Hello Water Jets Families - 

Thanks for another great week of practice!  We hope your swimmer is enjoying it as much as we are. And we hope the weather will warm up for them next week! We also want to take a moment and thank our incredible coaches - they are the BEST! 

Please read on for some important updates and reminders for ALL families. 

REMINDER: No practice Monday for Memorial Day. We will see you back on deck Tuesday afternoon. 

NO GUM at Practice: We know we gave the kids gum in their bags... but PLEASE make sure your child isn't chewing gum when they come in to practice. Coach Whitney has had at least 7 little gum chewers this week. We don't want anyone to choke and scraping gum off the pool deck is no fun. 

ATTN: SHRIMPER PARENTS: Now that we are 2 weeks into practice, hopefully you feel more confident about your swimmers (and our amazing coaches). If you don't NEED to be on deck, we would like to ask that you PLEASE wait on the hill especially if you have younger siblings at the practice. 

Also, there are quite a few shrimpers that may not be able to make it across the whole pool by the first meet. Coach Whitney will allow all Shrimpers to participate in the Mock Meet, but if they can't swim the full length by then, your child will be welcome, and encouraged to still join us for practices, but they won't be allowed to swim in the meets. This is a safety concern and a guideline set by the Greater Charlotte Swim League. If later in the season they can do it, we can add them back into the meets! 

ALL SWIMMERS: Recording your Swimmers 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. I just did this for all my own kids and it took less than 5 minutes. 

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 ;-). 
• This is NOT something that can be done last minute. Heat Sheets are made several days in advance of the meet. So if you have a last minute change, you MUST notify us. 
• We need ALL swimmers declared for the Mock Meet by FRIDAY (6/3)! 

Have a safe and happy Memorial Day Weekend! 

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