The Week Ahead: America 250 Edition (Week of June 29-July 4)

Good morning, Torpedo! 

We've had a great season so far. I'm thrilled to see how our team (swimmers and parents, too) have come together to do a great job. I had multiple comments this past week praising our swimmers' sportsmanship and support of their teammates and other team swimmers, and our family members have done an awesome job helping make sure things run smoothly at meets. 

Thanks go out to Kara C. for volunteering to perform the National Anthem yesterday for our meet! She did a great job, and it has been enjoyable having the live vocal performance to start the meet. We have one more home meet on Saturday, July 18, and if you would like an opportunity to perform the National Anthem, please reach out to me.

This week we head to Black Mountain on Tuesday before the holiday break. 

There are a few practice changes this week, so please take care to note them. Tuesday morning, all morning swimmers will practice from 8am-9am. We've had a perfect scheduling storm, and coaches are unavailable for the 9-10am slot. Additionally, we were to practice Wednesday, but after thinking further on it, we will NOT PRACTICE JULY 1. So this means there will be no practices from July 1 until we get back in the pool on Wednesday, July 8. 

We do have our next meet at Granite Falls on Thursday night, July 9. We had a tight meet with them at home, so I really hope we will have a good showing to give them a run at home. This will also be our last away meet for all ages, and it will be a chance to see where the Champs meet will be held. 

We also have the Sprint/Distance meet on Saturday, July 11 in Forest City. This meet is for ages 11 and up, and is a Saturday morning meet. We start the day with mile swimmers, and then we have events that are shorter and longer than what we swim in usual meets. This is a fun meet and a good chance to challenge yourself. My rule has always been that any swimmer going and swimming 25s need to also plan on swimming something longer, too. This meet does count as an away meet, too, but again, it is only open to ages 11 and up. Please sign up for this meet this week, as well.

I hope that everyone has a safe and Happy July 4th! Happy 250th!

  

The Week Ahead: June 22-June 27 (The Happy Father's Day Edition!)

Happy Father's Day, Torpedo Family!

We had a really good week, with a fun meet at McDowell and some great competition yesterday against Black Mountain and Forest City. Thank you again to everyone for helping volunteer at the meet Saturday and for the great competition! I want to give an especially big shout out to Hillary Platt for a fantastic performance of the National Anthem at yesterday's meet. Thank you!

This week our meets are in Lenoir on Tuesday and home on Saturday with McDowell, Shelby, and Watauga. I have closed entries for Tuesday, but I need to have entries for Saturday by Thursday morning. I would love us to have another fantastic home showing. We have a meet in Black Mountain on Tuesday night, June 30, so those entries will be due on Saturday after the home meet.

I will send out a Sign Up Genius for both meets this week for volunteers. I encourage everyone to find something they can help out with. We all have different strengths, and I think there is something everyone can do to assist at our meets. 

If you were wanting a t-shirt, please have those orders in at the pool calendar and paid for by Friday. I will be ordering them that afternoon. If you haven't gotten your shirt or cap from registration, please try to get with us one day this week or at the meet Saturday. 

As we approach July 4, I wanted to reiterate early that we will not have practices on Thursday, July 2-Tuesday, July 7. We will return to the water Wednesday morning, July 8. We have a meet in Granite Falls on Thursday night, July 9, so those entries will be due on Wednesday, July 1.

 

Let's have another great week, Torpedo! 

 

 

The Week Ahead! June 15-June 20

Good afternoon, Torpedo!

We wrapped up the week with back to back meets in the heat. I'm excited for how well everyone did at both meets, and the back and forth with the score on Saturday was exciting! Teammates worked well together to support each other, and a lot of our newer swimmers had great swims for their first meets.

This week, we have a meet Thursday at Marion with the McDowell Mariners and a home meet Saturday against Black Mountain and Forest City. 

The meet in Marion is at the McDowell County Rec in Marion, located at 25 Academy St, Marion NC. Warm ups are at 5:30pm and the meet starts at 6pm. This is our first time at this pool since it was rebuilt and reconfigured by McDowell Parks and Rec. It would be great to have a good showing of swimmers and volunteers for the meet. Entries are due for Thursday by Tuesday night. Remember, there is a requirement to swim at an away meet to be able to swim at Champs, and this is a good opportunity to swim an away meet.

Saturday's meet against Black Mountain and Forest City will be a big meet with good competition, and we need to have a great showing. Entries for Saturday are due by Thursday at noon. We have had a lot of fun meets with these teams, and I think this will be another great edition!

I will send a SignUp Genius for volunteers for both meets later this week.

Additionally, I will have a sign up for another run of t-shirts at the pool counter starting Tuesday morning. I'll plan to order them on Friday, June 26. Shirts are $15. Please pay the counter attendant with your order. 

I look forward to having a great week with everyone!