Red White and Blue /Ponderosa Infromation
Just a few notes regarding the upcoming End of Season Invitationals:
The Red, White & Blue Invitational will take place on Friday, June 23, Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25, 2017, at Klein Collins High School. RWB is organized by age group. 11 and up 100 Fr and 13 and up 100 IM on Friday; All 10 & Under events and relays Saturday; All other events for 11 & up and relays Sunday.
The invite and time standards are posted on the Cy-Fair Swim Club website (www.fleetswimming.com)
https://www.teamunify.com/gscfsc/UserFiles/Image/Red%2C%20White%20%26%20Blue/2017/RWB%202017%20Time%20Standards.pdf
The Ponderosa Invitational will take place at Klein Oak High School on Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25, 2017. Ponderosa is organized by stroke. All free, back, and free relay events are on Saturday. All fly, breast, IM events and medley relays are Sunday.
The invite and time standards are posted on the Ponderosa Invitational website (www.ponderosainvitational.org)
http://ponderosainvitational.org/uploads/3/6/0/5/36054467/2017_pi_times.pdf
Because these events are organized differently, timelines run differently, and locations are far apart for these meets, it is difficult to travel from one to the other. In general, it is least stressful to choose one meet per day if you qualify for both meets, and to swim relays at the meet you are attending. Coaches will assume this unless you indicate otherwise. But you can attempt to travel from one to the other for blocks of time. At RWB, you must qualify for the relay leg you are swimming. However, at PON you do not have to qualify to swim a relay leg (however only 1 relay per age group per team is allowed). Therefore, it is helpful information for the coaches to know if you are willing to swim relays even if you are not swimming on that day. Please indicate this in the notes section of the RSVP. Because of this, it would be helpful to us for you to RSVP to both meets, even indicating sibling availability for relays! Notes that would be appropriate: Jenny (age 10) will be at PON Sun only, or Jeff (age 6) is available to swim relays on Sat even though he is not entered in individual events.
Declaration for these invitational meets are now open. The closing date & time for entering your swimmers in these invitationals is next Thursday night, June 15th, by midnight. In case your swimmer is still very close to obtaining a qualification time after today’s meet against Rivershire, your child could still obtain a time at Divisionals next Saturday. However, in this case, you will need to correspond directly with Coach Elise and/or Coach Dore in order for them to review this info as only they can make any last minute entries before our team’s submission deadline.
As with Summer Thunder, there are fees associated with Red, White & Blue & Ponderosa Invitationals. Individual events are $5 per event. (Stingrays will pay for relay events.) The process to declare your swimmer for these invitationals is similar to a normal weekly meet:
- Click on the Swimmer icon next to the ‘Red, White & Blue’ or ‘Ponderosa’ on the Stingrays home page.
- Select a child and then select “Add entry”.
- All events for your child will show. Events showing in blue are events your child is eligible to swim, if an event shows in red they do not yet have a qualifying time. (If your swimmer is close, you may want to send an email to the coaches to make sure they know to look out for an updated time for your swimmer)
- Select events for each child attending, then click “Add to Cart” and then “Save” after each individual child. It is $5 per event.
- Once you’ve completed that for all children, you can click “View Cart”, and then click on the “Pay Now” Paypal button at the very bottom. That will take you through the payment process.
Once our team entries have been submitted, we will receive updated Invitational information regarding warm up times, lane assignments, volunteer requests, etc. Should you have any questions regarding the Invitationals, email me (Melissa) at [email protected] or text me at (713)825-4520.