Attention Barracudas...

We’ve had two great days at the pool - We LOVE seeing all of our "veteran" Barracudas back at practice and we LOVE getting to know our new Barracudas!

We understand it is a crazy time of year and most people can't make every practice during the week - please just come when you can!

Just a few things...

**New Parent Meetings are this Friday, May 16, the last 10 minutes of your child's practice.

**Picture Day is Monday, May 19 - Individuals at 4pm, Team at 5pm.

Please arrive by 4:50pm for the team picture (if not doing individuals) and wear your TEAM SUIT!!

Speaking of team suits, the new team suits should arrive this week and we'll get them handed out at practice this week.

If you ordered after the deadline and paid shipping, you should be getting your suit sent to your home.

**Our Practice Meet will be on Thursday, May 22 at 6 pm - mark the date!

We know this is a busy time and people have other obligations - we do this meet as a "trial run" for everybody!

From the concessions crew, to the timers, to the coaches, to the new swimmers...it will be a great night!

This serves as our "time trials" night, too!

**IMPORTANT regarding meet sign ups – NEW THIS YEAR with our great website SWIMTOPIA**

We no longer have paper sign out sheets. Via SwimTopia you will now:

Declare for all swim meets. Yes you will be there, or no not attending.

You will have 5 choices from a dropdown menu….

Once you see it, you will get it…it’s really easy and quick….you can even say I will be there but don’t want to be in a rely.

So -- you will go here: https://bradshawfarm.swimtopia.com/swim_meets

For instance for the Practice Meet you’ll see this:

Click “Swim Sign-up” ….

Then you and your child get to pick what they swim….with the understanding that if too many kids sign up for the same event, Coach Jonny will move kids around.

Keep this in mind when signing up your child/children (you will also see this info when you sign your child into meets on swimtopia):

Each swimmer may swim in a maximum of 3 events plus relays: (( with exception of practice meet – you can sign up for everything as we use it as time trials ))

6 and under events:

25 freestyle, 25 backstroke, 100 freestyle relay

7&8, 9&10 year old events:

25 freestyle, 25 backstroke, 25 breaststroke, 25 butterfly, 50 freestyle, 100 IM

100 freestyle relay, 100 medley relay

11&12, 13&14, 15-18 year old events:

50 freestyle, 50 backstroke, 50 breaststroke, 50 butterfly, 100 freestyle, 100 IM

200 freestyle relay, 200 medley relay

Everyone will need to sign in/out by the FRIDAY PRIOR TO EACH MEET….so for the practice meet, you’ll need to sign in/out by this Friday, May 16^th, by 7pm.

We have opened up all the meets….so you can go ahead and sign up for everything this summer and get a head start on it!

** We would like to ask parents once again this year to help with donating drinks for our Meet Concessions Team.

This saves our team lots of money and is fairly painless to you...Please bring the following this week or next to practice:

Last names:

A-H - Water

I-M - Soda (Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite)

N-Z - Gatorade or PowerAde

or

a $5.00 donation fee

THANK YOU for helping our team cut down on costs!

**Tshirts are in...if you haven't picked yours up - please see us during practice to get your Barracudas team shirt.

**Opt-in for TEXT message alerts!We have another AWESOME tool for our team this year.It's called Sendhub - you can text BRADSHAW to 404-975-1389 to OPT-IN to our alerts network.
We will use this to instantly text you this summer about weather delays, practice cancellations, emergency info, etc in real time.

**No swimming in pool if it's not your practice time. This is for safety reasons during practice since there are not lifeguards on duty.

**First Barracudas story posted with pictures - http://hollysprings.patch.com/groups/bradshaw-barracudas-swim-teams-blog/p/barracudas-gettin-busy

Please feel free to contact us with any questions!!

Thanks! Happy swimming!

Anne Davis and Tori Blase
Bradshaw Farm Swim Team Co-Coordinators, 2014