Hello Anacondas Families!

Amazing swimming at our first meet of the year! It was a great meet with a final score of Olive Chapel 228, Amberly 285.

Congrats to our Triple Winners:

Catherine Sheng (9-10 Girls): 25 Free, 25 Back, 25 Fly

Henry Wahlmann (13-14 Boys): 50 Free, 50 Back, 50 Fly

Conrad Wang (7-8 Boys): 25 Back, 25 Breast, 25 Fly

Dilini Gamage (11-12 Girls): 50 Back, 50 Breast, 50 Fly

Our Anacondas had some lightning fast swims on Tuesday night!! So many new team records were set!!

New Anacondas Records:

Here are the important updates you need for the coming week:

Important Swim Meet Etiquette Reminder

Please do not attempt to use photos or videos of events to challenge disqualifications or order of finish at the swim meets. Also, please do not approach and challenge TSA officials at a meet. TSA reps handle these events and not parents or even coaches.

Swimmer Declarations for Meets

Reminder that you must declare your swimmer is attending a meet by the Friday night deadline. If there is no response for your swimmer in the Swimtopia signup, we will assume your swimmer is NOT participating and will NOT include them in the meet lineup. The meet signups are separate from the job signups in Swimtopia. Please make sure you are making updates to both sections for each meet.

Please note that freestyle relays may not occur until 10pm depending on the size of teams, so please keep that timing in mind. If you are not willing to stay that late, please do not mark that your swimmer is available for the free relay.

You can use the declaration section to indicate if your child is available for either relay. You can also add notes to this signup to indicate event preferences for your child. Please remember that these are preferences only - coaches decide the lineups for each swimmer, and they are trying to give children experience in ALL strokes. This includes butterfly. Emailing the team on the day of the meet to change your child's events is not good practice and causes extra work for our volunteers. Please support your swimmers in learning how to challenge themselves, get out of their comfort zone, and trust their coaches.

Volunteers Needed!

We still have a few jobs open at next week’s away meet including kid pushers, 2nd shift clerk of course, and 2nd shift runner. Please try to sign up for your family’s minimum of 6 points worth of jobs as soon as possible. If you need help or have questions about volunteer signups, please email us at [email protected] .

Are you still looking for a volunteer opportunity? Reply to this email to learn about a 2 point role, ideally done by one family/person for the whole season, for our 3 home meets. You must have time the day after home swim meets to print, label, and sort ribbons so they can be to the visiting team by 4pm. This is a rare chance to have an air conditioned volunteer role!

Our next Meet - Tuesday June 16th AWAY at Wellsley

We will send out a separate email with location, arrival times, and more specific details by Sunday.

• Sign up your child or decline by today, Friday June 12th at 11:30pm.
• Bring goggles, refillable water bottle, sunscreen, towels, black swimsuit with Anacondas logo, food or money for concessions, a towel or small chair to sit in.
• Write the swimmer name on their upper right back with Sharpie marker. We will have markers at Volunteer Check-in also.
• Supervise your swimmer to ensure they are being safe and respectful throughout the entire meet.
• Swimmers should stay near their age group tent area as much as possible. Have your child communicate with their kid pusher if they need to leave their tent area so your swimmer doesn’t miss their time to swim. Remember that volunteers have limited ability to find swimmers who are not staying in their designated areas.
• Ensure your child cleans their space and gathers their belongings before leaving.

Anacondas Shirts

We will be at practice behind the starting blocks today Friday June 12th from 5:00-6:30 to distribute shirts.

Still want to order your Anacondas gear? Check out this link: https://teamlocker.squadlocker.com/#/lockers/1061353

Coming Soon

Important dates coming up:

• Friday June 19th 11:30pm - Deadline for signing up for the June 24th meet
• Tuesday June 23th - Home Meet vs. Walden Creek. Our theme will be Hawaiian Luau!

Prior newsletters are always available in the News section of our website.

Please visit our website for all important info for this season!