Good evening Pool Shark families,

As promised at the parent meeting, I have opened all meets and volunteer jobs to sign up for the season. 

How to Register for Jobs and Swims at a Meet:

Log in to the website. Login is found in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

If you can’t remember your password, click "Forgot your password" to reset your password.

Click on the "Meets & Events" tab to sign up for a swim meet.

Job Signup

• Click the green JOB SIGNUPtab and sign up for a volunteer shift. If your child is swimming in a home meet, at least 1 family member must sign up for a volunteer shift for that meet.
• Click Save Assignments.
• Click Back to Signup Calendar.

Swimmer Signup

• Click the green MEET ENTRY tab, and then click the black Edit tab under your athletes' names.
• For each of your athletes, select an option from the drop down list next to their names.
  • (undeclared)
  • Attending
  • Not Attending
• Specify your swimmer's availability for relays from the drop down options (if offered).
• Click Save to record your choices.

For those of you who could not make the meeting, below are my cliffnotes and information. Please let me know if you have any questions.

• Our Website is your main resource for EVERYTHING and emails. Team emails are always posted under “Recent News” on website.
• Practice schedule - Posted on website calendar - At indoor until school is out. June 8th - 5:30-6:30 outdoor pool - Regular summer practice schedule 6/9-7/29 - 6:45-7:45am indoor pool - 8-10am HP outdoor pool - 5:30-6:30pm outdoor pool. We encourage your swimmers to be at practice as much as possible to improve. Come to what works best for your schedule. You do not need to tell us if you are going to miss, but if you will be gone for a long period of time, or right before a meet, it is good to let a coach know.
• Behavior at practice/meets - We expect our swimmers to be respectful, polite and to display good sportsmanship at all times. Please have conversations with your swimmers about what that means. Our coaches will do their best to encourage these expectations, but hearing it from parents first is always helpful in keeping everyone on the same page.
• Inclement Weather - Too cold and/or storms could be moved to the indoor pool - check email
• Volunteer requirements - IT TAKES 250 WORK HOURS TO RUN A MEET. Every summer, Pool Sharks hosts 3 or 4 home meets and we rely on parents to volunteer at each one. A separate $100 conditional fee has been approved, not charged to your account. At least one family member must volunteer for a job at each home meet their child swims. At the end of the season, if volunteer requirements are fulfilled, you will not be charged. If they are not fulfilled your account will be charged the $100 fee. Funds will be deposited into the Pool Sharks General Fund for purchase of new equipment for the Pool Sharks program.
• Volunteer sign-up takes place ONLINE. I will open them as soon as I get home from this meeting! Training for any of the jobs will be provided. Most are pretty easy and most times you get the BEST viewing of your swimmer's events! We are looking for a team photographer to take pictures at meets and post to our FB page. This will count for your volunteer requirements!
• Meet and Volunteer sign up - Meets are optional. Meet sign ups are NOW OPEN on our website. Login into your account and go to "Information" and scroll down to "Meet sign up instructions" to sign up for both meets and volunteer shifts. Swimmers need to be signed up for meets by the Monday before the meet for our coaches to have time to put line ups together. This means swimmers need to be signed up by Monday, June 6th for our first meet on June 11th. You can sign up for meets all at once, or meet by meet. The meet deadline is a hard deadline. If it is missed, unfortunately your swimmer will not be able to swim in that meet. There will be weekly email reminders to help families remember the deadline. Our coaches choose what events your swimmer will swim for the meet. Please trust the process. Our coaches will challenge your swimmers to swim new events and/or events they may not be used to. We try to get our swimmers to swim every event at least once. If you will be arriving late, or need to leave early from a meet, please indicate so when you declare. There is a place to leave the coach a note to let them know if you have any special needs or requests for the meet.
• Meet Warm-ups/check in - Home team warms up from 7:10-7:30am, visiting team 7:30-7:50am. Please be sure to have your swimmer check in/say Hi to their coaches when they arrive! If you are unable to attend a meet you are signed up for, please our Head Coach Sydney Rall or Julie Goodman via email ASAP.
• Meet Awards/ribbons/heat winners - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place ribbons/points will be awarded to the appropriate places of the competition heat of that individual event. ONLY 1st place get ribbons and scores for relays. At OUR pool, we award ribbons for 4th, 5th and 6th place for 10 and unders on our team ONLY. Exhibition heats may receive ribbons depending on the pool. Heat winners may receive a prize/award depending on the pool. Results are posted throughout the meet. Ribbons will be available for pick up at Monday’s practice after the meet in your family folder in the Pool Shark mailboxes.
• DQ’s - All kids/swimmers get DQ’d at some point in their swimming career. Many of them multiple times. This is how we learn to correct our strokes/turns and starts. If your swimmer got DQ’d and you are not sure why, please contact their coach and encourage them to keep trying their best.
• Tri-County Conference Swim Meet 7/30-7/31 - This is the culminating event for our season. All 8 teams compete against each other in a championship meet over the course of 2 days. We are allowed 3 entries per event (time based). Not everyone is guaranteed to swim at conference. Please declare either way as soon as you know so coaches can start to put lineups together. Day 1 (Saturday) Individual events/prelims. Day 2 (Sunday) Relays and finals (Top 16) Swimmers who want to swim for conference final places MUST swim in at least 3 dual meets this summer. There will be more information on this meet as it gets closer.
• Clothing and apparel - I have clothing and apparel that was not picked up at the meeting. You can pick it up practice. Caps are delayed. We will get them to you as soon as they come in. 

If you have made it to the end of this email, Congratulations and THANK YOU!!! A lot of hard work has been put into preparing for this season, and we are excited to get it started! Please reach out if you have any questions. 

The Sauk Prairie Pool Shark Board