Two Weeks to Dallas, The Fall Schedule, Other Stuff

Closing in on the most exciting part of the summer, our annual registration drive, and preliminary Fall scheduling.

August and The Fall

August means several things to us as a club and it’s just a couple weeks away. Here are several important bullets for AquaTex families to read.

• All AquaTex members must re-register with the club every year by August 1. Doing so sooner than later is always a good idea. The annual registration fee is $50 for every member of the team: masters, swim, polo. Register here.
• As I mentioned in an online meeting a couple months ago our fees for middle school and high school water polo will rise. The fee will be $110/month beginning August 1.
  • Pricing for Swim2Score, Swim/Polo, and Masters Water Polo will not change
• Beginning August 23 the tentative schedule is:
  • Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
    • 7-9 PM for high school and middle school. Could possibly change if numbers are big enough to require middle school-only practices. Be prepared for another weeknight, or Saturday morning, practice.
  • Fridays
    • 4-5 PM Swim2Score. Very tentative, need to work it out with the swim team.
  • Sundays
    • 9 AM – 11 AM, middle school athletes
    • 10 AM – noon, high school athletes
    • 11:30 – 1:00 PM, masters (including select high school athletes)

Junior Olympics

It’s almost here. And yes, I know we all want a schedule! My sources tell me early next week is when we should hear something, which is apparently a normal number of days prior the event to get a schedule. Regardless, still no locations for all our AquaHorns teams.

Uniforms/Gear

Several have asked what athletes are expected to wear at Junior Olympics. The answer is pretty simple: AquaTex gear – especially our competition suits. If/when we are in a photo that will be shared via Longhorn’s social media then all non-Longhorn gear must be covered by a towel or something. But otherwise we want to see as much AQTX gear as possible during and between games. You are welcome and encouraged to mix in something Longhorn if you’d like.

Summer JOs Tees

Those Junior Olympics summer tee shirts are in and the cost/shirt is even lower than expected: $7.00. Come and pick yours up at practice. I shared a link to a sheet with everyone’s order. Contact me if you need the link again. And thank you to those who have already Venmo’d me.

Other Stuff (again)

Free Women’s Suit

We have a women’s size 30 AquaTex water polo suit from RYTE, our vendor (they mistakenly sent one to Coach Matt, who for some reason doesn’t want it). Matthew has graciously donated it. So, contact me if that’s the proper size and you’re interested in having it. If multiple athletes are interested I’ll use technology to randomly select one of them. #bestsuitsintexas

Training Schedule

Both Masters and Youth/HS practices are ON for the mornings of Sunday, July 18 and 25. We’ll update the schedule soon for the two weeks that follow Junior Olympics, which may include a short post-tourney break.

See you on the deck,

James