Hi BTC Swim Team Families-

Tomorrow we start the regular season with morning practices and us coaches are getting pretty excited. We have the much anticipated swim team practice groups for you. I will also be sending out separate group emails with practice times in case you all don’t have them seared in your brain like I do. For kids on the edge skill and age wise for a particular practice group we opted to keep them in the less rigorous group, especially if they have not swum all winter. They may move up to the next group after a few weeks practicing in the group we designated for them. But everyone has their own pace of progression, if we have them in a certain group it is for a reason like they have not mastered a certain skill that is required for them to move on. If you have questions feel free to direct them to me, your head coach. Please check out the list I have included here and get excited for a great 6 weeks of swimming.

Important dates for this week:

1. New Parent meeting tomorrow night 6:30-7:30pm at BTC. This is a chance to hear directly from me what summer swimming is all about among other things. It is also a chance to meet our coaching staff. I will send out a recap of the meeting in email, so don’t despair if you can’t make it. We will get you up to speed.
2. Mock Meet this Thursday the 18th. Please sign up by 9pm Wednesday or you will not be added. I will not be doing day of sign-ups this year. Also please sign-up for jobs, there will be a brief orientation for the job on the spot.We will be doing a modified snack bar (snacks and drinks only, no grill for this one). Here is the food donation sign-up genius. Thank you!
3. Friday Funday- our first one of the season is this Friday! We have a group activity and then have a snack together on the lawn following practice. For this Friday we have our dedicated snack bar crew from the past few years helping put this together for us, thank you!! For the 3 other Friday fundays I will be recruiting help for shopping for the snack, delivering the snack, preparing the snack, and serving the snack. I will send out a google docs sign-up for the 3 other Fridays, June 26th, July 10th, and July 17th.

I will send out more emails about all of this, but please ask questions if you have any. I also wanted to give you information about officiating if you missed the online clinic with Nicole Chance. Here is what you can do to still officiate this summer. BTC will re-imburse you for your test and clinic expense (~$35). Also in subsequent years you will receive a discount on swimmer registration fees if you are a dedicated official for us! So be a meet hero today!

Alright, I am wrapping this up, I have one more demand of your attention and that is a means of communicating for parents on the team. We use the Sports You App, you can download it and our team’s access code is: C9X2-M4F6. That is it from me. Thanks and see you at the pool! Go BTC!! Let's have an awesome season of summer swimming together!

Coach Hilary