Rudgear Rats: Week of June 5th

Upcoming Dates

• June 6^th – Picture Day | 8am-11am | Rudgear Estates (No Practice)
   
• June 6^th – Buddy Day | 11am-12pm | Rudgear Estates
   
• June 7^th – Polliwogs Begins | 12:00pm-12:30pm (M, T, Th, F)
   
• June 8^th – REST vs. Larkey (home) | Warm-Ups at 4:30pm | GREEN OUT!!
   
• June 10^th – Deadline for declaring/selecting strokes for City Meet
   
• June 11^th – REST @ WHO (away) | Warm-Ups at 8:30am
   
• June 12^th – City Meet Jobs Sign Up Opens | 5pm | www.rudgearrats.com
   
• June 13^th – 6U & 7/8 Social | 1pm-4pm | Rudgear Estates
   
• June 15^th – REST @ Woodlands (away) | Warm-Ups at 5:00pm Declare by June 8
   
• June 16^th – 13/14 Social (13/14s will receive an Evite with details)
   
• June 18^th – REST vs. IVST (home) | Warm-Ups at 8am Declare by June 11

Link to full season calendar

Coach’s Corner
Aloha Rats, 

We are off to a strong start this season. Our times speak for themselves. We need to keep the energy level high this week. Larkey this Wednesday on our home turf. Just like the Warriors, we have the Home Court advantage! In order to remind the sharks how spirited we are, we will be doing a GREEN-OUT for the Wednesday night meet! 

Also, please encourage all swimmers to start considering the three events they want to swim at Walnut Creek City Meet! Let’s BLEED GREEN with spirit this week. Warm weather + good vibes = pop times!

-Coach Nick

Green Out!!
This Wednesday the weather forecast is calling for a GREEN OUT!! Swimmers, siblings, and parents/caretakers, coming to the meet wearing as much green as possible. Paint your face, spray your hair, get wild! Bring the spirit and let’s show Larkey how we do it at Rudgear. If you still need some RATS swag, check out the spirit shop and snag yourself a BLEED GREEN shirt.

Picture Day & Buddy Day
Tomorrow, June 6^th, is both Picture Day and Buddy Day!

For pictures, please arrive between 8am and 10:30am. Come whenever is best for your family – but not everyone can come on the later side, so if you can come earlier please do so. (Even if you don’t want to order pictures, please bring your swimmer by to take their photo so it can be compiled into the team photo.) Check out the flyer for more info.

Swimmers typically wear their team suit for photos. However, we know that not everyone has a team suit. Swimmers can borrow from a friend or wear any suit they prefer.

Buddies will be revealed at 11am! If your swimmer is participating in the Buddy Program, please make sure that they are back at the pool by 11am on June 6th so they can meet their buddy! (If your swimmer cannot attend this event, that’s okay! We will put a note in your family folder letting your swimmer know who their buddy is.)

And if you’re able, please check out the SignUpGenius and sign up to bring some food, drinks, or kick in $10 for pizza.

City Meet
Please commit your swimmer(s) AND choose the events that they would like to swim. Even if you have already declared, please go back in and help your swimmer(s) select strokes. Each swimmer can participate in up to three individual events (15/18s may also add 50 free in addition to three other events). Our coaches will take the swimmers’ selections into strong consideration when choosing the events.

To help inform stroke selection, the schedule for both days is as follows:

All events are timed finals. There are no qualifying heats.

In addition, some swimmers will be placed in relays. If your swimmer can only be at City Meet for one day, or has to leave early one or both days, please be sure to make a note of their availability in the note area.

The deadline to declare is this coming Friday, June 10^th
This is a hard deadline based on our timeline to get entries to WCSC desk.

If you have a swimmer participating in City Meet, you must sign up to work a job. Job sign-ups will go live on June 12^th at 5pm. You will sign up for a City Meet job in the same way you signed up for your meet and team jobs. (Log in, go to Team Events and click Job Sign Up on the All-City Meet event.) Please reach out to Ray Elias ([email protected]) if you have questions or need help.

Want to give your swimmer(s) a “shout out” in the City Meet program? Click here.

Want to advertise in the City Meet program? Click here.

Spirit Apparel
For all who have not been able to pick up your pre-ordered spirit wear or team shirts at practice last week, you can pick up your merchandise on Ruth’s porch at 2172 Stewart Ave, Walnut Creek. Please note that charcoal tanks, visors & bucket hats are not yet available. Questions? Please email Ruth Perez ([email protected]).

Coach Lunch
We have a great tradition of keeping our coaches at Rudgear fed! Please sign up here to bring our coaches lunch one day this summer

Lessons
Coach Nick, Coach Briona, Coach Simone, and Coach Andreas are now all offering lessons! Check out our lessons page to access their sign ups. (We have lots of swimmers and limited time for lessons, so please be courteous when signing up and leave space for other swimmers to get lessons, too.)

Make it a great week everyone and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RATS!!

PS – We know this was a long newsletter and we appreciate you reading it thoroughly. And now that you’re in the mood to read, check out this article – Eight Tips for Being a Great Sports Parent.