In This Meet Recap:

• Swimmers of the Week
• 6/20 Meet Recap, Records, Time Drops, Ribbons
• Volunteer Thanks + Make-up Shifts
• Coach Highlights
• 11+ Practice Sign-up
• Raffle Donations
• Upcoming Spirit Nights: Save the Dates
• Upcoming Events: Mark your calendars for our July meets and end-of-year celebrations!
  • Ice Cream Social: Postponed to 6/29
  • Cary City Meet

Hi Killer Whales!

Thanks to everyone who braved the weather and came out for the meet on Tuesday. Hopefully, you were able to make a few more friends on the team as you shared tents to stay dry. It was a close and exciting meet, most every event had heart-racing finishes. In the end the Alligators won, but we're so proud of the effort you displayed.  

Our final score is Alligators 264 and Killer Whales 250. 

Great Job Killer Whales.  Keep up what you're doing. 

Side note on events: Our ice cream social has been postponed until next Thursday night and look for news about our upcoming Cary City Meet! 

See you on Deck!

SVKW Board

Congrats to our Swimmers of the Week: Katie Louder (9-10) and Miles Eljdid (11-12).

You have earned a red swim cap! Click here for past winners and SOTW Criteria.

Meet Records:

Congrats to our Double Winners (6/unders): Stella Sullivan & TJ Keller

Congrats to our Triple Winners (7/up): Seth Keen, Jarrett McKone, Connor Nguyen & Everett McKone

Swimmers with the Biggest Personal Best Time Drops:

We would like to shine our spotlight on the swimmers listed below who had the largest time drops in their age groups for each event. We will be awarding a free ice cream voucher from FRESH Local Ice Cream to the MOST IMPROVED swimmer in each of the six age groups every week (highlighted in red). Prizes will be placed in your family’s ribbon folder within the next week. Congratulations swimmers!

6 / Under Swimmers

15 Yard Freestyle - Benny Robbins (-2.06) and (girls - NA)

15 Yard Backstroke - Dale Murray (-15.42) and Hannah Gross (1.40)

15 Yard Breaststroke -Lilly Morris (-17.08) and Liam Herndon (-13.42)

7-8 Swimmers

25 Yard Freestyle - Adam Felegyhazi (-5.32) and Melina Spain (-3.67)

25 Yard Backstroke - Luke Murray (-9.16) and Jordan Feeman (-3.65)

25 Yard Breaststroke - Camden Fuller (-15.91) and Peyton Dill (-4.81)

25 Yard Butterfly - Luke Murray (-5.89) and Izzy Orr (-3.66)

9-10 Swimmers

25 Yard Freestyle - Wil Dunn (-5.45) and Naomi Ehresman (-5.52)

25 Yard Backstroke - Peyton Hungarter (-2.96) and Sophia Pritchett (-4.03)

25 Yard Breaststroke - Isaac Embry (-8.04) and Sophia Pritchett (-6.32)

25 Yard Butterfly - Isaac Embry (-19.80) and Lucy Young (-6.19)

11-12 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle - Max York (-3.89) and Teagan Parker (-6.32)

50 Yard Backstroke - Max York (-4.32) and Clara Ellis (-6.17)

50 Yard Breaststroke - Henry Bowers (-0.76) and Cate Stone (-10.63)

50 Yard Butterfly - Mac/Leo Louder (-6.26) and Cate Stone (-7.27)

13-14 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle - Noah Keen (-1.05) and Aven Burgin (-2.24)

50 Yard Backstroke - Tripp Bowers (-0.83) and Suzi Strickland (-3.39)

50 Yard Breaststroke - Everett McKone (-0.59) and Grace Myers (-5.22)

50 Yard Butterfly - Noah Keen (-0.33) and Emily Przybylowski (-3.50)

15-18 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle - Caleb L'Hommedieu (-4.12) and Ivy Nuss (-0.25)

50 Yard Backstroke - Jason Armbruster (-1.40) and Olivia Burgin (-1.50)

50 Yard Breaststroke - Jason Armbruster (-1.78) and Oliva Burgin (-1.85)

50 Yard Butterfly - Caleb L'Hommedieu (-5.06) and Alysia Joyce (-2.01)

Volunteer Thanks + Make Up Notes!

Thank you to all the Volunteers who worked in the rain! A few updates after 2 meets. If you signed up for the substitute job, you will be working. I’m very much relying on those people to fill vacancies. Plan to work! If you have dropped shifts due to schedule conflicts and do not have 4 points, I’ve updated my needs here. You MUST send me your replacement date/job from the list. Please don’t make me chase you down.

Coach Highlight: Emmarose DeCaro, Assistant Head Coach

Both Meg and Emmarose bring a wealth of coaching experience to our team and we're glad they've made SVKW their home team!

1. How old were you when you joined your first swim team? I joined the team when I was 4 years old!

2. What made you want to coach the SVKW? I started out as an assistant under Coach Margaret who taught me everything that I know. I’ve been on the coaching staff ever since.

3. What is your favorite event to swim? My best event is both the 100 back and 200 back but I absolutely love the 50 free and back.

4. Which stroke took you the longest to master? Butterfly was the hardest for me as naturally I was more of a breaststroker when I was younger. When I grew up freestyle and backstroke was more my jam and I struggled with stamina for butterfly.

5. What is your favorite at-the-pool food/drink? At this moment I’m a big fan of popcorn and sour candies. That goes for off the deck too:)

6. What’s something coming up this season that you’re excited for? I’m also super pumped for the Cary City Meet! I really dressing up for the themes like Coach Meg while seeing the kids swim against a bunch of different teams. It’s a long day for us coaches, but it’s a great time for us to have fun with each other.

7. What is your full swimming/coaching background outside of shepherds vineyard? When I turned 8 I started doing year-round swimming and was a part of two separate swim clubs. I continued my competitive career when I went off to college for all 4 years that I attended the school. After I graduated I came and was head coach alongside Meg, then got a job after the summer at Triangle Swim School as a lead swim instructor for 6 months before starting an internship outside of the swimming world.

Picking up Award Ribbons after Meets

Check your family folders on Friday for your Personal Best (ages 12 and under) and Meet Placement (all ages) ribbons. If you think you’re missing a personal best ribbon, or have other questions, please contact Lily Wan

[email protected]

Raffle Prizes

We're looking to add to our Raffle prize stash for our end-of-year awards ceremony!  Know a business or someone who would like to donate items or gift cards?  Let us know!  

Little Whales Practice Help:

Hey 11 and Up Swimmers! Do you love hanging with the younger SVKW swimmers and getting to know them? Do you want to explore the idea of coaching one day? We’d love to get some extra hands to help out during practice for the the 6/unders or 7-8s! This volunteer spot is a great opportunity to get experience mentoring younger kids and would look great on any future job applications. Sign up here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b094faea82fabf4...

Mark your Calendars for these Spirit Night Events below.

These businesses will donate a portion of the proceeds back to the team. More details will be sent out close to the dates.

• 7/16 Papa Murphy's: noon - 8pm
• 7/20 Sky Zone (Defy): 6pm - 8pm
• 8/1 Apex Chipotle: 4pm - 8pm

UPCOMING EVENTS

• 6/22 Ice cream social (tonight!)
• 6/27 Home Meet
• 6/29 Ice Cream Social
• 7/5 (WEDNESDAY) Away meet at Cary Swim Club
• 7/15 Cary City Meet - Details TBA
• 7/25: Awards Night 6pm - 8pm
• 7/30: SVKW End of Year Pool Party: 5:30pm - 9:00pm