Banquet Stuff:

If you haven'y paid for your banquet guest(s) yet, please bring payment to Coach Halford in a sealed envelope with your name on it no later than MONDAY.


Please submit banquet photos to peggy@texastrouts.com, with "Banquet Photos" in the subject line by May 9th. We need photos of swim, dive, and polo! All pictures we will attempt to use, but some may not make it due to time.
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Tuesday is Senior Night at our Water Polo game!  We want senior parents to be able to relax and enjoy the game, so we need Freshmen, Sophomore, and Junior parents to volunteer to make that happen!

You can sign up HERE to help with Senior Night

Thursday-Saturday we are hosting the WP JV Champs Tournament - this is a LARGE fundraiser for Aquatics and we need everyone helping to run this event. 

Please sign up HERE to help with JV Champs!

Water Polo games this week at Creek start at 5:00 PM.  Games are at 5;00, 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00.

Please sign up HERE to help with these games!

Bus leaves promptly at 6AM for Maeve the Brave tomorrow.  Lunch, snacks, and a drink will be provided, but it is recommended that you bring additional $$ or food as these are LONG DAYS!

If you are interested in joining the board or helping out on committees next year, please fill out this FORM

​Hello Wildcats!!
 
This email will contain several pieces of information, I have highlighted the main topic of each
 
Swim Practice for Remainder of Year
As we near the end of swim season it is time to start looking forward to the schedule for the rest of the school year. Those athletes who have completed their swim season will being “off season” starting tomorrow.
 
1st period practice will be from 6:45-7:45, 7th period practice will be from 1:45-2:30.
 
On Mondays and Wednesdays, we will be in the pool swimming, working on stroke technique/stroke strength.
On Tuesday and Thursdays, we will be in the weight room lifting or on the track running.
On Fridays, we will play a fun game of some sort. I will let the kids know on Thursday if that game is in the pool or outside.
 
Water Polo
Water polo season is fast approaching…. 2 weeks away!!!! This week and next week we will have open pool from 2:30- 3:30. I would highly recommend attending as many of these as possible to get in the pool and knocking off some rust or to start learning some of the ins and out from the returning players. The first water polo practice will be the afternoon of February 18th from 1:00-3:00.
Water polo suits have been sized, I have attached the ordering link to place the order for your suit. This link needs to be filled out before the end of Wednesday so that we can place the order and receive the suits before the first games.
 
Girls Polo suit link:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WGS4PQ26UWEGL
 
Boys Polo Suit Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=J3HQ9DTT5N3WA
 
Save the Date
The banquet has been scheduled for May 14th at Home town heroes @ 6 PM
 
2019-2020 Swim Team Try Outs
The try out flyer for the 2019-2020 Swim team has been finalized and is attached to this email. Please read the information on the flyer and if you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to me about them.
 
Athletic Period Sign Ups for 19-20 School Year
This year the school is making a change to how students sign up for athletic periods. Instead of selecting a course, boys will select boys swimming and girls will select girls swimming. THEN once we have try outs I will place athletes in the class period that best fits who they swam at tryouts. The boys swimming and girls swimming that you select will not reflect anything about being in 1st or 7th period.

 
There is a lot in this post, so please read all!!                                                                    State Swim - Please read ALL

• 2/13/19 - 6PM Pomodoro's League City.  State swim dinner.  This is a pay as you go event.  State shirts and quarter zips will be available for pickup (more info on that in the upcoming days) . Shirts/Quarter zips may ONLY be picked up at this dinner and must be paid for prior to pickup.  The RSVP is due by noon Friday 2/8/19 so we can reserve a table.  RSVP is HERE
• 2/14/19 9:30 AM Send off from Creek - athletes are responsible after the sendoff to transport themselves to Challenger stadium were the district charter bus will be departing from at 10:30 am.  The bus will stop for lunch on the other side of Houston at Panera.  State food is handled as a per diem from the district.  $8 will be provided to the athletes for lunch and $11.00 for dinner.  Anything over that will be the athletes responsibility.  Breakfast will be at the hotel.  The booster club will be providing snack bins for each hotel room.  
• There are absolutely NO VIDEOS allowed at state.  No personal videos, no FB live, Instagram live, twitter live..no videos.  More info to come on this, but basically UIL will have a paid broadcast available and violation of this policy can disqualify the entire team.  
• More info will be available shorty from the booster club and at https://www.uiltexas.org/swimming-diving/state
• At the state meet, there is no re-entry (unless you have a meet pass which includes 5A and 6A) and they mean it.  Ticket prices and parking prices can be found at the link above.  In general it was easier to Uber or Lyft to the meet than park last year.
• The athletes will return to Challenger Stadium on 2/16/19, time is TBD.

Please click HERE to see the regional invite. 

Pasta dinner assignments are due to the auxiliary cafeteria at 5:45 PM tomorrow

Regional shirts may be picked up at paid for at the pasta dinner.  Shirts are $20 each and will be worn to the meet.  Shirts must be paid for to be picked up.

Congrats to all of our Regional Dive and Swim Qualifiers!!

The Regional Pasta dinner is Wednesday, 1/30 at 6PM in auxiliary cafeteria.  Please see attached food assignments.  Food are assignments are due even if you cannot stay and eat!  Families are welcome to attend!  Regional shirts should be in and available for pickup - you must pay for your shirt to pick up.  The shirts are $20 each and will be worn to the meet.

Invite will be posted to the website shortly.

Diving is Thursday 1/31 at Pearland.  The diving food order is HERE
Swimming Prelims is 2/1 at Pearland.  The Prelims food order is HERE
Swimming Finals is 2/2 at Pearland.  The Finals food order is HERE

Food Orders are due by Tuesday, 1/29/19 at 5PM

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