In This Meet Recap

• Swimmers of the Week
• 6/11 Meet Recap, Records, and Personal Time Drops
• Meet Ribbons and Coordinator Contact
• Volunteer Thank Yous
• Meet Photos available and SVKW Instagram Acct.
• New Swimmer Entrance at 6/18 Home Meet
• Upcoming Events
  • Morning Practice Starts This Week
  • Saturday: Butterfly Clinic (normal practice times per age)
  • 7/13 Cary City Meet: Save the Date

Hi Killer Whales!

That was an exciting first Meet! The Otters thought they could use camouflage to masquerade as friendlies, to put you off your game, but you didn’t let their familiar team colors fool you. Our final score was Killer Whales 307 and Otters 206. We are so proud of our Killer Whales, both for your hard work and for how you’ve conducted yourself at this meet. You’ve made your coaches, parents, and swim board proud!

We’re tweaking our new timing system this week and working out some kinks that we think, and hope, will make subsequent meets more time efficient. Thanks for your patience with a longer meet this past week! We hope you had a great time.

Check your family folders at the lifeguard station for your Personal best and top winners ribbons. They should be in there by the end of the day Sunday.

The 6/18 Meet is Open. Go ahead and declare your swimmers now: attending/not attending and available/not available for relays, to meet the Sunday noon deadline.

See you on Deck!

SVKW Board

Congrats to our Swimmers of the Week: Elizabeth Vaughan (17) and Luke Keen (14). You have earned a red swim cap! Click here for past winners and SOTW Criteria. 

Congrats to our Triple Winners

(First place in 3 individual events)

• Stella Sullivan (7)
• Izzie Kohler (14)
• Everett McKone (14)

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 week. Congratulations swimmers!

6 / Under Swimmers

15 Yard Freestyle - Kane Bradt (-5.43) & Aubrey Mashmann (-4.48)

15 Yard Backstroke – Kane Bradt (-6.97) & Rosaleen Salz (-10.85)

15 Yard Breaststroke – Mack Keller (-9.79) & Robin Lemanski (-7.48)

7-8 Swimmers

25 Yard Freestyle – Tripp Ausenbaugh (-4.79) & Mackenzie Fuller (-6.99)

25 Yard Backstroke – Caden Mahoney (-13.31) & Brooklyn Pajaud (-3.23)

25 Yard Breaststroke – Andrew Embry (-45.06) & Mackenzie Paul (-6.32)

9-10 Swimmers

25 Yard Freestyle – Adam Felegyhazi (-2.15) & Naomi Ehresman (-2.89)

25 Yard Backstroke – Wilks Grover (-2.12) & Elowyn Walton (-4.22)

25 Yard Breaststroke – Tres Whitehouse (-5.66) & Elowyn Walton (-5.00)

11-12 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle – NA & Darby Vaughan (-5.28)

50 Yard Backstroke – Knox Lair (-1.66) & Darby Vaughan (-4.55)

50 Yard Breaststroke – Asher Austin (-7.58) & Darby Vaughan (-8.18)

13-14 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle – Malachi Vaughan (-2.62) & Callie Hofler (-0.94)

50 Yard Backstroke – Josh Piontek (-1.91) & Adelyn Smith (-2.92)

50 Yard Breaststroke – Nasier Armstrong (-3.39) & Adelyn Smith (-5.01)

15-18 Swimmers

50 Yard Freestyle – Paxton Ausenbaugh (-2.66) & Elizabeth Vaughan (-2.43)

50 Yard Backstroke – James Chapman (-0.16) & Elizabeth Vaughan (-2.76)

50 Yard Breaststroke – Paxton Ausenbaugh (-6.70) & Tori Strickland (-0.85)

Picking up Award Ribbons after Meets

Check your family folders after a meet for your Personal Best (ages 12 and under -usually filed by Saturday night) and Meet Placement (all ages) ribbons. You can ask for the file box from the concession attendant or lifeguard front desk anytime you’re at the pool. If you think you’re missing a ribbon, or have other questions, please contact our ribbon coordinator, Lily Wan [email protected]

Volunteer Highlights: 

Photos from the Meet + Team Instagram

Luke Eiles is a local high school student who has a side photography business. He was taking photographs of the swim team at Tuesday's meet and sent us this link to view. If you are interested in purchasing any of the photos from Luke, the price and instructions are in the link!

We have created a new SVKW Instagram Acct!  Follow us at: @sv.killer.whales

Cary City Meet: July 13 Save the Date

This is a super fun event with a long history of bringing together all of the summer swim teams from the Cary/Apex area. We pick a theme, decorate, dress up, and have a day full of swimming events and team bonding time. Save the Date and come join us! More details coming soon.

Special Swimmer Entrance at Home Meets

Last year we received multiple requests to mimic a special swimmer entrance on home meets that a few other teams do. A group makes a tunnel with their hands, then cheers as the swimmers make a grand entrance through it. We’d like to give this a try at next week's home meet, see how we like it! 

• 12 and under SVKW swimmers: at 5:45pm, meet up OUTSIDE the west-facing back gate and group up between there and the baby pool fence. You’ll be entering through the "tunnel". 
• 13 and up SVKW Swimmers: at 5:55 pm form a tunnel between there and just inside the back gate (the line position will be marked by orange cones)! 
• Parents, who are not in volunteer meetings, are welcome to join the tunnel if there’s room in the line. When the team is announced (right before the National Anthem) the tunnel crew will cheer while younger swimmers jog in and gather under the white SVKW team tents.

Swimmers, if this sounds confusing, simply meet up outside the west-facing back gate at 5:45 pm and follow instructions from there (the gate near the diving boards)! There will be people directing you where to go and when to enter!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Morning practice started today! Tomorrow is Fun Friday.
• 6/15 Butterfly Clinic during normal Saturday practice times
• 6/18: Home meet vs Sunset Ridge - Meet sign up is Open
• 6/18 Concessions: Kona Ice & Ty's All Natural Food Truck & Romeo's Pizza & Fresh Ice Cream
• 6/22: 11/over Saturday Clinic - Sprint Work
• 6/22: 10/under Saturday Clinic - Backstroke
• 7/13: Cary City Meet - Save the Date