COACH INTRODUCTIONS

You have met Coach Nina and Coach Sharon- now meet our amazing ASSISTANT COACHES

Evelyn Selz

Evelyn Selz began swimming competitively at the age of five, when she joined the Spring Cypress Stingrays. Since then, she has been a member of the team for eleven seasons, swimming her last meet for the Stingrays at Ponderosa. She also swam for Cy-Fair High School, earning All-American status, and Fleet, where she taught swim lessons last summer. Her best events are butterfly and the individual medley. Currently, she attends Texas A&M University in College Station in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition with a Psychology minor. Evelyn is thrilled to be able to coach this year and therefore give back to the team that first sparked her love for the sport. Go Stingrays!

Mackenzie Wilkes

Mackenzie swam for summer league from the time she was 5 for Winchester. She now swims and plays water polo as a Jersey Village Falcon. She has helped coach for Winchester and is now excited to be a coach for our Stingrays.

Sophie Flowers

Sophie swam summer league with Norchester from the age of 3-18. She also swam and played water polo for CyCreek High School. She is super excited to be able to teach younger swimmers to do something that she has loved her entire life! She is excited to be a part of the Stingray Family.

Carson Kaufmann

Carson has swam competitively since the age of 4 with Lakewood Lightning and then the Stingrays. Soon into her swimming career she joined Fleet and swam there for 13 years. In her high school years at Cy-Fair High School, she competed for the Varsity swim team for all 4 years., while serving as team captain her senior year. Meanwhile, she taught private swim lessons in the summer time while helping out with coaching at Fleet. She went on to continue her athletic and academic career at Florida State University where she is majoring in Pre-Med Clinical Professions and also competed with the FSU Swim and Dive Team. She will be a sophomore next fall, and is so excited to be spending her summer with the Stingrays!

SATURDAY MEET INFO

QUESTIONS

During the meet, if you have any questions at all, find a board member (in our crazy bright, hot pink shirts!)

FOOD

We'll have hot McDonald's breakfast as well as pulled pork from Rudy's BBQ and cheese pizza. Plus lots of other snacks and drinks. See Menu Below!

STORE

Swim caps should be in and will be available for pick up. Come by the team store to pick up! Team t-shirts for swimmers that were not picked up last week will be available there as well.

SWIMMER NOTES

**We strongly encourage that you and your swimmers begin hydrating Friday and continue to do so throughout the meet.**

You & your swimmers are responsible for cleaning up. Please pick up any trash you have, and make sure you take anything you brought home with you! We want to keep our neighborhood, and the ones we swim in as clean and neat as we found them, if not better.

COVID GUIDELINES

The CDC recently updated its recommendations on the use of masks during outdoor activities. Based on these recommendations, we will not require masks on deck but still encourage their use. We will instruct volunteers on our expectations that they remain socially distant from the swimmers and techniques on how to do so. While we do understand concerns about the ability to maintain social distancing, we have already set controls by limiting the number of on-deck volunteers and setting up the positions of the Officials to do so.

TIMELINE FOR SATURDAY

**Upon arrival check-in at the volunteer table and swimmers check-in at your tent **

6:45 Swimmers check-in at your tents

7:00 7/8 and 9/10 warm-up

7:15 6 and under warm-up

7:30 Visiting Team Warm Up

8:00 Last warm-up finishes.

8:00 Team Prayer and Cheer

Volunteer Timeline

6:15 Roadies arrive / Tent Set up begins

6:30 Concessions start setup

6:40 Volunteer check-in

7:30 Officials meeting

7:45 Timers and Scribes meeting

8:10 National Anthem

8:15 Load the ready bench

8:30 Meet starts

PARKING

Parking is available on Kavanaugh Lane, Louetta and Wrightsboro. DO NOT PARK on Longwood Bend. The parking lot is reserved for officials, concessions, and computers. Please see attached parking map.

TENT SET UP: Swimmer’s last name beginning with B

TENT BREAKDOWN: Swimmer’s last name beginning with R

**If you need to switch weeks and don’t know enough people, check out the Spring Cypress Stingrays Facebook page. There is a post there where you can switch with other families!

https://www.facebook.com/stingraysswim/f

ALL PARENTS:

Please make sure your swimmer knows who their tent parent is before you leave them and that they know not to leave without their tent parent knowing. Once your swimmer is finished for the day please do not leave without checking out with your child’s tent parent.

6 and Under swimmers should be picked up after the backstroke. If you are working second shift please be sure to make arrangements for them to sit in a tent with an older sibling.

Please call or text Coach Nina if you have a sick swimmer and will be unable to attend. Please also contact Chris George at 281-636-6680 if you are unable to fulfill your volunteer spot.

ROADIES: Arrive at 6:15 am. Parents will be there to help set up tents at 6:15. It is imperative that you are there on time.

TENT PARENTS: Please see Jennifer Milano upon checking in. Report to your tent no later than 6:45 am. Jennifer will give you a clipboard with your age group swimmer list and a sharpie. Please check that all swimmers are accounted for and notify Jennifer if anyone is missing. Mark your swimmer using the sharpie for their individual swimming events. When an event for your age group is called, you will need to make sure all swimmers make it to the ready bench. Be ready to receive them at the end of their event and walk them back to the tent.

OFFICIALS: Please report to Jason Mangold

TIMERS & SCRIBES: Meet by the Ready Benches at 7:45 am.We understand that it is human nature to want to assist a swimmer who is struggling to exit the pool; however, due to liability issues, we must never do so. This is especially important with social distancing expectations. We should instruct swimmers who are struggling to move along the edge of the pool to the shallow area to exit.

COMPUTERS: Report to the main pool entrance after getting yourself and your swimmer checked in.

CONCESSIONS: Report to the concessions stand after getting yourself and your swimmer checked in.

READY BENCH: When you hear the announcement for Timers/Scribes, please report to the ready bench area.

SANITATION: Please report to Rebecca Waterman. Text: 713-201-6008

**Reminder: the kiddie pool and the shallow semi-circle of the main pool are off limits to everyone during practice and meets.**

Please contact Chris George with any questions. 281-636-6680 or email [email protected]