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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIGNING UP FOR PRACTICES

  • To sign up for practice, follow the link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040545adae2da6f49-sharks
  • Be sure you are looking at the your assigned practices and the day, time and morning or evening are correct.
  • Pick a volunteer position that you would like to sign up for and click the box that says Sign Up next to that position.
  • Find Swimmers – ‘group name’ and click the box that says Sign up.
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the yellow box that says Submit and Sign up.
  • If you don’t already have one sign up for a SignUpGenius account so that you don’t need to enter your information every time.
  • Now put Your Name into the volunteer box and the correct Swimmer Name into the Swimmer box.
  • You can sign up for one day at a time or the whole week at one time.  You can go back and correct mistakes.  If you ever can’t get back, click the first link again.

It is possible that all mornings may fill up or all evenings may fill up. If you can only swim in the morning or only swim in the evening, please sign up as soon as possible when the sign ups are released. If you are flexible with mornings or evenings, please wait a few days to see which have the most availability and select that practice for the day. We will need to work together to make this work.  We may also need to adjust this procedure as the season goes on.

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Hello Sharks!

It’s (finally) that time again! Time to get geared up for the Broadway Sharks Summer League swim season; please read through the following information to help you get ready for the 2020 Shark Season! You may utilize the team website (www.bwaysharks.com) to receive updates and review our calendar. This year swimmers must be able to swim the length of the pool to join. This is because, in order to maintain social distancing, we will not have junior coaches in the pool helping little sharks across the pool.

  1. Practices (June 15th-July 31st): Swimmers will be assigned to a practice group based on their age and ability. You will be informed of your child’s assignment by email.
  2. Schedule Monday through Friday AM: First group’s practice will start at 8:00 am and the last group’s practice will end at 10:20 am
  3. Schedule Monday through Thursday PM: The first group’s practice will start at 7:10 pm and the last group’s practice will end at  9:30 pm
  4. Pick up and Drop off: Swimmers will enter practice through the main gate and exit at the side gate. Whoever is providing transportation for your swimmer should meet your swimmer near the side gate when you see them approaching. Parents/guardian’s should not leave the immediate area (pool parking lot or park) in the event swimmers need to be dismissed, including due to weather. Only Little Sharks practice may have parents/spectators on deck.  All other practices parents/spectators must watch from outside the gates.
  5. Signing up for practices: Volunteers and swimmers will sign up for practices using Signup Genius. You can register for a FREE Sign Up Genius account to sign up your swimmer. Each Wednesday signups for the next week will open. Swimmers may initially sign up for up to 4 practices each week. On Sunday, swimmers may sign up for additional practices if openings are available. We must have parent volunteers in order to hold practice. To make it easy for you, signups for volunteers and swimmers are included in the same sign up. If you find you cannot make a practice that you signed up for, please sign OUT asap so that someone else can sign up in your spot. Practice sign up link for each week will be emailed and available on our website.
  6. Coming to practice: Please arrive to practice no more than 10 minutes before the start of practice and no later than the time of the start of practice. Please maintain proper distance in line to check in.  Come ready to swim with suit on.  All swimmers, volunteers and on-deck spectators will need to be signed in, have their temperature checked, and answer a few questions. Do not enter the pool area if you have not signed in! If you are visiting the pool before 7pm, come out and sign in before starting practice.
  7. Leaving practice: Please exit the pool immediately after practice.  You will exit through the side gate and be checked out.  Do not use the locker room to change. We have less than 10 minutes to change over from one practice to the next.
  8. Practice Cancelled Notification:We will do our best to notify you of practice cancellations as early as possible. Cancellations will be announced as an email and  text. If you did not include your cell phone number (for texts) on your child(ren)’s registration form and want to be added to the text messaging list, please email Robin Anderson at ander2rd@gmail.com

2) Meet Information: Due to COVID, if we hold meets (and we plan on holding at least 2 meets), they will be virtual meets. With virtual meets, each team swims at its own pool and times are combined electronically to determine place.

3) Annual Team T-shirt:  2020 T-shirt designs are due June 22nd; vote at Thursday night practice (June 25th) and orders due July 2nd by evening practice. Team names are on the back of the shirt. 

4) Pictures: Pictures at the pool on Thursday, June 25th – Please fill out the order form before arriving at the pool and have payment ready (check and exact cash only) to minimize the exchange of items. Order forms will be available at practice prior to photo day.

5) Fee Schedule: 1st swimmer $ 65.00, 2nd swimmer $ 55.00, 3rd swimmer & additional $ 45.00 Please note that you will need to bring exact change or a check made payable to “Broadway Sharks” (sorry, we won’t have change available at signups). Swimmers and parents must sign a waiver before their first practice.  Waiver is attached to this email.  Please print and bring to first practice. Payment and waiver must be placed in an envelope (not sealed) that is clearly marked with swimmer names. Credit card payments can be taken over the phone. Please bring payment to the first practice. All payments are due by Thursday practice on June 18th. Swimmers will not be allowed to practice without payment after this date.

