HELLO SAILFISH!!!

Happy rainy, chilly Sunday evening to you all. Thanks to all for your understanding about postponing the Pirate’s Cove event for this evening. We’ll see you all there on Sunday, July 9. 

Results for yesterday’s tri-meet are attached. We’ve got some AMAZING swimmers on our team!!! GO SAILFISH!!!

We’ve got another busy week ahead, so let’s get on with it. Here’s your Sailfish SCOOP for today…

REMINDER - FUN DAY MONDAY IS TOMORROW

Fun Day Monday means two things: First, coaches will have some special, extra-fun activities planned for swimmers. Second, we’ll have a donuts at the conclusion of practice. How awesome is that?

DECLARE YOUR SWIMMER(S) FOR OUR JUNE 17 MEET AT HOMESTEAD

(For those of you in-the-know, it often snows when we swim at Homestead. GAH!!! 

So far, looks like we’ll have better weather for this meet this year.)

Our next away meet of the season is Saturday, June 10, at HOMESTEAD.  Please make sure you declare your swimmer(s) for this meet by 3:00 pm on Wednesday, June 14.

Forget how? KEEP READING.

The Sailfish use SwimTopia to share information with you via email, it’s our team website, it organizes your volunteer shifts and it keeps track of our swimmers’ races and results. This year, all of this information will be housed in one place, on our website, or on the app called “SwimTopia” (with an orange and blue icon of a wave and sunshine.Download it now!). You have visited the website for registration and volunteer shifts, and now we’d like you to familiarize yourselves with declaring which meets your swimmer will swim throughout the season. Here’s how:

1. Log in to our website (located in the upper right-hand corner) or log in to the SwimTopia app with the same email and password you use online.
2. Check out the “Upcoming Events” calendar column (located on the right-hand side), scroll to the June 1 Fun Meet event & click “Meet Entry.” On the app, scroll and select the meet date, and then click “Meet Signup.”
3. You will now see the swimmer’s Meet Entry Status for that meet. Click “Edit” to let the team coaches know if the swimmer will or will not attend the meet. If your swimmer will attend, a drop-down menu will appear of all the individual events your swimmer is eligible to swim. Check each box your swimmer would like to swim, keeping in mind their ability to swim the full race without getting disqualified, and sign up for the right number of events so your swimmer isn’t exhausted. We recommend swimming up to three individual events and both the Medley & Free relays.
4. In Meet Entry Status, you will also indicate if your swimmer will be available to swim in the relays. Relays are a 4-person team effort to swim one race. Relays are a big part of the team fun and they give us big points toward winning the meet! We highly recommend swimming in both the Medley (the beginning of the meet @ 8am) and the Free relays (at the end of the meet @1-2pm). In this drop-down menu, you can share with the coach if your swimmer will be available at these times to swim with the team.
5. Finally, click “Save.”

All meets for the season are “open” on SwimTopia for you to declare swimmer status. You can complete the above process on each calendar meet date ahead of time if you know your summer schedule or you can declare on SwimTopia (online or the app) by Wednesday 3pm of every week. Coaches will build the heat sheets on Thursdays so entries after Wednesday will not be permitted. We appreciate you assisting the coaches by completing the declaration whether your swimmer will or will not be swimming.

GET YOUR SPIRIT WEAR HERE

We are thrilled to announce a new range of Sundance Sailfish spirit wear! We’ve partnered with Gear Up Threads to offer quick turnaround apparel in a variety of options. From new hats, to quick-dry shorts, check them out and update your spirit wear today!

Please note that this option replaces the merchandise that we had offered at swim meets in the past.

Thank you so much for all of your orders of swim gear so far! Just a reminder that if you have specific order questions please reach out to the store you ordered from directly.

COACHES’ FAVORITE THINGS

We are so lucky to have the amazing swim team coaching staff that we do this year! If you’d like to show some extra thanks throughout the season, click on this link to be directed to some of their favorite things! You'll find favorite snacks, colors, important allergy information and more!

SUPER SWIMMERS

Don't forget to let Natalie know about any Super Swimmers!

This past week we had some Super Swimmers! Thank you to parents and coaches for letting me know who they were!

