
Hood Hammerheads/Pups
2019!
Hammerheads and
Pups 2021 Summer
Swim Season
Welcome to the Hood Hammerheads 30th
season!
We are very excited for this season to
begin!!!
Registration opens April
1 for returning families.
Registration for new
families will open May 1 (space
permitting).
Hopefully all your questions will be answered
here. If not, please feel free to email us and we will
respond as quickly as possible.
Mission :
The Hood Hammerheads Swim Team mission is to provide ALL
participants with an enjoyable experience, developing great
sportsmanship, furthering competitive swimming skills, and
cultivating special friendships and lifelong
memories.
Hood Parent Board
Alex Brown (Team Rep)
Laurie Larsson (Team
Treasurer)
Jennifer Lolli-Hall (Team Activities and
Team Apparel)
Tara Fager-Morcock (Team Concessions
Manager)
Stephen Lindell (Banquet
Coordinator)
Michael Kokoski (Team IT)
Hood
Coaches:
Head Coach - Ashley
Gardner
Assistant Coaches - TBD
Jr. Coaches - TBA
Swimmers: We as
coaches ask that all swimmers be able to swim a length of the
pool unassisted before joining the Hammerheads team. If you have a
little one who can’t quite make it yet, we suggest our
Hammerhead Pups Pre-team program.
Registration
:
Registration begins April 1 for returning
swimmers/families.
All swimmers must be registered and paid
for by this date or they may not swim in the league this season.
Registration will be online on our Team Unify Website (payment will
be sent to the Team Treasurer or handed in at the first practice
your swimmer(s) attend. We do have a trial period of one week
(we will refund your registration cost minus the non-refundable
insurance cost.)
Pricing:
Competitive
team: $110 for the first swimmer in your
family (this
includes a $10 non-refundable insurance fee). Additional
(2nd/3rd) family Hammerhead swimmers are $100 each ($90 +
$10 non-refundable insurance fee) and a flat fee of $90
each for the 4th or more swimmers in a family (maximum insurance fee
for Hammerhead swimmers is $30 per
family)
Hammerhead Pups
Pre-Team: $TBD
per Pup participant. This also includes a $10 non-refundable
insurance fee. All Pups will be registered as FSSL swimmers
(same as the Hammerheads team) so that they may try a meet
if they are ready at any time during the dual
meet portion of the season.
We are working on how we
can safely run this program this summer! When we have more
details, we will post it
here.
Competitive
Team (Hammerheads):
Pre-Season Practice Dates Coming
Soon
All swimmers must be registered and fees
paid, before getting in the
water.
Hammerheads Competitive
Team Summer Practice Schedule - TBD
Due to number of swimmers allowed in
the pool for practices right now, we will be running our practices
a little different this summer. Stay tuned for more
details!
Monday-Friday 9:30
a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Due
to our limited number of swimmers allowed in the pool at a
time, we are working out the details of our
practices and which groups will have which
times.
Hammerhead Pups
Practice Schedule:
Pups will begin
-TBD We are working on how we can safely
run this program this summer! When we have more details, we
will post it here.
Interested swimmers will be evaluated by
the Coach during a swimming skills assessment & registration
session on our first day of Pups practice on Tuesday,
June 16th to determine the appropriateness of
participation.
FSSL Weather Policy for
Practices and Meets can be found in the Parents section
below.
2021 Meet
Schedule:
June 19 - Hood vs
Dearbought (out of Division) @ Dearbought
June 26 - Hood vs Mt.
Airy @ Hood
July
03 - BYE Week (No meet)
June 10 - Hood vs FCY @
Walkersville HS
July 17 - Hood
vs Clover Hill @ Hood
July 24-
Divisional Meet @ Hood
July 31 - FSSL
All Star Meet @ Spring Ridge
Other dates to
note :
Last day to
register
TBD
Picture
Day
TBD
Ida Lee Water
Park days
TBD
Pep
rallies
TBD
Banquet
TBD
Suits and team
apparel: Coming Soon!
Once logged into our website, you can view
the Team Apparel tab for all suit information!
