Important Monster Splash Updates, Practice Update for Next Week

Benicia Stingrays

Hi Team,

 

Thank you to everyone who signed up for the Monster Splash Invitational!  We are super excited to have this event on Saturday!  Please be patient as there may be some kinks integrating the new registration system with our regular meet software, but we are also excited it is all coming together!  We want to use this year as a learning and growing year so that next year can be bigger and better!  

 

Volunteering

  • We need ALL participating families to sign up for a volunteer job. Unless Leslie Clements or Wendy Buresh have specifically spoken to you about working a non-posted volunteer job, ALL families should sign up for a job.  This includes board members and core volunteers.  
  • Visit the website and sign up for a meet job just as you would for a normal dual meet.  
  • This meet will be over fast.  Each family will work one shift for the entire meet, and it will likely be over by 11:00.  

 

Meet Schedule

  • 7:30AM:  Set Up and Take Down Team only enter through the side gate.  Check-in with Leslie Clements for direction. 
  • 8:00 AM:  Front doors open for all families.  
  • 8:00-8:25AM:  Stingrays Warmup
  • 8:30-8:55AM:  Non-Stingrays Warmup
  • 9:00:  National Anthem
  • 9:05AM:  Meet Start
  • Interspersed between the events will be fun races and games.  Look for these on the pool deck to get in on the action! 
  • The meet will end with some fun relays.  The relay teams will be announced closer to the meet.  If your swimmer has parts of a costume to wear during the relays, we encourage your swimmer to do so--think a devil tail, cat ears, etc....something fun that won't interfere with their ability to swim safely and, most importantly, fast!  

 

Bring a little cash or Zelle/Paypal with you.  We will have pumpkin decorating, pumpkin races, colored dot races, airbrush tattoos, a food truck, a snack bar, and more!  

 

 

Fall Swim Practice Schedule Next Week (Tuesday, October 22-Thursday, October 24)

  • It is hard to believe, but Fall Swim will come to a close next week.
  • Due to dwindling daylight hours, the pool closes at 6:00 beginning next week. 
  • Practice times will be adjusted accordingly
    • ​10/unders:  4:30-5:15
    • 11/ups:  5:15-6:00