SHST Weekly Report - May 30, 2022

We hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend!

SHST vs Lucas Valley - Saturday, June 4th at 8:30 AM - our Last Home Meet!

• Group 1 Swimmers swim Free Style and Backstroke only.  All other swimmers can sign up for max 3 events only if they master the stroke. If you have any questions if your swimmer is ready for a stroke, please email Coach Mark.​

• If your child is not swimming, please DECLINE so our coaches don't have to track you down. Thank you!

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All Stars Meet - Sunday June 12th at 10.00 AM @ Tidalwaves (Redwood HS)

All Stars is a league-wide system of recognizing and rewarding swimmers for achieving designated qualification times. Swimmers who achieve the designated qualification time by June 11th in any event are invited to attend the All Star meet. To learn more about this year's All Stars meet, see the All Stars Fact Sheet for information on who can go, signing up and the mandatory volunteer requirements for everyone who signs up!!! Your swimmers commitment to All Stars means you also have a commitment to Volunteer (including High School parents and those who opted out of volunteering during the regular season.)

If your swimmer already qualified for All Stars and plans to attend, please sign up HERE before Wednesday night June 1st!!

 

Congratulations to all the swimmer who already made All Star Times through May 21:

 

Girls 8&Under:  Bennett, Hailey; Betti, Dorian; Hyer, Julia; Kastner, Maeve

Boys 8&Under: Danziger, Aidan; Fisk, Ryan; McGoldrick, Koa; Olson, Winston

Girls 9-10: Cisneros, Emilia; Coughlin, Penelope; Hertel, Elizabeth; Isakson, Eleonora; Singleton, Zoe

Boys 9-10:  Bennett, Hayden; Dixon, Baxter; Mullen, August; Panzica, Hunter; Wahlstrom, Axel; Williams, Zachary

Girls 11-12: Fahy, Kathryn; Gallardo, Mia; Kastner, Elsa; Rode, Gabriella; Williams, Emme

Boys 11-12: Baxley, Blake; Hill, Schuyler; Kaye, Beckett; Kurtzig, Kai; Panzica, Beau; Porter, Gabriel; Wachelka, Zayne

Girls 13-14: Fine, Sylvie; Hovey, Holly; Kostecki, Sanne; Kurtzig, Kelly; Reagan, Lauren; Reichley, Hannah; Wachelka, Nadya; Wahlstrom, Elsa

Boys 13-14:  Anderson, Nolan; Andrews, Nolan; Dixon, Joshua; Greenberg, Nate; Parente, Joseph; Tachiki, Justin; Wolf, Charles

Girls 15-18: Fine, Ashley; Frey, Anya; Hinkelman, Avery; Hovey, Loretta; Joyce, Quinn; Kallmeyer, Gwen; Logan, Cate; Quinones, Makena; Reichley, Gabriella; Samlihan, Isobel; Sampson, Emma; Wahlstrom, Ingrid

Boys 15-18: Haggard, Dominic; Joyce, Dillon; Krilanovich, Vincent; LaFave, Nicholas; Lacy, Haakon; Long, Brady; Long, Hayden; Tachiki, Jeremy

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Champs and Champ Dinner

Saturday June 25th is our Championship Meet, aka "Champs" where every swimmer swims against every MSL team. To inform you on what you can expect and what is expected of you on this exciting day, we will host a zoom call on Tuesday evening, June 14th -Time TBD.

Sunday June 26th we will have our inspirational Champs/Awards Dinner at the Sleepy Hollow Club House to close out our season. This is fun night where our kids dress up, we all have some yummi food and an Award Ceremony for all our swimmers. Evite to come. It is a weekend not to be missed! 

If you haven't yet, please take a few seconds to complete this important survey to help us plan for this exciting weekend. Please click here to indicate if your family will join us for both the Champs Meet and the Champs Dinner.  Read more about Champs here. THANK YOU!

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Lost & Found!!

Missing some things? Our lost and found is VERY full... please look at the photos and come collect your items.  Items not picked up will soon be donated!

 

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Friday, June 3rd - SLIC Store

Hey 8 & Unders, it's time to gather up all those remaining SLICs you may have and come shop at the second and final SLIC store of the season on Friday, June 3 from 4:30-5p.  As a reminder, the yellow tokens your swimmers are coming home with are called Seal Lion Incentive Coins or SLICs for short. Your swimmer can collect them and then "spend" them at our SLIC stores for little prizes and candy. Kids should use up all their SLICs on June 3. Parents, please help us out to ensure this happens!  No SLIC hoarding--thanks! See you at the SLIC store on June 3 from 4:30-5p!

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Friday, June 3rd - 11+ Pizza Night!

Pizza night for our 11+ swimmers will be Friday, June 3 and will take place directly after group 4 practice. Parents, please pick up at 7:15pm. A reminder about the evening…The older swimmers grab some pizza, chat about weekend plans, high five the coaches, and head out to start their weekend...sometimes shoveling food in their mouths as they walk out the gate. :) We only serve the food after Group 4 swims but this event is for all 11+ swimmers. So if your 11+ swimmer is not in Group 4, it's up to you if you want to bring your swimmer back to the pool. Please keep in mind, this event is very quick and it is only for the swimmers (no parents). It lasts about 10 minutes from about 7:05- 7:15’ish

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Friday, June 10th - Beach Day!

