Good Evening Water Jets -

We are very excited for the Mock Meet! Reminder of the schedule:

• 4:45pm - Arrive for Individual Pics
• 5pm - Arrive for Team Pic / warm-ups (No parents on deck until after pics are taken). Great time to go place your food truck order! 
• 6pm - Meet begins (we will do our best to start EARLY if we can)

Before we jump into the rest of the reminders for the meet - PLEASE DECLARE your swimmers for the meets next week if you haven't already. We still have 50+ swimmers undeclared for next week! This MUST be done by tomorrow night so Coach Whitney can work on the lineups for Monday. If your child isn't declared on time - they won't swim. Please help us with this. 

OK... now about Mock Meet! Here we go....

EVENTS BY ATHLETE: Attached is the events by athlete for the Mock Meet. We will send the Heat Sheet later - but wanted to send this preview out first as we had SO many requests for kids to not swim late - we wanted to make sure we caught them all. 

Also - the Greater Charlotte Swim League allows for kids to swim 3 individual events and 2 relays. The Mock Meet is NOT a typical line-up. The purpose of this is to get times on each swimmer, and see where they shine, and where they need improvement. So your child may be swimming in more than usual this meet. 

If you are a first-time family - or in any way overwhelmed by this - grab a seasoned neighbor/friend tomorrow and they will be glad to answer your questions! 

It will also be helpful to download the Swimtopia App to your phone. You may want to pay $2.99 to upgrade for the month of June (set a calendar reminder to cancel it at the end of the month). The paid version will allow you to follow along with your swimmers races at the Home Meets and at SOME of the away meets.

PLEASE be listening to our announcer (Thank you, Greg Burba!) and make sure your child is in the Clerk of Course when they need to be. Please do NOT leave the meet until your child has finished all their assigned races. If something happens and you need to leave early - you must notify a Board Member or Coach Whitney.

There WILL be some last minute changes to the relay teams. Thanks in advance for your flexibility.

WHAT'S AN IM?: Some kids are swimming the IM (Individual Medley Relay) They will swim Butterfly/Back/Breast/Free in that order. Feel free to write it on their arm if that helps.

SUITS/CAPS: All swimmers must wear a Hunter Oaks suit, and girls must wear a Hunter Oaks cap (please put it on after pictures). NO other logos may be on the caps. Caps will be for sale at concessions. It is also helpful to sharpie your child's first initial and last name (Ex. E. Jordan) on their shoulder blade. This helps the Clerk of Course immensely.

You may also want to bring your swimmer an extra towel or sweatshirt to warm-up between the races as the it may get cooler once the sun goes down.

DQS: There will be a LOT of DQs. Please don't be upset if your child is DQ'd - it's VERY normal for the first meet. Coach Whitney needs to know who is using a freestyle kick with breast stroke arms - for example. This will help her next week to know where each swimmer needs to improve.

COACHES IN THE WATER: For our 6 and unders - coaches are allowed to be in the water for the first TWO meets only (per the GCSL rules). After that, if your swimmer cannot make it across the pool unassisted, then they won't be able to swim in the meets. They will still be invited to attend practices and hopefully will improve enough to join the meets later in the season.

WEATHER DELAYS: It's summer in the Carolinas and there are bound to be weather delays this season. BUT the meet is ON unless you hear otherwise from us via email.

VOLUNTEERS: Please read through the Volunteer Descriptions that went out this week and are posted on our website (About-->News) and let us know if you have ANY questions. It takes over 50 volunteers to run these meets - we can't do this without you!

See you on deck! 

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