It's Going to be a Scorcher! The week of June 22-June 28 (UPDATED IMAGE 6/23/25 3:57pm)

 Good morning, Torpedo! 

I hope everyone has had time to recover from Friday night. You all showed up and did a great job. You got to your events, you listened to the whistle commands well, and you swam lights out. We'll continue to work this week on tightening up some technique issues, as well as hitting turns and starts hard. We were neck and neck with Black Mountain during the meet, but ultimately they won the combined event while our boys won their division. The girls team did a great job with their numbers and ended with a third place in their division.

Thank you to those who helped time and stroke and turn Friday. If you have any children or family members not participating and they say anything about boredom at the meet, we would love to help alleviate the boredom with timing, running, or other tasks. We are going to definitely need to have a few more folks step up for stroke and turn, so let me know if you want to learn more about it. 

We did encounter something this Friday that had not been seen at our summer meets, and I want to take a quick moment to address it. Shelby was enforcing a no photography behind the block rule. This rule exists at USA Swimming and High School meets, and it isn't meant to keep you from getting pictures of your swimmers. It is meant to protect your swimmers. It has not been something we have enforced for summer league because we generally don't have a lot of parents at our home meets behind the blocks anyway. It's not a great place for you to be unless volunteering as there are a lot of moving parts at work there during a meet. For our last two home meets of the season, we will politely ask that parents take pictures from the shallow end or along the side, but not from behind the blocks.  If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

This coming week will be incredibly hot. Please have your swimmers drinking water at every turn, and inside or in the shade in the hottest parts of the day if possible. We don't want to have or hear of anyone having a heat-related illness. Practices will be lighter in anticipation of warmer water temperatures, and this also gives a good opportunity to focus on starts and turns a bit more. 

This week we have two meets. The first meet is at Black Mountain on Thursday evening. Please be there by 5pm. The meet starts at 6pm. There is a Country Western theme to this meet, so wear your hats and bandanas, buckaroos! We will need timers, and you can sign up to volunteer here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084CABAE2AAAF58-57355858-vtst

The second meet is our BIG home meet of the season. This will be a fun meet with a great glimpse of what conference might look like, and there will be a lot of kids participating, so please be gracious with sharing space so we can make sure everyone has a spot. With 5 total teams, we won't need as many timers, but we will need to have a lot of help keeping kids in Clerk of Course cool, timers cools, and with ribbons. We will warm up at 7:45am, but please be there at 7:30am at the latest. Volunteers can sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084CABAE2AAAF58-57355860-forest

Finally, we do have our team shirts! They arrived afte
r our vendor worked some magic to expedite them, so they will be available for pick up at the meet Saturday morning. We will need three people to assist with giving them out starting after our warm-up at 8:15am.

 

 

Great Meet and the Week Ahead!

Good afternoon and Happy Father's Day, Torpedo Family!

After an abbreviated practice week due to the pool closures, the team did a great job at the meet Saturday! Results were sent out via remind, but the Torpedo swimmers combined to beat the Makos and the Stingrays 403-318-263. The swimmers all stepped up and swam well! Both boys and girls sides won their respective meets.

This Friday we will swim against Shelby and Black Mountain in Shelby for a Friday night meet starting at 6pm. Swimmers are to report on deck by 5pm with warm-ups starting at 5:15pm. I need to have entries by Tuesday night, so if you are planning to swim, please sign up at Monday and Tuesday practices. I will send the list out via facebook and remind after Tuesday practice for a last call, but I would love everyone signed up in the book by then.

Additionally, with trying to make it easier on our families for this Friday, we will NOT be having Friday morning practices. We'd rather you be rested for the Friday night meet. No other practices this week will be impacted.

Our timers did a great job Saturday, and a big thank you to those volunteers who helped throughout the entire meet. We'd love each Torpedo family to volunteer some at each meet, and we're happy to help teach you what different jobs are available. 

For this week, we need to have at least two stroke and turn officials and eight timers for the meet. This means we need some parents to help with stroke and turn officiating. I will be sending out that information Monday, and any parents with questions can reach out. Also, timers can be non-swimming siblings, so put those brothers and sisters to work! If they can press a button and write a number, they're good to go!

Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084CABAE2AAAF58-57298036-vtst

The last two meets we've had roughly 50% participation from those who registered for the program this year. We know not everyone is in town every week, but this is a lower number than we'd like to see. If you're in town, please try to find a way to the meets. We need you at home meets, as well as away meets. Our next away meet is Thursday, June 26 at Black Mountain. Our next home meet is Saturday, June 28 against Granite Falls, Shelby, Watauga, and Forest City, and we'd love to have the bulk of the team there for those meets! After those meets, we have a competition break around Independence Day, and get back to it on July 10 at a close to home meet at Granite Falls.

At long last, T-shirts will be delivered this week. You all chose sizes when registering your swimmers. Those are the sizes available for your swimmer. I'll post when those are ready to be picked up.

Finally, the calendar for the week! Let's make this a great week!

 

The Week Ahead: June 2-June 7

Happy Sunday, Torpedo Family!

This is the first week of our split practices! I will be uploading this weekly calendar on a weekly basis so you can easily see what is happening or when sign ups are due. 

Here are a few quick items:

1. The meet Saturday will start later than originally planned. Swimmers need to be at the pool by 8:45am for 9am Warm-Ups. We will start at 9:30am with the races. Swimmers will be assigned to either the Red or Green teams, as this is a friendly intrasquad meet meant to give everyone a taste of what to expect at meets. We won't swim every event we normally do at meets this week, and we hope to wrap up by noon. 

2. Please sign your swimmer up by Thursday for Saturday's meet if they are participating. 

3. We will need volunteers at the meet, so please plan on each family providing one person per "session" to help! You can sign up for different jobs here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084CABAE2AAAF58-57146298-first 

4. Shirts will be ordered Wednesday afternoon. If you would like one in addition to the one covered for your swimmer as a part of registration, please pay $10 at the pool counter by NOON WEDNESDAY. We should have them before the first home meet. Caps are currently available at the counter for pick up. If you wish to purchase more than the one already covered in registration, they are $5. The silver silicone caps are $15.