Marlins,

Our last dual meet of the season is against our cross town rivals Eichler. The Eichler meet is always our favorite one of the year and this summer will be no different! We will have a pep rally, secret goodie bag deliveries, a one session full team meet, and awards night to round out the fun.

PEP RALLY JULY 9TH FROM 4-6 PM

The party will start the day before on Friday July 9th, with our pep rally from 4-6 PM in the park. The coaches will give an inspiring pep talk, we will do our swim-a-rama raffle, throw pies in the coaches' faces, get our Marlins’ spirit going with green galore, and create good luck signs for Eichler that our CITs will sneak over to surprise our much-missed Gator friends.

LAST MEET GOODIE BAGS JULY 9TH 6:30 - 8:30 PM- SHHHH IT’S A SECRET

Another Marlin tradition is back with our CITs (anyone 13 and older) delivering goodie bags to our 12 and under swimmers. This is meant to be a fun surprise for the younger swimmers, so parents please keep it on the down low, but keep an ear out for a doorbell dash. If you have a 12 and under swimmer, but will be out of town, or prefer not to have the bags delivered, please let me know and we can keep them at the pool for your swimmers to collect.

EICHLER MEET JULY 10TH (8 - 12:00 PM FOR ALL) NOW OPEN/CLOSES WEDS. 7/7@5pm

We are excited to announce that we will be doing the Eichler meet with the full team together instead of older kids and younger kids in different sessions. Eichler is following the same format at their pool, so the meet is still virtual in that regard. This means all Marlins young and old are at the pool ready to swim by 8:00 AM and stay until the meet ends. All our swimmers will be able to cheer each other on and feel part of the full Marlins family. Please sign your swimmers up here by Weds. July 7th @ 5PM.

The events will go in the same order, but we will swim all ages before going to the next stroke. For our old timers, this will be like our usual meets (except Eichler will be at their pool).  For our newer members, you will get a taste of a “real” meet, which will be more fun, louder, and there will more time for the kids to socialize and rest between events. Volunteer jobs will be nearly the same, but split into the first half and second half of the meet instead of a whole session. Since your swimmers will be there for the whole meet, you have flexibility in terms of which half you work. Please sign up here for one job if you have one swimmer and two jobs if you have more than one.

We will open the gate to the park, so everyone can spread out and use the park and pool grounds for extra space.  Masks will be required for everyone at the meet, whether you are vaccinated or not.

AWARDS NIGHT JULY 10TH 5-8 PM

Take a nap after the meet and then come back for our awards party in the park from 5 - 8 PM. We will provide pizza and cake for the whole family. Bring your chairs, blankets, and adult beverages of choice to celebrate our swimmers & coaches. We provide an award to every swimmer, so get those cameras ready.

PRACTICE AND FUN WILL GO ON!

Although we won’t have meets after Eichler, we will continue our summer practice schedule until July 30th with social events sprinkled throughout. We know many families travel after the last meet, so we wanted to celebrate before people hit the road. After July 30th, we will take a practice break and then our Fall Conditioning will start up. We are still finalizing those details, but will send around more information and registration links in late July/early August. We don’t have dual meets outside our main summer season, but we do have a special Halloween meet and Social events throughout the rest of the year. 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Donna