Swim Team Party Details

The Swim Team Party is August 2nd from 6-8pm at the Lindon Pool. All swim team members and their immediate families whose parents have fulfilled their volunteer hours are invited to come swim and have dinner for free. Pizza will be served and there will be cotton candy, potluck salads, and dessert as well. Only Swim Team members will be able to ride the flow rider for free at this party. Anyone else will have to pay the regular flow rider fee. Please remember that only swim team members and their IMMEDIATE FAMILY are invited. If you have not signed up to bring anything, please bring either a leaf salad or fruit. 

Swim Team members whose parents have not fulfilled their volunteering requirements can still come to the party with their immediate families, however there will be an admission fee. For anyone who still needs to volunteer, there are plenty of ways to volunteer including clean-up after the swim team party, and helping swim team members and their families check in at the party.

Those who ordered T-shirts, we will be handing them out at the party. They are $7 each. We will have the names of those who ordered the shirts on a list, however it would be a good idea to bring a print-out of the e-mail you sent us when you ordered your shirt just in case we missed your e-mail. The county meet awards and the Payson Meet ribbons will be handed out at the party while everyone is eating, between 6 and 6:30pm.

IMPORTANT - Riverside Meets Information

Dear Parents and Swimmers;

We are so excited to welcome you to our newly renovated pool and facilities at Riverside Country Club.  We appreciate your patience as we work to make your experience a good one. To help with this, please be aware of the following:

1) Parking will be limited.  As much as possible, please carpool.  There will be parking attendants at the entrance of our parking lot. Once the lot is full, you will be directed to park either on the street a block east of University Avenue (140 E.) or to BYU Lot 54 (which is on the south/east corner of 2230 N. and University Avenue- behind an empty building).  We will have a shuttle bringing people from that lot to the pool.  You are welcome to drop off your swimmers right outside the pool area and then go park.  Please DO NOT park on University Avenue or you will be ticketed.

2) For your convenience, we will have food services available at our Chalet (directly south of the pool deck), where meals can be purchased for between $4-6 and individual items from $1-3.  We hope that by having affordable meals available at the pool, it would help with the coming and going from the parking lot.

3) We will have designated areas for seating on the deck, as well as food service areas, and the grassy patio south/west of the pool.  Please stay in these areas and off of the golf course. There will be a STANDING ONLYobservation area on the north side of the pool for you to come watch your swimmers’ event.  Please do not sit in this area so we can allow parents to watch up closer during their child’s event. 

4) Our baby/wading pool is CLOSED during the meet.  Please help us keep these areas clear. 

Thank you,

Christine Whatcott- Aquatics Director

Riverside Country Club

2701 N. University Avenue

Provo

Gold Meet

The Gold Meet is on July 28 at the Riverside County Club. You can find directions here. Warm-ups are at 6:30am. All teams north of Provo (including Lindon) will have the pool for warm-ups from 6:30-7:00am. All teams south of Provo (that does NOT include us, so if you're late you will miss warm-ups) will have the pool for warm-ups from 7:00am-7:30am. The Meet starts at 7:30am. Please come on time at 6:30am and check in with the coaches. 

Parking is very limited. I strongly suggest carpooling if you can. There will be some parking available at the Riverside Country Club. This is on a first come first serve basis, so I would come very early if you are hoping to park here. A small area for parking will hopefully be available across the street as well. 

No one except golfers are allowed on the Golf Course. This is a very strict rule so please watch your children and make sure they stay off of the golf course. 

Silver Meet

The Silver Meet is on July 27 at the Riverside County Club. You can find directions here. Warm-ups are at 3:00pm. All teams north of Provo (including Lindon) will have the pool for warm-ups from 3:00-3:30pm. All teams south of Provo (that does NOT include us, so if you're late, you miss warm-ups) will have the pool for warm-ups from 3:30pm-4:00pm. The Meet starts at 4:00pm. Please come on time at 3:00pm and check in with the coaches. 

Parking is very limited. I strongly suggest carpooling if you can. There will be some parking available at the Riverside Country Club. This is on a first come first serve basis, so I would come very early if you are hoping to park here. A small area for parking will hopefully be available across the street as well. 

No one except golfers are allowed on the Golf Course. This is a very strict rule so please watch your children and make sure they stay off of the golf course. 

Bronze Meet 2012

The Bronze Meet is this Wednesday at the Lindon Aquatic Center. Warm-ups are at 2:00pm. All teams north of Provo (including Lindon) will have the pool for warm-ups from 2:00-2:30pm. All teams south of Provo (that's NOT us, so if you're late, you miss warm-ups) will have the pool for warm-ups from 2:30pm-3:00pm. The Meet starts at 3:00pm. Please come on time at 2:00pm and check in with the coaches. 

