Hi Dolphins,

Thanks everyone for coming to practice today and staying for ice cream and team discussion.

Practice plan this week: Afternoon practice for everyone for the rest of this week, Tuesday - Friday. Practice time is 4:00-5:20 with everyone meeting under the big tree at 4:00.

Current plan is for 13 and older swimmers to be in the pool 4:20-4:50 and 12 and younger swimmers in the pool 4:50-5:20. Please ask your swimmers to be focused for their half hour in the pool and be ready and quick to get in and out for the switch. Practice this week will be all around, all purpose skills jammed into a short session. There will be dryland activities for kids during the half hour they are not in the pool. After this week, we anticipate afternoon practices being focused on starts, turns, relays, and specific skills with the main workout being in the morning practice sessions.

Practice plan for next week: Afternoon practice Monday and Wednesday - same time and routine as this week unless we make a change based on feedback from this week. No Friday afternoon practice next week. Morning practice will start Tuesday for everyone who is done with school and able to come. Morning practices will be Tuesday - Friday next week then M-F from then on.

Current plan for morning practice is 12 and younger swimmers practice 7:00-8:00am and 13 and older swimmers practice 8:00-9:30am. This division puts about 70 swimmers in the first group and 80 in the second group. If you need to have your swimmer switch practice sessions, please email me and/or talk with coaches this week. We have a little room to balance the groups and consider moving older swimmers to the early group. We have much less flexibility to move younger swimmers to the older group, since the older group is bigger already.

First meet - our first swim meet is next Tuesday! We are home hosting Toppenish. More info to come. I'll open up swimmer and volunteer sign ups by Wednesday.

Registrations need to be completed and paid before your swimmers get in the pool Tuesday. We will have a list and will not let kids in the pool unless their registration is complete. We want everyone to have registrations completed by Wednesday, even if your swimmer can't come to practice yet. A couple people have discussed specific practice situations and made specific arrangements - If we've talked, that's fine.

New swimmers, welcome to the team. We're excited to have you join the Selah Dolphins family! I know you have questions! I'll send you some more specific practice, meet and team info in the next day or two. Let me wade through registrations first and make sure we have everyone signed up.

Thanks

Heidi