Good Morning Swim Families!

Happy Sunday! We survived our first full week of practice and first early Saturday Morning. I am happy to announce we will be at McDonough our other “home” pool this week for evening practices, thank you so much for being so patient and understanding during location changes and difficulties!

Yesterday we had an amazing time trials, it was a little wet and chilly but I am so proud of our amazing swimmers and families for coming together and making it such a positive experience! Having a “practice meet” will make future meets much smother, helps the coaches know where to focus our attention during practice, and show us how to place swimmers at our real meets.
There was no score kept at this meet but you are all winners in my heart!

I want to give a MASSIVE shout out to our amazing parents and grown ups who volunteered to help at the meet- we literally could not do this without you!

I have emailed out a PDF document with all the times recorded at time trials.

These times have also been uploaded into Swimtopia, if you click on your swimmer’s name you should be able to see all individual times!

Quick key:

NS – means a no swim (so an event a swimmer did not participate in).

DQ – means disqualification (so the swimmer did something that would make the swim not count in a real meet- we will talk more on that this week at practice).

I saw so much improvement at time trials and the coaches took lots of detailed notes to help all our athletes improve.

Next, I know you are probably tired of hearing it, but if you have not done so yet PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE download the Swimtopia app. I can add emails for all adults and swimmers so information can be readily accessed by all. This is the absolutely best way for us to be able to easily communicate with families.
If you need an email updated/added or a new registration link sent please email me to let me know.

I have opened RSVP for ALL scheduled meets this summer- in the app please respond if you are attending or not. My entries are due by Thursday for a Saturday meet so if you tell me after that point entries will already have been sent and it causes scrambling on the coaches’ end.

I also want to add that this meet we did not have relays, but in future we will- please plan to stay till the end of the meet because many swimmers are needed for our relay events and if you leave before it runs the risks that we will not have a complete team and forfeit points.

Final thing, I uploaded an album of photos snapped around the deck on Saturday to our facebook page (IHST Torpedoes) feel free to check it out, tag yourselves, and share! In future meets feel free to send me photos to post!

See you at McDonough tomorrow! Thank you!

Great job Torpedoes!!!

Coach Mel