1. Practice Reminders

We will have practice tomorrow, Friday, May 24 (it’s our only regular Friday practice of the season; all others are Fun Fridays). There is no practice on Saturday or Monday of Memorial Day weekend. The summer schedule is posted on the website.

If kids aren’t actively practicing, they should not be near the pool or engaging with coaches and swimmers in the water. Swimmers who are waiting on siblings to finish their practices can play in the grassy area, water table area or find a spot to sit around the pool deck. Parents are responsible for kids not actively practicing. Thank you for helping to ensure a safe and welcoming learning environment for all our 150+ swimmers.

2. RSVP for Swim Meets (today!)

If your swimmers plan to swim in our first meet – next Thursday, May 30 – you MUST mark them as “attending this meet” – on that event page in SwimTopia BY TOMORROW AT 8 AM. If they are not marked as “attending” by Friday at 8 a.m. the week before a meet, they will not be entered in the meet. You can go ahead and RSVP them for ALL the meets if you know your family’s schedule for June. The green “meet entry” button will not show up on the calendar page unless you are logged in to SwimTopia.

While you are RSVPing for meets, go ahead and RSVP for the 50th Anniversary Party and next week’s Fun Friday (we’d love parents to RSVP for Fun Friday as well as we are planning for coffee offerings).

3. Thank yous and volunteers needs

THANK YOU to our sign laminating team this week. … Holli Brown, Bojana Hyatt, Gwen Hughes, Jennifer Fennell and Laura Holder. And a HUGE THANK YOU to the Holder family for taking home the starting blocks to get cleaned up, touched up and repainted before our first home meet!

Next week during morning practices, our 50th Anniversary Party planners will have some decorations to assemble. If you are crafty and/or creative, they’d love your help during practice. Tables will be set up near the entrance – look for Christina van Maanen.

We have purchased steel stools from IKEA for the new Club bar area. These stools will be used by our computer volunteers during home meets (and we are gifting some to the Club). If any parents are IKEA building experts, we’d love a volunteer or two (we have 8 stools total) to put these together for us next week. Send us an email if you might be able to help in this way (and will count as your non-meet volunteer shift): [email protected]

Thank you! Go Dolphins!