Village West hosts Rutherford 6/20 A Meet #1

The Village West Vikings are hosting the Rutherford Water Rats for our first A Meet this Saturday, 6/20. If your Vikings are swimming in this meet, please read this email carefully for important information. The heat sheet and meet entries by athlete are attached to this email.

If you are not lugging equipment to the meet, please park in the neighborhood to give our guests access to our parking lot. Thank you for your kindness!

All Little Vikings are invited to do a Lollipop Race across the shallow end before the meet begins! Be at the shallow end at 845 to get ready.

Meet theme: NEON! Encourage your swimmers to wear a bright t-shirt over their swimsuit and any bright accessories you can find: hats, sunglasses, tutus, etc.

Expectations: We expect to see great sportsmanship from all of our swimmers. Parents, please talk to your swimmers about this expectation. This includes cheering/clapping politely for the other team, staying in the water after a race until all swimmers are finished, shaking hands across lanes after races, and being supportive and encouraging to all swimmers on both teams. Parents, please talk to your younger swimmers about checking the whole pool and staying in the water until all swimmers have finished the event. We had a lot of new swimmers hopping out immediately during Time Trials!

Timeline & General Info:

Arrive by 740AM to ensure your swimmers are ready to hop in the pool for warm-ups at 8. Older swimmers and families are strongly encouraged to arrive early (7AM+) to help set up the pool!

• 8:00-8:20 am: Viking Warm Ups
• 8:25-8:45 am: Water Rats Warm ups
• 8:50 am: Mini swim
• 9:00 am: Meet Starts

Attire: Swimmers should wear their team suits and caps. If you do not have a team suit, wear another competition-approved suit (no tie backs!). Find me if you need a new Vikings cap!

All deck officials should wear a white shirt and navy blue bottoms.

Concessions: Natalie and our incredible concessions crew will be serving a number of delicious offerings. Make sure you have a tab set up so your hungry swimmers can grab lunch!

• Bacon/ham, egg, cheese hot breakfast sandwiches
• Pulled pork quesadillas
• Burgers & hot dogs

JOBS STILL NEEDED:

• Grill Master - 930 to 12: Come help Ross Berntson man the grill!
• Concessions Server Lunch/Cleanup - 945 to 1215: Come help serve lunch and hang out with the amazing concessions crew!