Marlins,

Final call to sign up for our "March" Madness Time Trials and Silly relays, which will be this Saturday (4/27) from 9 - 12, although likely will end earlier).  Sign ups will close at 5PM TODAY (sign up swimmers here, volunteers here).

This is a great opportunity for younger swimmers to get an easy introduction to racing since it will be a small group of swimmers, no DQs, and low pressure. They can swim whatever events they want or just get a donut and cheer on their friends. If you have a Jr. Marlin, we can have an older swimmer join them in a lane to help them along. For the experienced swimmers, it's a nice way to kick off the summer season and dust off those cheering skills.

Time Trials are run like meets, however there are no disqualifications for stroke errors and the kids swim with mixed gender/ages based on ability. Swimmers have the opportunity to swim 1-4 individual strokes of their choosing or just the relays. It’s a very low key way to introduce kids to racing.

The really fun part will be silly basketball themed relays such as traveling (pulling on the lane line), pushing a basketball across the pool, and a jersey exchange. The relays will be mixed gender and age so it will be a good way for the whole team to bond. 

If you only have Jr. Marlins you are exempt from volunteering, but if you have any swimmers who are not Jr. Marlins, please volunteer. If you have not signed up for a meet before, you can find instructions here and please don’t forget to hit save on your entries.

Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Let's Go Marlins!

Donna