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Parents:
FSSL Weather Policy
for Practices and Meets:
The leagues inclement
weather policy is that we practice and compete if it's
raining.
In the event that we have
thunder/lightning when your child's practice is
scheduled, practices will be cancelled (I'll send an email out
as soon as I hear). If it is thundering/lightening at 8:30,
no practice for 9:30, if it's doing the same thing still at
9:30, the 10:30 practice will be canceled as well. Use your
judgment before leaving home. I know it's hard for some
of you to judge when you live outside of the city and the weather
can be vastly different from town to town, so if you have a friend
in the city, give them a call first.
For meets, if you wake up
and it's raining and an email hasn't been sent out, the
meet is scheduled to go on as planned and we expect you to be
there. If, while we're at the meet, thunder/lightning starts,
we stop the meet for the required time (around 30-45 minutes) to
see if we can continue. If it is raining hard with no
thunder/lightning we still go on unless the visibility of the drain
in the pool is obstructed. The stopping of the meet or a
postponement, is called by the Pool Operator on Duty, not the Team
Reps or coaches. Do not leave the meet without speaking to
Coach Ashley!!!
If we have begun the meet
and have to completely stop, here's what happens... If we
have passed the first half of the meet (end of event #34), the two
teams have the choice of calling the meet at that point "finished"
or (if it's a close one) we can also choose to do a "make up meet"
during the week. If we have not passed the half way point, we
will have to schedule a make up day that both teams agree on to
complete it. If that happens, we have to keep our same line
up, we cannot add swimmers that we not on the original entries for
that meet.
We will post on Facebook
a notice if a cancellation is happening and send out emails through
Team Unify and the alternative Distribution list I send from my
personal email. Again, If you have not received
an email or you don't see it on Facebook, we expect our
swimmers/volunteers to show up.
Family
Responsibilities:
The Hammerhead Swim Team,
with the exception of our paid coaches is completely run by
volunteers. In order to make it a fun and successful season,
we require that each family
volunteer for, at minimum, four
meets during the season. If you will not be able to
attend 4 meets, we still need the volunteer time filled. That can
be done by volunteering a whole meet one or two times to help meet
your requirements.
Volunteer duties include,
but are not limited to Timing, Stroke & Turn judging (see
below), Clerk of Course (getting kids to the seating area),
concessions, ribbons and set up and tear down of tents and pool
deck area and more!. You will be able to sign up
electronically on our Team Unify website.
Stroke and Turn
Training:
If you are interested, and we
really need your help, you can volunteer as a Stroke &
Turn official or Starter. It is mandatory you attend one, 2-hour
clinic to be able to officiate a meet (returning judges from the
2019 season must attend one of the refresher sessions or any
new trainings). You need only attend one of the sessions
offered.
FSSL Mandatory Annual Official's Training:
(For
ALL
New and Returning FSSL Officials)
Training dates will be posted soon
Things to know once you have
registered your swimmers online with us:
The Hammerheads work off of Team Unify
(TU). TU allows you to sign your swimmers up for specific
meets (declaring their attendance) and to sign up for your
volunteer responsibilities. You are responsible for having your
swimmers signed up to swim at the meets. If they are not
signed up by the deadline (Tuesday before that Saturday meet), they
will not be able to participate in that weeks meet. Note
that you will not choose the events that your child will swim in,
the coaches will handle that.
Entering your swimmer(s) for
meets:
Swimmers will be signed up (or "declared")
for meets (by you) on our Team
Unify website (if you are unfamiliar
with Team Unify, directions will be sent out
to guide you).
Swimmers must be
"declared" for the meets by Tuesday
afternoon to be entered in the following Saturdays
meet. Swimmers should only be
"declared" if you know the swimmer will
attend the meet. (The team will be penalized if the
swimmer is entered into events and doesn’t show.) Of
course, we know you can't anticipate illnesses, but if your child
does fall ill, or if for any reason they cannot make a meet they
are "declared" for, please let us know as soon as possible so that
we can adjust our line up if need be.
Swim meet attendance
and Divisional and All Star Meet
requirements:
Meet
Attendance: We have 4 regular meets, 1 Divisional meet and
an All Star Meet (invitational meet with time requirements).
