Hi Blue Crabs!

The start to our season is just around the corner! Practices for the Blue Crabs begins on Tuesday and the Mini Crabs will get started the following week. Before we get to some important information for the start of our season, thank you so much to everyone who came out to our meet-n-greet! It was great seeing so many familiar faces and many new ones as well. We’re looking forward to a fun-filled summer swim season!

The meet-n-greet would not have happened without help from so many of you. Thank you to the Amato’s, Garmon’s, and Carr’s for showing up early to help set-up. Thank you to Ines Edgar, Rae Gallagher, and Katie Henry for becoming our swimsuit try-on experts. Thank you to Ines and Katie Thomas for making sure we had popsicles. And thank you to the many of you who showed up, helped out, and made it a great evening together. We are a part of a wonderful community!

Here are a few things to be aware of as we head into the next two weeks:

APPAREL, SWIM CAPS, & YARD SIGNS

If you ordered apparel or swim caps from our store, we will have your items available and ready for pick-up throughout the week ahead. If you are interested in ordering a swim cap or yard sign, we also have those available. Please order them ahead of time from our website and you can pick them up during a practice.

VOLUNTEER INFORMATION

For the Blue Crabs to be a fun and successful summer swim team, we need your help. Everyone who registered for this team made this commitment in our volunteer agreement:

This team cannot exist without my help. I acknowledge that the expectation is for us (as parents/guardians) to volunteer to help at meets and other events in order to ensure that this program is fun and successful for all involved. Our service will be both formal by signing up to fulfill a specific job/role and informal by taking initiative to help where needs arise.

Unlike other youth sports and community activities, it really does take a Village to have a summer swim team, and we are grateful to belong to the kind of community that finds joy in service and in being there for one another. As a team we keep track of how families are formally volunteering using a point system, with each commitment awarded a certain number of points. Blue Crab families should plan on scoring at least 4 points, and Mini Crabs families should plan on scoring at least 1 point. Stay tuned for more information on signing up for volunteer opportunities. 

THE WEEK AHEAD

This week there will only be practices for our Blue Crabs swimmers on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Mini Crabs will start the week of June 3.

Tuesday through Thursday, 5/28-5/30

Blue Crabs practice takes place starting at 4:30 PM with swimmers age 9 & 10 practicing until 5:10 PM; swimmers 11 and older will have practice from 5:15-6:15 PM; and Blue Crabs swimmers 8 & under will practice from 6:20-7:00 PM. 

The pool will be closed on these days, so please enter using the Blue Crab gate on the backside of the pool.

LOOKING AHEAD

Friday, June 7 | Summer Kick-Off Pool Party from 4:30-6:30 PM

Saturday, June 8 | Time Trials from 8:00-11:00 AM.

Over this long weekend, please take time to remember and honor those who died in service to our country. We have so much to be grateful for.

We will see you next week!

Go Blue Crabs!