It will be very important for your swimmer to attend practice Monday, in preparation for the meet on Tuesday, especially if your swimmer has not participated in a school team swim meet before.  Team swim caps will be given out at practice Monday and at the meet Tuesday.

If you are not meeting the team at OHS to caravan up to Cleveland, and you haven't already let Mrs. Childress know, please reply to this email and let her know.  There is very limited deck space at the Old YMCA pool, so chairs will probably not be needed.  The swimmers will "camp" in the gym between events.  Coach Buchanan will post the meet line-up at the meet.  This is a four-lane pool, but the meet runs very efficiently, and quickly.

Regarding practices, if your swimmer comes to practice, and for some reason does not practice, the swimmer will need to sit poolside and observe practice.  They will not be allowed to sit in the pool house and just hang out, unsupervised.  The other option is to call the parent to pick up the student before practice is over.  As soon as swimmers arrive at the pool, they are to get changed then take their belongings and go to the pool deck and stretch.  They must put their belongings in the dome.  They will not be allowed to return to the locker rooms.  These measures are being taken because of the vandalism and mischief that occurred last week.  We are guests of the facility, and will be respectful of their making it available to us.

The high school swimmers also have a meet on Saturday at McCallie School.  Coach Buchanan will know later this week what time our warm-up time is, and will send out a rained out to let you know when the swimmers need to be there for the morning, preliminaries session.  Swimmers need to bring towels, blankets or sleeping bags for the "camp" area, where the teams wait between events.  Also it will be a good idea to bring healthy snacks.  Parents can bring chairs to sit on in the camp area, and there are bleachers in the natatorium.  If you make the top 16 in your individual event, or are swimming in the 400 relays, you will be REQUIRED  to return for the finals session of the meet, which starts at 5:30.  

We have a few additional t-shirts for each school available.  These are $15.00 each.  Mrs. Childress will have them at practices and at the meets for sale until they are all sold.  Email if you have a specific size request, and it will be put aside for you.