Hello Devil Rays! Welcome to the 2026 swim season! I am Coach Jen, your head coach. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone at practice this week! Here is some initial information, please read through it. Let me know if you have any questions.

Practices:

Monday May 11th- Thursday May 21st practices will be as follows:

6 and under: 4-4:30pm

7-8: 4:30-5:10pm

9-10: 5:10-5:50pm

11-12: 5:50-6:30pm

13 and up: 6:30-7:10pm

Bring goggles, swim cap if swimmer prefers one, and a towel. It’s going to be a little chilly this week so maybe an extra towel and a change of clothes. Your swimmer may not want to get wet before practice, to save themselves from getting too cold.

Please remember if you have children playing in the open lane while another is in practice, please keep an eye on them, there is no lifeguard and the coaches will be busy with the current practice.

Summer Birthday Swimmers:

This year we would like to invite swimmers who have summer birthdays (June-August), therefore end up swimming an age group behind their school peers, to practice up if they would like. They may or may not race in the older age group, that will depend on what’s best for them and the team, but I get that practice is more fun with your peers! Please email me back if you have a swimmer who falls into this category and wants to practice up so I can make a note of it.

Dive Certification:

If your swimmer is new to swim team they will need to get “dive certified”, a Cherokee County requirement.

We will have 2 opportunities for this:

Monday May 18th at 7:00pm

Wednesday May 27th at 8:30am

*New swimmers need to come to one of these sessions. This is for all ages and is really not a big deal. The swimmer does not need to know anything about diving. It’s really just a safety course to ensure they can enter the water safely, that’s all. Coach Mark from Chattahoochee Gold will be leading these certifications and it will take 10-15 minutes.

See you at the pool!

Coach Jen