THANK YOU ALL! We won Saturday's championship meet over second-place Granite Falls by over 320 POINTS!
Without all of your hard work, volunteering, running (in some cases literally) all over western NC, we would not be the team we are today. I can't say thank you enough for the hard work and commitment to this family you have all shown.
Thank you for the early mornings, the late nights, dealing with the wet towels in laundry, the inundation of text messages, the broken goggles, organizing transportation, summer thunderstorms, and all the other things that can be disruptive things to your summer.
After it is all said and done, we, as a team, a community, and as a family, came out victorious. The hard work of not just this summer, but of many summers, paid the dividend we were hoping for as a byproduct of all of our collective experiences. In the end, the trophy sitting in the Rec now is a reminder not of one hot day in late July, 2015, but of all the mornings, nights, races, DQs, ribbons, and relays that brought us here. I am incredibly proud to be the coach of this team, and a member of the Torpedo family, brought together by our shared joy, discouragement, frustration, and ultimately, elation, of the young people of our community.
We will gather together one last time this summer on August 1 at 6:30pm in Rotary Park to share a meal, to recognize all of our swimmers, and to talk about everything we remember from a memorable summer.
It is my hope that pictures will be available by that time, and if not, we will certainly let everyone know when they are.
Before the season gets cold, please take a moment to fill out our annual end-of-season survey to help us at the Rec make this an even better experience: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/27SNNQ3. We do take the response into consideration as we plan for future seasons, and I feel it is one of the more important things we do as a team.
In the event you can't get enough of the water, there are certainly options for continuing to stay in. One such option is an open event on Saturday, August 29. Anyone can sign up to swim events. I will hopefully have entry forms available by Saturday's potluck.
We hope you all had as great a time as Coach Alec and I did, and we hope to see you all Saturday, and if not, in the water next May!
