Week 4 Dolphin News

We finally got some good practices in this past week with great attendance–including the Breast and Fly clinic on Saturday morning!

🐬Time Trials went off without a hitch! We are so thankful for the new and easy to use timing system. Many thanks to Steven Huntley for getting this up and running for us! If you were unable to make it to time trials or time trial makeups, Coach will use times from subsequent meets to help with meet lineups.

🐬First ever Glow Party! Everyone had a ton of fun playing games in and out of the pool this past Friday evening. Thanks to all of our families that came out to play! Thanks also to Elizabeth Dolby for planning all of the fun, the Hudsons for the great music, and Scott McGowan for breaking out the snow cone machine.

🐬Meet #1: Our first Meet is this Tuesday, June 13th at Hawthorne.

Directions to Hawthorne: 12309 Whartons Way Raleigh, NC 27613. From BBW: Turn Right onto Brassfield Rd. Turn Right onto Honeycutt. Turn left onto Possum Track. (stay straight onto Six Forks Rd). Turn Right onto Norwood Road. Drive approx 5 miles. Turn right on North Hawthorne Way. The pool is at the end of North Hawthorne way on the left. They apparently have a decent sized parking lot, but you may also park on N Hawthorne Way along the pool and parking lot. They have asked that no one parks in the yard of the neighbors around the pool. There should be plenty of space on N Hawthorne Way along the pool.

They will have burgers, hot dogs, pizza, and a variety of other goodies at their concessions.

Our swimmers need to be ready to warm up promptly at 5:30pm so the meet can start at 6:00pm. This means that you should be at Hawthorne before that time (ideally 5:00-5:15) so that your swimmer can be ready with their goggles and number. If swimmers choose to wear a cap, it cannot have another team logo or school logo.

All volunteers will be needed for a volunteer meeting at 5:45pm.

They will have a “cupcake butterfly race” for all of the 6 and Unders after breastroke. Any 6 and Unders that want to try to swim butterfly (with help if needed) for a cupcake are welcome to stay to take part in the race.

6 and Unders do not swim butterfly, so they are free to leave after they finish swimming breaststroke. Please check with Coach Kyle or Jill or Andrea before leaving to make sure your swimmer is not "swimming up" in the final relay before you leave.  All swimmers in main events will get their ribbons at practice this week; swimmers in heats will get a ribbon at the meet. There will also be a coaches relay race at the end of the meet if you’d like to stick around to see our coaches crush the other team!

See the Meet 101 information on SwimTopia for ideas on what to bring with you to the meet.

🐬Gone List: We have the following swimmers listed as "not attending" this meet. If your swimmer will not be at the meet, and you are not on this list; or if your child gets sick or something else comes up, please let us know ASAP. Coach Kyle @ 919-314-7136, Andrea 561-441-1085, or Jill @ 757-580-4021.

Charlie Faucette

Mason Fryar

Mollie Kaplan

Noah Sage

Lily Chitsaz

Lauren Sawin

🐬Sweatshirt Orders: Be on the lookout for an email from Alison Hudson regarding a possible additional sweatshirt order.

🐬Upcoming Important Dates:

June 20 Southall @ home

June 23rd Annual Luau

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. See you at practices tomorrow and we look forward to hearing everyone cheer “Let’s 🐬Go Dolphins 🐬” on Tuesday @ Hawthorne!

~Jill and Andrea