Water Rats,

Pool is closed until 4p, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support swim today!

We are starting a push for “Sign-up Saturdays,” so that families take care of all the admin and signup on Saturday for this coming week.

This week, we have time trials on Saturday only; there is no Monday B-meet. Other weeks, we will have two meets to sign up for.

This week is Time Trials which is different from other weeks. Declare your swimmers. This means to go into SwimTopia and enter whether your swimmer is available to swim by indicating whether they are attending or not attending the meet. Although treated like a B-meet, in Time Trials there is no choice of strokes nor limit to events entered; Swimmers will swim all four strokes if they are legal or close to legal, determined by the coaches. TIme Trials are used as a baseline to quantify time improvement during the season. There are no Little Rat races, no relays, no IMs, and no result placements, scoring, or ribbons awarded. If you need assistance to navigate SwimTopia, we will work with you. Recommend downloading the SwimTopia app on your mobile device.

Starting next week, for Sign-up Saturdays we ask you weekly to:

1) If you haven’t already, declare your Swimmers availability for the next A-meet the following Saturday.

2) Declare your Swimmers availability and stroke choice for the next B-Meet which is Monday (short turn around). Note that by this time, we know the results of the Saturday meet, which determines which strokes your swimmer can swim on the B-meet. (Swimmers cannot swim in an event they place either 1st, 2nd or 3rd in an A-meet).

3) If you haven’t already, volunteer yourself for the A-meet the following Saturday.

4) If you haven’t already, volunteer yourself for the B-meet on Monday.

5) Complete all this on Saturday, so that we all can have a day off on Sunday. Too easy!

Please volunteer. We are close to Time Trials, and we have less than 15% of volunteer roles filled. Support the team and support our kids!

If you have any questions about declaring swimmers or volunteer sign up, please ask! In addition to Stu and Rebecca, we have many seasoned parents around the pool that are great resources!

Rebecca & Stu