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Pleasant Hill Dolfin Meet Info - No Meet Program Yet Location: College Park High School, 201 Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 (Note that this is a different location from 2024!!!) Warm Ups: Pleasant Hill 4:30 pm, Stingrays 5:00 pm Meet Start Time: 5:30 pm For Wednesday night meets, each swimmer is restricted to 2 individual events and 2 relays Event Order: This is a non-League meet and Pleasant Hill's League swims events in a different order than our league. The order of events will be Medley Relay, IM, Free,...

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Hey Team, As we are winding down the season, please read every NewSplash so you do not miss critical information! Spirit Week: July 21st - July 25th The last week of regular practice (so NEXT week, Monday, July 21st- Friday, July 25th) is Spirit Week! Every day has a fun theme to pump up the kids for our League Championship Meet! So that you can plan: The theme for each day is Monday - The Future is Bright! Wear neon colors & glasses to practice. Tuesday - Anything but a...

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Private Lesson with Coach Steve/Miguel Raffle Winners for Wednesday, July 16th Congratulations to our raffle winners! Coach Steve Winners 1:00 Trevor Ochs 1:20 Iris Patten 1:40 Malia Langi Coach Miguel Winners 12:00 Tacdol (I wonder which one gets the lesson!!!) 12:30 Lukas Barnum Tickets for the last batch of lessons (Wednesday, July 23rd) with both coaches go on sale next week. The drawing will be held on Friday, July 18th. Jeanne will be on vacation so just find a board member on deck to purchase your tickets! League Meet Registration...

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Hi ECI Families, ECI sent an update that they have more swimmers participating than anticipated. As such, the final event is scheduled to finish around 5:00 on Saturday and maybe 4:00 on Sunday. Because of this, all of the volunteer shifts have increased by 15 minutes. Please discard the previous volunteer schedule and go by this new schedule. A couple of other changes were made to the schedule, so please make sure you go by the new schedule for your shift. As a reminder, please check in with Jill Magno...

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Hi Stingrays, It is hard to believe, but we are already talking about Fall Swim. Registration for Fall Swim is not yet open, but so you can plan for the Fall season, here are the preliminary Fall Swim plans. Practice Days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Fall Swim Practice Season: Monday, August 18-Wednesday, October 22nd Practice Times 6/unders: 4:30-5:15 7-10 year olds: 4:30-5:30 11/ups: 5:30-6:30 We may need to make adjustments to the schedule for the last week of fall swim if the pool closes early due to a lack of...

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Hi Team, You will be getting many NewsSplashes as we head into the last few weeks of our season, so please read them carefully so you do not miss deadlines or important updates. Important Deadlines TODAY, Wednesday, July 7th: Deadline to register for the Pleasant Hill Dolphins Meet held on Wednesday, July 16th. Note that this meet will take place at College Park High School (not the Middle School where it is normally held) Friday, July 11th: Deadline to register for League Meet. We want ALL Stingrays to compete at...

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Hi Stingrays, We hope you had a nice 4th and are ready to get back into the swing of practice!!!! We have one of our biggest meets of the season coming up so let's get pumped for ECI!!!! But first, a little business with a lost necklace.... Lost Gold Necklace Grady Hallgren (11/12) lost a gold necklace on the pool deck during practice. If your swimmer picked it up with the intent to turn it in to the lost and found, please return it to Grady. Thanks! ECI Information Rough...

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Great job against Martinez!!!! Here is a note from Coach Steve: Great meet last Wednesday Stingrays! We had a TON of personal best times (42%), and the majority of those came from all of our Little rays. This was the first time they all had to swim unassisted and they CRUSHED IT!!! So, proud of them and all the junior coaches for all the time, effort, and support! We also had 10 new medal times. 1 new county time Conor Smith 13-14 boys Breaststroke, and Valerie Vargas broke the pool...

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Free Swim Caps If you STILL haven't received your free team cap (and your purchased your team suit online this year), the caps will be in a labeled box near the family folder cart starting on Monday. Please do not take one if you already took one or you did not purchase a new full price team suit this year from the Q website. League Program Ad Sales The League is selling ad space in the League Meet Program to individual families to allow them to wish their swimmer good...

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Happy almost July 4th! Great job at the Martinez meet yesterday!!! Parade Details Assembly area for all entries will be staged on East Second, B Street, and on First Street promenade. They have not given us our exact number for the parade so let's meet at the same place we did last year--on B Street near the First Street Greens. Be on the lookout for swim team families/t shirts and if you’d like to bring a wagon you’re welcome to. Rememebr if you are a volunteer wagon puller bring your...