Happy Mother's Day!

Please make sure you read the following dates and information carefully and add them to your calendars!

Thank you all for your patience with the pool maintenance issue on Friday. We spent several hours Friday afternoon trying to figure everything out. The chlorine is fixed and the levels have gone back to a safe level. We will have practice on Monday. We have had our first few days of practice and are looking forward to our first full week of practice. Last week the swimmers focused on freestyle and backstroke.  This week they will focus on breaststroke, butterfly, dives, and turns.

Volunteering is now open for Time Trials on May 19th. To rsvp for a swim meet you click on Meet Entry, scroll under your swimmer's name, click EDIT, use the drop down for each swimmer and label them as attending or not attending. If they are attending and you need to let a coach know something please write it into the notes section. Please do not ask for specific strokes. Coaches choose events based on many factors, and swimmers will swim all events. Please RSVP and Volunteer by Monday, May 13th.

We have 63 jobs that need to be filled. Since there is not another team we have to provide all volunteer spots. If you are willing to do 2 shifts please only sign up for 1 and then email Laura Jackson at [email protected] She will fill you in where needed.

THANK YOU for helping run the swim meet! This is an entirely volunteer run program!

Lost and found is in a large plastic bin located outside of the boys bathroom.

Please help by closing the umbrellas when you leave practice, put the chairs and lounge chairs back where they belong and pick up any trash. We need to leave the pool deck as clean as we found it. It saves the coaches a huge amount of time if you help clean up your spaces. Thank you!

Practice this week:

Monday

4:00-4:45 6u and 7/8

4:45-5:30 9/10 and 11/12

5:30-6:30 13/14 and 15/18

Tuesday

4:00-4:45 6u and 7/8

4:45-5:30 9/10 and 11/12

5:30-6:30 13/14 and 15/18

Wednesday

4:00-4:45 6u and 7/8

4:45-5:30 9/10 and 11/12

5:30-6:30 13/14 and 15/18

Thursday

4:00-4:45 6u and 7/8

4:45-5:30 9/10 and 11/12

5:30-6:30 13/14 and 15/18

Friday

4:00-4:45 6u and 7/8

4:45-5:30 9/10 and 11/12

There will be no 13/14 or 15/18 practice due to our Team Kick Off Party

Important Dates:

Wednesday, May 15th all registration fees are due $350 per swimmer $175 per non HOA family. Venmo to @oaktree-sharks or check to Oaktree Sharks

Friday, May 17th Sharks Kick off Party 5:30-7:30 at the pool. Please RSVP and sign up to volunteer. Bring any old sharks gear you want to hand down to a younger swimmer. We will have caps, yard signs, water bottle stickers, bumper stickers and baseball hats for sale. Bring your own picnic dinner. Please do not bring glass to the pool deck. There will be free swim from 5:30-6:30. No 13-18 practice.  We will also be meeting our big/little buddies! Buddy list will be posted outside of the girls bathroom. We will not be switching buddies. Thank you for cleaning up your area!

Friday, May 17th Time Trial events posted- I will post the list of races outside of the boys bathroom. They will be done in 2 columns- 1 boys, 1 girls. For time trials everyone swims every event to get a base starting time. Each time a swimmer improves their time at a meet we earn improvement points!  Improved times help us win meets, just as much as placement points.

Sunday, May 19th Time Trials Please RSVP and sign up to volunteer on Swimtopia. The volunteer link is open. RSVP due 5/13, Volunteering due 5/14. All families must sign up for a volunteer position. If you have been assigned clerk of the course it is already in the volunteer sign up. All RSVP's for swimmers are due Monday, May 20th. All volunteer sign ups need to be done by Tuesday, May 21st. It is important that swimmers attend time trials so they have a baseline time. At our first meet this will give them a time to beat in order to get improved time points.

Time trials is when every swimmer swims every stroke to get a starting time for the season. 6 and unders just need to attempt the strokes. 7/8's need to do a strong attempt at each stroke. 9/10 and up will be doing the IM along with all of the strokes. We will have our stroke and turn judges watching each swimmer. They will not be DQ'd but this is an opportunity for them to let the coaches know who needs to work on which strokes. It is also a practice meet for all of us parents running it! The snack shack will be open and they will accept venmo or cash.

Arrive and Check-In: 7:00am

Sharks Warm-ups: 7:00-7:30am 9/10, 11/12, 13/14, and 15/18

Check in for swimmers and parent volunteers close 7:30 EVERYONE must be checked in.

1st Shift Volunteers Report to Stations at 7:45 am

Team cheers and National Anthem 7:45

Meet starts at 8:00am

Our hope is to start on time and keep the meet moving as fast as possible to be done by noon.

As the events are finished the swimmers times will be posted to the left of the boys bathroom. They typically stay up for a week and then come down and are replaced with the next meet's times. Adam Westgate, our computer lead, will also be posting the swim meet results on Swimtopia each week. You can also see your individual swimmers events and results in your Swimtopia app.

Monday, May 27th No practice- Memorial Day

I look forward to seeing you all at the pool this week and at our kick off party on Friday, May 17th.

Let me know if you have any questions!

~Liz