HELLO SAILFISH!!!

Happy Sunday afternoon to the best swim team in the land. We hope that everyone is enjoying the sun and warm weather. Perfect for hanging out at the pool! 🏖️

Here’s your Sunday SCOOP…

🏊🏼♀️ DECLARE SWIMMERS FOR JULY 8 MEET 🏊🏾♂️

We’ve got one more regular season meet - Saturday, July 8, at home against Stonegate. Please declare your swimmer(s) by 3:00 pm on Wednesday, July 5. Same process as all our other meets - login to our website, then choose the green “Meet Entry” tab on the right hand side of the screen, under the July 8 meet. This is the last meet before Prelims and Stonegate is the largest team in the league. Please expect a full meet and lots of Sailfish fun!!! 

🏊🏽♀️ DECLARE YOUR SWIMMERS FOR PRELIMS 🏊🏻♂️

Coach Avery sent out an email earlier this afternoon about declaring swimmers for prelims. These meets are now open for declarations. Please make your declarations by Thursday, July 6, at 6:00 pm. If you’re unsure about which events your swimmer should swim, please speak to their coach or to Coach Avery.

PRACTICE SCHEDULE  CHANGES & REMINDERS

Practices for the week of July 3:

• No practices on Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4 🗽
• Wednesday, July 5 - Friday, July 7 - Normal practice schedule.

Prelim week time changes for the week of July 10:

• Monday, July 10
  • 7-8s: 7:45-8:30 
  • 9-10s: 8:30-9:30 
  • 6 and Unders: 9:30-10:15 
  • 11-12s: 9:30-10:30
  • NO EVENING PRACTICE
• Tuesday, July 11
  • 9-10s: 8:30-9:30 
  • 11-12s: 9:30-10:30 
  • 13-18s: 10:30-11:30
• Wednesday, July 12  
  • 7-8s: 7:45-8:30 
  • 11-12s: 8:30-9:30 
  • 6 and Unders: 9:30-10:15 
  • 13-18s: 9:30-10:30
  • NO EVENING PRACTICE
• Thursday, July 13
  • 7-8s: 7:45-8:30 
  • 9-10s: 8:30-9:30 
  • 6 and Unders: 9:30-10:15 
  • 13-18s: 9:30-10:30
• Friday, July 14
  • Practice times as usual. **This could change if one of the prelim meets gets rained out.
  • Last day of practice for the season. 😭

All swimmers are encouraged to practice this week, regardless of whether or not they will be swimming at Prelims and Finals.

🏴☠️ PIRATE’S COVE - SUNDAY, JULY 9 🏴☠️

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!! Wahoo!!! Please remember that we’ve rescheduled our Pirate’s Cove outing for Sunday, July 9, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Be sure to add it to your calendars—you DO NOT want to miss a few laps around the Lazy River with your favorite Parent Reps!!!

🤘 END-OF-SEASON BANQUET TICKETS 🤘

Are you ready for a SAILFISH INVASION?

End of Season Sailfish Banquet | Saturday, July 15, 2023, 5:30 pm - 10:00 pm.

To close our season, we are planning to ROCK THE NIGHT AWAY at our annual end-of-season banquet. We'll be offering a buffet dinner and gourmet dipped gelato pops for dessert. We’ll also have the chance to GET OUR GROOVE ON. Purchase your tickets by Sunday, July 9. (Go to our website and login. Click on “Online Store.”)

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

🤘 This is going to be one rockin’ evening you won’t want to miss. 🤘

*Note to veteran Sailfish families: In the past, we sold banquet tickets at registration. We didn’t do that this year. So, if you haven’t purchased your banquet tickets in the last two weeks, you don’t have tickets to the banquet. Go get them on our website!

COACHES’ GIFTS

At the end of each season, we collect cash gifts for our coaches. We’ll distribute them at our end-of-season banquet. If you would like to contribute, you can contribute on our website. (Go to the website, log in, and choose “Online Store.” You will see the Coaches’ Gifts available there. Please note that you can select more than one denomination and more than one of any listed denomination to add up to the total amount you want to contribute.) These gifts, though totally optional, are greatly appreciated by our hard-working coaches and volunteer coaches.

HELPING SWIMMERS UNDERSTAND DQs

Due to some changes in league rules, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of swimmers disqualified during their races. This isn’t unique to our team — it’s happening across the league. Before we head to our last meet and into prelims, we encourage you to take a minute speak with your swimmer(s) to help them understand what it means to be disqualified and how to avoid it. Coach Avery put together a handy list of the most common DQs that we see at meets. (Attached.) If you have additional questions, please speak with Coach Avery or your swimmer’s coach.

That’s it for this edition of the Sailfish SCOOP. 

🇺🇸  We hope that each of you have a safe, fun-fulled Independence Day! 🇺🇸

Life is better when you are swimming!

Paul Baumann, Amy Fetter, and Molly Carr

Sundance Sailfish Parent Representatives