It's been a great week of swim team! Congrats to all those swimmers who participated in our meet at Oak Valley and a special thank you to all the parent volunteers who made it possible. Ribbons are available after/between practices yesterday and today. Also if you have any lost and found (or Sandy Sheek's blue chair cover) from the meet, bring those to practice.

Below are a few important updates and requests.

1. Morning Practice Starts Monday/Practice on Meet days- Please visit our team website at https://brookwoodswim.swimtopia.com/ to review the morning practice schedule. Morning practice is strongly encouraged for those who have the ability to swim at that time. Evening practice is provided for those swimmers/families who are not able to swim in the morning. We WILL provide morning practice on meet days this year. Losing several practice days due to weather, we hope providing these practices will help our swimmers continue their improvement.

2. Volunteers NEEDED- We still need several volunteers for next week's meets (yes there are 2 meets next week). We are especially in need of Clerk of Course (Barracuda Wranglers) for this week and the rest of the season. You may have seen our cone/sign system we implemented at Oak Valley, which especially helped our Wranglers get the younger swimmers lined up. I have also added 2 Relief Timer jobs for the rest of the season. While we don't yet have enough volunteers (see note about wranglers) to provide 2 shifts of timers, we're hopeful providing a couple relief timers will allow those who have volunteered to time a few minutes for bathroom breaks etc.

3. Don't forget to declare your swimmers in Swimtopia for next week's meets. As a reminder, the declaration deadline for Tuesday's meet is Sunday night and the deadline to declare for Thursday's meet is Tuesday night.

As always if you have any questions or issues, please reach out!

Thanks,

Jon