lineup changes will need to be made. If an emergency arises and you will not be there by 4:00, please call or text Julie Linsley at 706-206-3106. There is so much going on at that time, we will be unable to call you and will therefore need to take your swimmer out of the lineup.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Thank you to ALL the parents who have already volunteered. We still need a few roles filled. Please note that we need volunteers for every meet and most parents will need to volunteer more than once. We cannot run meets without parent volunteers. We still need the following:

• Bullpen Coordinator - 2nd shift (1)
• 6&Under Boys Bullpen (1)
• 12&Under Boys Bullpen (1)
• Concessions - 2nd shift workers (3)
• Finish Judge - 2nd shift (1)
• Finish Judge Recorder - 1st shift (1)
• Home Meet Breakdown (4)
• Ribbons (1)
• Timer - 2nd shift (1)
• Please visit our team site and sign up to help.

PARKING: We are reserving the parking lot for the visiting team. We encourage swim team families to walk/bike if possible or carpool. There is parking on the neighborhood streets on ONE SIDE ONLY. There will be signs on the side of the street showing which side you should NOT park on. Please be respectful of our neighbors so that they can get.

CONCESSIONS: The regular Twin Lakes concession stand will be open during the meet. In addition, the swim team will also be selling concessions: hot dogs, pizza, assorted drinks, and assorted snacks. Cash and venmo are accepted as forms of payment.

REMINDERS FOR YOUR SWIMMERS:

• drink plenty of fluids (water, Gatorade, sports drinks) and to rest as much as possible during the day. This goes for ALL AGES of swimmers.
• Let’s show our sportsmanship and bullpen etiquette tonight! We are so proud of our team!
• We will send out the heat sheet after the Tuesday morning practice sessions. Please plan to mark your swimmer’s arm with their events prior to meet arrival. Instructions will be included in the email with the heat sheet.

Wednesday, June 8th:

As a celebration of the swimmers' hard work at the meet, we don’t have regular practice on Wednesdays. Instead, we will have donuts and pool games with the coaches from 9:30-10:15 am for 10 & younger and from 10:15-11:00 am for 11 & older, so wear your suits and come to have fun!

Regular afternoon practice will be held on Wednesday.

You will also be able to pick up your ribbons from Tuesday’s meet in the ribbon file (located on the bench in front of the swim team senior bulletin board by the concession stand). Ribbons are filed by family last name and you can pick them up at any time from the file.

If you haven’t marked your availability for next week’s away meet on 6/14, please do so before Friday.

Thursday, June 9th:

Normal morning and afternoon practice sessions.

Friday, June 10th:

Great job from our Jr. Bolts in their first meet on Saturday. Click this link for a picture:Junior Bolts. Junior Bolts meet #2 is Friday at 9:00 am!

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.

Thank you,

TLTB Swim Team Council