Great job from all our Thunderbolts swimmers last night at our meet! Thank you to ALL our volunteers; again, we couldn’t do it without you! Also thank you to all parents and swimmers for your flexibility with the change in meet start time and parking plans. With our team and Venetian’s LARGE team, we had a lot of people at the pool last night, and it went fairly smoothly.

The final score of the meet was Twin Lakes 344, Venetian 358. It was a close meet the whole time against a team that is over twice the size of us. We are so proud of all our swimmers in their events. Ribbons are in your family’s ribbon file under the swim team bulletin board by the concession stand. Here are the coaches’ shoutouts for this meet:

• Warren Hawkins great relay finish
• Emily Coil great back in medley relay
• Vivi Walker great sportsmanship
• Andrew Frank awesome IM
• Ava Meisner amazing IM
• James Deaver great IM
• Owen Benner AMAZING free relay finish
• Catherine Smart killed fly
• Boris great first breaststroke race ever
• Hope Baria outstanding sportsmanship behind the lanes
• Tate Linsley amazing breaststroke race
• Ivan Freas- congratulations on first IM
• Emily Jordan- congratulations on first IM
• Maddie Linsley- congratulations on first IM
• Kelsey Hendrix- congratulations on first IM
• Sebastian Borja- Amazing breaststroke leg of medley relay
• Carter Hayes- Amazing 50 freestyle
• Elizabeth Chilton- Strong kick in 6U free relay
• Jack Huey- great 25 free
• Olivia Kavtarazde- great IM
• Boys 15-18 relays- way to finish strong!

• 6U boys Free relay- Awesome swim
• Jackson Keen- Awesome freestyle 1st
• James Bagget- great underwaters
• Abby Nathan- 1st place backstroke
• Dorothy Heston- Great Sportsmanship
• Samantha Copland- way to step up in the free relay
• James Deaver- incredible IM
• Julie Jordan- congratulations on overall meet
• Hannah Kavtaradze- wonderful races.
• Ray Blanco- beautiful backstroke
• Frances Kennedy- congratulations on dropping time in all races!
• Molly Anne Cooper- amazing freestyle swim in relay
• Claudia Frank- great 50 fly
• Ethan MacGregor- great freestyle relay leg!

Please remember to declare for next week’s away meet at Leslie Beach Club. Here’s the link for easy access: https://tltb.swimtopia.com/swim_meets. The deadline for declarations is Friday by 8pm. Please let us know as soon as possible so coaches can start planning lineups. More info will be sent about that meet on Sunday, but we still need some key volunteers, including:

• 2nd shift Bullpen Coordinator
• 8 & Under Boys Bullpen (2 needed)
• 10 & Under Boys Bullpen (2 needed)
• 1st shift Finish Judge
• 2nd shift Finish Judge
• 1st shift Timer (1 more needed)
• Ribbons
• 8U Girls & 12U boys & girls bullpens need a 2nd bullpen parent

Good luck to our Jr. Bolts on Friday at 9am for their second meet. Go Jr. Bolts!

Also, did you know we’ve added a list of upcoming meets on the main page (TLTB.swimtopia.com), that also has quick link buttons for declaring swimmer availability and job signups? Once heat sheets are shared, there will be a link to them on this page as well. You can still access them the previous way, but we’re learning new tricks everyday to try to make it easier for you. If you haven’t downloaded the SwimTopia app, it is your new best friend at the meet. It shows you all your swimmers’ events in a nice clean list and also lets you see in a quick view which events you have declared your swimmers as available/unavailable for. Thank you for your patience with us in figuring out this new website.

Enjoy your weekend!

Swim Team Council