Stingrays,

It is hard to believe that a year has passed and the swim season is about to begin. I am anxious to

begin my 3rd season with all returning swimmers and I look forward to meeting our new team members.

This welcome letter is to help inform family members of this season’s events and activities that will

occur during the upcoming 8 weeks.

 

I would like to welcome our coaches:

 

Jennifer Dunn, Assistant Coach (Age Group)Jennifer is not new to swimming! She swam for the Northern Virginia Swim League, is a personal

trainer and a competing triathlete.

Michelle Van Tassel, Assistant Coach (6 & under)Michelle has coached the 6 & Under swimmers for two summers and is looking forward to getting our

little superstars from one end to the other!

Coach Paige 

Go Stingrays!

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Swim Practice  Arrive 5-10 minutes early. During practice, parents should remain off deck (away from edge of lap lane area of pool). Swimmers must participate in at least 2 practices in order to swim in the subsequent swim meet. Swimmers may swim during another swim practice time (once permitted by Swim Coach) if

family schedule conflicts with regularly scheduled practice time. In case of inclement weather and practice is canceled, swimmers may practice during another

practice swim time (age appropriate).

 

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Register swimmers availability through web-site for swim meets; by Sunday for Wednesday meets and by Tuesdays for Saturday meets. This ensures that your swimmer(s) will be present for swim meets.

Teams can only bring 130 swimmers to a meet. This means there can only be a maximum of 130 swimmers per team for any meet. This is to accommodate the pools that have limited deck space and/or parking space. Franklin Park Pool is a Loudoun Parks & Recreation Pool and opens at 11am on Saturday mornings.

The Franklin Park Stingrays will swim the following number of swimmers for each stroke due to this limitation:

◦ Freestyle – 12 swimmers (per gender and age-group)

◦ Backstroke – 12 swimmers (per gender and age-group)

◦ Breaststroke – 9 swimmers (per gender and age-group)

◦ Butterfly – 6 swimmers (per gender and age-group)

◦ IM (individual medley) – 3 swimmers (per gender and age-group)

◦ Relays- 1 heat of each age-group

  During swim meets, swimmers MUST stay in the team area and with their age group. This helps Rounders locate swimmers

for events. In addition, swimmers MUST check in with Rounders prior to Warm-up.  Swimmers MUST stay until the end of the swim meet. Relays will occur at the end of each meet and it is critical that ALL

swimmers remain at the meet. (NOTE: As with other sports, all participants remain at the event until it is finished [e.g., soccer, baseball, football, lacrosse, etc.]. Swimming is at TEAM sport. 

Swimmers who do not “show” for swim meets (unless an illness or emergency occurs) WILL NOT swim in the following meet (Saturday or Wednesday).

 Swimmers who do not swim in Saturday meets will swim on Wednesday nights. If there is lane availability, swimmers who swim in a Saturday meet may swim an event that they DID NOT swim on the prior Saturday. Swimmers who wish to “swim up” (older age bracket) must see one of the coaches to determine the lane availability.

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171 swimmers (as of 5/30)

New Changes◦ Team Unify/Finis Team Sponsorship◦ Pre-Season Condition Sessions◦ New End of Season Meet Structure

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday Friday

6/2 6/3 6/4 6/5 6/67-7:30 - 11&12, 15-18

7:30-8 – 13&14

7-7:30 – 6&U 8&U

7:30-8 – 9&10

7-7:30 – 11&12 15-18

7:30-8 – 13&14

7-7:30 – 6&U 8&U

7:30-8 – 9&10

7-8Team Social Pizza Party 11&12 – 15-18

6/9 6/10 6/11 6/12 6/137-7:30 – 11&12 15-18

7:30-8 – 13&14

7-7:30 – 6&U 8&U

7:30-8 – 9&10

7-7:30 – 11&12 15-18

7:30-8 – 13&14

7-7:30 – 6&U 8&U

7:30-8 – 9&10

7-8Team Social Pizza Party 10 & U

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•Evenings, 3 lanes•Optional•First 2 weeks before Schools out only•Time Trials 6/14

