Dear Colonies Swim Team,

We have a lot going on the next couple weeks! Unfortunately, an eventful upcoming swim schedule requires a lot of emails!  To communicate everything as clearly as possible, I will try my best to break down all the information into a couple shorter emails over the next few days and weeks. I apologize in advance for barraging your inboxes, but please make sure to read everything carefully!  

To begin, I wanted to quickly overview the rest of our remaining events for the season:

1) Colonies Champs (7/28)

• Instead of one long meet, we will break the meet into two parts. 
• Half of the events will be in the morning between 8:00 and 10:00 AM. 
• The other half will be in the evening between 6:00 and 9:00 PM.
• Swimmers will have the opportunity to choose which events they would like to swim. Please stay tuned for another email later today with instructions on how to select events. 
• We have a lot of events planned to make the meet extra special! Please stay tuned for another email later this week with more details.

2) End of Season Banquet (8/5)

• We will hold our Team Banquet on August 5th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the pool. 
• Unlike previous years, the pool will close for general membership this year so we will have the entire pool to ourselves. Swim team families do not need to sign up for a spot at the pool. 
• The Banquet will be "picnic" style - families should bring dinner to the pool. The swim team will provide frozen desserts!
• More information about the Banquet will come next week!

3) The Swimathon (8/7)

• Our annual Swimathon will take place on August 7th at the pool with some slight changes.
• Swimmers will be divided by age and given a specific time to swim as many laps as possible.
  • 8:30 - 9:00 AM: 6 and younger
  • 9:00 - 10:00 AM: 7-8
  • 10:00 - 11:00 AM: 9-12
• Swimmers 13 and older will start at 8:30 AM and end at 2:00 AM on August 8th.
• More information about the Swimathon will come next week!

4) Practices After Champs

• Due to the fact that swim practices began so much later into the summer this year than normal, the coaching staff decided that we aren't ready to say goodbye to our swimmers and will continue offering morning practices after Champs until August 7th for all swimmers who would like to continue practicing!  

Please let me know if you have any questions! More information will come shortly!

Go Cruisers!

Very Respectfully,

Coach Jack