In This Meet Recap:

• Swimmers of the Week
• 7/5 Meet Recap, Records, and Personal Time Drops
• Volunteer Highlights
• 11+ Practice Help Sign-up (ongoing, click here to help out)
• Share your Meet photos for the EOY slideshow
• Coach Appreciation Day (KW and Beluga Coaches)
• Upcoming July Events: Turns Clinic, Spirit Nights, and EOY Events

Happy Weekend Killer Whales! 

We hope you had a great week celebrating Independence Day and our swim meet against the CSC Imps. Despite your best efforts, they proved to be as tricky as their name implies and swam off with a net full of points. Our final score was CSC Imps 307 and SV Killer Whales 206.

In better news, we’re 1/1 in our overall division score (not every team we've swam against is scored in our division) with the potential to earn more in-division wins during the next two meets. Your personal time-drop scores are also looking pretty amazing. That's worth celebrating so keep up the hard work Killer Whales! 

Don't forget to send us your pictures (link below) and mark your calendars for upcoming Turn's Clinic, Starts/Finish Clinic, Spirit Nights, and the End of Year Events. 

We’ll see you on Deck,

SVKW Board

Congrats to our Swimmers of the Week: Molly Ellis & Holden Nelson

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

Meet Records:

Congrats to our Double Winner (6/under): Stella Sullivan

Congrats to our Triple Winners (7/up): Connor Nguyen and Izzie Kohler

Swimmers with the Biggest Personal Best Time Drops:

Here are our highest time drops per age group.  If your name is in red, your free FRESH Ice Cream Voucher will be placed in your family’s ribbon folder within the next week. Congratulations swimmers!

6 and Under Boys and Girls

15 Yard Freestyle - Caden Mahoney (-3.73) and Norma Coats (-3.96)

15 Yard Backstroke - Caden Mahoney (-6.11) and Olivia Orr (-9.89)

15 Yard Breaststroke - Benny Robbins (-3.25) and Lilly Morris (-8.16)

7-8 Boys and Girls

25 Yard Freestyle - Grey Betancourt (-3.41) and Madison Parker (-7.69)

25 Yard Backstroke - Jack Stealey (-14.99) and Juliet Thompson (-9.67)

25 Yard Breaststroke - Tres Whitehouse (-7.04) and Izzy Orr (-10.89)

25 Yard Butterfly - Tres Whitehouse (-4.67) and Zavyn Nelson (-12.51)

9-10 Boys and Girls

25 Yard Freestyle - Noah Fink (-1.14) and Naomi Ehresman (-6.93)

25 Yard Backstroke - Holden Nelson (-11.10) and Naomi Ehresman (-14.67)

25 Yard Breaststroke - Greyden Snoke (-1.53) and Naomi Ehresman (-2.68)

25 Yard Butterfly - Holden Nelson (-12.56) and Caroline Stealey (-0.42)

11-12 Boys and Girls

50 Yard Freestyle - Max York (-3.21) and Mallory Spain (-1.79)

50 Yard Backstroke - Max York (-5.40) and Lyla Ulbright (-1.42)

50 Yard Breaststroke - Max York (-6.50) and Clara Ellis (-5.98)

50 Yard Butterfly - Max York (-6.36) and Clara Ellis (-3.06)

13-14 Boys and Girls

50 Yard Freestyle - Tripp Bowers (-0.59) and Rachel Martin (-0.60)

50 Yard Backstroke - Everett McKone (-0.11) and Audrey Ehresman (-3.11)

50 Yard Breaststroke - Everett McKone (-0.37) and Grace Richards (-0.84)

50 Yard Butterfly - Tripp Bowers (-2.85) and Suzi Strickland (-2.69)

15-18 Boys & Girls

50 Yard Freestyle - James Chapman (-0.64) and Ivy Nuss (-2.30)

50 Yard Backstroke - Cameron Sheppard (-1.52) and Lauren Nance (-0.40)

50 Yard Breaststroke - James Chapman (-0.05) and Ellie Hanlon (-0.80)

50 Yard Butterfly - Cameron Sheppard (-2.19) and Lauren Nance (-0.89)

Shout Out to Our Volunteers!

Thank you Julie Richards for filling in as our TSA Representative! And to Carolina Robbins & Christina Dunn for being flexible with an on-deck job change. Each meet is a little different depending on the technology involved, how the host team operates, and our new TSA changes. We appreciate the flexibility to learn and do new things!

Picking up Award Ribbons after Meets

Check your family folders after a meet on Fridays/Saturdays for your Personal Best (ages 12 and under) and Meet Placement (all ages) ribbons. You can ask for them from the concession attendants anytime you’re at the pool. If you think you’re missing a personal best ribbon, or have other questions, please contact Lily Wan [email protected]

Photos for End of Year slideshow:

Upload any pictures you've taken at Meets of swimmers together here to be considered for the EOY sideshow (click NEW then FILE UPLOAD then select the photos you want to upload): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10GW3OGthnWC64lN6-zQN4m-VD2QeW-98?usp=sharing

Coach Appreciation: July 14

It is time to show your 2023 Shepherd's Vineyard coaching team some LOVE!!

The SVKW Board will be providing Coaches Meg, Emma, Lauren, Jathan, James, Bryan, Callie, Josie, Tori & Hannah with lunch on Friday 7/14 to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the team this season.  They have done a fantastic job!

We know our coaches would enjoy notes, cards, and drawings from their Killer Whales to share their thanks with their coaches. Encourage your swimmers to bring them to practice on 7/14, or anytime next week if you'll miss that day. 

Upcoming Events: 

• All days: 11+ Practice Help Sign-up (ongoing, click here to help out)
• Tomorrow 7/8: Turns Clinic for 11+  during normal practice (8:30 - 9:30am)
• Tomorrow 7/8: Starts/Finish clinics for 10/unders during normal practices times

• 7/11 Senior Night 
• 7/14 Coach Appreciation Night
• 7/15 Cary City Meet - Meet Entry is closed, watch your email for more details. 
• 7/16 Papa Murphy's Spirit Day: noon - 8pm
• 7/20 Sky Zone (Defy) Spirit Night:  6pm - 8pm
• 7/25: Awards Night, Hope Church, 6pm - 8 pm
• 7/30: SVKW End of Year Pool Party: 5:30pm - 9:00pm
• 8/1 Apex Chipotle Spirit Night: 4pm - 8pm