We had Super Swimmers who: swam their first meet, tried a new stroke at a meet, swam up an age group in a relay, and some who had to be muster up all their confidence, be brave, and overcome their fears. Swimmers were recognized for getting a PR, and some for being a great teammate and cheerer! So many reasons to celebrate our swimmers.

Here is the Super Swimmer details again.

Super Swimmers" - We want to be able to recognize when a swimmer does something that made them a "Super Swimmer." It is a way to recognize individual goals and accomplishments of a swimmer, and we understand that we have a wide range of swimmer skills and swimmer goals. This is something the swimmer is working on or means something to the swimmer. This is for mudskippers too!!!

Some examples of being a "Super Swimmer" are:

1) Beating a time

2) Overcoming a fear and racing in a race

3) Swimming in an event they have never done before or swimming a stroke they have never done before

4) Doing a relay for the first time

5) Swimming without a coach in the water

6) Swimming a race without DQing

7) Being brave when heating

8) Getting in the water or putting face in the water

9) Breaking a record

10) Any type of challenge or goal that the swimmer is working on.

When your swimmer has an accomplishment that they want recognized, please email me what the accomplishment was and any details about it ([email protected]).

E-mail Natalie by Thursday of each week, and they will receive something at the following meet either in-person or in in their ribbon folders.

Thanks. Go Sailfish!!!!!!

SWIMMING UNDER THE STARS!

Save-the-Date for Swimming Under the Stars! Thursday, June 22 from 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Arrive at 5:30; Dinner by 5:45; Swimming fun begins at 6:30.

We are so excited for Swimming Under the Stars, a special evening of friendship and team-building fun! Don't forget to bring a dish to share and gear up for a *SURPRISE* guest coach to get our Sailfish in the pool and engaged in loads of fun!

Please RSVP here for your family and sign up to bring a potluck dish.

END OF SEASON BANQUET - GET YOUR TICKETS

End of Season Sailfish Banquet | Saturday, July 15, 2023

Let's celebrate a great season for our Sailfish at the annual end-of-season banquet. We'll be offering a buffet dinner and gourmet dipped gelato pops for dessert. Purchase your tickets on the website by Monday, July 10. (Go to our website and login. Click on “Online Store.”)

Meal Tickets: $20 Adults & Children (Ages 13+) $15 Children (Ages 3-12)

SEVEN YEAR AWARDS

We are so proud of our community of swimmers and during the End of Year Banquet, we would like to acknowledge our swimmers who have been with us for seven years. Please add your swimmer's name to this Google Sheet. If you have any questions, please contact Lydia-Ann Champeau, our Clerk of Course. We count all 7 years of swimming (even Mudskippers) and also during those "funny" summers with COVID. Looking forward to celebrating this amazing achievement with you!

EVENING PRACTICE SIGN UP

Our evening practices begin this Wednesday, May 31. You can sign up for all evening practices here. A couple of notes:

• Please submit one form per swimmer.
• Please sign up for only the evening practices you plan to attend.
• No Mudskipper evening practices.
• 7:00 - 8:00 pm will include 6 & Under, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-18.
• You will receive a confirmation email after you complete the form. Please save this email and use the link provided to change your sign-up if needed.
• To start, we will only have 30 swimmers for each time slot. Anyone who signs up after number 30, will be on a waitlist. We will send you an email to let you know this is the case.
• Thank you for your patience as we try out this new process. We will make adjustments if we hear from you that adjustments are needed.

SAILFISH LOST & FOUND

We have created a label "SAILFISH MEET LOST & FOUND" bin which will live on the bottom shelf of the Sundance pool lost and found shelf. If you pick up a stranded item at an away meet, please place it in our bin at the pool. If you loose something at a meet, please check out bin. If you loose OR find something of high value, please email the parent reps so that we can reunite the item with the owner. P.S. prescription glasses were found at the meet this weekend - let us know if they belong to you.

That’s all there is for this edition of the Sailfish SCOOP! See you all at the pool this week!

Life is better when you are swimming!

Paul Baumann, Molly Carr, and Amy Fetter

Sundance Sailfish Parent Representatives