Piranha Families,

Divisionals is approaching on Saturday, July 22nd, and we are all looking forward to a great meet at Laurel Hill and fast swims from our SS2 swimmers!

IMPORTANT: Please email us your selections for Divisionals by Saturday evening, July 15, by sending us an email with your stroke preferences. Even if you think you may not qualify, please send us your choices. For example, First Choice- Back, Second Choice – Fly, Third Choice – Free, Fourth Choice – Breast, Fifth Choice -IM.  Please list all five events and your preference.  If there is a stroke that you DO NOT want to swim, please make note of that and list in your preferences.

Each year, the starting stroke for Divisionals rotates. This year, Divisionals begins with Fly, then moves to IM, Free, Back, and Breast.  There will be warm-ups before each stroke and a short break after the Free events.

Swimmers at the top of the stroke ladders (i.e., the fastest SS2 times for that stroke in your age group) – please respond early or be at the sign-up early (1p) so others down the ladder know what their options are! Thanks! We are hoping that most/all swimmers will respond by email, making the Sunday session unnecessary for most, if not all. This is very important. 

Also, final selections for all strokes will not be made until after the IM Carnival on Monday night.

Sunday, July 16th

1:00 – 3:00p - Divisionals Sign-up at SS2 (IF NEEDED – if all swimmers send us their Divisionals choices, we can cancel this event)

This is for our swimmers to sign up for Individual Championships. Here is a reminder from the SS2 Handbook regarding Divisionals:

DIVISIONALS

The last meet of the season for most of our swimmers is the Individual Championships for our division. There is no team scoring for this meet. Each team in our division can enter two swimmers in each event, and then “bid-in” additional swimmers from our team as “Alternates” if space permits in the event. This is determined at the Team Rep. seeding meeting on Wednesday the week of Divisionals. We make Divisional selections with the swimmers on the Sunday prior to Divisionals. This year, A AND B meet times can be used for seeding, but A meet times take precedence. Swimmers must compete in their own age groups.

Also, remember that just because a swimmer swims a fast time that is under the previous year’s All-Star cut does not mean that the swimmer will qualify for All-Stars in the current season. All-Star selections are made from the results at Divisionals from all 17 divisions. In short, to qualify for All-Stars, a swimmer must swim the stroke in Divisionals and be one of the 18 fastest swimmers in the NVSL from that meet on July 22.

Keep in mind that due to absences from our team and other teams, or stroke selection, spots open up for more than the top two swimmers from Sully II in each event. Do not assume that your swimmer will not swim until after the seeding meeting on Wednesday night. The Team Reps. will call and the coaches will announce Divisionals selections as soon as confirmed, but this may be up until Friday morning before Divisionals on Saturday.

IMPORTANT: We need all swimmers to let us know of their selections asap, preferably before the sign-ups on Sunday or at the pool Sunday from 1-3p. We will have the ladders at the meeting to help guide the swimmers and make suggestions, but since this is an individual meet, the swimmers ultimately decide what they want to swim.

Thanks,

C and L