Our Eleven Years Old and Older Swimmers were great on Saturday! They competed hard and we watched our kids drop more and more time in every event. Our swimmers came up short on the score but we are proud of them for how hard they competed. We even watched a couple of our swimmers set pool records. The meet score was Towne Lake Wake -580.5 to JV Stars – 268.5. Meet results are attached.

Thank you for everyone’s assistance at the meet on Saturday!!!

Way to go for our Invitational Swimmers at the Lone Star Classic hosted by Fleet today!!! The JV Stars are the champions of the small team division. Our swimmers did a great job and should be proud of how they swam.

Please review the email. We send these emails to inform everyone about all the team’s events each week. If you ever have a question about when or where a team event will be occurring, the answer is in this email.

Our 10 year old and younger swimmers hit the road this week! The Copperfield Dolphins will be hosting our older swimmers at the Copperfield pool. The Copperfield pool is located at 7703 Park Falls Houston TX 77095. Additional information on the meet is below.

Practice

WE SWITCH TO MORNING PRACTICES THIS WEEK. The following will be the schedule for morning practices:

6:30 am – 7:00 am – 6 & unders

7:00 am – 7:40 am – 7 – 8 years old

7:40 am – 8:20 am – 9 – 10 years old

8:20 am – 9:40 am – 11 years old and older (the coaches may split this practice up but the coaches will handle that at the first morning practice).

Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we will see everyone in the morning!

End of Season Invitational Swim Meets

The JV Stars will be participating in two end of season invitational swim meets. 

The first is the Ponderosa Invitational at the Cy-Fair Natatorium located at 12550 Windfern Rd., Houston, TX 77064. The Ponderosa Invitational is for the fastest swimmers in the Northwest Aquatic League! It is truly an accomplishment for a swimmer that achieve a qualifying time for this meet. To check if your swimmer has qualified and to register your swimmer, please logon to the team’s website and check the swim meet section! It is $10 for each individual event your swimmer(s) enter in. The team pays for all relay events.

We will also be participating in the Red, White and Blue Invitational Swim Meet hosted by Fleet at the Fleet Aquatic Center located at 14654 Spring Cypress Road, Cypress, TX 77429. Red, White and Blue has two qualifying standards and is a fun and fast swim meet. To check if your swimmer has qualified and to register your swimmer please logon to the team’s website and check the swim meet section! It is $10 for each individual event your swimmer(s) enter in. The team pays for all relay events.

If your swimmer qualifies for either of these meets (or both), the coaches and team STRONGLY ENCOURAGE them to enter and compete in these events. First, we want our swimmers competing against the very best in NWAL. Swimming in faster swim meets only helps your swimmer to improve. Second, your swimmer gets an extra week of practice to work on their swim strokes. If your swimmer qualifies for either end-of-season invitational, sign them up and attend!

Volunteers Needed For Saturday’s Swim Meet at Copperfield

We have a few volunteer jobs open this week and we have more than enough families to fill these jobs (runner, timers & scribes needed). GO AND SIGN UP NOW IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED YOUR VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS. IF YOU DO NOT MEET THE VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENT, THE TEAM WILL DEPOSIT YOUR FAMILY’S VOLUNTEER CHECK. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Swim Meet Information

Copperfield’s pool is at 7703 Park Falls Houston TX 77095.

There is parking along the streets surrounding the pool (do not park in front of fire hydrants and mailboxes). Do not park in the pool’s parking lot.

Our team set up will be outside the pool’s fenced area. If looking at the pool’s main entrance, our set up area will be to the left between the pool and bayou.

Concessions are available. Bring some cash or your credit cards to keep the swimmers and yourself feed and hydrated throughout the swim meet.

Please check your swimmers in by 7:15 a.m. We will have poster-boards set up near our team set-up. Your swimmers will be listed along with each event that they will be competing in. Just place a check next to their name and remember to write down their event numbers. If you are running a little late, please contact a friend to sign your swimmer in.

Swim warm-ups for the JV Stars begins at 7:40 a.m.

Volunteer Information

All volunteers need to check in as well. A volunteer check in poster board will also be set up on a fence near our team set-up. Officials will have a meeting at 7:45 am. Timers & Scribes and Ready Bench volunteers will have separate meetings on the deck at approximately 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Need to change you volunteer session? Each family needs to earn 2 volunteer sessions. If you need to change sessions or remove yourself from a volunteer session, follow these steps:

Go to www.jerseyvillage.swimtopia.com

Login to your account via the login link at the top right hand corner of the website.

Click “Swim Meet” tab.

Click “JOB SIGNUP” link for correct swim meet.

Click “Sign up Jobs”.

You can then change your selections for that swim meet.

Missing the Meet?

If one or more of your swimmers will be missing the swim meet this week, you will need to change their status to “not attending this meet” on the website. The deadline for withdrawing your swimmer(s) from the swim meet is Tuesday, May 11 at 11:30 PM.

To indicate that your swimmer(s) will be missing the meet, follow these steps:

Go to www.jerseyvillage.swimtopia.com

Login to your account via the login link at the top right hand corner of the website.

Click on the “Swim Meets” tab.

Click on the “MEET ENTRY” tab next to Saturday’s Swim Meet.

All of your swimmers will then be listed. Click “Edit” and then change the status of each swimmer that will not be attending the meet to “not attending this meet.”

Then, you must click “Save” or your changes will not be registered in the system.

By selecting “not attending this meet”, the team will be unable to enter your swimmer in the swim meet. If your swimmer is attending, you do not need to go through this process. The assumption is that “undeclared” swimmers will be attending and entered.

Want to Leave a Note for the Coaches?

You can leave notes for the coaches about your swimmer. For example, if your swimmer will be leaving early and will not be present for the free-style relays, you will need to leave the coaches a note. Go through the same process for missing a swim meet. Except, select “Attending this meet”. That will activate a note section for you to leave a short message. After typing the message, you must click “Save”. If you do not, your message will not be saved in the system.

Heat Sheets

On Friday, the team will email out the Heat Sheets for Saturday’s swim meet.

Thank you and I hope everyone has a great week!