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July 12th

1. Please be at the pool by 7:15 both mornings to check in with your coach and start stretching. Our pool warmup time is 7:45. Traffic is often crazy on both these mornings.

2. We need 12 timers to sign up for shifts! You can sign up on the app. If there is a chance your child may not swim Saturday, you may want to sign up for Friday instead.
3. If you want to set up an EZ up, we highly recommend you do it tomorrow evening at 6:30. For those of you planning on going, best of luck at the Canopy 500!
4. The following events do not have enough kids signed up to swim preliminary races on Friday and there will be finals only on Saturday. The event numbers are: 21, 28, 33, 45, 46, 48, 54, 58, 60, 66, 69, 70, 72, 73, 86, 92, 106, 123, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, and 131. We should of course check these against the heat sheets on Friday in case they have sent us any numbers in error. Heat sheets will be available for purchase each morning for $10.
5. The parade of teams and senior and award recognition will begin at 8:45 Friday with the meet scheduled to start at 9:15 both mornings. (Don’t forget to let your swimmer dress up for the parade. What do they like to do when they are not an Otter?) The free relays will be first on Friday; the medley relays will be first on Saturday.
6. Please try to pay for your swimmer’s events by the end of practices this week.
7. Bring lots of sunscreen, snacks, water, etc and be prepared for whatever the weather throws at us!

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Team Gear

1. Are team suits/team gear required?

No, suits and gear are not required. However, many swimmers like to purchase the team suits, and the link is on the home page of our website.

2. Who chooses team gear?

The board of directors chooses team suits, logos, and colors for team gear. Every reasonable effort is made to keep costs as low as possible. COVID has made the supply chain very hard to predict, so many of our choices had to be made based on what colors/styles were available for youth and adult products.

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1. Do I need to volunteer?

Yes, we need parent volunteers. To make a home meet run smoothly, we need roughly 20 volunteers! Away meets are the responsibility of the other team, so we typically only need around 2 volunteers.

2. How do I sign up to volunteer?

There will be a volunteer sign up available for each meet on our team website. If we do not have enough, we will have to ask for more.

3. Why do I need to ask for business sponsors?

We know you are busy, and during the summer, we do not want to ask swimmers to participate in even more fundraisers. However, our generous sponsors help us to keep our costs for families low, so we depend on them each year. We have to pay money to rent the pool, pay coaches, and pay lifeguards each summer, and our participation fees do not cover these costs.

4. Do I need to download the swimtopia app?

We recommend that you download the app and enable push notifications. This will be our primary way of communicating changes to the schedule, meet information, etc. If you do not download the app, please check your email and make sure you add swimtopia to your contacts so that the email will not go to your junk folder. The app is free unless you purchase the 'Pro plan' which we do NOT recommend at this time.

5. If I have problems or concerns (coaching issues, swimmer issues, etc), what should I do?

If you need assistance or to voice concerns, we ask that you get into the habit of emailing the team at [email protected]. We ask that you do NOT ask for the coaches' personal phones numbers and that you do not contact them with your problems on their personal time.