Hey Walden families,

I wanted to thank everyone one more time for all you did to make this season a success. Successful seasons don't happen without a lot of help, and I appreciate all the support provided this year.

Once again, please review this email in its entirety. It will contain everything we currently know regarding the end of season Medal Meets, with the promise of more information to come as we receive volunteer assignments and such after Monday's meeting.

As a reminder, each swimmer, as long as they've competed in two meets this season, is invited to swim in one of the league's end-of-season Medal Meets. The meets are as follows:

• Bronze Meet - Wednesday, July 15 at Southdown (where we swam July 1) at 5:30 p.m.
• Silver Meet - Saturday, July 18 at Bay Ridge at 8:30 a.m.
• Gold Meet - Sunday, July 19 at Hillsmere at 8:30 a.m.

Sign up for these meets is currently open on the team website (waldengreenwave.swimtopia.com) and on the Swimtopia app. The deadline to declare for a Medal Meet is 11 p.m. tonight! We will not be able to add swimmers after the deadline.

In addition to declaring for this meet, please pick the events your child wants to swim. For those that declared early last week, I forgot to turn this option on but it is now available. They are eligible to swim in up to 3 individual events. Time standards for these meets are enforced and you will not be able to select events where a swimmer's time does not meet the criteria for the meet.

Please find attached three PDF documents (one for each meet) that list the events your swimmer can swim at the labeled meet. This is to help you decide which meet to swim. For example, if your swimmer qualifies for the Silver Meet in the 25 freestyle and the Bronze Meet in the 25 backstroke, you will need to chose between swimming the freestyle at the Silver Meet or the Backstroke at the Bronze Meet.

If your swimmer chooses to swim a Medal Meet, we are collecting $10 per swimmer to cover the fees charged by the league. These fees can be paid via Venmo (@waldengreenwave) or cash (handed to Whitney Brown or Jim Higgins). If paying your fee online, please indicate your swimmer and the meet so we can keep track of who's paid.

I've been doing this long enough that I'm convinced I left something out so if you have a question that I haven't answered, please email me. 

Jim Higgins