Please car pool if you can. The parking for this meet will be very limited. Parking is available at the community center, the lot across from the pool, the gravel parking area by the arena at the park, and at the Lindon City Park parking lot below the pool. Do not park in the parking lot at the pool. The pool will still be open so that parking lot is reserved for paying customers.

Swim Team Members are NOT ALLOWED to swim in any pool except the competition pool during the meet. If they would like to swim in the lazy river or leisure pool during the meet, they must pay the pool admittance fee. 

We NEED you! We really need many more parent volunteers for this meet. Please sign-up to volunteer if you are available. If we don't have enough parent volunteers for this meet it will show the county that we are still struggling to get parent volunteers and they may bring up kicking us off of the swim league again. No team wants to swim with another team who cannot run their own swim meets effeciently.  

E-mail us or lindonswimteam.volunteer@gmail.com to sign-up.

Meet Entries Sent

The entries for the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Meets have now been sent. If any late meet entries are sent to me, they will not be accepted. 

Thank you,

Saren Johnson

LAST CALL

I am entering in all the meet entries for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Meets now (11:30am). This is your last chance to sign up for the county meet. 

To sign-up, e-mail me with your Child's Name, Age, Gender, What Meet they qualify for, and the Event Numbers that they would like to swim. You can find a list of event numbers in the back of your parent packet. The Meet standard times can be found in the e-mail I last sent, titled "PARENTS PLEASE READ!!!".

There is no IM standard times for Silver or Bronze because if your child doesn't make the Gold IM time, they automatically qualify for Silver. There are no IM's at the Bronze Meet. In the time standards I sent you, the silver and bronze are the same time. The difference is that silver is faster than....and bronze is slower than. For example, if your child has a time of 40 seconds and the silver/bronze standard time shows 45 seconds, since it is faster than 45, they would go to silver.  

County Meet Sign-Ups

Due to technical difficulties, we are doing sign-ups for the county meets a little differently this year. We've sent an e-mail with an attached a list of everyone's best times, and the bronze, silver, and gold time standards. 

If you have not received this e-mail, please e-mail us at lindonswimteam@gmail.com so we can send it to you.

We need each parent (including all parents who have previously e-mailed us) to look at their child's best times and compare them to the time standards we've also attached. The Time Standards have changed since the season started. The standards in the back of the parent packet are no longer valid. There are three different time standards attached in the e-mail: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. If your child's times are slower than the Gold Time Standards, then check the Silver Time Standards. If they're slower than the Silver Time Standards, they go to Bronze. Any child who meets the county qualifications, who has a time that isn't silver or gold, goes to the bronze meet. All 6 and Unders go to the Bronze Meet. All 15-18 year old's go to the Gold Meet. 

Submit an entry by e-mailing us with your Child's Name, Age, Gender, what Meet they're going to, and the Event Numbers that they would like to swim. You can find a list of event numbers in the back of your parent packet.

Please submit a county meet entry by e-mailing us with "County Meet Entry" as the title. If you e-mail us by hitting the reply button, make sure it is to this e-mail, not to any other team e-mails that have been previously sent, or it may get lost. 

If you do not e-mail us your child's county meet entries, your child will NOT BE SIGNED UP for a county meet. The due date for County Entries is 11:00am on Monday, July 23. There are NO LATE ENTRIES. This is different than a dual meet. There will be no exceptions. If you miss the deadline, there is nothing we can do.

In order to compete at a County Meet (Bronze, Silver, or Gold), your child must have 1 legal time per event that they would like to swim and also have swam at  2 meets. You may only swim down one event. So if you have 2 silver times and a bronze time, you can either swim all 3 events at silver or 1 bronze time and 1 silver time at the bronze meet. If you have 2 gold times and a silver time, you can either swim all 3 events at gold or 1 silver time and 1 gold time at the silver meet.  If your child makes a B time in an event, they cannot swim in that event at the bronze meet. 

*Please note that the different County Meets are not so swim team members can just go to which ever Meet is most convenient.

July 21 - Payson Meet

We have a swim meet this Saturday at the Payson Pool. Warm-ups are at 7:00 am and the Meet starts at 7:30 am. It should last 4-5 hours. The address of the Payson Pool is  655 S. Main Street, Payson, Utah. Click here for google maps directions to the pool.

Sign-ups for this meet are due Thursday, July 19, at noon, no later. Your child may sign up during practice on Thursday or you may e-mail us their entries with their name, age, and the event numbers that they would like to swim. 

Please do not sign up or have your child sign up for this meet if you are not sure you are coming. No-shows delay and prolong a Swim Meet.

Volunteers NEEDED

Dear Parents,

We are looking for volunteers to sign-up for the 7/25 Bronze Meet which will be held at Lindon Pool. Set-up starts a 1:00 pm, Warm-ups start at 2:00 pm, and the Meet starts at 3:00 pm.

