Dear DH Dive Parents,

This will be a long email, but the upcoming weeks are extraordinarily busy as we hit the meat of our annual schedule where everything comes together at once: A meet, social event, NVSL meet - it has it all. So, let’s jump right in.

Volunteers Needed

We need volunteers to assist with several remaining functions. I’m sure everyone can find something they are suited for, including…

• Setup/Take Down for the lip sync and end of year banquet
• Picking up light snacks/water for lip sync
• Ordering catering for the end of year banquet
• Decorating for the end of year banquet
• Purchasing awards (I’ll tell you want to order) - Not on swimtopia. Contact me if you are interested.
• Friday breakfast help - Look for emails with separate sign-up genius.
• Meet support, including purchasing/selling pizza, table workers, judges for our 2 remaining home meets. Judges and table workers for our remaining away meet.

As a reminder, you can find these in the schedule here https://dhdive.swimtopia.com/manage/calendar_even... click on Job Sign up to pick a job. If you have questions about any of them, please let me know.

While you are there, please take a moment to indicate your diver’s availability for the remaining meets. Keep in mind, it’s available or not available; not will compete or will not compete. We pick the eligible competitors from those that are marked as available.

Wednesday’s A Meet 7/5 - Truro

That's right. Because of the holiday, our meet next week is on Wednesday. Our kids will start their warmups at 4:00 and the visiting team starts theirs at 5:00. While the visitors are warming up, we treat the kids to pizza. ALL divers are encouraged to come, even those not on the list to compete. Eating pizza, and watching and cheering on their friends is part of the fun of the season. Each week has a theme that the coaches are working on and they may have already communicated that to your divers.

We are still having practice Monday and we will release the list of competing divers for that meet on Monday.

Friday’s Lip Sync “Contest” 7/7

It’s not really a contest, but it sounds better that way. This event will be held on the front lawn, so BYO Chair, food, drinks, the family, and let your kids (and the coaches) show you what they’ve been working on. Starts at 6:30.

Sunday’s Wally Martin Meet 7/9

This meet marks the first opportunity the kids have to compete in a league-wide individual championship meet. The Wally Martin meet is two meets in one:

Three Meter Event – Like regular diving, but off a 3 meter springboard. If you went to the Tuckahoe or Donaldson Run over the past few years, you’ve seen a 3M board. No 3M experience is necessary, so if they want to give it a try our coaches can work with them get a valid list ready at our practice time (see below)

Synchronized Event – This is on one meter, but is two divers attempting the same dive simultaneously side-by-side. It's the dives the kids already know, but working with a partner adds an extra challenge (and they are judged on how well they are synchronized). This is great for siblings or best friends and it can be a LOT of fun. If your child has a best friend at another NVSL pool, they can still compete in this together. Synchronized diving on 3M (1M isn’t competed internationally, but you get the idea)

If your child would like to do either or both of those, please let me know directly. I inadvertently left that meet open for you to mark availability, but we don't use that process for this meet. 

We have a practice time on Saturday 7/8 at 7:30 PM at the facility, because obviously, we have neither 3M nor twin 1M boards at DH.

Looking Ahead

Next week, I’ll have details on the following upcoming events:

• Away A Meet Tuesday 7/11 (Dunn Loring)
• Home B Meet Thursday 7/13 (Tri meet - Truro and Sleepy Hollow Rec)
• Cracker Jack Meet 7/16 (league-wide B meet)
• Divisionals

Thanks everyone and have a great holiday weekend!

-Thomas