Hello Again Marlin Family,

A new day brings our next steps to check off preparing for our meet season to get started next Thursday.

First thing - A final reminder - We will have practice on Friday (tomorrow) morning - the times are on the website practice schedule tab... Practice Schedule - LONGLAKE MARLINS (swimtopia.com)

Second thing - It seems the volunteer job sign-ups are going well. Thanks for doing your part on the volunteer front. Just a reminder, all 5 meets are open for sign-ups.

Third thing - So the one other area of "volunteering" that we have is concessions donations - this helps our concessions function as a fundraiser. These donations are for Home Meets only - you can sign up and bring your item to us at any practice session, but the perishable items (fruits & ice) should be delivered on meet day. These sign-ups will be in the same location as the volunteer sign-ups once they are turned on - so if you look at the two home meets on the meet schedule, directly under those will be another event looking similar to this...  

The time stated is our practice time block, not the meet time - the time is based on the drop-off time, but you can drop off the bottled drinks any day during practice, it doesn't have to be on the meet day, if fact we would prefer it's earlier.

You will click on the sign-ups options just like you did for the meet jobs and follow the same process to sign up for the items.

THE CONCESSIONS DONATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SIGN-UP AT 6 PM TODAY (THURSDAY, MAY 26TH)

AND LASTLY AND EXTREMELY IMPORTANT >>> SWIMMER MEET ATTENDANCE DECLARATION (MEET ENTRY)

This is very important and time-sensitive! The process of building a meet, assigning every swimmer's events, putting together relay teams, and being sure everyone is swimming the right number of events and doing all this in a day requires us to know who will be at the meet and who won't. One swimmer changing if they are coming or not, or worse, not telling us anything, can create a massive headache - one kid can cause us to change a dozen other kids events. We know kids can get sick or injured at the last minute and we deal with those situations but that just makes it more important that we have accurate attendance information on all the other swimmers. So - I'll get off my "soapbox" now and get to the instructions ; ) ....

You have to go to the same spot as volunteering and donating - the Meets & Events page on the website, click on Meet Entry, and tell us if your child will be attending or not and also if they will arrive late or leave early so we know if they are available for the relays which are at the beginning and the end of a meet. 

SWIMMER ATTENDANCE SIGN-UPS OPEN THIS EVENING (THURSDAY, MAY 26TH) AT 6 PM!

When this opens up you will only be declaring your swimmers' attendance for next week's June 2nd meet. For the Thursday meets (the first 4 of our 5 meets).....  The Swimmer Attendance sign-ups will open each Thursday at 6pm for the following weeks meet. So while you're at one swim meet you can declare your swimmer for the next week's meet. The cut-off for declaring your child's attendance is Tuesday (2 days before the meet) at Noon but the earlier you declare their attendance the better for our planning.

Here is the link to the Meets & Events tab for Swimmer Sign-ups, Donations sign-ups, as well as the Volunteer sign-ups that opened last night - all these will be available at 6pm this evening...

Meets & Events - LONGLAKE MARLINS (swimtopia.com)

Reach out with any questions - thanks - GO MARLINS!