Hi Rapids,

Happy Friday to everyone! THANK YOU so much to every single parent, grandparent, child, coach...everyone that helped us time events this morning to be able to have times going into next week for most events. We absolutely could not have done this without your help, thank you!

Please find the results from Time Trials attached. Be kind and patient, if a time is missing or just looks wrong, please let me know. I had to hand type these in and do not have a verifier.

NEXT WEEK:

WE DO NOT PRACTICE ON MEMORIAL DAY. So we will see everyone Tuesday morning for normal practices.

Tuesday evening (5pm) we host Hammond Hills, they are a neighborhood in Aiken so please be gracious and welcoming since they are driving all this way to swim against us.

IMPORTANT STUFF:

• If you are biking to practice - please do not bike across Washington Rd. I was notified that what looked like one of our swimmers coming to practice was almost hit on Washington Rd. If you need help finding a ride, please contact me.
• Declare ATTENDING OR NOT ATTENDING - if you are undeclared you should have got an email from me, please take care of this in rapids.swimtopia.com ASAP.
• Parking - reminder no parking in the grass. Please see attached map for parking locations
• Meet Layout - We will have parents and spectators in the grassy area of the pool, bring your lawn chairs, tents, etc. The swimmers and the Shepherds will be on the concrete. We will not have a bouncer this year so you will be able to come up and film/cheer on your swimmer at the shallow end of the pool then move away to allow another family to film/cheer their swimmer. See the attached map for the layout.
• Volunteers - Attached is a list of volunteers for Tuesday's meet. Please check to see if you are volunteering and if not, we need the following jobs filled:
  • Finish Judge - 2nd half (most popular person, they hand out the duckies to heat winners)
  • Runners - 1st and 2nd (gather timer slips and walk them to the computer in the barn)
  • Shepherds for 12 & Under - 4 needed for first and 2nd half (organize the young swimmers behind the blocks)
  • Stroke & Turn Officials - I always need these...I need 5
  • Verifier 2nd Half - 2 needed (this job verifies the times from the computer slips)
• We cannot run a meet without volunteers so thank you so much for all of you that volunteer each meet and work both shifts most all meets. Please note volunteering is part of your requirement with registration. I will run a report and if you are found to be not fulfilling your volunteer requirement, your swimmer will not be able to swim. So make sure to check-in at each meet and get your volunteering credit and if you fill in, make sure we get your name so we can credit you as well.

Have a wonderful long and safe weekend everyone! Thank you again to you all for your support this week.

GO RAPIDS!

- Danielle Oldham -

On Behalf of Riverwood Rapids Swim Team Inc.