Season Updates: Team Suit Fittings, Core Positions (Knightrays), Welcome Session Link, One More Lap Signup Genius, Tryout Reminder, Parent Age Group Leaders
This is a big Splash with a lot of information!
Team Suit Fittings
- Every season, we learn new things about the team suits. There were things with last year's brand that we didn't love, so we are trying something new this year!
- Through Swim Outlet, we will offer two team suits, a more economical suit made by Sporti and a higher end suit made by TYR. Both suits will have the same design and will look very similar. You choose which brand you want. The design of the suit is substantially different from the past several years. Your swimmer is not required to purchase a new suit and plenty of swimmers will be wearing previous seasons' designs.
- Fitting Dates and Times: Tuesday, April 7 - Thursday, April 9 from 4:00-6:30 PM
- Location: James Lemos Pool
- Come to fittings before practice as your swimmer should be dry when they try on their suit.
- You need to place your order online (link to be provided) by Sunday, April 12th. This will guarantee arrival by May 11th before team pictures and Time Trials
- You can order suits later, but they will not be guaranteed to arrive in time for Time Trials.
- Little Rays do not need a team suit as these are only worn during meets.
Benicia Stingrays New Family Welcome & Information Session
- Open to new families only
- New Little Rays do not need to attend, as the majority of this meeting will be geared towards competitive team information.
- Meet Coach Steve, Team President, and Volunteer Coordinators to collect information and get your questions answered!
- Thursday, March 26: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/imr-jxdt-fgt
Or dial: (US) +1 662-626-3482 PIN: 446 856 678#
Core Positions (new position added!): Remember if you sign up, this fulfills your entire meet AND social volunteer requirement for the season. It does not fulfill any invitational/league meet volunteer requirements.
- Thank you to all of you who have agreed to come back in your core position role! We can't do it without you!
- We have a few positions we still need to fill.
- 6/Unders Boys' Shepherd
- 6/under Girls' Shepherd
- If you have a 6/under, please consider signing up to be a shepherd. The 6/unders require a lot of hand holding to get them to the correct lane during meets. The coaches are busy coaching so we need your help to deliver the littles to the correct location.
- This is a great job for parents of littles as you can be with your swimmer for the entire meet!
- Meet Starter
- This is for home meets (including Time Trials) only!
- Announce each event/heat, blow the whistle to prepare the swimmers, and press the little buzzy button to start each race.
- This is a fun and relatively low stress job and you have the best seat in the house!
- Knightrays Coordinator
- The Knightrays are our team spirit club. It was started several years ago by Coach Mariska to connect the older swimmers with the younger kids, and it has unified the team in so many ways.
- Once the summer season starts, The Knightrays (13/up swimmers) meet weekly to not so secretly design good luck posters for the 12/under swimmers for our League Championship Meet. These posters are delivered to the 12/unders homes the week of League Meet.
- We are looking for a parent and older swimmer to help organize this program. This will fulfill your entire volunteer requirement for the season. You should be organized and willing to host a large number of teengers at your home regularly. Reply to this email and Jill Magno can discuss with you in more detail.
Age Group Parent Coordinator
- Each age group (combined boys/girls) needs a parent to coordinate a gift basket that we will raffle off at the end of the season. This parent should collect cash donations from their age group families and put together a basket worth at least $100.
- This age group parent may (not must) coordinate age group outings (funded by the families) to picnics in the park, pizza outings, movies, etc.
- So far, we have:
- 6/unders: Claire Schwartz (Audrey and Harrison)
- 7/8's: Tammy Vidhyarkorn (Everly and Jadyn)
- 9/10's: Open
- 11/12's: Candace Mays Micelli (Madison)
- 13/14's: Amanda Leist (Autumn)
- 15-18's: Jill Magno (Evan)
- If you are a parent of an open age group, please reach out if you can fill this role. This will fulfill your social volunteer requirement for the season.
New Competitive Stingray Tryouts Reminder
- NEW 10/unders to COMPETITIVE Team (NOT Little Rays) must attend tryouts and swim 25 yards (one length) independently and safely across the pool.
- Thursday, March 19th from 4:30-5:30.
- Come in a suit with hair pulled back, goggles, towel, and cap if desired.
- Evan Magno (16-year-old Stingray and junior coach) has spent all year collecting gently used, donated swim gear. If you are interested in free team suits, spirit wear, backpacks, fins, etc please check out his signup genius. Everything is first-come, first-served. Please use common sense and only sign up for 1-2 items. If items remain after a week or two, feel free to sign up for more items.
- If you sign up for an item, Evan will email you his address so you can pick up items from his porch.
- Some of his emails do not go through to recipients (spam filters seem to filter out his One More Lap email address). If you sign up for an item and do not hear from him within 48 hours, please email beniciastingrays@bsrswim.org to coordinate the pick-up of your item.
- If you have outgrown, gently used items to donate, he will pick them up from your porch. Please email him at onemorelap94510@gmail.com
- Click here for the signup genius link!
Save the Dates!
- Tryouts for New Competitive Team Members
- Thursday, March 19th from 4:30-5:30 PM
- New Family Zoom
- Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 PM
- Spring Practice Begins
- Monday, April 6th
- Team Suit Fittings
- Tuesday, April 7th - Thursday, April 9th from 4:00-6:30 PM
- Welcome Party
- Sunday, April 19th, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- Picture Day for the Competitive Stingrays
- Friday, May 15th at 4:15
