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Benicia Stingrays

Great job at Battle of the Ages Stingrays! We were a smaller but mighty crew with so many PR's and great races. The weekend was highlighted by Valerie Vargas (11/12) setting 3 new team age group records and Claire Smith (15-18) qualifying for County in backstroke! Now it's time to move on to the next invitational meet! If you registered your swimmer for ECI, please verify that their name is listed below. The swimmers listed below are who we have registration forms from. It is too late to submit a...

Benicia Stingrays

Hi Stingrays, Here are a your weekend updates! Raffle: Private Lessons With Our Coaches Get your $5 yellow raffle tickets for your chance at private lessons with Coach Steve!!! Tickets are $5 each and are sold at the snack bar on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during practice. The first drawing will take place on Juy 3rd for one of 3 lessons on July 9th The second drawing will take place on July 11th for one of 3 lessons on July 16th The third drawing will take place on July 18th...

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Pleasant Hill Dolfins Battle of the Ages Swim Invitational Saturday & Sunday, June 28th and 29th 2025 Additional Meet Information Location: College Park High School 201 Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 SEE YOU IN A FEW DAYS!!! FOR OUR BATTLE OF THE AGES SWIM INVITATIONAL! PROGRAMS & SET UP: Available for purchase on Friday, June 27th between 4pm-6pm, they are $10.00 each (print), digital will be available once printed programs are sold out for ($7.00) along with early set up of tents at that time! SHOUT-OUTS: Give a "Shout...

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Lapapalooza A huge thank you to all of our swimmers and families for turning up big time yesterday for Lapapalooza! We just about met our goal and raised almost $16,000!!!! A special shout-out to Rylee Smith and Iris Patten, our top two fundraisers, bringing in over $750 each! Also, great job to our top lap swimmers. By age group: 13 and Up: Justin Magno and Claire Smith 11-12: Nate Tacdol and Eva Thomsen 9-10: James Sauve and Isocele Sabe 7-8: Kaleb Hammerquist and Mila Roldan 6/under: Roland Newton and Malia...

Benicia Stingrays

Hi Stingray Families, It is a very busy week for the Stingrays! We have two quick updates: Lapapalooza volunteers We need a few more volunteers tomorrow. This will knock out one of your two social volunteer jobs if you work a shift! Please visit the job signup page to claim a shift! And, don't forget that the shift times have been updated: 8:00 Set up crew this should be quick! 8:30 timers 8:30 Food servers 8:30 Snack Table 8:30 Fundraising Table As a reminder, here are the swim times for...

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Thank you to everyone who signed up to work a volunteer shift at Lapapalooza! If you are signed up for a shift, please note that the shifts are a little bit shorter than what was originally listed on the job sign-up page. As swimmers will only be swimming from 9:00am to 12:00pm, please arrive per the below schedule: 8:00 Set up crew this should be quick! 8:30 timers 8:30 Food servers 8:30 Snack Table 8:30 Fundraising Table

Benicia Stingrays

Hi Battle Families, Please find the additional Battle information below! Remember that your volunteer job has already been assigned. Here is the volunteer schedule! Before you go to your timing or judging position, make sure you save Jen Smith's and Jill Magno's phone numbers to your phone in case your reliever does not show up or you need a bathroom break. VIP PARKING : We will be offering VIP parking passes in the Staff lot at College Park. These parking passes will be $30 advanced purchase per day and $40...

Benicia Stingrays

We have the Hercules results from yesterday along with this message from Coach Steve! Great meet yesterday STINGRAYS!!! We won the meet 377 to 335! I knew going in that it was going to be a close meet, and we really brought that Stingray spirit and speed to bring home a win! We had 109 personal best times out of 274 (40%), with 21(7%) DQ's. We also had 19 new medal times and 3 new county times!!! Congratultations to our new County Qualifiers: Viviana Bennigson: 6/under girls, 25 ytard butterfly...

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Great job today against Hercules!!!! Lost Apple Watch A swimmer in the 9/10 age group lost an Apple Watch at practice. If anyone happened to see it and picked it up, please contact Crystal Insel at 301-910-4022. The swimmer leaves for camp on Monday, so there is some urgency in finding the watch. Private Lessons with Coach Steve!!! Who wants private lessons from Coach Steve???!!!! Steve is raffling off weekly private lessons with him. If we receive city approval and raise enough money, we would like to purchase starting blocks...

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Lapapalooza If your swimmer plans to participate in Lapapalooza, please make sure to "commit them" to this activity on the website (just as you would do for a meet!) This is your last weekend to solicit donations for our biggest fundraiser of the year!!! Visit our fundraising site to make pledges. You can share this link with friends and families and share to social media! Don't forget that even if you are on vacation, hotel pool laps count too! Just email your laps swum to Jeanne and Andrea at fundraising@bsrswim.org!!!...