LPAC: Weekly update (7/9/18)

Jul 8, 2018

Dear Penguins and Parents:

Congratulations on a great win over the Silver Creek Sharks! LPAC won by a final score of 104.8 to 101.1, giving us a 4-1 record in the regular season (behind only the Oaktree Sharks, who went 5-0). Now it’s time to gear up for Champs this Saturday!

ANOTHER GARDIN ON THE RECORD BOARD

Paige Gardin joined her daddy Charlie on the LPAC record board with a blazing-fast backstroke time of 23.10. This breaks the 5-6 girls’ record that has stood for 30 years, set in 1988 by Monica Dournaee. Great swim Miss Paige!

SPIRIT WEEK

For the last week of practices before Champs, we’ll be having fun dress-up days and snacks. Come every day if you can!

  • Monday Morning: Come in your jammies; bed-head hair is encouraged
  • Twin Tuesday: Match with a friend or dress up like a coach
  • Would You Be My Friend If I Wore This Wednesday: Dress weird and wacky
  • Thports Thursday: Wear your favorite sports team jersey
  • Formal Friday: Dress up in black and white or penguin gear
LAST CHANCE FOR SWIM-A-THON PLEDGES!

Monday (7/9) is the LAST day to turn in your Swim-a-Thon pledges to be eligible for prizes. Thank you for generously supporting the team and helping raise money to buy a new electronic event board! All donations are tax-deductible.

GIFTS FOR COACHES

If you’d like to contribute to gifts for our coaches, please see Judy Seps by Thursday. She will be at practices this week, or you can call her at 408-506-3532.

SPIRIT NIGHT ON THURSDAY

This Thursday (July 12) is Spirit Night at the clubhouse from 7-9 pm. The swimmers will meet out on the grass and picnic tables to eat pizza, decorate posters to hang up at Champs, and elect swimmer reps for next year. Meanwhile, parents have a meeting about Champs and vote to elect next year’s Board members. We have a lot of openings for the Board this year, so we encourage all families to come and vote. After all the business is taken care of, we’ll all pack into the clubhouse for Swim-a-Thon awards and a slide show/video celebrating the season, paying tribute to our graduates and age-outs, and energizing the team to do their best at Champs.

If you haven’t already purchased raffle tickets for the excursions with coaches, Adrienne Burke will be selling them at Spirit Night before the awards. Don’t miss out on the chance to have a fun adventure with your favorite coaches and help support the team too!

BRING YOUR EZ-UPS ON THURSDAY!

If you’re planning to bring an EZ-Up to Champs, please bring it to Spirit Night on Thursday evening. Leave it in your car until after the slide show is over, when we’ll collect them for the Setup Crew to take down to Morgan Hill. Please bring 10×10 tents only, and be sure they are labelled clearly with your last name. This way the Setup Crew can set them up ahead of time on Friday night and organize them into orderly rows with clear pathways in between. If you’d like tents to be grouped together, please use the same names and/or color tape, and we’ll try to keep them together if possible.

SPAGHETTI DINNER ON FRIDAY

All teenage swimmers (13-18) are invited to “carbo-load” with their teammates at the Spaghetti Dinner at the clubhouse from 6-7 pm. The cost is $8 per swimmer. Bring your car if you’d like to have it decorated to show your penguin pride. Thank you to the Blacow family for coordinating this event and all the other parent volunteers who are bringing food and helping out.

We’ll have lots more information about Champs at Spirit Night…look forward to seeing you all there!

 

UPCOMING EVENTS (This list is pretty short now!)