Reminder for Friday County Activities

Benicia Stingrays

Hi County Families,

 

It's been fun having the smaller practice sizes all week!

 

One House Reminder

This is a reminder that tomorrow (Friday) at 11:30, the County Qualifiers will meet at One House for a County group lunch.  Families/siblings are invited to One House as well.  If your older swimmers are arriving without you, please make sure they have money for food.  

 

Camp Setup

Early setup will open tomorrow at noon.  Regular (open area) set up begins at 3:00 PM this year.  I don't have the map for this year's team location yet.  But, for the last two years, it has been a similar location.  Here is the camp map FROM LAST YEAR (note last year the open area opened at 2:00pm), to give you an idea of how camp is set up.  I will send out this year's map once we have it.  Tomorrow from noon to 3:00 PM, sales for County swag and programs will occur.  If you can bring cash, they often have a cash only line that goes MUCH faster.  The cell service is very weak there so digital payments do not always go through.  County swag will also be available at the meet.  Popular sizes usually sell out early. 

Car Decorating

On Friday at 6:00 PM, we will meet at the BMS parking lot so the kids can decorate each other's car windows with inspirational and good luck Stingray themed messages.  Please keep everything on the cars appropriate.  Andrea Meaders (Taylor's mom) will have the markers for tomorrow evening.  Come with clean windows!  

 

Great job families!  We are almost there.  Be prepared for a blazing hot weekend....bring fans, spray bottles, hats, gatorade, water, and whatever you have to keep your swimmers cool!  Thanks to our Stroke and Turn Judges (Gabe Salindong, Dave Patten, and John Freytag), our team has zero other volunteer requirements.  We all owe them because it is going to be brutally hot on the pool deck for them.  If you are there on Saturday for individual events, our own Ava Ambrose will be singing the National Anthem just before the first event of the day!  

 

Here is the order of events:

Saturday August 1st
9am-12pm – Free trials (15-18 50 free trials, all additional Free trials, Breast trials, 11&up IM timed finals)
12pm-1:00pm – Break (entire pool open for warmups for at least 45 minutes)
1:00pm-4:00pm – 15-18 50 Free finals, Medley Relay (timed finals), Free finals, Breast finals 
 
Sunday August 2nd:
9am-12pm – Back trials, Fly trials, 10&under IM (timed finals)
12pm-1:00pm - Break (entire pool open for warmups for at least 45 minutes)
1:00pm-4:00pm – Free Relay (timed finals), Back finals, Fly finals

Pre-meet warmups:

Both days the entire pool is open for warmups from 7:15-8:30am.   From 8:30am-8:50am, the pool is only available for 8&under swimmers.  There will be announcements for which lanes are available for racing starts.  Please follow instructions from meet officials and lifeguards during all warmup periods. There are no assigned lanes for teams during any warmup periods.