Parents and swimmers,

Our first meet will be a time trial meet on Thursday, May 26.  Please go to cewahoos.swimtopia.com and under Schedule select 
CE Season Start Time Trial
and declare whether or not your swimmer will be attending the meet and also select 3 individual events to swim.  Swimmers are allowed to swim up to 3 individual events in a swim meet.  The 6-unders typically only swim the 25 back and 25 free events, although they are welcome to try the other strokes.  In a swim meet there are only two 6-under events (back and free), although we often put more experienced 6-unders on the 8-under relays.  We will not be running relays in this first meet.

For this first meet we will run two sessions. 
The first session will be for 10 and under swimmers.  Warm-ups will begin at 5:15 PM.  The meet will begin at 6:00 PM.  The order of events will be:  Backstroke, Short Free (25 yard free), 100 IM (9-10 event), Long Free (50 yard free), Breaststroke, and Butterfly.  The back, breast, and fly events are all 25 yard races.  The meet should conclude around 7:30 PM.

The second session will be for the 11-over swimmers.  Warm-ups will begin at 7:30 PM.  The meet will begin at 8:15 PM.  The order of events will be the same as the first session.  The back, short free, breast, and fly are all 50 yard races.  The Long Free and IM are 100 yard races.  The meet should conclude around 9:45-10:00 PM.

Typically we will pick the events that swimmers will swim in a meet.  We are allowed unlimited entries in back and short free, but there are entry limits in the other events.  Swimmers may request events, but there is not guarantee that we will be able to enter them in those events.  Swimmers will be able to choose their events for this first meet and our last chance meet.

Practice Schedule for next week (May 23-26):
Monday and Tuesday we will run our normal afternoon practices.

Wednesday - No practice due to High School Graduation (over half of our coaching staff is involved in graduation) - Also it is the last day of school for Gwinnett County Public Schools.

Thursday - No morning practice due to teacher workday.  We typically will practice the morning of a meet, but teachers have workdays on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Thursday evening Time Trial Meet

Friday - No fun Friday due to teacher workday.  We will have fun Friday's every Friday after a meet with the exception of this first meet.  During fun Friday's we will have ribbon presentations (9-10 AM), Water polo (8-9 AM for 11 and overs, 9-10 AM for 10 and unders), water games, donuts, etc....

The week of May 30-June 3 we will switch to morning practices.  We will not practice on Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day).  

Morning practice schedule:
8 - 9 AM: 11 and overs (our current 6:30 - 7:30 group)
9 - 10 AM: 10 and unders (our current 5:30 - 6:30 group)
10 - 10:30 AM:  6 and unders and inexperienced 7 & 8's (our current 5-5:30 group).

Mini Wahoos will begin on Monday, June 6.

We appreciate everyone's support this season.  We are excited about the season!  We hope that each and every child has a positive experience!  We also hope that the parents, guardians, and extended families will make new friends and enjoy all that summer league swimming has to offer!

Thanks,

Coach Rick