Let's kick off summer vacation at the beach! Join teammates and family at Stinson Beach for a day of fun in the sun 11am-2pm on Friday, June 10. Parents are responsible for their swimmers at the beach and must accompany them. If your swimmer is going with another family, please make sure that family understands and agrees that they will stay at the beach with them the entire time. This is a casual affair - pack your own lunch and drinks. The Fun Committee will supply snacks and desserts. Join in some beach fun and games after lunch such as Tug of War (a Sea Lion tradition)! There will be no swim practice on 6/10.  Questions?  Contact Melissa Wahlstrom @ 415-272-0467 or [email protected]

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Fund-a-need!

Congrats to last week's Swimmers of the Week!

Group 1: Anton Gridin and Talia Hapaurauchi

Group 2: Reese singleton and Jack Soule

Group 3: Emily Danke and Jake Adams 

Group 4: Liam Sigler and Sanne Kostecki 

Get into the team spirit and treat your self and the family to some new gear from our 2022 Sleepy Hollow Team Spirit Wear line! The Spirit Wear will be sold at our home meets until we sell out so don't miss out! 

Volunteer Positions Needed

HERE you can find our Spring and Summer practice groups and times. Stay up to date on our strict Covid 2022 Protocols and Team Policies.

Parking and Driver Safety

Please SLOW DOWN! Be aware of increased pedestrian traffic around the Clubhouse and drive carefully. Use your common sense while walking on and crossing Butterfield Road. Help teach our Sea Lions to be responsible pedestrians. The Sheriff’s Office will be making extra patrols the coming weeks to watch for speeders, illegal parking and unsafe drivers. When dropping off your swimmer and/or parking for practice:

• Do not park in front of the Clubhouse, this is strictly for drop off.  

• Park perpendicular (not parallel) in the gravel spaces to maximize space for other people.

• Please don’t ever park in the fire lanes/no parking zones across from the Clubhouse or in the handicapped parking spot/no parking zone in front of the Clubhouse - not even to wait for your swimmer after practice/if you remain in the car.

• Please do not let your child "jump quickly out of the car" in the middle of the road.  This is not safe!  Please take the extra minute and use the drop off circle.

• Use the walkway on Butterfield from Katrina Ct. to the clubhouse.  

• Remind your swimmer(s) not to walk behind parked cars. 

• Do not block gates, driveways or mailboxes.  Please be respectful of our neighbors! 

• And again, please slow down, and watch out for Sea Lions and parents crossing Butterfield and riding and walking in the bike lanes. Our swimmers all thank you!

Bikes

Bikes are NOT allowed inside the gated pool area. Please use the bike racks outside of the main black gate and do not block the Fire Zone/No Parking area. Don’t forget to bring bike locks! SHST and SHHA are not responsible for lost or stolen bikes.

Please remember that the Sleepy Hollow Homes Association forbids dogs at the Clubhouse and pool area.  Swim team families MAY NOT BRING DOGS to practices or meets. Dogs may not be tied up or left outside the gates and fence in front of the Clubhouse, even if you are just running in to drop off your swimmer. Please help us abide by this SHHA rule and leave your dog at home. Thank you!

Raising the Bar Initiative

Sleepy Hollow Swim Team is proud to partner with Raising the Bar, Keep Youth Events Substance Free, a county wide initiative dedicated to keeping youth events substance free. Sleepy Hollow Swim Team is encouraging an alcohol and substance free environment for all sporting events, team celebrations, and other activities that are youth focused, in person or virtual. This is an opportunity for you as parents to continue being positive role models for your kids and their class/teammates, both in person and at home, by showing them that we can all--adults and youths alike--have a good time without drinking or using substances when participating in youth events as a family. Please visit Raising the Bar and reach out to us for more information. Thank you for your support. We are looking forward seeing you Friday and if you haven’t responded yet, here is the link.

Donations

If you didn’t get a chance to donate during the registration process, please help us maintain and build upon our incredible community. Donations to our team help us do this while expenses continue to rise. Please donate to the Sea Lions – thank you!

The SHST board feels strongly that we do not want our registration fee to prohibit or deter families from joining our team. We want to maintain and build upon our incredible community; donations to our team help us do this while expenses continue to rise. Donations to our team also help us fund the many FUN events that we host during the season where kids build camaraderie and get to know each other outside of the pool. As we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, your donation will be tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. You can donate any amount to our team HERE and if you would like to sponsor a specific event, you can donate HERE.    

A huge thank you to Zamira Solari, Realtor Compass for sponsoring all of our Fun Fridays! 

Another massive thank you to Sushi69 & Mi Pueblo for sponsoring some of our fun events!

Thank you for these very generous donations!