Hello Piranhas families!

Can you believe that we are already 40% of they way through our season? I can't either. We have 9 weeks of swimming left, which means that the swim meet portion of our season is really ramping up. We encourage families to attend as many swim meets as possible. Its a great way for swimmers to track their progress and motivate themselves to work hard in practice, plus its really fun to be on relays with the teammates they work so hard with every week. If you have to pick just two to attend, I would recommend our club meet on July 15h as well as Regionals which is the weekend of August 6th/7th at MNP (formerly Repsol in downtown Calgary). Regionals is our only preliminaries/finals meet of the season and its really exciting to swim in the morning and then qualify as one of the top 8 times in the age group to swim in finals. Some swimmers will qualify for provincials which are in Edmonton the following weekend, but for others Regionals marks the end of the season and its an exciting way to cap the season :)

For the remaining meets, I have set the sign up deadlines to be a bit earlier so that we can avoid the chaos of last minute changes to deadlines. The new deadlines are on swimtopia but I will list them here as well:

High River (June 24th/25th) - deadline is THIS THURSDAY (June 16th) at 8 pm

Calgary Tritons (July 8th/9th) - deadline is TUESDAY June 28th at 8 pm

Cochrane (July 15th/16th) - deadline is TUESDAY July 5th at 8 pm

Calgary Swordfish (July 23rd) - deadline is TUESDAY July 12th at 8 pm

Regionals (Aug 6th/7th) - deadline is SUNDAY July 24th at 8 pm

For regionals it is important for the coaches to know if you are willing to attend provincials if your swimmer qualifies. Many of the relay teams that we enter at regionals will qualify for provincials. If your swimmer is on a team that qualifies and decides not to attend provincials then we have to scratch the entire relay which would be heartbreaking for the other 3 swimmers (no substitutions are allowed).

Due to the swim meet schedule, the following practices are cancelled for Group 3

7- 8 pm Friday June 17th, Friday June 24^th and Friday July 8^th.

Friday July 15^th ALL practices are cancelled due to the Piranhas swim meet.

For those not going to provincials, the last practice will be Friday August 5th. Provincial qualifiers will swim August 8th to 11th, with group 1&2 qualifiers swimming from 5-6 pm and group 3 qualifiers swimming from 6-7 pm. The online calendar has been updated to reflect this so you don't have to try to remember it all now!

Finally to cap off this long email, I wanted to let everyone know that I updated our Club Records on the weekend. We had one record set last season which was Oliver Johnson in the boys 11-12 50m Fly with a time of 33.53. Well done Oliver!!

We also had several records broken at provincials in 2019 which hadn't been updated yet. Of note was the breaking of one of our oldest relay records on the books from way back in 2002. Congratulations to Evan Thibadeau, Rylan Carnegie, Reid Boukall and Jacob Corcoran for taking over 3 seconds off of a record that stood for 17 years with a time of 1:19.52 in the boys 4x25 8 & under Free Relay. Amazing!!

The club records are available to view at the very bottom of the "Team Information" tab on swimtopia. I believe they are also updated in our display cabinet at the pool.

Looking forward to seeing more records broken this season :)

One last thing before I go ... sorry that the link I sent out for the Okotoks entries did not work. The entries are available on the "Events" tab in the Okotoks meet section. Going forward that is where I will post individual and relay entries for each meet. I have also added all of the meet packages that have been published so far this season.

Enjoy your evening!
Coach Amy