We have many positions which need filled, and below is a sampling of those available. Most shifts are split in two for your convenience.

Please open the following Google Doc by clicking on the link below, and email back positions/times that you would like to sign up for, or see us volunteer coordinators tomorrow morning, Thursday July 19, from 7:30-9:30 am, out front of the Lindon Pool to sign-up. 

Positions Needed:

• Set-up Help
• Duct Tape Setup Help
• Head Referee
• Event Caller
• Event Announcer
• Pool Rules Enforcer
• Bullpen Runner and Organizers
• Finish Judge/Heat Ribbon Recorder
• Finish Ribbons
• Program Selling Help
• Pass Food Out to Officials/Coaches Help
• Clean-up Help
• and numerous Backup Volunteers to be ready as well as Backup Stroke Judges.

Link to the sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsVzqXYKcPJvckdQeHFOckxSUHE3MWo2bTZiaWprenc#gid=7

In addition, if you can help with passing ribbons out in the first two hours this Thursday (7/19) and Friday (7/20) during our practices, please let us know.

Thank you for all you do!

- Lindon Swim Team Volunteers Coordinators

T-Shirts

The price for the t-shirts this year will be around $7 each, and an additional $1.00 for XL and up sizes. We will not know the exact price (it may be less) until we have everyone's orders. The deadline for ordering a t-shirt will be this Wednesday, July 18. The shirt will be a bright blue color and it will have the words Lindon Storm Swim Team on the front (probably in yellow and white with a lightning bolt). To order, please e-mail us your child's name and t-shirt size (youth XS-XL or adult S-XL. We accept youth and adult sizes.

July 14 - No Meet

There is no Swim Meet on Saturday, July 14th.

July 7 - PG Meet

We have a swim meet this Saturday at the Pleasant Grove Pool. Warm-ups are at 7:00 am and the Meet starts at 7:30 am. It should last 4-5 hours. The address of the Pleasant Grove Pool is 582 East 300 South, Pleasant Grove.

Sign-ups for this meet are due Thursday, July 5, at noon. Your child may sign up during practice on Thursday or you may e-mail us their entries with their name, age, and the event numbers that they would like to swim.

Please do not sign up or have your child sign up for this meet if you are not sure you are coming. No-shows delay and prolong a Swim Meet.

Lost and Found

Parents, if your child leaves something at the pool during practice and one of the coaches finds it, we will usually put it in the swim team storage area for safekeeping instead of in the Lost and Found. So if your child loses something at practice, check with one of the swim team coaches before checking the Pool Lost and Found.

Also, please mark your swimmers' goggles and fins with their name in permanent marker. It makes it much easier to return lost items and prevent swimmers from accidentally taking each others fins or goggles.

June 30 - Home Meet

We have a Home swim meet this Saturday at the LIndon Pool. Warm-ups are at 6:30am and the Meet starts at 7:00am. It should last 3-4 hours. 
Please park in the parking lot across the street from the pool or at the community/senior center (25 n. main st.) parking lot. The parking in front of the pool needs to remain open for paying pool patrons coming for open plunge.


Sign-ups for this meet will be this Wednesday and Thursday during practice. Please do not sign up or have your child sign up for this meet if you are not sure you are coming. No-shows delay and prolong a Swim Meet.

We still need a few volunteers for the swim meet, including Stroke judges and a few people to help set up for the meet. If you would like to volunteer, please contact lindonswimteam.volunteer@gmail.com.

June 23 - Spanish Fork Meet

We have a swim meet this Saturday at the Spanish Fork Pool. Warm-ups are at 6:30am and the Meet starts at 7:00am. It should last 3-4 hours. The address of the Spanish Fork Pool is 199 N 300 West, Spanish Fork.

Sign-ups for this meet will be held this Thursday and Friday during practice. Please do not sign up or have your child sign up for this meet if you are not sure you are coming. No-shows delay and lengthen a Swim Meet.

PG Meet Rescheduled

The swim meet on July 14 at Pleasant Grove has been rescheduled. The meet will now be held on July 7th. It will still be at the Pleasant Grove Pool. Warm-ups will be at 7:00am and the meet will start at 7:30am.

Parent Volunteers

If you have already signed up for a volunteer position, you can now see what you've signed up for on this spreadsheet. This is a read only document; please don't try to change anything. If you need to cancel or want to change positions, please e-mail our Parent Volunteer Coordinators at lindonswimteam.volunteer@gmail.com.

To volunteer, you can look at the spreadsheet and see what positions still need to be filled. Meets and events are listed as tabs along the bottom of the spreadsheet. Then, e-mail our Parent Volunteer Coordinators at lindonswimteam.volunteer@gmail.com. Please do not sign up for the Bronze Meet yet.

