SPECIAL INFORMATION MEET SIGN-UP - Please sign-up by Wednesday, Jan. 17

Monty Hopkins

Hello MAST Families,                                                                                                            2024-0116

SWIM MEET ENTRY UPDATE: We strongly recommend signing up for the meet the first weekend of February.

Please indicate on the MARLIN TYR meet sign-up if you want to be entered in this meet. 

Entries are due tomorrow, and we will need to get them in on time. 

Please read this entire message.

When the season began, we chose to enter our team in the Mason RAYS February Invitational because the Marlin TYR meet on the same weekend had time standards and it was our thought that more MAST swimmers would be able to participate in the RAYS meet. 

However, we learned recently that the RAYS meet would be closed to only three teams – none from the Cincinnati area.  We have been negotiating with the RAYS to have them accept our team entry and that is a possibility.

In the meantime, we also received permission from the Marlins to enter swimmer who do not have the qualifying times, but we will have to adjust our entry times to the standard.

We want to compete in one meet or the other but, at the present time, we don’t know which one we can enter.

Action Steps – please do this before 3:00 pm Wednesday, January 17: 

  1. Go to the Marlin TYR meet sign-up and either commit or decline as usual.
  2. If you can attend either meet, simply indicate the days your swimmer can participate.
  3. Prior to the meet entry deadline, we will choose to send our entry to either the TYR meet or the RAYS meet.
  4. If we are accepted into the RAYS meet we will enter our swimmers in that meet.
  5. If we are not accepted for the RAYS meet, we will enter swimmers in the Marlins TYR meet.

Thanks for getting your swimmer signed up by tomorrow.

Monty