Fall Preview

First, please remember we are in a very fluid situation and some of the info below could change soon after this post!

I'm just hoping to give y'all a little guidance so we can plan for the upcoming school year and swim season.

Returning seniors, you're going to be taking charge of a lot this year.  Are you ready?

Community Service

The Birding & Nature Center can use our help.  I will ask Kari & Leon to give us guidance so we can do some work for them (while following the guidelines on virus protection).

Our community is hurting.  We have energy they can use.  If you know of organizations who can use that energy, please let a senior know so we can go to work.

Fundraising

The Button's have donated two (2) dozen kickboards for yard signs.  To keep this project rolling, our seniors will watch a short video, then line up a few materials (zip ties, glue, wooden stakes).  Throw in a little labor, and voila!  Yard signs!

Y'all can decide how much to charge for rental or purchase of each sign.  Since we'd like to extend the opportunity to our junior high swimmers/divers, along with community sponsors, we'll need to buy more kickboards as we go along.

I'll let y'all figure out what to put on them.  Swimmer name for athlete?  Logo for sponsor?

RankOne

Please check your status in RankOne.  I've starting putting together HS & JH rosters and am seeing plenty of "red", meaning we need to catch up on paperwork!  Link on our athletics site is here

If you know someone who plans to swim/dive this year that wasn't on last year's roster, please have them email me ASAP!

sportsYou

Our "instant" messaging app for BCHS/BCJH Swimming/Diving is sportsYou.  Much of our communication can be done via this method.  Please make sure athletes & parents are using this:

Meetings

We'll have Zoom team and parent meetings later this month.  I'll post that info on sportsYou.  If you need to sign up with Zoom, get started here

Pool Work Day

We should find a Saturday morning in late August or early September and spend a few hours setting up the breezeway for dry-land training.  We'll also need to get our lane ropes set up for "yeter" training and straighten up the equipment room.

Practices

The plan is to start limited (3 per week) high school practices after Labor Day.  Expect regular schedule (5/week for high school & 3/week for junior high) to commence in late October.

Meets

There is plenty of uncertainty here!  The UIL is not permitting larger invitationals this year.  That means we'll be shut out of several meets we might normally have attended.

We will find alternatives!

We may try to hold several time trial-type meets on Saturday's in September & October.

The first could be as early as September 19, kind of a Blue/Gold Open meet.