Coach Rachel's Corner

Hey Guys!

Well four meets down, two to go! You guys did an incredible job at the meet this weekend. My stack of DQ slips was smaller than it has ever been! Most of you have been improving your times every week also. I am so proud of all the hard work you guys have been doing. I understand a lot of you have summer camps and other things going on this week. I appreciate those of you who are coming early to get in some practice time. I wish I could let everyone come to the night practice, but unfortunately for safety reasons and to be fair to everyone, we are only allowing those of you who are older than 13. I will be more than happy to write some workouts for you to do on your own time. I think it is very important to try to keep practicing as we are getting so close to the Championship at UT's swim center. Hopefully everyone is planning on swimming at Champs next weekend. It is so important to have all of you guys there. We have the sign up sheets for Champs out already so please sign up this week. Remember that you can only swim events that you have a legal time for from this year. If you have any questions about what you can swim, I will help you with that. The 6&U and 8&U and any of the new older swimmers will have a practice at UT this Sunday to check out the pool and get to see how the meet will be run. Anyone who has already been to UT does not need to come, this is only for people who have never been there.

This Friday at 5:30 we are going to have everyone meet at Zilker park for a fun group get together. You can bring your pets, a small dinner/picnic, blankets, kites, friends, and whatever else you want! We will be playing volleyball, soccer, tag, and basically having a blast! Everyone is invited so I hope all of you will come out.

The theme for this week's meet is going to be 80's. I want everyone to wear bright, loud colors like neon orange, bright pink, green, etc. I will give you more examples of what to wear at practice this week, but basically you should try to look as silly as possible and you will succeed in the 80's look :0).

I can't believe the season is almost over! I am thinking about offering a swimming clinic after swim team is over, so if you are interested in something like that please send me an email. I will bring a sign up sheet on Tuesday next week, for now I am still trying to figure out what a good time will be for this practice. For now, let's keep our eyes on the goal and keep working hard for the next couple of weeks. I love you guys!

Coach Rachel

P.S. Some of you have been having trouble getting in touch with me, so I wanted to give you my current email address. It is coach@shadyhollowstingrays.com. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!