Please read the following email for information regarding this upcoming week.

🐬Meet #4: We are halfway through our meets (3 more to go!)! Our next meet is HOME vs. Wendell on Tuesday, July 1st. Please plan to arrive by 4:45 at the latest so swimmers can be ready to warm up in the water at 5:00!

• SwimTopia: Please check your swimmers attendance and mark “attending” or “not attending” on SwimTopia by 5pm tonight (scroll down to Upcoming>>click on Crabtree HOME>>click on Meet Signup>>Choose attending or not attending for each swimmer). We have a lot of swimmers not yet marked either way. We really prefer to have parent confirmation, rather than assuming attendance.
• Seating: Thank you for utilizing all of the extra deck space we now have all the way over to the pump house and on the left side of the large tan umbrella at our last meet. Please do the same this week! Please also consider bringing your own chairs in order to leave the majority of our deck chairs for the visiting team to use. Wendell also has a large team–so let’s provide them with lots of space on the near side of the pool!
• Parking: Please consider walking to the pool if you are able, to free up spaces for parking. If you are driving, please be sure to park at the top of the hill to leave room for the visiting team to park close to the pool. We extend this courtesy to the visiting team at each home meet. Park with your car facing inward toward the natural area to allow for as many cars as possible to park.
• 6 & Unders: 6 and Unders do not officially swim butterfly, so they are free to leave after they finish swimming breaststroke, if they are not swimming up in a final relay. We will have a butterfly cupcake race this week directly following breaststroke. If your child is interested, they should return to the blocks right after their breaststroke race. They will be directed to jump in and swim, and will receive a cupcake once they get out. Please check with Coach Ben before leaving to make sure your swimmer is not swimming up in the final relay before you leave.
• Volunteering: Please check your volunteer status on SwimTopia for Tuesday’s meet. Volunteers should check in with Elizabeth and Casey at the volunteer table when you arrive. All volunteers will meet promptly at 5:45 with our TSA Rep to review all positions.
• Concessions: We will be offering our usual assortment of concessions and encourage your family to support our team while enjoying some delicious food!
• Senior Recognition: Since this is our last home meet, we will be honoring our two senior swimmers, Clint and Ben, during the meet after freestyle races. We are so proud of them and hope you can be there with us to honor them!
• Not Attending this meet: The following families have marked themselves “not attending” this meet. If this information is incorrect or if your child gets sick the day of the meet or something else comes up, please let us know ASAP: Coach Ben @ 919-889-4232 or Jill @ 757-580-4021. Coach Ben sets the lineup on Sundays and it’s really, really hard to make day-of-meet changes!

Luke Johnson

Elsie Grace Johnson

Grant Johnson

Collin Klein

JD Wilson

Mackenzie Dolby

Amanda Wilson

Ashlyn Klein

🐬As mentioned in Coach Ben’s email on Friday, please consider attending your child’s appropriate age-group, scheduled practices as their age-group practice will be most beneficial to their learning. In addition, when older swimmers are present at younger swimmers practices, this takes away from the younger swimmers potential for learning as well. We want all swimmers to have maximum potential time for practices! We understand that circumstances arise where a swimmer might need to swim at a different practice here or there, and our Coaches will accommodate these circumstances as needed. We also know that for some of you practices have been a big commitment, extending over several hours (been there, done that! I feel you!), but there are only a little more than 2 weeks left in our season! Hang in there! We greatly appreciate all that you have sacrificed this season to get your swimmers to and from practices and meets!

🐬Upcoming Events

Tuesday, July 1st Meet HOME vs. Wendell (Senior Recognition)

Monday, July 7th Eat Pasta, Swim Fasta (condensed practices)

Tuesday, July 8th Meet AWAY @ Southall

Tuesday, July 15th Meet AWAY @ Black Horse Run

Friday, July 18th End of Season Party @ Pointe at Falls Lake pool