We hope you are enjoying this holiday weekend! As a reminder, in observance of July 4th, we will not have practice on Monday, July 3rd, or Tuesday, July 4th (morning or evening). We look forward to seeing you at practice on Wednesday, July 5th. Please note that practices on July 5th are all pushed back 15 minutes (start time of 9:00am for 6 and under, 9:30am for 7-10 year olds and10:15am for 11 and up). 

Thursday, July 6th, Pizza Party 

Join us to cheer on Allie as she moves to Florida and our team as we prep for SMI. We will be serving pizza and dessert after evening practice Thursday night to say good luck to Coach Allie and to get PUMPED UP for SMI!! 

Smoky Mountain Invitational 

For those who have signed up for SMI, please be on the lookout this week for warm up times, tent location and event information! We have a few jobs that we must fill for SMI as we get penalized if we do not fill shifts assigned to our team. If you have a swimmer swimming on Saturday or Sunday, please consider filling a shift. Please email Ashley Beckett ([email protected]) if you can fill a shift or if you have any questions. Jobs we need to fill: 

Saturday (11 and up) 

Lane 5 Timer: Shifts 1, 2 and 3 

Sunday (10 and under) 

Heat Ribbon Winner Giver: Shift 2 

Remaining Meet Sign Ups

All remaining meets are all open to rsvp your swimmers for. Please remember that home meets (Lenoir City and Junk Meet) are good for all swimmers to swim. You need to be able to independently swim across the pool to swim at Emerald and GKAISA City Meet. Please see deadlines for swimmer sign up below: 

7/11 @ Emerald- swimmer sign up closes at noon on July 9th 

7/14 vs Lenoir City- swimmer sign up closes at noon on July 12th 7/17 

Junk Meet- swimmer sign up closes at noon on July 15th 

7/20-22 GKAISA City Meet- swimmer sign up closes at noon on July 10th 

GKAISA City Meet Merchandise 

Thursday and Friday City Meet shirts as well as day parking passes for Thursday, Friday and Saturday are available for purchase on our website on the merchandise tab. These items will be available for purchase through July 10th. If you purchased a parking pass through USC or parking services for our summer swim season, your pass is good through City Meet. 

Ribbons 

Ribbons will be ready at practice starting on Wednesday morning for our meet against P Club. If you haven't picked up your ribbons from the Cherokee meet, those will be available as well. Ribbons will not be at SMI this weekend.

We have a lot of fun planned and meets to swim in the next 3 weeks.  If you have any questions, please reach out!

USC Coaches and the Parent Board