Hello Sharks!

I hope you have enjoyed this Memorial Day holiday weekend with family, friends and fun. This is a busy week ahead with all the information below. Morning practices, meet #1, mini meet #1, and so much more..

Practice Schedule May 31-June 27.

May31-June 27/Morning practice schedule

June/Evening practice schedule. We will offer optional evening practices on Mondays and Thursdays in June. June 02, June 06, June 09, June 13, June 16, June 20, and June 23. Please only take part in these practices if your swimmer is missing morning practices due to camps, day care, or other obligations. Summer swimmers do not need to practice twice a day.

Roxboro Sharks at Brittany Club Barracudas, meet#1 on Tuesday May 31.

Sharks are asked to arrive at 4:30pm for markups and team cheer. We will warmup in the water at 5pm. Meet start promptly at 5:30pm. The weather looks great for a swim meet.

Meet entries for this meet are closed. Coach William works for many hours to build a competitive lineup for our meets. Entries for each meet are due by 11:30pm the Friday prior to the meet. If your swimmer is injured or sick and unable to make the meet tomorrow, please let us know asap.

Job signups for this meet are still open! Please login and signup for a job if you have not already done so. It takes a lot of help to provide a fun, safe and enjoyable meet experience for everyone. Alison Strok and Kay Alexander are our Volunteer Coordinators this season. Please stop by, sign in and get your name-tag. Alison, Kay, and I will assign jobs if all the spots are not filled by the start time of the meet. Remember, I have a simple request, "if your child is swimming in the meet, you need to volunteer to work a job". Thank you for your help.

Please plan to arrive at Brittany Club by 4:30pm for markups. Warmups will begin at 5:00pm. The meet starts promptly at 5:30pm.

Message from our host, Brittany Club.

“The address for the Brittany Club pool is 3359 Breton Circle, Atlanta 30319. There will be parking on the streets of the subdivision. We ask that you park on only one side of the street. We will have "no parking" signs on one side of the street to help guide your families on which side to park.

We plan to have a concession stand with hamburgers, hot dogs, candy, chips and drinks. Let your families know to bring small bills if possible. Our burger/hot dog, chip, and drink combo will be $5 for the plate.

We will have the right side of the pool deck set aside for your team for bullpens and families. You may want to suggest your families bring some chairs as we sometimes have a shortage.”

What to pack? Dry towels, snacks, and full water bottles. Bring some card games, coloring books or other age appropriate activities to keep your swimmers entertained between races. Sunscreen. Bug spray. Goggles. Swimsuit. Swim cap, (every Shark gets a new swim cap at the first meet). Snacks. Lots of energy and patience are also a good thing to bring with you. S.H.A.R.K.'s practice and display Sportsmanship, Hard work, (good) Attitude, Respect and Kindness at all swim events.

Inclement weather at a swim meet. We try everything in our power to get a swim meet in on the scheduled date. This can include waiting out a weather delay. Summer nights in Atlanta include the ever present possibility of a fast moving thunderstorm. There is no space large enough to protect everyone from potentially bad weather. In the case of an incoming thunderstorm, we may ask everyone to move to their cars for shelter. Please do not leave the neighborhood. The storms usually move fast and we can resume a meet quickly. I will try to send out alerts via the SwimTopia app so make sure your settings allow for push notifications.

6U’s Mini-Meet on Friday. Roxboro Sharks recognizes that many of our 6U’s swimmers are not quite ready to swim the big Tuesday night swim meets. So, on Friday mornings we host our 6U’s Mini-Meets. No need to sign up, just show up for the scheduled 8-8:30am 6U’s practice on Friday mornings. Our coaches will “markup” the swimmers and help them swim a 25free and a 25back. We will have coaches in the water to assist if a swimmer needs help. Every swimmer that completes both the 25free and the 25back will get ribbons and treats. We need parent volunteers for a fun and safe mini-meet- timers and ribbon writers. Thank you.

I have handed out about half of our 2022 team t-shirts. Please see me at practice to collect your t-shirt if you have not already done so. Please put your name on your t-shirt. We have 155 registered Sharks this summer and they all have a t-shirt that looks just like yours.

Don’t forget, we move to morning practices tomorrow Tuesday May 31. Meet signups are open for Meet#2, Roxboro Sharks host Hammond Hills Hammerheads on Tuesday June 7.

Go Sharks!

Jennifer Entrekin

2022 Roxboro Sharks Swim Team Manager

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