Twin Lakes wins! Thank you to ALL our volunteers; again, we couldn’t do it without you! With the extreme heat and the thunder delays, we appreciate everyone’s patience and cooperation last night.

The final score of the meet was Twin Lakes 425, Leslie Beach 280. We are so proud of all our swimmers in this strong performance. 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:

• 10u boys great medley relay
• Ava Bogoevska awesome 25 back
• Olive Freas wonderful sportsmanship
• Megan Jordan great sportsmanship
• 6U boys free relay- awesome race,
• Hope Baria- good spirit
• Emma Williams- amazing freestyle and relay swim
• Juliette Raymond- fast freestyle swim
• Evelyn Sapp- great butterfly
• Kinly Wright- awesome effort in the free relay
• Scarlet Bland- great job in Breaststroke
• Zoe Alexander- Awesome 25 breaststroke
• Elsie Williams- stepped up for free relay
• Bella Alden- Beautiful 50 fly and great spirit
• Abby Cole- Awesome 50 breaststroke swim
• Madeline Green- overall awesome meet and time drops in all races
• Kate Petrich- Awesome IM and stepped up for relays
• Eva Smith- stepped up for 13-14 free relay
• Addie Alexander- Awesome improvement on technique
• Bella Bland- great lead off in medley relay
• Megan Gurion- awesome backstroke and way to look out for your teammates
• Hope Raymond- beautiful breaststroke race
• Claire Van Horn- way to push through the meet
• Hannah Wall- awesome meet, great job being a team player
• Anna Crittenden- awesome team spirit cheering for younger swimmers
• Katelyn McClintok- beautiful freestyle relay finish
• Kate Van Horn- Awesome swim without goggles
• Mia Yeager- great IM
• Louisa Baria- superb IM, awesome bucket turn
• Jackson Keen, Jackson Crumley, Weston Canale- awesome spirit and cheering
• Ephraim Boyd- great start for the medley relay
• William Hindenlang- awesome butterfly
• Logan Waldrop- awesome effort in races
• Olin Gilmer- Awesome first IM
• Scott Ziegler- awesome first meet
• Benjamin Trotti- Awesome effort and energy
• Aidan Raymond- great butterfly race
• Soren Borja- awesome effort and spirit
• Cadhan Cole- beautiful breaststroke
• Colin Hendrix- great first meet of the season
• James Huey- great time drop in 50 free
• Alex Heston- great spirit and cheering
• Daniel Baria- on fire, congrats
• Carter Hayes- great breaststroke
• Carter McGraw- dropped 6 in IM great effort
• Jameson Chatfield- great races alla round, love your positive attitude
• Drew McGraw- super fast 50 freestyle
• John Baria- really good 50 free race

Please remember to declare for next week’s away meet at Avondale and for the ASA Championship meet. 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 the Avondale meet on Sunday, but we still need some key volunteers, including:

• 2nd shift Bullpen Coordinator
• 8 & Under Girls Bullpen (1 needed)
• 10 & Under Girls Bullpen (1 needed)
• 10 & Under Boys Bullpen (2 needed)
• 12 & Under Girls Bullpen (1 needed)
• 12 & Under Boys Bullpen (1 needed)
• SEVERAL Timers (1st and 2nd shift)
• Ribbons

Also, if you didn’t check the towel list from yesterday’s email, here it is. Every year at our end of season banquet, we recognize swimmers who have swam/coached for the Thunderbolts for 5, 10 & 15 years. We like to send this email out for parents to double check to make sure we haven’t left anyone out before we send the towel order off. Congratulations to the following swimmers for earning their towel this year. Please let us know if we have any errors (including spelling) in our list.

5 year towel awards

• Scarlet Bland
• Lewis Heston
• Madelyn Linsley
• Nadia Mallory
• Cypress Smith
• Eva Smith
• Vivian Walker
• Elsie Williams

10 year towel awards

• Louisa Baria
• Collin Hendrix (corrected to add 2 L’s)
• Ansley Littlejohn
• Evan Littlejohn

15 year towel award

• Mack Deaver

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

Also, one more reminder about the Swim Team Council Meeting TODAY at 5:30 at the pool pavilion. If you are interested in getting more involved or taking on a coordinator role or season-long job next year, this would be great to attend to get more information. If you are interested in getting involved and can’t attend, contact Julie Linsley and she can answer questions you may have. We will need some new parent volunteers, so come learn how you can help make next year’s swim team happen.

Enjoy your weekend!

Swim Team Council