Hi Rapids,

Good evening, hopefully everyone had a wonderful Memorial weekend.

Couple Important Notes/Reminders:

1. Practices move to mornings tomorrow and we are practicing tomorrow morning before the meet. See website for reminder of practice times.

2. Swimmers should rest and drink plenty of water before returning to pool around 4:00/4:30pm. Warm-up is at 5pm for our team.

3. This meet is our out-of-division meet and we are swimming against a team from division 4. They are much smaller than we are, so good sportsmanship is expected from all swimmers and parents. Please be mindful of that expectation and talk with your swimmers on what they could do to help cheer on the other team.

PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. MARK SWIMMERS prior to meet with not only their events, heat, and lane but please also put their full names and age on their back shoulder. This helps our shepherds identify them and make sure they are in the right place. Also, note that you need to watch the numbers in the Shepherds' Bullpen for the events they are calling to for lining up.

2. If you are a VOLUNTEER: please sign-in as soon as getting to the pool. There will be a corkboard with the sign-in sheets on our side of the pool. *See attached those parents we have signed up for volunteer spots.

Concession Donations:

We would love some additional fruit, baked goods, and bags of ice donations for this meet. If you are getting ice, please text me (540-420-1797) so I can make sure we have enough.

Last but Not Least:

1. NO PARKING on grass - please try if possible to park at Middle School and take crosswalk over. This is a kind gesture to our visiting team families.

2. NO setting up on left side of pool - our team is on the right side of the pool. Please leave the left side for our visiting team.

3. MeetMobile App - we are going to try publishing this meet on MeetMobile. The meet is under Riverwood vs. Springlakes. See attached flyer on how to download the app.

Thank you to all of you that have read down to this sentence! Have a great rest of the night.

- Danielle Oldham