Dear Water Jets Families - Thank you for a great first week of practice! We saw lots of smiling kids, and we hope they are having fun. Thanks to our coaches for being so hands on - we are grateful for your efforts!

DRINK DONATIONS: If you HAVEN'T bought your drinks yet... we could really use sodas. Any kind - Coke, Pepsi, Sprite etc. Even if you are supposed to bring something else, bring sodas instead :-) Thank you to everyone for your contributions.

MEET ATTENDANCE: In advance of EVERY meet, you will log in to Swimtopia (waterjets.swimtopia.com) and "declare" your swimmer either present or absent. We do not need you to let us know if your swimmer will miss practice. Please make every effort to attend practices! If you already know some meets they will miss this summer, go ahead and mark them now. If your plans change, be sure to update your swimmers status in the system. This is how the coaches know who to put in to race at each meet. If this is not accurate, you may show up to a meet and your child won't be listed on the heat sheet. To record meet attendance - log into Swimtopia:

• Click "meets and events" tab
• Click "sign up calendar"
• Click "meet entry"
• Under each child's name select "edit" and change their status from "undeclared" to either "attending" OR "not attending" FOR EVERY SINGLE MEET.
• We don't want anyone listed as undeclared. We need to know if you are in or out ;-)
• We need ALL swimmers declared for the Mock Meet by THIS FRIDAY (5/28)!

SWIM SUITS: The rest of the swim suits are in! Please look for a Board member at practice this week to pick up your swim suit if you ordered it and haven't received it yet.

COVID POLICY (REMINDER): Our goal is to have a safe, healthy and successful season! We need your help with this. We have 160 swimmers and 92 families. It will be crowded. Please practice social distancing at the practices. Our coaches will have face shields on when in the water working with the kids. Any participant having been exposed to a person with COVID-19 will need to quarantine. There are two ways you can be cleared from quarantine:

• After day 10 from exposure without symptoms and without testing
• After day 7 after receiving a negative test result (test must occur on day 5 or later from exposure) and no symptoms

Please let us know if you have any questions about this. We appreciate your compliance with this policy as we work together to have a healthy and safe season.

CONTACT US: Please keep the lines of communication open! Don't hesitate to reach out to a Board member or email us at: [email protected] should you have any questions or concerns or if you need to get a message to our coaches. If there are weather delays or cancellations - we will be in touch via email.

UPCOMING DATES: Looking ahead... There's NO PRACTICE on Memorial Day - Monday, May 31st. Tuesday, June 1st will be an afternoon practice. Wednesday, June 2nd will be the start of our morning practices. We DO practice on Meet Days!

See you on deck Monday afternoon.

-Water Jets Board

Please visit SwimTopia for meet attendance, volunteering, schedules and more. GO WATER JETS!