Highland Vista Aquatic Club

Wow, last week was a busy one with lots of great swim team activities.  Our first home meet went very well. The camp out was a big success. Thank you Matt and Mandy Nagore for all your hard work making the evening a great time.  It was good to see many first time campers pitching tents.  The weather could not have been better.  I even saw people sporting jackets and sweatshirts as the evening wore on... shocking for Tucson in June!

This week we have two dual meets (one home, one away), team pictures and the Desert Rat Invitational.

Pictures

Dave Sanders Photography will be at the pool on Wednesday, June 16 for team photos. Setup for the team picture will start at 7:30 am followed by individual portraits and/or action shots. Payment must be made in advance.  The order envelopes are in the family folders. Please contact Angel Emerson at 296-9389 if you have any questions. 

Speaking of pictures, if you have been snapping some shots at the recent meets and are willing to share the pictures, please send them to Peter Gariepy.  They will be used to freshen up the website and fill the gallery page.

Dual Meets

Jewish Community Center (home)

Tuesday, June 15 at Highland Vista.  Please have your swimmers at the pool by 4:45 pm for the 5:00 pm warm-ups.  The JCC is in the San Pedro League of the SAAA with us this year.

Green Hills (away)

Thursday, June 17 at Green Hills.  Please have your swimmers at the pool by 5:15 pm for the 5:30 pm warm up.

Sign Out Book

With vacation plans picking up, do not forget to sign your swimmers out of any meet that you will not be attending.  The coaches do the meet lineups several days in advance so the sooner you sign out for any absences the better.

Official Times

Working on Goal Buster's with your kids?  Visit the meet results page on the swim team website to pickup official times for your swimmers.  Results from the June 10 Sabino Vista Hills meet are online.

You can find official times from the invitationals (9-18, Desert Rat, and Muppet Meet) at the SAAA website.  The results from Saturday's 9-18 Invitational are now posted online.

Desert Rat

Rounding out this week is the Don Baker Desert Rat.  This invitational will be at the Ft. Lowell Pool, just like last week's 9-18 Invitational.  All swimmers competing in the Desert Rat should be at the Ft. Lowell Pool by 6:45 AM.

We still need 4 people to volunteer for timing an event at the Desert Rat.  Timing is easy and a great view of all the races.  Please visit the volunteer wiki to sign up as a timer at the Desert Rat.

Wiki Messages

In an effort to keep email traffic to a minimum, I have turned off the update notifications feature for the volunteer wiki.  If any of you really, really miss getting all those update notifications from the wiki just let me know.

Have fun, stay cool, and see you at the pool!

Ed Murphy
HVAC, Co-Chair

Dave Sanders Photography will be at the pool on Wed., 6/16 for team photos. 

Setup for the team picture will start at 7:30 a.m. followed by individual portraits and/or action shots. 

Payment must be made in advance.  Order envelopes will be placed in the family folders by this Friday, 6/11. 

Please contact Angel Emerson at 296-9389 if you have any questions. 

Thank you!

Ft. Lowell Pool

Tomorrow is the first of three Invitationals to be held at Ft. Lowell Pool.  Unlike the Amphi H.S. pool deck space is very limited at Ft. Lowell.  Look for our team area, it may be outside the fence.  Shade will also be a bit of an issue, there is far less of it already at the pool.  Our shade brigade will be out in force early tomorrow morning, with our three ez-up structures.  We know those three structures will not be enough shade for all Highland Vista families.  If you have a shade structure please consider bringing it with you to Ft. Lowell.  You can never have too much shade in Tucson in June. 

Gaslight Night

This is the last weekend for Gaslight ticket sales.  Donna Singleton will be at Ft. Lowell tomorrow for the 9-18 Invitational and at the Highland Vista pool in the evening for the campout.  Please see Donna to purchase your tickets. NOTE: If you can't make it to the pool, you can still get Gaslight tickets by calling Donna Singleton at home, (520) 881-2307.

Thanks,
Ed Murphy
HVAC, Co-Chair

Here are the results of the meet between Highland Vista and Sabino Vista Hills - June 10th, 2010.

Peter Gariepy

Webmaster 

Here are the results of the meet between Highland Vista and Ventana Canyon - June 8th, 2010.

Peter Gariepy

Webmaster 

Dual Meets

• Ventana Canyon (away) - Tuesday, June 8th. Ventana Canyon is in the SAAA's San Pedro league, so this meet represents our first league meet. Please have your swimmers at Ventana Canyon by 5:15 pm. As the away team, our warm-up starts at 5:30 pm. Charlie Singleton let me know that access to Ventana is restricted due to construction along Sunrise and definitely around the Kolb intersection. An alternate route is taking Craycroft north of Sunrise. It loops East and turns into Kolb. Then it is a left onto Clubhouse Dr which avoids the Kolb/Sunrise intersection which will be very jammed up around the 5pm rush hour.

• Sabino Vista Hills (home) - Thursday, June 10th. Ahhh, it will be good to be racing at home again. Sabino Vista Hills is also in the San Pedro league, so this is our second league meet of the season. Please have your swimmers at Highland Vista by 4:45 pm. As the home team, our warm-up starts at 5:00 pm. The volunteer sign-up page on the volunteer wiki looks really good! As of Sunday afternoon, we only need one more stroke & turn judge and someone to lead the 8-under round-up. Thank you to everyone who has already volunteered, all other positions for the Sabino Vista Hills meet are full.

9-18 Invitational

Camp Out

Snack bar

June is upon us and that means swim team kicks into high gear.  We have lots of dual meets, and Saturday Invitationals to look forward to this month.  Here's some news and updates for this week.

Practice Schedule

Don't forget, practice has shifted to the morning now.  The times on the hvswimteam.org website are actual pool times.  Please have your swimmer there 15 minutes early for dry land warmups.

Pool Patrol

Please remember to look around you before you leave practice.  There are a lot of goggles, towels and other items being left behind on tables and in the grass.  Also, if you enjoy sitting in one of the pool's plastic chairs during practice please remember to put the chair back on the ramada before you leave.  It is important that we remain good partners with the neighborhood and pool board.  Please do you part and help ensure the pool is looking good when swim team is done with it.

Red/Black Results

The results from the Red/Black meet are in.  The top 4 times for each gender and stroke are on the leader board (by the snack bar).  The complete results are now on the hvswimteam.org website (Thanks Mary and Peter!)

Tucson Country Club

Our dual meet schedule gets underway this Thursday, June 3 with a meet at the TCC.  The meet starts at 6:00 PM with the away team (that's us) warming up at 5:30 PM.

Gaslight Tickets

Don't forget to get your tickets to the Highland Vista night at the Gaslight Theater.  We will be going to the Gaslight on June 27th this year.  Donna Singleton is coordinating the sale of tickets for the show.  She will be at the pool, during practice, on Monday and Friday mornings.  We have sold about half of the theater so far.  We need to give the Gaslight our final count by June 14th, so see Donna soon.

That's it for now folks.  Go Wahoos!

Ed Murphy
HVAC, Co-Chair

The Red/Black meet results are in! 

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MEET RESULTS