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday Friday

6/16 6/17 6/18 6/19 6/20No Practice No Practice

Last day of School

7–7:45 - 11&12 15-187:45–8:30

9&108:30–9 - 6&U 8&U

7:15 -8:00 pm 13&14

7–7:45 - 11&12 15-187:45–8:30

9&108:30–9 - 6&U 8&U

7:15 -8:00 pm 13&14

PEP Rally!! (Doughnuts/Juice)7–7:30 am 11&12 15-18 7:30– 8am 13&14 8–8:30am 9&10 8:30–9am 6&U 8&U

6/23 6/24 6/25 6/26 6/277–7:45 - 11&12 15-187:45–8:30

9&108:30–9 - 6&U 8&U

7:15 -8:00 pm 13&14

7–7:45 - 11&12 15-187:45–8:30

9&108:30–9 - 6&U 8&U

7:15 -8:00 pm 13&14

7–7:45 - 11&12 15-187:45–8:30

9&108:30–9 - 6&U 8&U

6:00 pm MEET

7:15 – 8:00pm 13&14

TEAM DAYS(Pictures 7:30am)

7–7:30 am 11&12 15-18 7:30– 8am 13&14 8–8:30am 9&10 8:30–9am 6&U 8&U

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•Ongoing Schedule thru 7/25•Must attend 2 practices/week to eligible for Meets•No practice 7/4 or Meet 7/5•Check Black File Boxes and Bulletin Board Daily

Meet Logistics Swimmers & Volunteers must Register online for each event (Meet) Be at pool 1 hour before start time for warm ups and set up Swimmers check in with their Age Group Rounders

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Date Day Opponent Home/Away Time14-Jun Saturday Time Trials Home 8:00 AM21-Jun Saturday Lovettsville Away 8:00 AM25-Jun Wednesday Ida Lee Home 6:00 PM28-Jun Saturday Potomac Station Home 8:00 AM2-Jul Wednesday Greenway Farms Home 6:00 PM9-Jul Wednesday Stoneleigh Away 6:00 PM

12-Jul Saturday Lansdowne Home 8:00 AM16-Jul Wednesday Lovettsville Away 6:00 PM19-Jul Saturday Divisionals Away 8:00 AM23-Jul Wednesday Relay Carnival Away 6:00 PM26-Jul Saturday All Stars Away 8:00 AM

Post Season Divisions◦ 5 Meets 4/5 teams◦

Relay Carnival – Broadlands◦ Fun meet

All Stars◦ Top 24 swimmers in each event

Top 18 times during regular season Top 6 at Divisionals

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www.franklinparkstingrays.com Improved Website Mgmt/ Communication/ News/Events Registration

◦ User ID and Password◦ Meet Sheet/ Roster Creation◦ Volunteer Job Sign Ups and Tracking

Online Results Link with ODSL Online Store

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1. Sign in w. user id and password sent to your email.

• News • Events• Calendar

• Store

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My AccountMy Meet Results

Events:Time Trials

**You must Register your children for each event to be eligible to swim.

Volunteer Job Sign Up

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Account Configuration

•Email

•Personal Information

•Members/Swimmers Save Account Changes

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1. Select Member

2.Select:•Yes, sign [name] up for this event.Or •No Thanks, [name] will not attend this event.

3.Click “Submit”

4. Confirm member committed.

T-shirts◦ Dr. Tari, ◦ Every Swimmer receives a free T-shirt.

Record board◦ NVBlu Pool Design and Build ◦ Brohard Design

Others

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Shirts◦ T-shirts - $8◦ Polo’s - $12

Tatoo’s ◦ 5 for $3◦ 10 for $5

Black Nike Drawstring Bags - $8 Water bottles - $3 DVD

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