Our first dual meet (June 13) is an Out of Division
meet. (not scored and no points are awarded to the team
towards our Divisional standings. Ribbons are awarded.)
This is a good meet to miss if you have to miss
one. All other Dual meets are In Division meets and are
important meets for ALL of our swimmers to
attend. We expect our registered Hammerhead swimmers
to attend our practices and to participate in the
meets.
Divisional
Meet: To be
entered into the Divisional Meet, swimmers must have participated
in at least 2 Regular season Meets to swim for points for the
team. Exception: Swimmers can swim at this meet
as an Exhibition Swimmer for All Star times as long as they have
competed at one regular meet. (This would also give that
swimmer the second meet for the meet attendance requirement for All
Stars.)
All Star Meet: This meet has a 2 Meet attendance
requirement as well as an Event Time Requirement. If swimmers meet
both requirements, they are invited to swim in this meet that
includes all 15 teams in our League.
Volunteer Job
Descriptions
Clerk of Course- This is
the area where swimmers line up for their events. We
need people there to help get them in the correct order for their
events. You will be given a program so you have the names to call,
and there will be a few of you there to work together with.
Great job if you like being with the kids, and it's the best
way to get to know the team!
Concessions- Concessions
is our only way of fundraising for the team. We need several
people to make this work. You will be serving food, and depending
on which half you work, you will either help finish setting it up,
or help clean it up at the end.
Head Timer - At Home
meets only. This is usually someone who has Timed before. The
Head Timer has 2 watches they star at the beginning of race and
they keep an eye on the Timers in case someone needs a replacement
during the race (ie: they forget to start theirs or a malfunction
after the start of their watch) they will exchange one of their
watches with that Timer until the finish of the race and the
time is given.
Heat Ribbons - Heat
ribbons are the ribbons the swimmers earn if they come in first in
their Heat. The Heat Ribbon person keeps an eye on the heats
and hands one of these ribbons to the swimmer who touches first.
You have to keep an eye on the swimmers.
Heat Sheet Runner -
Each lane has a clipboard that the Heat sheets are on. After
each event or a couple of events, this person collects the sheets
from each lane and takes them to the scoring table in the
conference room.
IT Support - Our
scorers table needs one other person to help read the times to the
IT person, or helps an any way that they may need with the timers
sheets.
Parking Attendant -
We have a public road that runs right through our team areas. We
have to have this monitored at all times. Swimmers and
spectators cross the road from our team area, and our visitors are
not often as aware that there will be an occasional car that will
drive through.
Ribbon Writer - Our
ribbons will have a sticker placed on the back for each swimmer
that comes in 1st-12th. We need people to place those
stickers on the ribbons. This is done in the conference room at our
pool, and we will let you know of the location to do this at our
Away meets.
Safety Marshal - This
person wears a recognizable vest and walks around our team area and
any other area where the team may be (concessions area, bathrooms,
play areas etc) to make sure we are acting appropriately and report
to your Team Rep if we are not.
Stroke & Turn
Judge - This is the only position that requires
training. These persons are responsible for watching swimmers
and making calls if the swimmers have made incorrect stroke, turns
or other violations while swimming their event.
Stroke & Turn
Runner - At Home meets only. This person will
collect the DQ slips from the Judges.
Timer - There are 3
Timers at the top of every lane. In dual meets they will
split it up so that both teams have an equal number of Timers for
each half and equitably placed in the lanes so no lane has timers
from only one team. This is quite possibly the best job to
have. You right there in on the action, you won't miss your
child's events (you can still watch your child swim even if they
are not in your lane), you just have to make sure you keep an eye
on your lane so you can stop your watch. You will simply be
hitting the plunger on the watch at the start of the race, and
stopping it at the end. You will read your time to the person
in your lane that has the clipboard to record the times. If
you have the clipboard, you will record the times as well as time
the event.
Water Runner - Only
at Home meets. You will make sure all volunteers on deck
either know where the water is to grab on their own, or bring
water to the volunteers.
Looking
forward to another great season! GOooooooooooooo
Hammerheads!
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