PIRANHA FAMILIES ---

Happy 4th of July to our celebrating Piranha Families. We had a very spirited meet on Saturday with a lot of great swimming. I want to give a shout out to Davide Barbero and Keegan Gregory for their dueling guitar rendition of the National Anthem and then following that up with improving their times in most of their events. I also want to call out Shelly Burke, Zoie Gregory, Andrew and Carolina Klein and Timmy Tomlinson who were supporting their teammates this past week even when they were not in the meet that day. I encourage all of our teammates to come to our home meets to cheer their teammates on.

This week starts a 14 day run of the team spending a lot of time together. This week we have Donuts and Tie-dye on Tuesday, a B meet at Flower Hill Wednesday, a Frenzy, Team Picture, and the Damascus Parade on Friday, our last home A meet and Senior Day on Saturday, and the A Relay Carnival on Sunday AM. All of the details are below.

A. WEEKLY MEET SCHEDULE:

1. Second B- Meet:

WHEN: Wednesday, July 5th, @ 6pm. Arrive at 5pm and check in with your coaches. Warm-ups are at 5:20pm.

WHERE: Flower Hill (8100 Mountain Laurel Lane, Gaithersburg 20879). Please enter through the bathrooms. Your team area will be to the left past the pavilion and along the fence near the baby pool. We have a small parking lot, but plenty of street parking. There is not a lot of shade, you will want to bring canopies if you have them.

WHO: Flower Hill Dolphins

THEME: Continues to be RED, WHITE, and BLUE.

SIGN-UP: Please make sure to sign your swimmers up on-line by Monday evening(7/3) at 6pm. You can select the events they swim.

Eligibility Guidelines:

Swimmers may sign up for as many events as they want as long as they DID NOT swim that event in the A meet, with the exception of freestyle. Swimmers can swim freestyle at the B meet as long as they placed outside the top 6 in freestyle if they swam it in the A meet.

You cannot swim any event you have an ALL-STAR time in.

A swimmer should not sign up for a stroke they are not legal in unless requested by Coach Nic (this usually means they are close to being legal). See the coach if you have a question.

A swimmer cannot swim the B meet in any stroke for which they are usually an A meet swimmer, but missed this past weekends A meet. I do not believe this applies to anyone this week.

VOLUNTEER: When you sign up your swimmer, please sign up to volunteer at the meet. We should have a large B-team this season, so all parents sign up to volunteer to support your swimmers!

MEET TIMING:

a. SWIMMERS: Swimmers arrive by 5pm and check in with Coach Nic and Coach Linx. Warm-ups will start around 5:00 pm and last only 15 minutes.

b. VOLUNTEERS:

ARRIVAL: Please show up with your swimmers and check in with the volunteer coordinator.

OFFICIALS: Need to be on-site by 5:30 for the officials briefing. Timers briefing is at 5:45pm.

2. 4th A Meet:

WHEN: Saturday, July 8th @ 9am.

WHERE: Plantations II Pool

WHO: Twin Farms

WHAT: Senior Day

DECLARE YOUR SWIMMERS: Please go on-line and declare your swimmers either AVAILABLE or NOT AVAILABLE for the meet.

VOLUNTEER: While you are declaring your swimmer is AVAILABLE, SIGN-UP to volunteer for a position at this week's meet.

See the Wednesday E-mail for all details.

3. A-Relay Carnival:

WHEN: Sunday, July 9th @ 9am; Warm-ups @ 8:15am

WHERE: Whetstone Community Pool, 19140 Brooke Grove Ct., Gaithersburg

WHO: All of Division L

DECLARE YOUR SWIMMERS: Please go on-line and declare your swimmers either AVAILABLE or NOT AVAILABLE for the meet. Nic is preparing the lineup now!!!

See Wednesday email for additional details.

B. PRACTICE SCHEDULE:
1. Monday through Thursday we have morning practice using the following schedule:

7:30-9:00am: 11-18 year olds

9:00-10:00am: 10 and under

10:00-10:30am: Pre-team

Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons:

5:45-6:45pm: Practice for all ages that miss morning practice. Please let us know if you plan to attend afternoon practice so we can have the correct amount of coaches on hand.

2. Friday, July 7th: FRENZY #2

Team Picture @ 8:15am (includes all pre-framers, wear your team suit, or favorite suit for the picture)

All age (except pre-team) practice: 8:30-9:30am

Games: 9:30-10:30am

Breakfast: 10:30am

VOLUNTEER: We need parents to Volunteer to bring food (pancakes, eggs, bacon, syrup, orange juice, etc.) or Supplies (plates, forks, etc) and then serve the food to the kids after practice.

- Parents who volunteer to bring food for the breakfast should plan to bring the food to the pool at 10am.

C. TEAM EVENTS:

1. Donuts and Tie-Dye

WHEN: Tuesday, July 4th

WHAT: Donuts after each practice and Tie-dying of t-shirts!!

REMINDER: Don't forget to bring a white COTTON T-shirt to practice on Tuesday in a Ziplock bag with your name on it. We'll iron on a Piranhas logo while you practice and then you can tie-dye your shirt afterwards!

2. Damascus Parade

WHEN: Friday, July 7th. Arrive at the Damascus High School parking lot at 5:45pm, Parade starts at 7pm.

WHAT TO WEAR: Your newly tie-dyed shirts or Piranha gear. Feel free to bring candy toss along the way although we will provide some for the team.

DETAILS: The parade runs from Damascus High School to the VFW on Lewis Dr. After the parade meet at the Piranhas tent (at parade end on Lewis Drive across from the American Legion) for firework viewing with the team! If you will be joining us for firework viewing, please RSVP on the calendar page on the website so we can plan for drinks and snacks. If you would like to donate drinks and snacks, please sign up and drop them by the Friday Frenzy so we can be sure they are at the tent ready for our parade walkers 😎

Whew!! That was a lot! We will reinforce and add details as necessary later this week. Lookin on forward to seeing everyone at these various meets and events. Should be and exciting week. Get the swimmers to bed early each night!!!

GO PIRANHAS!!!!

Mike and Katie