Howdy Seals! 

Congratulations on a great meet this past weekend! After two weeks away, it's time for us to go HOME on the range as we welcome Travis Country and Hays Swim Club for our last in-season meet!

Which means...the sign up for this Saturday is OPEN!

Go online and sign up your swimmers by WEDNESDAY at 4PM. There will be no late entries accepted. We ask that you please mark your swimmers NOT ATTENDING if you AREN’T going to the meet.

Regular meet rules apply: you may sign up for 3 individual events, please only sign swimmers up for strokes they do legally, and ask the coaches if you aren’t sure!

Tentative Timeline

6:00 am: Set Up Crew Begins Set Up, Early Gate Keepers Arrive

6:35 am: Age Group Parents Check In

6:45 am: Age Group Parents Ready to Check Swimmers In

6:50 am: Swimmers and All Other Volunteers Arrive and Check In

7:05-7:25 am: Circle C Warm-up (BE THERE or scratched from relays)

7:25-7:45 am: Travis Country and Hays Warm Up

7:30 am: Volunteer Meetings

7:50 am: First call to Ready Bench

7:55 am: National Anthem

8:00 am: Meet Begins

10:30 am: Approx time for shift change and break – between events 26 and 27 – time permitting there will be parent/coach relays

1:00 pm: Meet Ends

This meet is going to be another BIG one! We expect approximately 600 swimmers from 3 different swim clubs. We will continue to run the 10 lanes, so please look for my email with final details this Friday. You can also reference meet details here: June 23rd Home Meet Details

Volunteers
Just as swimmer sign ups close on Wednesday at 4 p.m., so will the volunteer sign ups. If you have any changes after this time, please email our awesome Volunteer Coordinators, Lynn Waldman and Susan Williams DIRECT at [email protected].

We DO have open volunteers shifts for this meet, please see shifts below:
- 1 Late Shift S&T
- 1 Set Up
- 1 Late Shift Runner
- 3 Ready Bench
- 1 Late Shift Gatekeeper
- 2 Early Shift Gatekeepers
- 2 Late Shift Floaters
- 3 Clean Up
- 2 9/10 Girls Tent
- 2 9/10 Boys Tent
- 2 6&U Boys Tent

The majority of our Seals families have met or are close to meeting the 40 pt volunteer requirement. THANK YOU! If you are short points and are NOT signed up to volunteer at this meet or CHAMPS, Lynn and Susan will be reaching out!;)

PARKING - PLEASE READ:
We are requesting both the Seals team and our visitors to avoid parking on the residential streets around the pool (in particular Dedham Lane across Escarpment Blvd). Instead, please park at one of 3 places:
(1) XPlor Preschool (right near the pool to the East on Lacrosse)
(2) On Lacrosse Ave 
(3) On Escarpment

The reason for the change is that at our last swim meet, we had an instance of such overcrowded parking on a residential street (Dedham) that collectively created an unsafe single car passage lane. Parking on both sides of the street resulted in folks navigating backwards for long distances to enable passage of opposing traffic. Additionally, several cars parked very close to stop signs/corners that required vehicles to make ‘blind’ turns onto a busy street, again, creating a safety risk.

In addition to parking in the locations requested, we’d like to remind everyone to also please obey all traffic laws for parking, pedestrian crossing, and driving – all with the understanding that we want to ensure a safe environment AND we don’t want any ‘reminders’ from police that we must do so. Finally, we want the Seals and the League to be considered ‘good neighbors’ within Circle C – please be courteous of our neighbors and not block driveways, etc. Thanks in advance for your consideration!

LAST CHANCE:
Swimmers must be legal with a time in order to compete in that event at CHAMPS Meet...(N/T = not at Champs:) The same goes for Volunteers. Please do NOT sign up for a shift that you haven’t volunteered for this season.

CHAMPS NOTES:
- Sign Ups will open early and we will keep you posted once it is ready.
- We are looking at a similar timeline as last year for the day.
- Only volunteers and will be allowed on deck.
- Swimmers cannot leave their session early even if they are not swimming later event.
- Swimmer signup will close early, tentatively Monday June 25.
- More details to come after Champs meeting this week.

Finally, get out your Boots & Spurs, because this week’s theme is COWBOYS!

Giddy-Up and Go SEALS!

Kim