Hello Gators!

We have our first dual home meet of the season. Let’s show Firethorne our great Gator hospitality! Let's all swim fast and get load cheering for our teammates!

Few Key Things to Remember for Home Meets:

Please make sure your kids are declared for the meet! If they aren't declared as being available for the meet they won't be on the heat sheet and won't be able to swim. We do our best to run an efficient meet and we can't do that if the coaches need to make changes.

Please make sure your kids know to stay with their specific tent. We are working to run a fast and efficient meet. If kids leave the tent area they may miss their swim.

Bring folding chairs for your kids and adults. If you want a place to sit you will need to bring your chair. Firethorne is bringing 200 swimmers plus parents that is at least and additional 300+ people compared to our Blue Green meet!

Please see the attached pool layout. If you are part of the set up crew take a good look at it. It will help you understand where everything needs to go prior to meet start.

Remember there is no parking directly in front of the pool. This is drop off only. Additionally we need this space to set up our food trucks!

Check your volunteer assignments! We cannot put on a successful meet without support from our volunteers. If you have questions, contact Vicki, our volunteer guru! If you check in for a volunteer spot you need to show up. No shows create delays to an already long swim meet. We had people check in and not show up to their duties. Reminder this is grounds for fines and dismissal from the team.

We cannot have a great swim season without amazing volunteers

Note: We had a lot of folks leave prior to the medaly relay. We will be striving to put all swimmers in a relay this meet. Please stay the duration of the meet.

Our meet against Firethorne will take place on Wednesday, May 28, 2024 at the home. Our theme is Hawaiian!

Wear your Gator gear.

Please be good hosts and show Firethorne our best respect and sportsmanship. Remind your swimmers to stay in their lane until everyone is finished. And make sure they say "good swim!" Our coaches will remind everyone as well. Thank you for your support in this effort.

REMINDERS FOR OUR PARENTS:

DO NOT let your swimmer wander around the meet-especially the 6 and unders.

Your swimmer MUST stay in their assigned lanes or their time & score may not be counted.

DO NOT leave before the conclusion of your swimmers' races and check out with team parent before leaving the meet.

DO NOT PARK IN THE PARKING LOT UNLESS YOU ARE BOARD OR COACHES: THESE SPACES ARE RESERVED!

Please pay close attention to arrival times:

3:00pm Pool Closes to Swim Meet

3:45 Set Up Break Down Crew Arrives – Please station parking lot volunteer ASAP.

4.30pm. Pool open for visitors

4.30pm. Volunteer sign in Assistants & Console operators arrive

4.30pm. Tent Parent and Floaters arrive

4.30pm. Swimmers arrive - note we have early warm up so early arrival

4.50pm - 5:20 Grand Lakes Warm Up

5.00pm All Seasons Eats, Fuego and NV Arrive

5.00pm. (All other volunteers arrive: Timers, judges, runners, ribbons, hospitality, etc.)

5:20 - 5:50pm Firethorne Warm Up

5:45pm Judges Meeting – Held at the far end of the pool by the white board

5:45pm Timers Meeting – Held at the baby pool/shower station

5:55pm All volunteers in position – Starter to run test heat for Console/Timers

6.00pm. Meet Start time

Swap of the shifts will be after backstroke

9:00 pm Food Trucks Depart

For volunteers on first shift – we will be providing food runners. Just place your order with them and provide a form of payment. They will go to the food truck and bring you back your order. We want our volunteers to be well fed!

To review your volunteer position please go to the glswim.swimtopia.com website and click on the "My Account" tab in the right-hand corner. Sign in with your username and password.

Practice Schedule for the rest of week: Reminder all practices are in the morning!

Wednesday: Shortened Practice

7-8: 8:00 - 8:30

9-10: 8:30-9:00

11-12: 9:00-9:30

13-18: 9:30-10:00

6&U: 10:00-10:30

Thursday: Off

Friday: Regular Practice

See you at the pool!

Go Gators!