Good morning parents!

Our first mid-season invitational meet is coming up in less than two weeks. This year’s Sprint Sizzler Invitational will be held at the Cy-Fair ISD Natatorium June 4^th and 5^th (Sunday and Monday). For those unfamiliar with invitationals, they are a bit different from our usual dual meets.  Instead of just two teams, there will be swimmers from many NWAL teams. To be able to participate in the meet swimmers need to have gone as fast or faster than a specific time for each particular stroke (a qualifying time). The qualifying times will be posted at the pool, as will a list of those members of our team who have already qualified. Swimmers 13 and above automatically qualify.  You can find many more details in the meet announcement on our team website.

If your swimmer has qualified for the meet and would like to participate, there is a $7 fee for each event.  If they have only qualified for one event that is the only event they can sign up for.   If they have qualified for two or more events, then they are allowed to swim in as many events as they would like (with the exception that 10 & UNDER swimmers must achieve a qualifying time for the 100 IM and 50 Free; 11-12 swimmers must achieve a qualifying time for the 100 IM and 100 Free).  If we have enough swimmers in the meet, we may be able to have relays ($12 per relay team), and there are many unusual combinations possible.  So, if you’d like to get a relay set up for a group of interested swimmers, talk between yourselves to decide what you’d like to do. Then when you’re ready to sign up, you’ll need to add a note to each swimmers entries detailing who would like to swim what stroke, in what order, and in what relay.   Payment can be made to the team through Zelle or directly to Ray Wade at the pool.

Meet entries are now open, and you can begin signing up as soon as you’d like.  Final entries will be due Saturday May 27^th at 8 PM, so there is still one more meet to get those qualifying times!  We will send out a note Saturday afternoon to all those who have qualified as a reminder.

If you have questions, please let me know - send an email, catch me at practice or Saturday at the meet, or leave me a phone message at 281-477-3816.

Julie Lundquist