There is no swim practice Monday May 29th due to Memorial Day (and the pool party).

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SWIMMERS OF THE WEEK:

Our swimmers of the week are Oliver Gaskin and Ashley Herndon!! We congratulate these swimmers on their hard work and energy they continued to bring to practice every day this week.

COACH'S CORNER:

• Coach Hope: Hello everyone! This was another great week. On top of persevering through the weather, we have now created a strong foundation for all four of the strokes. The beginning of this week we started with breaststroke and butterfly. These strokes are typically more difficult, so we will spend more time improving them through the coming weeks. Continuing forward we will grow on these basic skills, and this will be developing further into technique and endurance work. These are things we will be working on going into time trials the following week. Thank you all again for another great week! I will see you all this week!!

• Coach Sophia: Hi everyone! We had a really good second week of practice and I’m already seeing a lot of progress with all of our swimmers. We had our first two practices for swamp pups and I’m really excited with the big turnout we had for both. Now that I know how future practices will look, I will continue to make adjustments to ensure that they all can get the most out of practices. We were able to introduce backstroke kick with most of the 6 and unders and we continued to practice freestyle. Next week is our last week before time trials so I will be focusing on backstroke and breaststroke to make sure that they are prepared. Feel free to reach out with any questions!

SWAMP PUPS: We had mentioned before that the swamp pups would be able to participate in fun Fridays however, after this first week of practice we have decided that we will be holding off on that for the time being. Possibly once the kids become more comfortable with getting fully in the water we can revisit the idea of doing it with them but for right now we will only be having the practices on Mondays and Wednesdays. Feel free to contact me with any questions regarding practices!

VOLUNTEER TRAINING: Do you have questions on the volunteer positions during meets? Are you unsure which positions would be good for your family? During practices on Tuesday, May 30 and Wednesday, May 31, Diane Johnson will be at the pool to explain each position and answer any questions! As a reminder, we ask that one parent per family volunteers at each swim meet.

MEMORIAL DAY PARTY: We’ll be having our annual Memorial Day Party on Monday, May 29 from 12-4pm. The SwampShack will be open throughout the event. We'll have a DJ from 12-3pm and fun pool games starting at 1pm. This is a great opportunity to celebrate the start of the season with your neighbors and to raise money for the Swampfoxxes. A few sign ups are still available on the website at https://oxxfordhunt.swimtopia.com/swim_meets/497143/shift_assignment. We look forward to seeing you there!

SWIM CAPS: Our new swim caps have arrived! Find Katie Richards during practice this week to get your swimmer's cap - remember each competitive swimmer receives a free swim cap this year.

TEAM MERCH: MEMORIAL DAY SALE - Save up to 20% off orders $199+ through Monday. Use code: MEMORIAL20: teamlocker.squadlocker.com/#/lockers/swampfoxx-swag-store. Our swim team earns 5% of all sales!

USED TEAM SWIMSUITS: Looking for a new-to-you suit or have a suit your swimmer has grown out of? Our team has a Swap Box to help exchange suits! Katie Richards will have it out at practices this week, but you can ask a lifeguard to get it out of the Swamp Shack any time.

Please let us know what questions you may have or use other parents as a resource, either in person at the practice or via our FB parents forum!

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