ECI Registration Reminder, Torchlight July 3rd Parade Info, Spirit Wear Update; Ahi Meet, 11/12 Outing, League Meet Art Contest

Benicia Stingrays

 

Hi Team,

 

ECI Registration

  • Reminder to register for ECI ASAP.  If Batle of the Ages was any indication, your swimmer will likely PR at this meet!!!  Registration is due on Wednesday, June 28th so get your entries in ASAP. Here is all of the ECI information!
  • No late entries will be accepted because our invitational coordinators and Coach Mariska need to consolidate the entries and submit them to the host team ASAP.  

 

Torchlight July 3rd Parade

  • Every year, the Benicia Stingrays participate in the July 3rd Torchlight Parade.
  • Meet up
    • Meet near the First Street Greens/Sailor Jacks at the end of First Street (exact location and time will be announced closer to the parade. possibly even on the date of the parade itself).  Meet up time will be approximately 6:00-6:15ish pm.  Remember that you will have to park quite a distance away, so keep this in mind when planning  your evening.  
  • Volunteer Jobs:  Check in with Volunteer Coordinator Bekki Callaway to get credit for fulfilling your job. 
    • Adult volunteers walkers are responsible for keeping order to the swimmers, preventing crowding, and not allowing kids to lag behind.  Your job is to chaperone.
    • Adult Wagon Puller Volunteers:   Your job is to pull the wagons that we will fill with candy and light snacks for the kids.  You can also pull small kids in the wagons as the wagons are cleared out of supplies.  
  • We will walk as a team down First Street.  If you bring a wagon to tow your Littles, make it fun!  Decorate it in red, white, and blue!  Add ribbons or balloons!  Make it festive!  We will be led down the parade route by a red Jeep.  
  • Parade will start promptly at 6:30 pm.  
  • Bring a swim cap to hold candy which we can HAND OUT to the crowd.  FOR SAFETY REASONS, THERE WILL BE NO THROWING OR DUMPING OF CANDY OR OTHER OBJECTS ON TO THE STREET OR INTO THE SPECTATOR AREAS.  
  • Wear your most festive red, white, and blue clothes and/or your Benicia Stingray spirit wear, hats, etc.  
  • Entries must remain 20 feet (2 car lengths) from the group in front of them.  
  • Older swimmers can help hold banners that we need to carry in the parade.
  • The parade ends right before Military, next to the park.  The city asks us to immediately exit to the right towards the library.  If your child is walking in the parade without you, please promptly pick them up at the end of First Street, veering off towards the library.

 

July 4th

  • No practice, enjoy your day off! 

 

Spiritwear Update

  • We are so sorry, but the order got lost by the shipping carrier (this is not the vendor's fault; it is the shipping carrier's fault).  
  • A new order has been expedited and should be here later this week.
  • If you ordered items with the "non-retro design", those items did arrive and you can look for Brieanne Marshall on the pool deck and she will get it to you.  
  • Anything with the retro logo or embroidery will be here soon.
  • Thank you for your patience!!!

 

Unclaimed Team Shirts

  • If your swimmer did not attend Time Trials and did not get their team shirt, they will be filed in the family folders for you to pick up.

 

11/12 Outing

  • What:  Laser Tag and Skippolini's Pizza
  • When:  June 29 4-6pm
  • Where:   QZar Laser Tag, 2295 Willow Pass Rd, Concord 
  • The team will pay for 2 games of laser tag for each swimmer.  Please bring $15-$20 for drinks and pizza at Skippolinis after.
  • Drop off your swimmer at Qzar at 4:00pm.  We will play 2 games and walk to Skippolinis. 
  • You must fill out this waiver/consent form.  They ask you to print it out and bring it with  you:
  • You must also sign the BSR permission slip as well:
  • Parents pick up at approximately 6pm at Skippolinis:  2001 Salvio St, Concord
     
     

League Meet Art Contest

  • Details here
  • Turn your swimmer's entry into the Blankenship Family Folder by Friday, June 30th.