Good evening Stingray families,

Time trials are on Saturday!

We are in need of 3 more stroke and turn judges. Time trials will be a good day to practice your skills! Please consider volunteering for this important position. We will need to forfeit a meet if we do not have a stroke and turn judge!

Please declare for time trials by Thursday, June 11. Job signups are also open. We need all slots filled - especially timers! Feel free to sign up for more than one slot or have multiple members of your family volunteer! For the next 2 meets, we will ask you to declare by the Tuesday before the meet. That way we can let you know by Thursday what your food donation will be.

Pictures

Pictures will be taken before time trials. If you would like an individual photo, please come to the pool by 7 a.m. Otherwise, please arrive by 7:15 for the team picture. After the pictures, there will be breakfast (see below) and warm-ups. Please remind your swimmers that they are not allowed to eat until after pictures! Photo order form is located here: https://hpstingrays.swimtopia.com/stingray-pictures

Breakfast

A tradition of the Stingrays is to share in a wonderful breakfast as a team on the morning of time trials. We ask all families to bring a breakfast item to share. If you do not want to bring a breakfast item, we have a few other items we need. There is a sign-up genius of other items that we need for concessions. It can be found here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48A8AE29A0F5C16-57257882-2025

To recap: Please bring in either a breakfast item or something from the sign up genius. Thanks!

We will have drinks and lunch items to purchase. Please bring your food donation to the tables when you arrive.

For future meets, we will ask every family to bring an item for the concession stand. We will assign the items and get that list out by Thursday or Friday before the meet. This helps us to have lots of options and keep the prices low.

Gear

Incentive shirts, recycled swimming suits and shirts will be available at time trials. Silicone caps shipped and are estimated to come on Friday. Hopefully I will have them Saturday.

We still need VOLUNTEERS

Stroke and turn judges:  We only have 2 as of today! We really need 4-5 stroke and turn judges. It takes 2 hours to complete a class and then you get the best position on deck to watch your swimmers. If we do not have judges, we forfeit the meet. This is a very important position! You do not have to be perfect, we just need someone watching.

Concessions coordinator:  Jeanann is going to finish this season as our concessions coordinator, but she would love to train the next person willing to take the time to learn this position. Some of the tasks are creating the list of food items that families bring to meets, purchasing food (can be shared with the swim team directors), and running the stand at the meets. Lots of you wonderful parents have worked the concession stand in the past, so you know how important it is. Both our team and the visiting team depend on it for food and it helps defer swim team costs.

Practice Signups

There will be NO practice on Thursday, June 18 since the pool opens early for the last day of school.

Week of June 15: 8&unders/6&unders: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48A8AE29A0F5C16-64408208-8uand

Week of June 15: MiniRays. Please only sign up for 2 slots. We only have 3 days of practice this week, so we have very limited places, however, we were able to add a slot since school lets out early on Tuesday and Wednesday. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48A8AE29A0F5C16-64408198-mini

Thank you for all you do to support the team!

Go Stingrays!

2026 Events

June 13 - Time trials - Stingray Spirit (red & black)

June 19 - Pep Rally #1/School’s Out Party

June 20 - Swim meet vs. South Carroll (home) - Color Wars (colors per age group TBD)

Senior meet #1

June 26 - Pep Rally #2 - Bikers vs. Surfers

June 27 - Swim meet vs. Rollingwood

Senior meet #2

July 3 - Swim meet vs. Dulaney - Red, White, & Blue

July 8 - Night of Shenanigans

July 11 - Swim meet @ Andover - Superhero

July 12 - Mini Ray Meet - Disney

July 13 - Warrior Novice meet @ Wynnewood (tentative)

July 18 - Swim meet @ Springlake - Zoo Animals

July 19 - End of Season Celebration

July 22 - Straehle @ Padonia

July 25 - Divisionals @ South Carroll