Happy Friday Barracudas! 

Here is your Friday reminder and checklist for Tuesdays meet at Crooked Creek.

Declare your swimmer by tomorrow, Saturday, June 29th at 6pm. 

(Yes or no must be designated). If you do not declare your swimmer the coaches will be reaching out and if not declared by Sunday your swimmer will not be able to swim at the meet unfortunately. https://bentwindsbarracudas.swimtopia.com/login

From the opposing team - Crooked Creek

Parking:  The hard-surface parking lot is reserved for your families, our guests. Spaces are limited, so please encourage carpooling. Overflow parking is in the grassy area between the pool and tennis courts. Please ask your families to leave a "lane" open so that cars can enter and exit the overflow parking areas. Please do not park on the grass in yards along the road and be cautious driving on our curvy roads. We do not have sidewalks in the pool side of the neighborhood, but we do have many walkers, joggers, kids and pets.

Facility: Pool Deck - Your team's home base for the evening is the area by the kiddie/shallow end of the pool. We do not have any permanent shade structures, so you may want to bring canopies if you have them. Our furniture is not accessible for meets, so families should plan to bring their own chairs.

Concessions: Our concession stand will be serving pizza, hot dogs, candy, chips, novelty ice creams, water, soda and other snacks.

Meet Management:  

No Lighting - We do not have lights for the meet, so we will need to finish the meet by about 9pm. We would like to use dive-overs for the 11+ swimmers to keep the meet moving as quickly as possible. Please let me know if you have any concerns about dive-overs. 

Timing/Scoring System - We use stopwatches and timer sheets (home team will provide timer sheets for all 6 lanes). We enter times into Meet Maestro on deck and following the meet. We will also have the order of finish judges as a back up to the timers. We will provide 6 timers (1 per lane) and we ask that your team provide 6 timers as well. We will have a volunteer meeting at 5:45pm to go over specifics for the meet.

Warmups: As the host team, Crooked Creek will swim from 5pm-5:30. Bentwinds will warm up 5:30p-6p. Please ensure your swimmer is at the pool by 5:15PM at the latest. 

Parent/Coach Relay: 

If time and sunlight permits, our coaches/parents would love to do a relay if your coaches/parents would like! We would do a relay with each leg swims 25yd freestyle.

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Reminders: 

Volunteers: These positions are still open! 

- Clerk of Course 

- Stroke and Turn for 2nd half of meet 

- Order of Finish Judge 

- 2 Timers 

Swimmers: 

-Number on both arms and name on the back of shoulder. The kids may want to add their heats to their arm or thigh as well. 

-Designated areas will be set for each age group. Please make sure your child stays in the designated areas to help the kid pushers. We suggest they bring an extra towel to sit on and pack some fun games, coloring, etc for in between heats. Straying from their designated area makes the kid pushers job much more difficult. 

-Cheer for your team mates of all ages and levels of ability. 

-There might be a coaches relay. This is based on how the meet is moving. 

-If you must leave the meet early please check in with the coaches first.
-Stay until the end! 

Observers:  Please do not stand at the sides or edges of the pool.  These areas must remain clear for coaches, judges, timers, kid pusher sand clerks of course to do their jobs.  

Post Meet: 

-Please clean up your area. 

Note: We understand that there are circumstances out of our control sometimes that forces us to make changes to our plans. If someone gets sick or you must make a last minute change to your declaration, please let Kim or the coaches know ASAP. 

Coach Kourtney: [email protected] 

Coach Meghan: [email protected] 

Coach Kayla: [email protected] 

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Next week holiday schedule: 

Monday - Regular practice 

Tuesday - meet at Crooked Creek 

Wednesday - Barracudas 4th of July celebration 

~Takes place during practice time from 5p-7p. All ages encouraged to come and spend the full two hours. 

~Relays, games, water balloons and slip & slide etc. 

~Wear your practice suit, goggles and swim cap as they will come in handy for some of the games 

~Bring your best barracuda spirit and be ready to have fun! 

Thursday - Happy 4th! No practice. 

Regular practice will resume Monday July 8th.

Do you have all your Barracudas swag? If not be sure to visit the swag shop by clicking here Barracudas Swag . 

Have a great weekend!