6) Facebook Page: Please go and join the group and then add your Facebook friends that are also members of the Sharks. Here is the link for the Sharks Facebook page, this is a closed group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/266781596816702/ 

7) COVID-19 Guidelines: Please read and adhere to all COVID-19 guidelines in the attached document.  We risk losing our ability to practice at Broadway Pool if these guidelines are not followed.  Please set a good example for all.

8) Contact information: Our head coach is Richard Morrell (broadwayheadcoach@gmail.com). Board members include: 

Andrea Strawderman astrawderman115@yahoo.com 
Lanette Smith lanettefsmith@gmail.com 
Erica Kann kannes@jmu.edu 
Sharon Armentrout Armentrout.Sharon@va.sysco.com
Beth Arnold arnoldeaa@gmail.com 
Shawna Messerley shawna.messerley@gmail.com 
Amanda Holsinger amtoscan@vt.edu 
Tricia Johnson Tricia@altsabstracts.com 
Marissa Keagy marissa.keagy@yahoo.com 
Robin Anderson ander2rd@gmail.com 

We are always open for comments and suggestions, so feel free to contact us!

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Dear Sharks Families,

It is time to register for the 2020 Shark Season!  This season promises to be a season like no other!  We plan to start practices on Monday, June 15 and swim until Friday, July 31.  We will hold 3 morning practices M-F: 8:00-8:30am (12 swimmers) LITTLE SHARKS, 8:40-9:20am (18 swimmers) BIG SHARKS 1 and 9:30-10:20am (24 swimmers) BIG SHARKS 2.  We will hold 3 evening practices M-Th 7:10-7:40pm (12 swimmers) LITTLE SHARKS, 7:50-8:30pm (18 swimmers) BIG SHARKS 1, and 8:40-9:30pm (24 swimmers) BIG SHARKS 2.  Practice groups will be assigned to each swimmer after registration has closed and will depend on the age and ability ranges of the swimmers that register.

The Governor of Virginia has announced that Virginia will enter Phase 2 tomorrow, Friday, June 5.  The Broadway pool will open at 11am Friday! Due to restrictions for lap swimming and social distancing, we will need to have quite a few guidelines in place.  Phase 2 restricts gatherings to 50 people or less.  It also specifically limits lap swimming to 3 swimmers per lane with a minimum distance of 10 feet between swimmers at rest.  We have spent the last several weeks coordinating practice and season plans with our coaches.  We are very happy to report that Coach Richard will return as our Head Coach and Coach Carla will return as our Assistant Coach.  We will also have several younger experienced coaches helping on deck.

Because of the limited pool capacity, we will NOT be able to hold swim meets with other teams or even with our own team all at one time.  We CAN still have “virtual meets” where swimmers race each other in practice, times are recorded, and then we merge the times with other teams to determine placings. If Virginia moves into Phase 3 before the end of the season, we can consider other meet options.  Without the pressure of preparing for meets, we should be able to have some very concentrated practices working on stroke development and racing techniques.  And with the low swimmer/coach ratio, we hope to be able to provide very personalized feedback to the swimmers.

So how will this work? As you can see by the practice numbers, we will only be able to take a limited number of swimmers this season.  First we will require that all swimmers be able to swim the full length of the pool unassisted. (any stroke or any combination, not necessarily legal)  This is because we will not be able to have coaches in the water with the swimmers or touching them while they swim. If your swimmer can swim the length of the pool, but is rusty, use this next week to get to the pool and practice.  A swim test will be administered the first day of practice. Swim lessons will be offered at Broadway pool this summer.  See Coach Carla for more information. Next, we should be able to take all swimmers who swam with the sharks last year.  If we still have room for more swimmers we will take siblings of Sharks and new swimmers from the Broadway school district. After that, we will open up registration to all.  **You will need to register online by completing the information in the document by 9PM on Tuesday, June 9**. After that time, registration will be closed until the practice groups are set. 

Please register here: https://forms.gle/v7wo5ZX7sNPKh6Qj9

Payment will be collected the first week of practice and is due by Thursday, June 18.  Cost is $65 for the first swimmer, $55 for the second and $45 for each additional swimmer from the same immediate family. After registration has closed on Tuesday, the coaches will assign the swimmers to practice groups based on age and ability. We will then have a practice sign up online on SignUpGenius (the same program we used for volunteers).  Swimmers will sign up for either 3 or 4 practices for the week (to give all the opportunity to sign up) by Sunday at noon.  After that, signups will be open for swimmers to sign up for more practices.  Each swimmer can sign up only in his/her assigned practice group sessions.  After the first week, we will make sign ups available by Wednesday for the following week with a deadline of Saturday at 7pm for the limited number of practices.  After that, we will open up the sign ups until the end of the week.  Swimmers will have to be courteous and take their name off of the sign up if they find they cannot swim so that others have a chance to swim in their spot. (See, I told you this would be a season like no other!). More specific details on sign ups will come after registration has closed and swimmers are assigned to groups.

