Howdy Tsunamis!

Can you believe it? Practice starts NEXT WEEK! Here are some things you need to know...

"Swim Team Preparation" times are the same as practice times and it will be run just like practice. Swim Team Preparation will be Monday and Tuesday April 29th & 30th. 

Official practice begins MAY 1st!

8 & under     4:30pm to 5:15pm

9-14 year olds     5:15pm to 6:15pm

11 & over     6:15pm to 7:30pm

Please attend the practice appropriate for your age group. We will have lanes assigned based on swimmer proficiency at each practice. 

Practices will remain at these times until the students are out of school for the summer. 

Evaluations were held last week. If your swimmer still needs to be evaluated to make sure they are able to swim with Tsunamis then you will be able to come to practice 15 minutes before practice - at 4:15pm to be evaluated. I cannot guarantee the ability to clear a lane once practice has started to do evaluations so these will need to be done before practice starts. We will run these evaluations on a first come first served basis and we may not be able to continue evaluations after 4:30pm as that is when practice begins. 

Please remember that for safety reasons ALL SWIMMERS must be able to complete 25 meters unassisted. If your swimmer did not pass Evaluations and you have already signed up there are a couple of options. If they are pretty close to passing we can give them a little more time to practice on their own or hire a coach to help them get to passing and they can join in practices at a later date. We can also request a refund if you do not think that your swimmer will be ready in time to take advantage of the swim season. 

Time Trials May 4th

The Time Trials meet will be May 4th at 8am here at Adamson Lagoon. 

If you are unable to attend the Time Trial meet and have not yet completed your time trials you need to respond to this email to let me know. Getting time trials done during practice time can be a little tricky as we struggle to have available lanes for this process. All of our lanes are usually filled with swimmers at practice. 

If you will be here for the Time Trial meet on May 4th please log onto Swimtopia to sign up your swimmer for their events (all of them) and sign yourself up as a volunteer!

What ARE Time Trials? Many families who are new to swimming ask this question. Time Trials is an Intrasquad meet - only Tsunamis will be swimming. For each swim season we need "seed" times for all of our swimmers. Having this time helps the meet run smoothly by having swimmers in heats where the times are fairly consistent. It also helps the swimmers swim their best by putting them in a heat with their competition - helping everyone to swim their fastest. We are also required by NWAL to have these times in place. The most efficient way for us to get these times is by having a Time Trial meet. This meet also gives us the opportunity to "test the waters" and "work out the kinks" before we host an actual meet. Much of our equipment hasn't been used since last season and we have a new crew of volunteers, officials, coaches & swim families each year. This meet is an opportunity to see how everything & everyone operates before we are hosting another team as well. 

We encourage every swimmer to get a Time Trial time in EVERY event they think they will want to swim this season. We cannot enter them into an event at a Dual Meet unless they have a registered Time Trial time. For the purposes of Time Trials only there are no disqualifications, these will begin with the Dual meets.

* Swimmers 10 & under swim 25s in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. They also swim the 50 Freestyle and the 100 Individual Medley.

* Swimmers 11 & older swim 50s in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. They also swim the 100 Freestyle and 100 Individual Medley. 

If your athlete wants to swim any of these events at a Dual meet during the season we must have a time trial time for them. 

Our season officially begins May 1st. I have been including last season on my emails but as of May I will only be sending emails & updates to our CURRENT SEASON. If you have an additional parent you would like to include on your Swimmer's account please send that to me & I can update that. 

We have never been at this volume of enrollment this early in the season! Looking forward to an amazing season this year!

Swim Fast Tsunamis! See you at the pool!

Coach Michelle

979.220.8033