Dear Swim and Dive Families,

Greetings! We look forward to kicking off our CCL Swim and Dive “Modified” Season this Wednesday, May 27th via ZOOM Dryland Practices. Our goal this season is to 1) Keep All Athletes Safe and Healthy and 2) HAVE FUN! Our CCL Village is going to have to be stronger than ever as we work together to comply with state and local restrictions.

All parents should have received an invitation link to this week's TEAM Dryland ZOOM Practices (please share with your athlete), as well as the link for the Parent ZOOM Meetings, this Thursday evening (Swim at 7 pm and Dive at 7:45 pm).

We understand that some families are still contemplating participating in Swim and Dive this summer. We completely understand your reservations. At this time we have close to 200 athletes registered to participate. All families have until this Tuesday May 26th midnight, to opt-out of the season. Please email our registration volunteer Kerry Newell ([email protected]) if you would like to opt-out (and avoid getting charged on your June 1st with a due date of June 15th club billing). THANK YOU KERRY for handling registration this year!

CCL Swim and Dive plan to start Dryland Morning Swim and Dive Practices on the Pool Deck Monday, June 1st (see website for updates on practice schedules, we are limited in how many athletes are able to be on the deck during this week so we may send out a sign up for each practice for swimmers wanting to participate on the deck but will offer ZOOM drylands as well. We will update once we have a confirmed age group count). Athletes please arrive ready for your scheduled drylands practice in running shoes, bring a towel to sit on, have a water bottle in hand, and cell phone if needed. Due to COVID - 19 State and Local Mandates, No Parents will be allowed on the pool deck. Athletes do not sit on any of the furniture, please instruct your athlete to sit on their own towel. There will be designated Athlete drop off and pick up areas. Volunteers will check temperatures of swimmers prior to entry to the pool deck (younger athletes that get dropped off will have their temps checked while in the car prior to parents leaving the parking lot). There will also be a check-in for every athlete as we track the number of athletes/coaches/staff/volunteers on the pool deck. Athletes are required to hand sanitize upon entering the pool area and then again when they exit. We will have volunteers monitoring these entrance and exit areas. While on the pool deck athletes will need to social distance, there will be markings on the deck to help facilitate this. Bathrooms will be monitored to maintain social distancing and sanitation by an outside source. The Cabana will open June 8th and will not be open for seating, athletes will be able to order and pick up food via the Cabana window on the Courtyard side of the club as of June 8th. Athletes must leave the pool deck as soon as their practice is over so that we don’t go over our limit while the next age group is arriving for practice. We will have an update prior to June 8th regarding confirmed morning practice schedule (all depends on the number of athletes in each age group but will be very close to past season morning practice times) how our practices will be run once athletes are able to get in the water. THANK YOU to our Volunteer Coordinators Cristina Angles and Lori C. Patterson! They will be sending out volunteer sign-ups as soon as we have more information from the league.

More CCL updates:

• Yes, we are still working on having a “modified” DJ Dinner Dance of some sort within the guidelines of State and local mandates, stay tuned!

• Yes, we are still working on having a day of AGE GROUP parties, again within the guidelines of State and Local mandates, stay tuned!

• Yes, we will have FUN THEMES for every meet!

• Yes, we plan to have our traditional “ROCKY MOVIE NIGHT”, stay tuned!

• No, we will not have our traditional Swim and Dive Banquet BUT we DO PLAN to have an END OF SEASON CELEBRATION the evening of July 17th at CCL following Senior Champs once again within the guidelines of State and Local Mandates, stay tuned!

• MARK YOUR CALENDAR for Thursday, July 9th @ 7:15 AM for team photos. We will have family and individual athlete photos and are working on arranging an AERIAL VIEW TEAM PHOTO. We will not have the athletes on the stands for a team photo due to obvious reasons.

• Yes, we will have our traditional Senior Team Dinners!

• Yes, unfortunately Pre Compete was canceled. However, swimmers ages 6 and up by June 15th, 2020, AND can swim a 25 Free with NO ASSISTANCE are allowed to swim with the 8 and Under age group. We can not assure that these 6-year-olds will be able to participate in away meets as other clubs have limited the age to 7-year-olds and above.

We want to thank incoming swim chair, Michele Kemp for volunteering to be our club representative on the CCSAKC “Special Committee”. Michele will continue meeting over the next month with the “Special Committee” representatives to work on establishing general recommendations and guidelines for clubs in running virtual meets and live “modified” meets including recommendations re: set up, meet format, social distancing, volunteers, stroke judges, spectators, etc. Thank you Michele!

We are pleased to share the following information from the CCSAKC Executive Board, please remember this season will remain fluid as we continue to adjust to State Mandates.

• All 9 of our Clubs plan to participate (in varying forms) in our “Modified” 2020 Swim and Dive Season!

• Meet Assignments: The CCSAKC Executive Board will send a schedule of Meet Assignments later this week, watch for both CCL SwimTopia and email updates!

• There will be 3 official meets this season. They will occur the weeks of June 23rd and 24th, June 30th and July 1st, and July 7th and July 8th.

• Modified Champs: We are moving forward with planning a modified champs the week of July 13th, subject to state and local restrictions. Please reserve July 16th and 17th for a senior age group modified champs and celebration at Kansas City Country Club. Work is in progress for a possibility of other clubs hosting other age groups modified champs.

• Team suits can be purchased online or visit SwimQuik to order your team suite! Please see flyer on the website and via email.

• Our coaches are so excited to see all our athletes! Please take a moment to update your profile on CCL SwimTopia to include your subdivision name. SSShhhh……We have a little surprise for your athletes to help kick off the season!

We hope this email answers your questions for now. Thank you for your continued patience and flexibility.

Happy Memorial Day and GO CROCS!

Swim Chairs: Matt & Bebee Schloegel and incoming swim chairs Katie Slaymaker and Michele Kemp

Dive Chairs: Brittney Henderson and Reagan Lehmann and incoming dive chairs Allison Cox and Amber Ashworth