Hi Sharks – Updates for this week below.

1.  Schedule this week – The week’s schedule is posted on the www.rivershyresharks.com Home page.  Normal practice times Sunday – Tuesday (6U – 5:30–6:00 pm, 7-10 yrs – 6:00–7:00 pm, 11 yrs+ - 7:00-8:00 pm), no practice Wednesday (School’s Out party – see note below), Mock Meet in place of practice on Thursday.

2.  Parent Meetings tonight at 6:00 and 7:00 pm - New and returning parents, please try to attend one of the Parent meeting tonight.  We’ll hold one session at 6:00 pm and one at 7:00 pm.  We’ll share information about some changes this season plus some quick basics for new families and have an open Q&A.

3.  Mock Meet – Our Mock Meet is this Thursday from 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Please RSVP your swimmer and sign-up for your preferred volunteer slot by Monday at 8:00 pm. (Click on the buttons under Mock Meet on the www.rivershyresharks.com Home page in the right under Mock Meet.).  All swimmers participating in the meet need to be in the pool in the bullpen area by 6:00 pm.  You do not need to do stroke selection for Mock Meet.Because this Meet is our team only, swimmers have the opportunity to swim all the individual events they wish to swim in their age group.  There are individual events only in Mock Meet, no relays and no long free or IM events.  Also because it is only our team staffing the event, we need every family to volunteer.  Descriptions of the volunteer job are in the 2018 Parent Guide.

4.  School’s out party – come play, baked goods needed – the annual School’s Out Party fundraiser is this Wednesday from 5:00 – 8:00 pm.  This year it is both a School’s Out and Pool Re-Opening Celebration.  The party is open to all neighborhood residents and to swim team members.  Swim team will be selling baked goods, salty snacks and drinks.  The neighborhood social committee is providing free hot dogs and hamburgers.

Please consider donating baked goods, sliced watermelon or salty snacks to support this fundraiser.  Those donating, please stop by the registration table and list your item on the sign-up sheet.  Your support of this fundraiser is greatly appreciated.

5.  Beverage donation – To help manage costs, each season we ask team member families to donate one case of beverages per swimmer (small plastic bottles or 12 – 16 oz cans) or donate $5/swimmer in place of the beverages (money used to buy beverages).  These beverages are sold at the School’s Out party and at our home meets, and any leftovers are given out at the end of season party.Beverage donations can be dropped off starting tonight and through the rest of the week. The requested items by age group are:

• 10 and under swimmers – 1 case of soda – Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero or Sprite
• 11 and up swimmers – 1 case of Gatorade, any color

We’ll have a drop-off table setup at practice and at Mock Meet.Thank you!

6.  Sign-up for Remind 101 for weather updates and other team news – a reminder if you haven’t yet done so to please sign-up for the team Remind notification.  To sign up, type 81010 and text @16sharks as the message.  We’ll be using Remind to send last minute text updates about weather conditions that affect practices and Meets, Meet info reminders and other updates.

Great to have the season off and running.See you all at the pool:-).

Beth Z.