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Volunteer Requests for the Upcoming Summer Swim Season

Hello everyone!

As crazy as it seems, the summer swim team is right around the corner. As you know, our parent volunteers make this team possible. We have a few open positions we need to fill. Please look through the available positions and let me know if you are interested…

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Finals Medals

If you were at Finals and did not receive all your medals, can you please reply to this email and let me know which ones you did not receive? I'll submit the list to the league to get replacements.

Thank you,

Ben

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UPDATE: Warm-up Lane Changes

The warm-up time tomorrow stays the same (6:50am - 7:10am) but we've been moved to lanes 7 & 8 in the Championship Pool and lane 5 in the South Pool.

-Ben

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End of Year Celebration

Tomorrow evening from 6pm to 9pm, we'll have an end-of-year celebration at Franklin Pool that everyone is invited to! Bring a swim suit as we'll be hanging in the pool and we'll be doing diving board & belly flop contests.

Afterwards, we'll hand out awards, watch a slideshow to…

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Finals Tomorrow!

It's wild to think that the end of the season is already upon us. If you qualified in 16th place or better at Prelims, you're automatically entered into Finals which is tomorrow at Stonegate. You can check the SwimTopia app to see your events.

The finalized heat sheet is attached…

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Short Practice Tomorrow

Heads up everyone that practices will run for only about 30 minutes tomorrow so we don't tire out swimmers before Finals.

-Ben

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Championship Week Reminders and Guidelines

The league has asked us to send out some information about code of conduct, scoring, & the use of video evidence. Let's have fun with prelims & finals this week and not take it too seriously. It's summer swim team after all!

-Ben

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Practice Schedule This Week

With prelims happening this week, we're having to adjust the practice schedule due to limited coach availability. There are no evening practices this week.

Additionally, morning practices will follow this schedule:

Monday:
- 7-8am: Ages 9 - 12
- 8-9am: 8 & Under

Tuesday:
- 7-8am: 11 & Up …

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Year-Round Swim Options

As the season comes to a close, there are many great options if you want to continue swimming. We list several options on our website here:

https://benfranklin.swimtopia.com/year-round-swim-...

Aces Swim Club is hosting try-outs in the next week or so. You can find more information on their site:

https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/coaces/page/syste...

I've also…

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Ben Franklin Weekly Updates - Sunday, June 30th

It's hard to believe we just had our last meet before prelims! Thanks to everyone who came out to the Bow Mar South meet yesterday.

Prelims registration due

If you're interested in swimming in prelims, the deadline is tomorrow at noon! You can choose up to 3 individual events…

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