Swim Families -

Below is a link to the results from last night. Away meets are always hard for our team to win as we generally only travel about half of our swimmers - but I want to take a moment to highlight some positives:

• Our swimmers scored in 72 of the 86 events including quite a few first place finishes.
• Our coaches noticed many swimmers actively trying new starts, turns, & races and doing so successfully.
• Many swimmers checked in with coaches after their races to learn more ways to improve.
• Swimmers supported one another!

Great job swimmers and thank you to everyone who volunteered last night - you are appreciated!

Results 6-28-18 Belf @ Tipp

Moving forward -

• As coaches, we have isolated a few skill areas to focus on as a whole as well as with specific swimmers and are excited to work on these during practices. Please remember we are OFF on July 4th but have regular practices (weather permitting) the rest of the upcoming week.
• We have only home meets left!!! Entries are open for the meet against Minster on 7/7 and the meet against Botkins on 7/14. Please sign up swimmers by Wednesday of each corresponding week. Ask swimmers if they are ready to try new events too! We do move the swimmers around as needed, especially for home meets due to the number of entries, but we also want our swimmers to take some ownership of their abilities. 
• Championships - we host the championship meet this year on Saturday 7/21. We have a group of people already preparing for this meet (and a meeting will be coming up soon for those who offered to help). For championships each team gets 2 entries/event including relays. Since this is a championship meet we base those entries on time (another reason to get swimmers trying more events, the more times they have means the better chance they have of qualifying for champs). However, I still need to know which swimmers are available for Champs. Please enter swimmer availability for Championships on 7/21 as soon as possible (through our usual sign up).

Lots of information today. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Have a great weekend!

Coach Lewis