Barracuda Families,

Thanks for all of your help with and participation in the meet last night.  After a short weather delay, we were able to get underway, but had to cut the meet short because the Tsunami team has a contractual stop time of 9pm at the Burbage Grant Pool. 

Now that we have a few meets under our belt, here are a few helpful hints:

Logistics to Help the Meet Go Smoothly

• Please try and arrive by 8am for Saturday meets and 5pm for Wednesday meets.  This allows time for the coaches and volunteers to write race #s on arms and make any last minute changes.
• If you are going to miss a meet, even if you already indicated so at registration, please email Coarch Art at coachart.ecat@gmail.com at least 24 hours prior to the meet if possible, or as soon as you know. 
• If you have to leave the meet early for any reason, please find Coach Art and tell him so he can make the necessary adjustments to the schedule.
• Please assist the early meet logistics by paying attention to your swimmers' race numbers and doing the following:
• If your swimmer is in races 1 - 10, please send them to the bullpen prior to the National Anthem.
• If you swimmer is in races 11 - 20, please send them to the bullpen no later than race 3.  The early relays, especially the 100 meter ones where swimmers have to be lined up at both ends of the pool, are very hectic
• If you are or have an experienced swimmer, we know you know what to do and where to go.  However, we STILL need to check that you are present in the blocks.  Therefore, please check in with the bullpen BEFORE going to your lane. 
• Regardless of what the Lineup sign says, our Bullpen volunteers will be looking for you 10 - 12 races out.  Please keep track of the events.
• Please do NOT leave the pool deck or enclosed area to go to a parking lot, playground, or elsewhere. 

Volunteering

• We appreciate our volunteers and we try and respect your time.  All of the above things will benefit everyone, including the volunteers' responsibilities.
• If you cannot volunteer for your assigned duty, please let Beth Defeo know ASAP at bethdefeo@hotmail.com.
• If you do not have an assigned volunteer duty, but are able to volunteer, please find Beth and offer to do something, especially if you hear that we are short. 

Ribbons

• We will distribute ribbons as soon as possible after the meet.  That might not be at the next practice, but we will try for the next meet. 
• If your swimmer did not get a ribbon, they were likely DQ'd or they earned an Exhibition Ribbon.
• This is the first year we've given Exhibition Ribbons in some time, so we do not yet have them for the first 3 meets, but we will try and catch up.
• Exhibition Ribbons are given when one team has more than 3 swimmers who place in an event.  Only the top 3 count for points.  The others will earn Exhibition Ribbons, as noted by an X next to their time on the official results.
• The first meet that was combined with Elizabeth Manor and Churchland is the only tri-meet we our swimmers competed against both teams.  At all other meets, we will only compete against one other team.  Even though Elizabeth Manor swimmers will be at all of our meets, we are not competing against them.

Results

• Coach Art will communicate meet results and a spreadsheet with your swimmers' times after each meet.
• For official league results of our meets, please go to the league website (https://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=wtsa)
  • Click on 2019 Results under the Headlines section.
  • Click on the underlined link "Check out 2019 results here."
  • Click on the underlined "Results" in the far right column of the meet you want.

As always, please feel free to reach out to one of the coaches, board members, or Volunteer Coordinator with any questions or shoot an email to swimteambarracudas@gmail.com.

Meet info for Saturday will be communicated tomorrow. 

Thanks!