Hey everyone, our team is filling up and it's looking like a fun, successful summer on the way.  

Merchandise Orders

In preparation for this season, we are making a bulk order for some of our merch.  You can choose from the options HERE .  The due date for all of these orders is MAY 5.  Our goal is to have them all in by our time trials on May 20, giving us a week to distribute before our first meet AT Clemmons West.  One note on the personalized caps:  They can take 3-5 weeks.  Hopefully we have them in 3, but just fyi that there's a possibility they won't be ready before the first meet.

One quick addendum:  We are only filling the orders for the free t-shirts at registration for each swimmer.  This was intended as an opt-in for the swimmers who may have a million shirts already.  I am aware that there was some confusion during registration where some adults may have ordered sizes for themselves.  This is my(Jeremy's!) fault and I apologize for the confusion.  But once again, we are only fulfilling those free t-shirts intended for the actual swimmers.  I'm sorry and will fix this for next season.

Pup Camp

Our Pup Camp will be taking place on May 12 and 13, with our first full team practices following pup camp on those evenings and continuing on a normal schedule thereafter. Let's hope it's warm! If you have any questions concerning pup camp, please contact the Queen of Pup Camp, Mary Ellen Kistler. Additionally, if you have any 12 and over swimmers who would like to be pup camp junior assistants, please fill out THIS Doodle form.

Coaches

We officially have our coaches for this season. Take a look at our Swimtopia coaches page for more detail, but we are excited to have William Powell as HC, Claire Isaac as a senior assistant, and Reese Powell, Nollie Hoeing, Paige Hostert, Graham Presutti, and Will Strathman as junior assistants, as well as adding Isabella Calhoun and Hawken Tate as volunteer coaches. Sean Bonifas has graciously volunteered to help "coach the coaches" as well. We have a great squad!

They will hopefully all be available to give swim lessons this season.  The HOA board is mulling a change that may eliminate that possibility by forcing unusual extra steps in order to give lessons. This also would apply to the lifeguards. I believe this would all but eliminate lessons at our pool.  Please make your voice heard to the HOA if this is something that concerns you.   Thank you.

Team Social Dates to Know

Our fun, creative social team has put together a list of fun things to pair with our meets, as follows:

Preseason peprally/potluck May 17^th -- 4-8 PM

Spirit dates

• WEAR RED - May 27^th at Aqua Demons
• HAWAIIAN – June 3^rd vs Crazy Ducks
• NEON – June 10^th vs Brook berry

Pizza and movie post meet @ peace haven – July 8^th.

Pre meet popsicles

• June 10^th at 4:20

Ice cream social/community service project

• July 6^th at 3 pm

Postseason/Awards Banquet - Tuesday, July 15th, likely from 4-8

We may also be adding a pancake breakfast and intrasquad meet at some point.  Be on the lookout!

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Thank you all for your help and support as we are in this super-busy time of the year for our community and please let me know if you have any concerns or anything that we can help you with.

Go Stingrays!
Jeremy and Brooke