Here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsVzqXYKcPJvckdQeHFOckxSUHE3MWo2bTZiaWprenc


Thank you so much for volunteering!

Officials Meeting

There is an Officials Meeting for all parent volunteers who are volunteering as a Meet Referee, Starter, or Stroke/turn Judge. It will be held tonight, June 12th, at the Riverside Country Club at 6:00pm.

Time Change - Lehi Meet

The Lehi Meet is this Saturday, June 16th, at the Lehi Legacy Center. There has been a time change for the Lehi Meet. Warm ups are now at 8:00am and the meet starts at 8:30am. Please be at the meet early enough to choose a spot and get ready for warm ups so your swimmer can be in the water when warm ups start. 

Your children can sign-up tomorrow, June 13th, during practice. You may also sign your child up for the Lehi meet by e-mailing us at lindonswimteam@gmail.com with your child's name, age, gender, and the events they would like to swim. We highly encourage that each swimmer swims at least 2 events. The maximum amount of events a swimmer can legally swim are 3 individual events and 2 relays. Sign-ups for the Lehi Meet are due Thursday, June 14th at 12:00pm. 

The Lehi Legacy Center is located at 123 North Center Street, Lehi, UT. 

Parent Packet

If you received a Parent Packet within the last couple of days and it seems to be missing pages, please come back in and get a new one.  For some of the packets they didn't print out correctly and printed only every other page. If you have the correct packet there will be writing on both sides of each page.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Pleasant Grove Invitational

Pleasant Grove Swim Team has decided to do an Invitational Swim Meet. It will be held on June 14th and 15th at the Pleasant Grove Pool. It will be held from 6:15am - 9:15am on both days. Members of the Lindon Swim Team are welcome to attend and compete however none of the Lindon Swim Team Coaches will attend the meet as we will still be holding regular swim  practice.

To sign up, e-mail us your child's name, age, gender, and the events they would like to swim. There is a list of events in the back of your Parent Packet. There will be no relays.

Parent E-mails

Parents, if you have not received an e-mail from the Lindon swim team yet then please e-mail us so we have your e-mail address. You may also contact one of the coaches to give them your e-mail address. Thank you.

Drop Date

Parents please note: the last day to drop out of the Lindon Swim Team and get a refund (there will be a cancellation fee) is Friday, June 8th.

Poco Loco

Poco Loco will be selling team suits, fins, and goggles at the pool on Friday, June 8, from 7:15am - 9:30am. You can also buy team suits, fins, and goggles at their store in Provo. If you go to their store, be sure to mention that you are from the Lindon Swim Team, so they can get you the right suit. Poco Loco is located at

1774 N University Pkwy # 26 , Provo.

IMPORTANT: Make-Up Parents Meeting

This is a reminder for all of the parents who missed the parents meeting on May 24. There will be a make-up Parents Meeting this Wednesday, June 6th, at 10:30am. It will be held in the Party Room at the Lindon Pool. There will be a roll taken so if you are unable to attend please contact us at lindonswimteam@gmail.com.

MANDATORY Parents Meeting

This is a reminder for all the parents of members of the Lindon Swim Team. There will be a mandatory Parents Meeting this Thursday, May 24, at 6:30pm. It will be held at the Lindon Community Center (across the street from Lindon Elementary). There will be a roll taken so if you are unable to attend please contact us. If you do not come to the meeting and you have not contacted us, your child will not be able to swim on the team until you do contact us.

Poco Loco will be selling team swim suits and fins at the meeting so you are welcome to bring your children who are enrolled for swim team so they can be sized for suits and fins. 

We are so excited to start off a new swim season with all of you! :)

Tryouts

Tryouts will be held for new swimmers and those wishing to advance a level up from last year. The date for tryouts will be Saturday, May 19th, 2012. Tryouts for swim team will be on a drop in only basis, and will run from 1:00pm-3:00pm. 


*Pools will be closed for the day, only children wishing to try out will be permitted in the pool. Please bring those wishing to try out ready to swim with goggles.

Registering for Swim Team 2012

We are so excited to start the 2012 Summer Swim Team Season! To register for this years swim team season please go to this website:
http://www.activityreg.com/clientpage.wcs?clientid=LINDON&siteid=1

On the left side of the page, under Main Menu: click on Register for Activities, then click on Aquatics, then click on Lindon Storm Swim Team, then click on 2012 Swim Team. Please carefully read all the requirements listed, then select the Group that is appropriate for your childs skill level and click Register.

*The ages noted in each level description are estimates, not rigid requirements. For example: if your child is 8 years old and meets all the Advanced Group qualifications, you may sign them up for the Advanced Group.