MARLINS WEEKLY!!!
 December 16 2011
Dear Marlins Family Member,

We want to  strongly encourage all of you to sign up for text messaging.  WINTER is coming right around the corner.  We don't want anyone traveling through the snow to get to practice when it's been cancelled.  That's why we've implemented texting capability.  It's very simple and the link is included below or you can text umacmarlins to 84483 (the easiest way to sign-up).  After signing up please read on for our last minute updates.

Meet Reminders: Methacton vs UMAC

DIVING:

is at HOME, on FRIDAY.  Warm up at 6:30 PM; meet starts at 7 PM.  Divers should be at the pool by 6:15.

 

SWIMMING:

GIRLS are HOME (at last!).  Warm up at 1 PM;  meet starts at 1:30 PM.

BOYS are AWAY, at Methacton High School.  Warm up at 1:30;  Meet starts at 2 PM.  Methacton High school is at 1001 Kriebel Mill Road in Norristown

Please be sure to have your child at the pool 15 minutes before warm up is scheduled to start; girls should arrive by 12:45 at the high school, and boys at 1:15 at Methacton.

 

MEET NOTES:

Parents, it is CRITICAL that you let the coaches know if your child will NOT be swimming this week;  parents of boys should email Coach Sergey at umacboyscoach11@gmail.com,   girls should email Coach Tim at umacgirlscoach@gmail.com .  Please do this by WEDNESDAY.   Last minute emergencies or illnesses on the day of the meet – in addition to emailing, please call as well.  Girls  - call Coach Tim at 484-868-4208;  Boys, call Coach Sergey at 248-470-0505.
Volunteers URGENTLY Needed

This week, the Girls are in need of a finish judge, and the boys team needs 3 deck parents and a finish judge.  If you can help, contact Melissa Faw at  fabfaws@verizon.net (girls) or Amy Vallette at avallette@verizon.net (boys).

ELECTRONICS AND VALUABLES AT SWIM MEETS

We strongly recommend against sending electronics or any valuables (water safe or otherwise) with your children to meets or practices.   While electronics can help keep children occupied during the waits between races, they are very vulnerable to the wet environment on pool deck and they cannot be secured.   If your child must bring a cell phone, please instruct him or her to keep it in a plastic bag at the bottom of her/his swim bag during the meet.  

Parents, please check swim bags after a meet to ensure that your child has brought home everything they brought with them, and nothing they did not.  See the note below about Lost and Found!

LOST AND FOUND

Swim meets are prime spots for lost and found items.  Swimmers often pack up in a rush after the meet is over, and because of the limited seating on deck, even the most careful can have trouble keeping their “stuff” all in on place during a meet.  

Therefore, we strongly recommend that parents look through their swimmers’ bags after each meet, to make SURE that a) all the stuff that went to the meet also came home; and b) that it is the SAME stuff.

If you find that you are missing something, OR that your swimmer has inadvertently picked up someone else’s something, please contact the website, and we will add it to this list.    Please provide an email address at which folks can reach you if they have found or lost the relevant item.

NB:  We STRONGLY recommend against bringing valuable items on deck during a swim meet, for all the reasons noted above.

LOST at the PVAC GIRLS MEET

*Villa Maria Athletics navy hoodie (part of a school phys ed uniform).   If found, contact Cheryl  Ferraioli at Cheryl.ferraioli@gmail.com. 

*UMAC Sweatshirt and blue tie-dyed T-shirt with the message Pain is temporary, Pride is forever”.  If found, contact Sienna Castaneda at scastaneda@umasd.gaggle.net .