Dear Stingray Parents and Swimmers,

Our FFYS Holiday Meet is just around the corner.  Thank you to everyone who has already signed up for volunteer slots!  If you have not signed up yet, click here: Volunteer Signup.  We also have our annual SKILLS and SKILLETS coming up soon!

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MEET UPDATE

2025 FFYS Holiday MEET - December 6-7

This is our “home” meet - ALL SWIMMERS SHOULD SWIM THIS MEET!

Entry Deadline: November 21, 2025

2025 DRD Winter Solstice Meet - December 13-14

Saline High School, Saline, Michigan

This is a USA Meet.

2026 Circle City Classic Invite (Indy Meet)

Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis, Indiana

This is a USA Meet.

Entry Deadline: December 12, 2025

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VOLUNTEERING - URGENT - ACTION NEEDED

Click here: Volunteer Signup.  ALL families, including high school boys & girls, must volunteer for AT LEAST TWO sessions at our FFYS December 6-7 Holiday meet.  As indicated in the registration process, every family has to fill a minimum of TWO volunteer slots at our December meet (Saturday/Sunday) and TWO volunteer slots at our Clusters Championship Meet in February.   If you are unable to fulfill this requirement, we charge a $100 volunteer fee per meet. However, WE DON’T WANT YOUR MONEY, we want YOUR HELP!  Our meet is the best-run meet all season because we have parents who care and work well together. If you have an unavoidable issue with availability, we expect YOU to contact us ASAP so alternative volunteering opportunities can be arranged.  Don't wait until the last minute.

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SKILLS & SKILLETS

Register here: Skills and Skillets Signup

Our annual SKILLS & SKILLETS event is Sunday, November 30 from 9:15-10:45 A.M.  at the YMCA. Our Senior Practice Group swimmers will be running a stroke clinic in the pool with all of our younger swimmers.  After the clinic, all swimmers get to eat a pancake breakfast that is prepared and served by swim team parents!  This is a fundraiser for our team.  The cost is $15 per participant, and the proceeds of this event help fund team expenses.  Register here: Skills and Skillets Signup 

Senior Swimmers and Senior Parents: 

Swimmers - You are teaching the clinic, so you do not need to register or pay. Coach Rich will check in with you to confirm that you are available to help teach the clinic.

Parents - Please help us feed our hungry swimmers by clicking here: Senior Parent Skills and Skills Breakfast Job Signup and selecting the Job Signup button at the top!  

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PRACTICE UPDATE 

Monday 11/24 and Tuesday 11/25

Normal practice schedule

Wednesday 11/26

Senior - 8-10am Northville

Gold - 8-9:30am Northville

Silver, Bronze, Miniray - No Practice

Thursday 11/27

No Practices - Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday 11/28

Senior - 8-10am Northville

Gold - 8-9:30am Northville

Silver, Bronze, Miniray - No Practice

Saturday 11/29

Senior - 7-9am Northville

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Miniray - No Practice

Sunday 11/30 - Skills & Skillets @ YMCA 

Gold, Silver, Bronze, MiniRay - 9:15-10:45 A.M.

Senior Practice Group - 9:00-10:45 A.M.

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MEET INFORMATION

Meet Structure:  Meets are made up of days and sessions.  Each meet is unique, varying from 1-3 days and from 1-8 sessions.  Sessions are based on the age of your swimmer, and may be different for each meet.  For example, one meet might have AM sessions for 12 and Under swimmers and PM sessions for 13 and Up, whereas the next meet might be a completely different age group structure.  Swimmers can sign up for just one session on just one day of any given meet.  It is not mandatory to sign up for all days or all sessions. 

Meet Packet: Every meet has a packet with LOTS of information about the meet.  Reading this entire document is the best way to make sure you have all of the relevant meet information. 

Relays: If there are relays, the coaches place swimmers in the relays based on who attends the meet.  Sometimes relays are at the beginning, but they can also be at the end.  For some meets, relays are at the beginning and the end!  Relay placement decisions are usually made by the coaches on the day of the meet, often at the end of warmup, so pay attention to the warmup schedule in the meet packet, and help your swimmer be on time!  

Meet Entry Fees: Our Meet Entry Booster enters all of our swimmers who sign up for a meet in one meet entry submission.  You do not have to individually send anything to the hosting team.  (There is a meet submission page included in the meet packet.  This is for our Meet Entry Booster to send in our team entry.)  Fees for meet entries vary, but are usually $5-$7 per individual event, per swimmer, plus a $1-$10 surcharge or facility use fee.  Individual event costs and surcharges/facility use fees are charged to individual Booster accounts.  Relay entry costs are picked up by the Boosters.  

Please note, once the meet submission deadline passes, if your swimmer cannot swim for any reason, you will still be charged for the events for which you signed your swimmer up to swim, since we are charged by the hosting team at the time of entry submission.

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Let’s go Stingrays!! It's time to swim fast!