Good morning parents!

A few tidbits of information for you about Champs to address some questions we have received.

• The order of events for Champs this year is not the same as a regular swim meet. You can see the order of events here. It is also attached to this email.
• All swimmers will warm up together first thing in the morning. For older swimmers who will not swim until later in the day, there will be warm up/cool down lanes available. These will not be for hanging out and playing, just active warm-up & recovery.
• We are still in need of volunteers. If you have children swimming that day, we are asking you to volunteer for one shift. Please contact Elissa Karl today to fill in our open positions. 
• Unlike a regular meet, we are limited to one (1) relay per age group/gender. This means that the majority of swimmers will not get relays. Individual swimmers do get three (3) individual events at Champs, so as long as your swimmer has a legal time in at least three events, he or she should swim three races.
• You do not have to bring tents to Champs! As a matter of fact, they are not allowed due to space considerations. We have reserved large tents for each team and you just need to bring chairs and your cooler and plan to spend time with your team mates under the team tent.
• Each year the responsibility of concessions is handled by a different team. This year, Heritage Landing has that responsibility and they have secured 6-8 food trucks to handle that job. At this time we don't know which trucks will be there, but we have been assured that it will be a wide variety of options for families looking for more substantial food during the day.
• The Championship trophy as well as age group high point awards are given out at the end of the meet. Between the last race and the awards presentation, there are fun relay races between coaches and parents so consider sticking around for that!
• And finally, in preparation for Champs, we will continue with our normal practice schedule this week, including Friday morning!

If you have any other questions about Champs, please let us know! Heat sheets and more detailed information will be out later this week!

Go Dolphins!
DCD Board of Directors

PS - If you have not RSVP'd for the end-of-season banquet, please do that today!