Hello Pool Shark families,

Tomorrow we will be hosting Cross Plains at our Outdoor Pool! If this is your first swim meet, please see the "Swim Meet 101" section under the "Resources" tab on our website, or click the link below to know what to expect and how to prepare. Swim meet 101

If for some reason your swimmer is NOT able to swim tomorrow and they were signed up for the meet, please email our head coaches Ashley Pape and Riley Talmage at [email protected] ASAP.

• Please arrive at 6:45 am. Our warm-ups will be from 7:10-7:30 am. Cross Plains will have the pool from 7:30-7:50. The meet will start at 8:00 am.
• We have 111 swimmers and Cross Plains is bringing 143 swimmers. This will be the largest amount of swimmers we have had at a home meet. We will do our best to move the meet along. We hope to finish by 12, but it may go a little later. 
• If you want to see what your swimmer is swimming in the meet, go to the "Meets and Events" tab on our website and click on the gray meet entry box (that is marked closed). You will be able to see your swimmer(s) and what they are scheduled to swim at the meet. Also, if you have not uploaded the free Swimtopia App, it is very helpful in signing your swimmer up for meets and seeing what they are swimming.
• Thank you to everyone who signed up to volunteer! All volunteers will need to check in with me, Julie Goodman, once you arrive and get set up. (Usually while the swimmers are warming up) I will be located in front of the boys locker room entrance/lifeguard office on the pool deck. You will then be told where to go and be trained for your job if needed. This is how you get credit for your volunteering, so please be sure to get checked in first thing in the morning.
• All timers MUST report to the Timer meeting at 7:45 am in front of the lifeguard office. We do not have extra timers for this meet. 
• The forecast for tomorrow is looking hot! Please come prepared with pop ups, sunscreen and plenty of water to keep yourself and our swimmers hydrated!
• The theme for Saturday's meet is Super Heroes! Come dressed as your favorite Super Hero to show some team spirit during the meet! (swimsuit underneath of course!)
• Concession stand fruit - At each home meet a portion of the team is asked to bring cut up fresh fruit in a container/ziplock bag to the concession stand upon arrival to be mixed and served as fruit cups. This meet will be families with the last names starting with L-R. The home meet on July 20th will be families S-Z. If you know you will be missing the meet you are assigned to bring fruit, please plan to bring it to a home meet you will be attending.
• Heat sheets will be for sale at the concession stand ($3). This week's concessions specials will include breakfast burritos and loaded nachos, along with other concession items! The concession stand is CASH ONLY.
• Clerk of course and flow of traffic. Swimmers will report to the gate by the concession stand to report for their events. Once they complete their races, they are to exit out the bathhouse through the locker rooms.
• Results - Final race results will be posted throughout the meet on the results board by the main entrance of the bathhouse. It takes about 20-30 minutes to post results after each event. All final results of the meet will be posted to our website under "Meet and Events", "Meet results" sometime after the meet on Saturday.
• Spectators will be allowed to sit in the bleacher area, and outside the fence, but are NOT allowed on deck. Please do NOT stand along the fence in front of the bleachers. You will be asked to either sit on the ground or move because it blocks the bleacher viewing area. We allow swimmers on deck to cheer at the end of the lanes for other swimmers. They should stay at the ends of the lanes and not move to the side of the pool or other areas on deck. They CANNOT be in the water AT ALL in other areas of the pool unless they are swimming. The ends of the lanes will be cleared for ALL 8 & UNDER events to make room for timers on that end of the pool. There will be deck stuarts to help enforce this, but we appreciate your help in talking to your swimmers about this before the meet.
• Team Records - Team Records are posted on our website under “Meets and Events”, “Team Records”. These records are for our team only, and must be swam in the Sauk Prairie Outdoor Pool. Team records are from 2014-present and will also be listed on our home meet heat sheets for each event.
• Team T-shirts - If you still have not received your free team t-shirt, I will have them to hand out at the meet. Please come see me by the boys locker room entrance during team warm-ups to pick up your swimmer(s) team shirt(s).
• Once your child is done swimming all the events they are signed up for, you may leave. If you are not sure, please ask a coach to be sure they are done swimming before you leave.
• Unfortunately, we have had some behavior issues at clerk of course recently. Please help remind your swimmers to only be in clerk of course if they are swimming the event that is being called, and to be respectful to all volunteers who are helping run the meet. As always, please continue to encourage them to display good sportsmanship, be good teammates, and have fun!

See you at the Pool!

The Sauk Prairie Pool Sharks board