Hey guys,

Here is the info for this week.  Please let me know if you have any questions!

 

In this email:

• Schedule
• Volunteers
• What to expect at a meet
• Who is missing the meet?
• Meeting recap

 

SCHEDULE

This week we have a funky schedule due to the last day of school and next week as well due to Memorial Day.  Here are both weeks:

Week of 5/23

Monday-normal evening practice

Tuesday-practice meet, EVERYONE arrives at 4:30PM for warm-ups

Wednesday-normal evening practice

Thursday-NO practice

Friday- morning practice at Mark Trail: 7-10 year olds 8:30-9:30; 6&under 9:30-10; 11&up 10-11

 

Week of 5/30

Monday-NO practice

Tuesday-morning practice, first meet at Mountaire

Wednesday-morning practice at Mark Trail, evening practice at Princeton Square

Thursday-morning practice at Mark Trail, evening practice at Princeton Square

Friday- morning practice at Mark Trail

 

VOLUNTEERS

We are short volunteers for the practice meet on Tuesday.  Please go to this link and sign-up if you can help. Thanks!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0948a4ab22a02-volunteer 

 

WHAT TO EXPECT AT A MEET/WHAT TO BRING

For the practice meet, we will do each of the strokes (25's for 10&under and 50's for 11&up) in the order they occur in a normal meet: free, back, breast, fly.  We will not do relays or the longer events.  If a child doesn't know how to do one of the strokes, he/she will not be entered in that stroke.  Everyone will do freestyle, starting with 6&under girls and going up to 15-18 boys, and then everyone will do backstroke, etc.

At a normal meet, swimmers are allowed to do a maximum of 4 events, 2 individual and 2 relays.  I do my best to get everyone in 4 events at every meet, although sometimes I cannot get 2 relays for everyone if there is an odd number of kids at the meet.

I recommend bringing multiple towels to a meet, warm clothes (as it can get cool at night), a water bottle, and everything you need to swim.  We do have concessions at every meet as well.

 

WHO IS MISSING THE PRACTICE MEET?

Here is the final list of who I have as being out of the practice meet (juniors included).  If your child is not on this list, he/she is entered in the meet.  Please let me know ASAP if your child is sick and will not be there Tuesday night.

Cam Albert

Jackson Blitzer

Clara Brashear

Charlie Busch

Will Bykat

John Cleveland

Charlotte and Jackson Cloud

Mary Fields Collins

Jack Cortez

James Dokter (late)

Abby Feldstein

Grace Grider

Amanda Hassler

Abby Meyerowitz

Beau and Tommy Milam

Nico and Jackson Muraro

Noey Parsons

Connor (late), Charley and Emma Plumly

Joshua Rubin

John Henry Russell

Matty Scalo

Gabi Swartz

Natalie Tully

Cole Weidenhamer

Ryan Zaparaniuk

 

MEETING RECAP

Here are notes from the parent meeting from Thursday.  Please let us know if you have any questions.

 

Volunteering:  Our first mock meet is right around the corner.  Please make sure to sign up for your three volunteer shifts.  The link is http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0948a4ab22a02-volunteer.  Do it now before all the good shifts are taken.  We are asking when you sign up to add your cell phone so the volunteer coordinators are not having to track people down.  Both of our new volunteer coordinators, Ashley Giardino and Christina Toole,  have small children, so we want to make it easy on them.  In order to make the meets run smoothly everyone needs to sign up for at least three shifts.  Please be on time.  We realize traffic can be bad in Atlanta, but be mindful that the person before you cannot be relieved until you get to your volunteer post.

 

House Keeping:  This year we are asking swimmers not to go on the tennis courts.  Please pick up after yourself at practices and meets.

 

Concessions:  This year we have asked Slopes to be our primary vendor.  They have had a difficult year and we would like to support them.  We will also have a limited number of kids pizzas

 

Contacting Coach Julie:  The best way to get in touch with Coach Julie is through email.  During practice she needs to concentrate on the swimmers.

 

 

This Tuesday  – Mock Meet starts at 5:30. KIDS NEED TO BE AT POOL BY 4:30

 Next week, we start morning and evening practices – Evening Practices are at Princeton Square

Age Group	Morning Practice  Mark Trail (M-F)	Evening Practice Princeton Square (M, W, Thurs)
7-10	8:30am-9:30am	6:00 - 6:45 pm
6 and under	9:30 -10:00 am	5:30- 6:00 pm
11 and up	10:00 - 11:00 am	6:45-7:30

 

 

June 2nd – pictures at Princeton Square @  5:15

 

Meet Information

Swimmers need to arrive at 4:30 for warm-ups when we’re home team and 4:45 when we’re the away team.  If you are unable to attend a meet, please let Coach Julie know.  There is a spot on the website to RSVP.  She needs to know as soon as possible because it will effect relays and other swimmers opportunity to swim.  If you child wakes up sick, please email Julie immediately.  She needs to have her line up ready.

If you have any questions during practice or a meet, please ask one of us.  The best way to get in touch with Julie is through email.  When she is coaching her eyes need to be on the kids.

Kids are NOT allowed in pool or baby pools during meet- safety concern - no dangling feet in lanes, no sitting on stairs, NO PLAYING IN BABY POOL

Our concession stand can provide dinner for you and your family – we typically have pizza or hot dogs for sale.  Also, please remember that this is a family event and we do not encourage alcohol.

 

A day in the life of a swim meet: 

When your child arrives, please send them to the bullpen.  This is where kids get ready to swim and are informed of which events they will be participating in.  Please pay attention each week to special instructions for each pool as they are different.

A new rule change is that after an event, the child should go back to a designated “ready area”  with their teammates to wait for the next event.  The volunteers are not responsible to hunting down your children.  Please encourage your child to go back to the Ready area to wait for the next event.  If they need to eat or something, please bring it to them in the area.

This Year Each team is required to have a deck manager who will work in a ready area near the starting end of the pool and make sure the kids are lined up according to event/heat/lane.  So, the bull pens will be primarily needed for marking up the kids and helping with the little kids relays.  Instead of kids being herded about by parents the swimmers will need to be more autonomous and head to the ready area upon their events being called by the announcer.

There will be an announcer this year, so kids & parents need to be listening for their events.  

 Meets typically last from 5:30-9:30pm depending on amount of swimmers- remind swimmers, parents, and children when leaving pool in dark—Meets start at 5:30

Usually after the meet, we will designate a place to grab dinner, an ice cream or milkshake.  We are open to suggestions this year on where to go.   

Here is the training we are doing tonight: (for those who missed the meeting, please try to shadow someone at time trials who is doing the job you signed up for/will sign up for)

Pick one area to be trained on – there are 3 areas.  This will be what you sign up for as a volunteer.  The volunteer sign up will be posted online by Friday.

1.  Timing:

 2.  Judging, Runners

 3. Bull Pen

                - how to line up, etc

                - will have example

                - how to read heat sheet and write on swimmers arm/

                - how to interpret writing on your swimmer's arm