Recap of Parent Meeting
May 18th
It was GREAT to see many of you yesterday at our Kickoff Party and we are excited about our first full practice this evening!
In case you missed our parent meeting yesterday and want to review anything we discussed, here is the rundown:
- Communication
- We will send “The Week Ahead” email every Thursday to keep you updated
- We will use Swimtopia alerts for quick announcements like weather
- If you need to communicate with Katie, Courtney or Coach Aubri you should email [email protected]
- Practices
- We are trying a new schedule to relieve crowding at afternoon practice
- New “Flex” option from 8:00-8:30 AM for all age groups
- 3 afternoon groups
- Evening practice is reserved for families who have kids in camp or kids working during the day - limited space
- You swimmer can attend a mix of morning and afternoon practices but only one per day
- Please review our code of conduct with you swimmer
- Please log into Swimtopia and declare you swimmer for all meets now
- If you sign in but then can’t come due to illness/injury email [email protected]
- GFSL sets rules about the number of heats per event - there will be times when swimmers are unable to swim maximum allowed events
- Coaches create meet lineup that are competitive but also provides opportunities - they generally do not enter swimmers in events if their strokes are not legal
- We will have meet themes for home meets:
- 6/2 - extreme blue and green
- 6/23 - Sports jersey
- 7/7 - pink out
- 1st meet 5/30 - Sat morning - every kid swims every stroke - unless parents make a note otherwise - no relays
- 2nd meet 6/16 - Tues evening (bye week) - every kid swims every stroke again to see how they have improved + we will have OPEN division for adults to swim and end with family + friends relays
- This is hosted by the TYDE swim team and open to kids and adults!
- This year’s theme is Monsters Inc.
See you all this afternoon!!!
- Your Swim Team Committee