WHEN: Saturday, July 2nd @ 9am; warm-ups at 8:00am. Arrive by 7:50am and Check-in with Coach Julia or Coach Sara.

CHALK IT UP: Arrive at 7:30am if you would like to decorate the walkway outside the gate with some artwork welcoming Diamond Farm to our pool. Chalk is provided, but feel free to donate.

WHERE: Plantations II Pool

WHO: Diamond Farm Stingrays

DECLARE YOUR SWIMMERS: Please go on-line and declare your swimmers either AVAILABLE or NOT AVAILABLE for the meet. You must be declared by 6pm, Wednesday, June 29th, so that the coaches can prepare the meet line-up.

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

MEET LINE-UP: The meet line-up will be posted Friday, July 1st.

WHEN: TUESDAY, June 28th @ 6pm. Swimmers arrive by 5:00pm and check in with Coach Julia. Warm-ups will start at 5:20pm

WHERE: Whetstone; 19140 Brooke Grove Ct., Montgomery Village, MD 20886

PARKING: Parking spots at the pool are very limited. Parking is available at Whetstone Elementary School (19201 Thomas Farm Rd.). This is on the other side of Centerway Rd. From the school they can take the sidewalk through the tunnel (under Centerway) to the pool. Parking in the adjacent residential communities is prohibited.

TEAM AREA: Our team area is to the left as you enter the pool area. There is a large pool umbrella in the area, but we can bring extra pop up tents for shade.

WHO: The Whetstone Whales

SIGN UP: Please make sure to sign your swimmers up by TONIGHT, Sunday evening at 11:59pm. If you wish to make changes after that deadline, please e-mail Coach Julia at [email protected].

Eligibility Guidelines:

Swimmers may sign up for as many events as they want as long as they didn’t 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 the my are not legal in. 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.

VOLUNTEER: We will definitely need volunteers!!! When you sign your swimmers up, take a look and volunteer to help us out!!!

WHEN: Saturday, June 25th @ 9am

WHERE: West Hillandale; 915 Schindler Dr., Silver Spring MD across from Key Middle School. Note: This is a 40-45 minute drive. They have a large parking lot. If for any reason you can't find parking, you can park at Key Middle School.

ARRIVE: Plan to arrive between 7:50-8:00am and meet OUTSIDE the pool, make sure to check-in with the coaches. We plan to enter the pool together at 8:10am and head to our Team Area which will be between the baby pool and the hammock stand near the shallow end of the pool. It is a shady, grassy area. Recommend you bring a folding chair to sit in.

THEME: The theme for this week's meet is Hawaiian/Luau. Please wear your best Hawaiian outfit!!!

WARM-UP: Our warm-ups are 8:20-8:40am

DECLARE YOUR SWIMMERS: Please go on-line and declare your swimmers either AVAILABLE or NOT AVAILABLE for the meet. Julia is presently putting the lineup together.

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

MEET LINE-UP: The meet line-up will be posted Friday, June, 24th.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 22nd @ 6pm.

SIGN-UP: Please make sure to sign your swimmers up on-line by Monday evening 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 didn’t 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 the my are not legal in unless requested by Coach Julia (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 (This applies to Hannah Douglas, Sydney Dietrich, Timmy Tomlinson and Joseph Gonzalez this week. All of you can see Coach Julia for the events you would not have been in the A-meet and you can swim those events).

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 I expect all parents to volunteer to support your swimmers!

MEET TIMING:

a. SWIMMERS: Swimmers arrive by 4:50pm and check in with Coach Julia. Warm-ups will start at 5:10pm and last only 15 minutes.

b. VOLUNTEERS:

SET-UP: We need as much help as we can get. At 4:45pm when the guards whistle for adult swim we will start setting up. We don't have a lot of time, so all hands are appreciated.

OFFICIALS: Need to be on-site by 5:15pm for the Officials Briefing. Please be on-time so we can stay on schedule.

TIMERS / CLERKS / CONCESSIONS / OTHERS: Need to be on-site at 5:20pm to make sure you are check-in with Cyndi and Shannon and attend Timers briefings, scratch meetings, and everything else.

WHERE: Plantations II Pool

WHO: Quail Valley Marlins (One of our absolutely favorite guests!!)