Secret Swimmer week begins on Monday, July 11!

Your swimmer will bring home the form to fill out if they’d like to participate this year. Please return the form to one of the coaches at practice or the meet by Thursday, July 7th. If you are unable to attend practice this week and would still like to participate, please fill out this form and return it via email at westwoodfarmsswimteam@gmail.com by Thursday, 7/7 at 9 pm. This is a firm deadline!

Form

If your child is participating, they will receive an envelope with his/her swimmer’s name in it at practice on Friday. If your swimmer(s) will not be at practice on Friday, you must pick up your envelope from the bin at 12355 Steeplechase Lane by Friday at 9 pm.

Please only sign up if you can commit to delivering one package per day for the entire week.

If you’re new to the swim team, Secret Swimmer functions much like Secret Santa. Your child will be assigned another swimmer. During the course of the week of July 11th, your swimmer will drop treats/gifts on the doorstep of their assigned swimmer each evening, Monday-Thursday. On Friday morning, at Champs practice, your swimmer will hand-deliver a treat and reveal him/herself. To give you a basic guideline, gifts like candy, gum, small Lego sets, jump ropes, $5 restaurant gift cards, hula hoops, silly string, goggles, pool toys, chalk, Sharpies, beach towels, cards, and games are all appropriate. Be creative!

The main purpose of the Secret Swimmer program is to build team camaraderie, excitement, and momentum for Champs. And to have fun!

Keep these basic guidelines in mind when selecting and delivering gifts:

• Spend approximately $20 total for treats over the course of the five days.
• Deliver one treat (wrapped if size and shape allow) to your secret swimmer’s house M-Th before 9 pm. Try not to get caught! Think of ding dong ditch, or just simply place it on the porch.
• Even if you’re not swimming at Champs, try to attend Champs practice briefly to swap gifts. No one likes to be disappointed by not being able to deliver or receive a gift on this day!
• Be sure to label your deliveries with the swimmer’s name, which is especially important in multi-swimmer households, and write some kind of message or encouragement on your gifts/gift bag.
• You may be as creative with gifts as you’d like. For example, some families like to do swimming-related or Champs-related gifts, ie. a deck of Go Fish cards with a message like, “Swim like a fish at Champs!”
• Send questions via email to westwoodfarmsswimteam@gmail.com

The Championship meet is on Saturday, July 16th (starts at 9:30 am).

Please complete the form for your swimmer(s) regardless of attendance by this Friday, July 8th by 10pm. This is an entire league meet and the most important meet of the year. The medals, ribbons, and coaches’ awards will be given to the swimmers the following Monday morning after Champs.

PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM by Friday at 10 pm.
Google Form

This is a firm deadline adding, adjusting, and removing swimmers is not possible. There are multiple meetings to get the meet setup correctly across the league over the next 10 days.

The requested events made on the form may not be selected by the coaches in order to give the team and swimmers the best chance at success.

The results are posted on the website under the documents section. We won tonight’s meet and again have seen many swimmers improve. The important parts of these meets are the improvement in our swimmers and the experience to prepare us for our final Champs meet (Saturday, July 16).

Please remember to sign your swimmers up for the final regular-season meet of the season (under Meet Signup menu on the website ). The meet is against the Rec Center and they have a strong team, but we know the Barracudas will swim and attack together.

Reminders

• The meet is Thursday at 5:30 pm Swimmers should be there at 4:30 pm
• Westwood Farms Pool
• Sign up using our Google form to ensure your child is entered into the meet
• Theme: Cleveland Sports and Red & Blue
• Look out for a FUN parent relay at the meet!!!!! Sign Up/form coming soon

Happy 4th of July!
Reminder NO practice July 4-5, 2022. Practice resumes July 6, 2022
Champs is coming up and we will have our fun secret swimmer—details on both coming soon.

Please remember to bring back the swimmer of the meet signs tomorrow at practice.

Thanks to everyone for helping out with the Giant Eagle Strongsville donut pick-up on Fridays! Here are the sign ups for the remainder of the season (Monday 7.18 is still OPEN):

07/01/2022
EJ Emily Jevec

07/08/2022
KA Kisha Avon

07/15/2022
EJ Emily Jevec

07/18/2022
OPEN SPOT

Clerk: Tera & Mike Thomas

Timers:
Leah Haber
Summer Pinney
Sean Nemeth
Julie Hein
Jeff Schmersal
Lucy Anguilano

Scoring: Curt Bissell

Awards:
Michelle Dunn
Kelly Kenderes

Thanks!!!