An amazing win over SPRA! Great teamwork — every point matters! Congratulations to Tenny Babb for breaking the 13/14 Girls 50y Butterfly record on Thursday with a time of 27.24! Way to go Tenny!!
Flopfest and Penny Day were a super way to celebrate the 4th of July weekend! Thank you, parents and swimmers, for a great week!
Champs t-shirts order deadline is Tuesday, July 7th. Champs is for all swimmers! Order your shirt today! Youth and adult sizes available. Deadline is Tuesday, so don’t miss out! You can pay for shirts with Venmo, cash, or check (use the dropbox at practice). Please label your payment “champs shirt & your swimmers last name”. Thank you!
Thursday, July 9th – Home swim meet vs Park Forest
- Morning Practice:
- French Toast Sticks Breakfast – We need a few more parents to help serve, please sign up here!
- Meet Details – HOME vs Park Forest:
- Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, July 7th at practice. The meet lineup will be posted Wednesday morning at practice—changes are accepted until Noon.
- Pizza Pre-Order: Pre-order your pizza(s) for your family at the meet!
- Place your order by Wednesday, July 8th at Noon!
- 5:00pm pickup at the concession stand on meet day!
- Fresh concessions food donations needed
- Meet volunteers needed
- Meet Times:
- Arrive: 4:45pm
- Warm Ups: 5:00pm
- Team Meeting: 5:45pm
- Meet Starts: 6:00pm
- Meet Theme: 80’s Night – this is for swimmers and parents!
- Team Apparel Sale 6:00-7:30pm near the lifeguard table. Last apparel sale of the season!
Friday, July 10th – Modified Practice Times
- Ages 11-18 — 8:00-8:45am
- Ages 5-10 — 8:50-9:40am
Saturday, July 11th – Day of Joy
- Day of Joy Relay Event at Park Forest for all CPSL Teams!
- WHAT: A morning full of fun relay events for all ages
- WHEN: Saturday, July 11th – from 8:00am to noon
- WHERE: Park Forest Pool
- WHO: Everyone! All ages participate, parents too!
- Arrive at 8:00am. First event begins at 8:30am.
- Food available for purchase. Please sign up here (by Tuesday, July 7th) so Park Forest has a head count for food prep! Even if you don’t sign up but can come last minute, please do!! Let’s fill the pool with Welch Sharks!
Looking Ahead:
- Delgrosso’s Day – Monday, July 13th
- Water park and rides open from 11am-7pm
- Purchase your own discounted tickets through CRPR and we will see you there!
- Meet at the front entrance of the park (water park side) at 2:00pm for ice cream sandwiches with the coaches! Please RSVP so we have enough ice cream for your family!!
- There will be no morning or evening practice at Welch Monday, July 13th.
- This is not a drop off event—swimmers must attend with a responsible adult.
See you at the pool! Let’s go Sharks!
Coach Marion