Dolphin Update: June 23, 2025

If you can believe it, we are into the fifth week of summer swim. I hope you are all enjoying the groove of summer swim and that you are starting to love it as much as I do!

This week's schedule is normal. And the most important details pertain to the meet tomorrow. That said, if there are any seniors that wish to apply for the VSL senior scholarship, please click this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18HvvOkZZzj3AkS1zVZgXpFwL_z680J1K/view?usp=share_link

1) General Notes (repeat from last week) regarding Tuesday meet versus ERRA:

a) Timing: this meet will take a bit longer given the size of the ERRA team (which is 3x the size of our team). Pure speculation? I bet we finish closer to 9PM (if all goes well). Plan to arrive BY 4PM to claim some space.

b) Space: the deck will be a TIGHT squeeze and we will likely spill up into the circular driveway. Do not park by the pool if you plan to leave early.

c) Other parking notes: our team will arrive first, so there should be plenty of open paved spaces. But, as a gracious host -we should do our best to create a welcoming experience for the guest team. If you are willing to park in the grass, park perpendicular to the road to create more available spaces. We can fit double the cars that way and it will help ensure our guest team isn't having to park at the road and take a long walk!

2) IT IS GOING TO BE HOT AND CROWDED.

a) Pack your patience. And, consider making a plan for those family members which may be sensitive or at risk in heat to stay home, such as grandparents and littles.

b) Wear your swimsuit. We will stop periodically to allow for people to QUICKLY jump in and out of the pool.

c) We will have many tents covering as many volunteer areas as we can. If you have extra tents to share for this purpose, please text me at 410-207-0412. Right now, we will have enough tents to cover the score keeper area, the starting side timers and the clerk side volunteers. I hope to get one or two more tents to cover the clerk of course area. If you have one to offer, please let me know!

3) JUNIORS SCHEDULE Change:

We are going to host juniors between 5:30-5:40PM this week so that we can finish these races prior to the volunteer meetings at 5:40PM.

4) Volunteers: meetings will again be at the score keeper's table and we will have more separated spaces so that we can swiftly manage getting all volunteers into swimmingly.

We need more volunteers!! Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0549AEAD28A1F5C07-57254589-2025#/

5) The heat sheet has been sync'ed to Swimmingly Fan. You can check for the heat sheet on the app. The swimmer lineup will be attached to the gmail info sent.

6) There will be a post meet pizza party again this week. Hope you can stay to enjoy the night swimming with us!

I will have a longer update toward the end of this week. For now, let's focus on our match tomorrow against ERRA.

Go Dolphins!