Happy Almost-Summer!
In this email: 1) Swim Team – June 7 & 8, 2) Swim Team – June 10 and after, 3) Swim Team Coaches, 4) Swim Team Confirmation, 5) Vacations, 6) Both Swim Team & Lessons, 7) Swim Lessons Schedule, 8) Swim Lessons Instructors, 9) Swim Lessons Confirmation, 10) HASS Handbook Coming, and 11) Team Suits & Caps

SWIM TEAM – JUNE 7 & 8
One June 7 and 8, Friday and Saturday mornings, all swim-team swimmers will be practicing together at the St. James Pool. Swimmers age 12 and up will practice from 8-9am, Swimmers age 9-11 will practice from 8:45-9:45am, and swimmers age 8 and under will practice from 9:30-10:30am.

If you have swimmers in multiple age-groups, you are welcome to move your swimmers up or down a group if it would be more convenient! The age divisions are not binding, so please bring your swimmers whenever you can!

We will have white caps for you to write your names, we will be reviewing basics, then getting the swimmers into the pool in smaller groups! All of our coaches will be there to help with questions, technique, and motivation!

SWIM TEAM – JUNE 10 & after
Changes to note: The Green Team will now be 7:30-9AM every day, while the Purple Team will remain 8-9:30AM each day. If the practices need to be split into groups, the coaches will communicate those changes after June 17.
Purple Team – St. James Community Pool – 10006 Mildred Dr, Hagerstown, MD
Mon. – Fri. 8-9:30AM

Green Team – Westfields Community Pool – 18312 Rockland Dr, Hagerstown, MD
Mon – Fri. 7:30-9AM

Blue Team – Williamsport Pool – 11 Park Rd, Williamsport, MD 21795
Mon. – Fri. 7:15-8:30 PM – Evening Practices

Saturday Morning Swim Meets, finished by 11:30AM Marty Snook Park Pool, warm-ups at 7:15am

SWIM TEAM COACHES
We have a fantastic line-up of Coaches once again this summer! You will meet all of our coaches on the first two days of practice, June 7 and 8, then the Co-Coaches will break off for each team beginning June 10th! Purple Team-Gideon Hall and Abby Ziegler, Green Team-Megan Seibert and Jack Krumpe, Blue Team-Neilson Parrott and Faith Hanft. We are also thankful to have great substitute coaches, most of whom you will recognize as former coaches!

SWIM TEAM CONFIRMATION
At this point, I have paperwork for the following last names! If you don’t see your swimmers’ last name (only listed once per family!) and feel like you have registered, please let me know. Registration for swim team will stay open through all of June!

Alto, Amaya, Bolalin, Booth, Brown, Burkholder, Campbell, Cline, Davis, Distad, Eby, Frederick, Gibson, Gleason, Greening, Grove, Hall, Hardcastle, Harlow, Harris, Harshbarger, Hassane, Hawbaker, Henry, Horst, Jones, Jubuisson, Keeler, Landaverde, Lane, Lantz, Lorshbaugh, Macena, Madrid, Mahaffey, McCormick, McNally, Meek, Murphy, Ngwa, Salvas, Schofield, Sheppard, Shives, Shrader, Smith, Stagno, Tingle, Tolson, Turner, Veen, Vroman, Williams, Wisnouse, Yarbough, Yurche

VACATIONS
Please take your vacations! (or camps or VBS, etc!) Do not worry about missing practices or even the beginning of the season! HASS was designed to be a blessing to families, so we are always pleased to see you when you can be there. If you plan to be away for more than 2 days, please let your coaches know!

If you need to miss your morning practices but could make the night practices, or if you need to miss the evening practices but could make the morning practices, please feel free to attend a different practice! Just introduce yourself to the new coach, and let them know what you are doing. HASS is flexible, and we would love to help your family in any way that we can!

BOTH SWIM LESSONS & TEAM
Many families choose to do both swim lessons and swim team! Some team swimmers could benefit from additional training in a smaller, hands-on group, in addition to the team experience. Some swim lesson swimmers feel excited and ready to jump into the team after lessons! Registration for Swim Lessons and Swim Team are always on-going, so please let us know if you would like to add lessons OR team!

SWIM LESSONS SCHEDULES
We are now pleased to partner with three pools to offer Red-Cross certified swim lessons!

• The Westfields Pool: M, W,F beginning 9:30AM, two sessions: 1) June 10-June 28, and 2) July 8-26,
• St. James Community Pool: M-F beginning 9:30AM, three sessions: 1) June 10-June 21, 2) June 24-July 5, and 3) July 8-19,
• Mt. Lena Pool, one session: M-F, between 9AM and 11:30AM, June 10-21

SWIM LESSONS INSTRUCTORS
We are thrilled to have many capable and patient instructors who can’t wait to help your swimmers! Claire Seibert, Charity Parrott, Megan Seibert, Gideon Hall, Hanna Harris, and Parker Basener. Coach Neil and I may jump in for lessons, as needed!

9) SWIM LESSONS CONFIRMATION
All swim lessons registrations received a confirmation email this week. If you did not receive an email, please let me know!

10) HASS HANDBOOK – SOON!
We will be providing each family with an HASS Handbook at the start of the season filled with helpful information! Be on the look-out for your copy during the first two weeks of practices!

11) TEAM SUITS & CAPS
Team suits are never required, but we do ask that each swimmer wear their team color HASS cap for the swim meets! We will have them available for purchase for under $10 the week before the first meet. Stay tuned in practices for more info! Also, if you wish to buy a team suit, you can go to www.swimoutlet.com/hass for our team store! The team suit is durable and not too expensive, and has a stripe or two of the team color to represent! Since we have Purple and Green new this year, it will be fun to see the new colors on the pool deck at meets! If you have a different color team suit from prior years, you may absolutely continue to wear that!

Have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!