What a great Time trials. I want to thank everyone for their help. We normally are running with a timing system, but our main box was damaged by lightning, and we are currently recovering. Everyone was great volunteering, and we will need everyone to help out in our upcoming meets to get them finished fast and without any hiccups. So again, Thank you to all of the volunteers.

Another HUGE shoutout to our swimmers. They did a great job. They swam hard and tried their best. It can be hard for the new swimmers in their first meet, but they all did so well. As for the returning swimmers, the first meet back can be hard, especially when you hit that big age up between 9-10 to 11-12 when the distances become doubled. For everyone, you really worked hard and gave us a strong starting point for the upcoming season.

With that in mind, I wanted to remind everyone to sign-up for the College Station meet coming up this weekend. Yep, the cross-town showdown is the first dual meet of the season and we need EVERYBODY to show up and be ready to Race. The sign-ups will be open until 10:00 PM WEDNESDAY. We have to have the sign-ups close a little earlier because of the time that the two teams merge the meet. So please sign up early.

When you sign up for the meets, you can leave comments for the coaches. Please use these if you are interested in your swimmer doing certain swims or if you think you can only make the meet for a limited time (leave early or come late). We can try to accommodate you.

The main meets have a couple changes from our time trial. We are only allowed 3 individual events per meet and two relays (we just avoided the relays for our time trial). Our goal is to get the swimmers times in all of their individual events before the end of the season. We may keep their individual swims below the 3 maximum if we feel they may not be ready to swim them yet (This was a bit different of an approach to the Time trial events where we were in “let see what they can do” approach).

Also, please sign up to volunteer for the meet. If we have all of our volunteers we can run our volunteers in shifts so that you are responsible for only a portion of the meet.

Once Again, sign up for the College Station meet this weekend. We will be working on getting faster and cleaning things up this week for your swimmers. Once again thanks for all the help at time trials. We will see you at the pool.