Week of June 5-9 & Swim Meet #2

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

Monday, June 5th:

Normal morning and afternoon practice sessions.

Tuesday, June 6th:

Normal morning practice sessions at 8:30, 9:15, 10, and 10:30. Spirit Morning following your AM practice time. Come paint your nails and get some thunderbolt tattoos in preparation for the evening meet.

Meet #2 at home vs. Briarcliff/Sagamore:

Swimmers arrive between 4:00-4:15 pm

Our warm ups: 4:45-5:15 pm

Venetian warm ups: 5:20-5:50 pm

Meet starts at 6:00 pm

4:15 arrival means in the bullpen at 4:15 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 Jaime Raymond at 770-364-7917. 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)

10&Under Boys Bullpen (2)

Finish Judge - 2nd shift (1)

Home Meet Breakdown (2)

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.

***If you purchase from the swim team concession stand, please make sure you put swim team concessions in the notes sections.***

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 7th:

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. And remember to have your swimmer grab his/her ice cream at the snack bar starting Wed. afternoon!

If you haven’t marked your availability for next week’s home meet on 6/13, please do so before Friday.

Thursday, June 8th:

Normal morning and afternoon practice sessions.

Friday, June 9th:

Great job from our Jr. Bolts in their first meet last Saturday. Junior Bolts meet#2 is Friday at 9:00 am!

Go Bolts!

Jaime Raymond