Gator Alert: Green Valley Results

June 21st

Gator Families,

Meet results from last Saturday are now available, and have been posted on our Swim Meet Results page. We battled our cross town rivals and came up just short, losing by a mere 57 points! Over 35% of our swims this week were new best times - great job Gators!! Ribbons and final results in the app will be available later this week.

We've had a few great questions about how ribbons and placements work. There are three ribbon types that are handed out:

Place Ribbons: Our league recognizes places 1-6 for each event. If your swimmer places in the top 6, they will receive a place ribbon notating their place and time
Participation Ribbons: Anyone who swims and does not place 1-6 will instead receive a participation ribbon, which provides your time. If your swimmer DQs their event, they will still receive a ribbon with a DQ instead of a time. Therefore, each swimmer will receive either a place or a participation ribbon for every race they swim!
Rainbow Ribbons: These are our time improvement ribbons! If your swimmer improves their time from any previous swim this season, they will receive a rainbow ribbon congratulating them! For every 3 Rainbow Ribbons received, they can head to the snack bar for a free candy!

Scoring: We've also have a few questions about scoring. Scoring works the following way for individual swims:

The 5 fastest times of each event score points
Points are: 7, 4, 3, 2, 1
Each team cannot score more than 3 swimmers in one event. Therefore, even if one team finishes in every position 1st-5th, they would receive points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The other team would then receive points for 4th and 5th place, regardless of the placement of those swimmers

If you are the parent of a teenager (13+) you should have received an email earlier today regarding the upcoming Teen Paddle Board activity on July 12th! Please contact us if you did not receive this email.

Our Last Virtual Meet is this Saturday, June 26th against Lake Forest! We then have a week off for the 4th of July (no practice July 5th), and move to in person meets by visiting Newport Hills at their pool on July 10th. We are still working with the league on what July meets will look like, but we do expect to have fewer sessions and potentially even move towards a normal meet schedule. We will provide an update as soon as possible - and remember, we will need volunteers to assist in July as well

Reminder: We move to morning practices starting the week of June 28th! See the schedule here: https://www.greenbrookgators.org/practice-schedule

Questions?