Hello Barracudas!

Its time to get ready for tomorrows meet at Crooked Creek!

Many thanks to everyone for declaring your swimmers! Its such a tremendous help to the coaches and admins! And thank you to everyone volunteering!

Here are reminders to help you prepare for the evening.

-Please ensure your swimmer is at the pool by 5:15pm at the latest. Coaches will be greeting swimmers to check them in and take to designated team spot.

-Warm ups begin promptly at 5:30pm.

-Please go ahead and have the swimmers number on both arms and last name on the back of shoulder in permanent black marker.

-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.

-Weather looks good. No rain in the forecast.  And nice temperatures!

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

-If you must leave the meet early please check in with the coaches first.

-Heat Sheets can be found on Swimtopia or the Swimtopia app. You will receive a notification when they are available to view.  (They are currently still being updated)

Your day of contact person for tomorrows meet is Kim: [email protected] or 919-607-0121.

Parking:

At crooked Creek The hard-surface parking lot is reserved for our families. Spaces are limited. Carpooling is encouraged. 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 - Our team's home base for the evening is the area by the kiddie/shallow end of the pool. They do not have any permanent shade structures, so you may want to bring canopies if you have them. Their 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 - Crooked Creek does 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.  Events will be combined everywhere possible.  This may affect the usual lane assignments so please stay alert!

Timing/Scoring System - We will 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 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, Crooked Creek coaches/parents (more like coaches V. coaches) would love to do a relay! We would do a relay with each leg swims 25yd freestyle.

Reminder:

Please do not allow your child to stray from the designated kids area. The kid pushers will not be able to find them and they could miss their event.  Kids straying from their designated area makes the kid pushers job much more difficult.

Observers: 

Please do not stand at the sides or edges of the pool. These areas must remain clear for coaches, judges, timers, kid pushers and clerks of course to do their jobs.  No one is allowed in the diving well or shallow end at any point in time during the evening.

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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This week holiday schedule:

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 . 

One more thing.....The Championship Meet information just arrived in our inbox today.  The Championship meet is Sunday, July 21st.  This is a one day meet.   We will be sharing detailed information shortly but please note that the deadline for the team to be registered is July 10th.   Please start to think about this meet and if your child would like to participate.  Also, they are in need of volunteers for this meet - it takes a lot of people to make a meet of this magnitude successful.  Please consider taking on a small task to be part of a great event.

Lets go Barracudas!