Parkas

Girls who have parkas please bring those to the banquet so we can finish getting them embroidered!

Banquet - December 1st

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

The Banquet:

• When? December 1st at 6:00pm 
• Where? At school in the garage room (same place as last year)
• What to bring? 
• Your warm ups washed and in a plastic bag with your number on the outside. You must bring your warm up to receive your certificate for the season. 
• 9th and 10th graders: Desserts
• 11th and 12th graders: Drinks
• Pizza will be provided 

Pictures from state

If anyone has any pictures from state to send to the AD secretary please! Her email is cgroendyk@grcs.org :) they will be for the website and TV monitors. 

Practice at MVP 330-5

Calvin is not available for us to practice there due to them being closed today! We have MVP from 330-5 if you feel safe driving you can meet me at the main entrance to get checked in. 

Warm ups/fast suits reminder, Thursday meeting and the Schedule for the week

• Warm ups: A friendly reminder to please wash your warm ups and put them in a plastic bag with your number on the outside and bring them to a captain. Thank you to the following girls who already turned theirs in!
• Fast Suits: If you borrowed a suit for conference please bring those to a captain so we can get another use of them at the state meet, thank you!
• Thursday Meeting: We will have a meeting for everyone on the team during lunch to vote for next year captains and MVP. Location TBD!
• Schedule for the week:
• Monday: Practice 6-7:30
• Tuesday: Practice 6-7:30
• Wednesday: Practice 6-7:15
• Thursday: Practice 2-3:15 & then depart between 4:15-4:30 with a farewell from parents that are able to join. 
• Friday: Swim and Dive State Prelims at Oakland University. 
• Warm up 10 am
• Swim prelims 12pm
• Diving prelims start as soon as the 400 free relay ends
• Dinner at Macaroni Grill concluding diving 
• Saturday: Swim and Dive State Finals at Oakland University.
• Warm up at 10 am
• Swim and Dive Finals 12pm
• Meet back at Calvin for pick up!

Banquet slide show

Would anyone be kindly willing to create a slide show for the banquet? We have a lot of pictures saved! If you could email me that would greatly appreciated!

Team banquet

The team banquet will be on December 1st at school in the garage room starting at 6pm! Pizza will be provided and if freshman and sophomores could please bring desserts to share and juniors and seniors could bring drinks to share that would be great!

Second chance meet, Diving regionals, warm ups, speed suits and the schedule for state practice

GREAT JOB to everyone this past weekend at conference. Thank you to all those who supported the team (parents and friends) for a successful meet.

• Second Chance Meet: Tuesday
• Coach Christina will bring a car load of girls to the second chance meet on Tuesday. Meet at Calvin at 4:15. Warm up is at 5:30pm and the meet starts at 6:30pm. Please let me know by 10pm tonight if you want to swim in any event for Tuesday. 
• Diving Regionals: Thursday
• This will be held at EGR. Warm ups at 3pm and the meet starts at 5pm. Please come out and support Elena at regionals! 
• Warm ups
• These are due before the banquet. Please wash them and put them in a white plastic bag with your number on the outside. Give them to a captain at school (captains bring them to practice) or drop them off at Calvin any night between 6-7:30 in order to get your certification/ letter at the banquet :) 
• Speed Suits
• Please bring these to school tomorrow and give them to a captain so we can use them at state or get them back to their owner! We encourage everyone that really liked using them and currently doesn't have one to watch for sales and get one for next year.

• State Schedule
• Monday: Practice 6-8 pm (May get out 15 min. early Monday-Thursday)
• Tuesday: Practice 6-8 pm
• Wednesday: Practice 6-8pm
• Thursday: Practice 6-8 pm
• Friday: Practice 6-7:30 
• Saturday: Practice 10-11:30 

Pasta party & conference reminders

What an exciting week ahead!

We have a pasta party tomorrow night after practice which will be ready around 7:30 so if you are picking up anyone from practice plan on coming closer to 8/8:15!

Friday the girls are excused from school ALL DAY.

• Swimmers meet at 9:30 at EGR please let coaches, captains, seniors, etc know if you need a ride. 
• The bleachers open at 10:00 
• Swimming prelims starts at 12:00pm 
• Diving warm up is at 4:00 
• Diving starts at 5:30 (if you are not swimming in finals please stay to cheer on the divers :) ) 

Saturday the girls will meet at 9:30 at EGR

• Bleachers open at 10 am
• Those not competing in finals can show up at 11:30 on the pool deck dressed in team gear!
• Finals start at 12:00pm - shortly before finals start seniors will be recognized! 
• Team pizza party after at Vitales off of Leonard @ 5:00pm. Swimmers/divers eat for free and everyone else is $7. Please let Linda Oezer know if you haven't already :)