Happy Sunday, Torpedo!
I hope you had the chance to get out to the graduation ceremonies for our schools this past Friday and Saturday! We have some fantastic young people starting new chapters in their lives, and I again applaud and congratulate them on their success and wish them the best going forward.
This week marks the beginning of our split practices. As a reminder, our 9-10 and 11-12 swimmers will practice 7:30-8:30am, and the 13 and ups will be from 8:30-10am. Our 8 and unders will practice from 5:15-6pm. All practices are Monday-Friday, unless otherwise specified due to a meet or coach announcement. For example, please remember we will not be practicing this Friday, June 15th.
In the past we haven't required any training gear (fins, paddles, etc.), but this
year I want to encourage our 11 and up swimmers to consider purchasing
fins, and a snorkel. I want to encourage paddles for our swimmers 13 and
up in addition to the fins and snorkel. We will use
these items in practice on occasion, but again, they are not
required. If you had to choose between them, please look into fins
first, then the snorkel and finally paddles.
If you are
interested in some awesome Torpedo swag or getting any of the above
mentioned training gear, please check out our SwimOutlet.com store. I've
linked to it at the bottom of the page (or here for mobile viewers: https://www.swimoutlet.com/valdesetorpedo/). If you have an account on the
site, be sure to link it to the team store. We do receive a portion of
sales that come through the store, and you all get awesome gear!
Speaking of swag, t-shirts and cap orders were due on Friday. If you missed this deadline, we will go ahead and start collecting names for a second run. I have only heard from a couple of swimmers regarding silicone caps, and we do not have enough to make an order at this time. We are hoping to have the shirts available for our pictures on June 21st, and caps should be in by then, as well.
I will put out the sign up sheets for this season's meets tomorrow morning (Monday) in the VTST folder at the fitness counter. In order for your swimmer to be entered in a meet, they need to be signed up by the date provided on each sign up sheet.
In anticipation of our upcoming meets, I want to encourage all parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, etc. to find a way too assist us at our meets. We ABSOLUTELY NEED YOU ALL. I have included a link to the training videos for starters and stroke and turn officials at the bottom of the page. Please see if you can assist with either role, and let me know via email if you are interested. We will need timers, runners (collecting materials from officials), heat winner ribbon giver-outers, scorers and console operators. I will send out SignUp Genius links as the meets approach. Each role is vital to running a great meet, and you all have done an awesome job in the past. I'm looking forward to that being the case again this year!
If helping with meet operations may not be your thing, please think about helping out with our Boosters at their concession stand at home meets. You can assist by donating desired goods, or helping run the stand during the meet. Please speak with Jackie or Carol about opportunities for this.
Let's have a great week! See you all at the pool!
