Hello, Torpedo!
I hope that everyone had a great 4th of July and is ready for the end of the season! With only three weeks left, we have a busy time ahead!
This week we have two meets: the first is on Thursday, when we take on Black Mountain at home. This year Black Mountain has 140 swimmers on their roster, so expect a long meet with lots of competition. Entries for this meet are due on Wednesday afternoon. We need to have as many of you help out with this meet as possible to ensure it runs smoothly. Without your help, this meet could run very long, and we want to give everyone a chance to swim all of their events. You can sign up to volunteer here.
The second meet this week is our annual Sprint/Distance meet in Forest City on Saturday, July 14th (7:45am warmup). Swimmers 11 and up will have a chance to swim a few shorter events, as well as some longer ones. Entries for this are due Wednesday morning. As a former distance swimmer, I love this meet because swimmers get both Splash-and-Dash and distance events. As I did last year, I will have a shirt for each swimmer who completes the 200 fly, 400 IM, and the mile. Mile swimmers need to have someone to count laps, as well as time for them in that event, which is the last event of the day. We do have some assigned volunteer roles for the meet, and you can sign up for that here.
We are still in need of a few more folks to stroke and turn. PLEASE help out. It's pretty simple to do, and the more we have available to do this, the easier it is on everyone. View the videos here, and then take a moment to complete a 25 question open-notes assessment found here. If you have questions, please ask me, and I will be happy to help.
This is the final stretch, folks. Let's all work together to do great things and help bring another championship trophy back to Valdese! Have a great week!