Finally, using CDC, USA Swimming and the Governor’s guidelines, we have established a set of Broadway Sharks COVID-19 Practice Guidelines.  The guidelines are attached to this email.  They are still a work in progress.  We were hoping the Governor would outline his Youth Sports policies for Phase 2 at today’s briefing, but he did not.  So these guidelines may be modified prior to the start of the season. In particular, we may relax the mask and temperature screening guidelines.  We realize these rules may seem too restrictive for some people and too lax for others.  We will do our best to comply with state and national guidelines and still provide a meaningful and safe summer swim experience for your children. If you are uncomfortable with any of these guidelines, you may want to wait to register until we have the final guidelines in place.  Keep in mind that these guidelines may change throughout the season. We have started very conservatively. If your swimmer or anyone in your household is considered high-risk for COVID-19, we recommend that you sit this season out. 

We will need a lot of help with at least 3-5 parent volunteers on deck at each practice to help with these guidelines. Sign ups for parent volunteers will take place at the same time as the weekly swimmer sign ups. Volunteering for parents will be expected, as practices will not be able to run without enough volunteers.  

We would like to thank the Broadway pool and the town of Broadway for working with us to make this swim season happen.  We would also like to thank the coaches and the Board members for working together to create this possibility.  Finally, we would like to thank the parents for working with us, setting a good example by following the guidelines, volunteering to help and for giving their swimmers the opportunity to swim this summer.  If you have any questions, feel free to email me, and I will try my best to answer them.

Don’t forget to register asap.  https://forms.gle/v7wo5ZX7sNPKh6Qj9

Stay safe and healthy.  Go Sharks!

Beth Arnold and the Sharks Board of Directors

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Dear Shark Families,

We hope you are all doing well and staying healthy during these crazy times.  As the weather warms up, we are all dreaming about swimming. I wanted to give you an update on the Sharks swim team season.

As of now, the governor has a stay at home order through June 10.  We are hopeful that Broadway pool will be open at that time. Depending on the restrictions for crowds, we are hoping to be able to have a swim season. It may be a shortened season with fewer meets, or it may be a season with no meets at all. We are going to try to hold as much of the season as we can while following the guidelines for safety.  At this time, I don’t have much more than that to tell you.  I will keep you updated on what the Board of Directors is thinking as we move through these unprecedented times.  I will send another update mid-May and another at the beginning of June.  You are welcome to send me questions, but the most likely answers are going to be “I don’t know” and “We will have to wait and see”.

While you are staying at home, we would like to invite your swimmers to work on the contest for the Sharks 2020 t-shirt!  Here are the rules:

  • One entry per swimmer
  • Design MUST be on PLAIN 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper (printer paper or cardstock is fine)
  • Design must be limited to 2 colors. Black and white is fine but at most 2 colors

Hang onto your entries until swim season starts.  We may need to have the contest and voting online.  I’m sure you can come up with some creative entries for this unusual year!  Put your thinking caps on!

The Board is also looking for more people interested in helping with the season. We have different jobs available outside of the regular meet volunteer positions.  If you have been with the team for a year or more, consider attending a Board meeting and seeing what else is out there!  Let me know if you are interested.

If you would like to be removed from this email list, please respond with “Remove” and the email you would like to be removed.  If you know someone who should be added, please send me their email or have them email me.

Thank you!  Stay safe and stay healthy! We hope to see you this summer!

Go Sharks!

Beth Arnold and the Sharks Board of Directors

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Lets try again to celebrate an AWESOME season with a pool party on Monday, August 12 beginning at 7:15pm. Bring a snack to share. We will be handing out any awards, t-shirts, ribbons, and Champs ribbons at that time. 

Thanks to all the volunteers and parents that helped make it a successful meet. For many of you this was your first year swimming in Champs and it can be chaotic and fun; hopefully it all went well for you.

Thanks for a JAWsome year!

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To celebrate an AWESOME season we will be having a pool party Monday, August 5 beginning at 7:15pm. Bring a snack to share. We will be handing out any awards, t-shirts, ribbons, and Champs ribbons at that time. 

Thanks to all the volunteers and parents that helped make it a successful meet. For many of you this was your first year swimming in Champs and it can be chaotic and fun; hopefully it all went well for you.

Thanks for a JAWsome year!

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Check out the document below to help you get ready for Champs this Saturday, July 27, 2019.

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Open the document below to see the entries for Champs.

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Thank you everyone for your participation in the Duck Races. The document below shows all of the winners! If you haven’t already please see Sharon to pick up your prize.

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Monday, July 22nd                                             Morning and Evening Practices

Tuesday, July 23rd                                             Morning practice with the Evening Practice at JMU (Godwin Hall) at 7pm to 8pm

Wednesday, July 24th                                        Morning practice and Good Luck Pot Luck Dinner – Broadway High School Commons at 6:15pm

Thursday, July 25th                                            Morning and Evening Practices

Friday, July 26th                                                 Morning practice and Poster Making at JMU at 6:30pm at Godwin Hall in the Gym.

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Volunteers are still needed for the next meet at Massanutten (7.17) and Champs at JMU (7.27). Please take a moment to sign up by using the following link.

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