Dolphins Midweek Update 

7/3/24 

Greetings Dolphin families! We’re excited about celebrating America’s birthday tomorrow with parading Dolphins and a day off from practice. We also have a change to report about Saturday’s A Meet and a team fundraising opportunity Friday.

In this message: 

1. Fourth of July information 
2. (NEW) Friday (7/5) Honeygrow fundraiser 
3. Friday (7/5) “The Hungry Dolphin Pep Rally” @6 p.m. 
4. (NEW) Saturday (7/6) A Meet @Rolling Hills time changes 
5. B Meet w/Hayfield Farm highlights 
6. Monday (7/8) B Meet @Mansion House 

1) Fourth of July information 

Real quick: 

• No practice (morning, afternoon, or Little Dolphins) tomorrow 
• Dolphins and Little Dolphins are invited to meet at Waynewood Elementary School at 9:30 a.m. for a 10 a.m. parade start. Wear your team T-shirt and accessorize yourself with plenty of Independence Day bling.

2) (NEW) Friday (7/5) Honeygrow fundraiser 

The Dolphins swim team has another opportunity to earn 20% of all order proceeds using the GIVE149 code this Friday, July 5 at eatery Honeygrow (Mount Vernon Plaza). Families can get delicious food and support the team by dining or ordering food while utilizing team promo code “GIVE149” and ordering at honeygrow.com, in-store at the kiosk, or with the honeygrow app. Don’t forget to use the code! Our fundraiser has a GroupRaise page with tools to promote this event on social media as well to show your Dolphins spirit. 

3) Friday (7/5) “The Hungry Dolphin Pep Rally” @6 p.m. 

Coach Dylan has served up a brand new pep rally with some classic characteristics older Dolphins may remember. We’ve dubbed it: "The Hungry Dolphin Pep Rally." Friday's pep rally will include practice monster t-shirts, an age group by age group cupcake eating contest, and the "Great Apple Race." Swimmers should come in swimsuits and clothing that can get frosting on it. 

4) (NEW) Saturday (7/6) A Meet @Rolling Hills time changes 

Due to expected hot weather, the start time of Saturday’s A Meet @Rolling Hills has been moved up 30 minutes to 8:30 a.m. The new warm-up time is 7:55 a.m. and the Dolphins will now gather at 6:45 a.m. in the WRA parking lot to caravan. We’ll be looking to get the A Meet swimmer list out earlier than usual tomorrow so that families may be free to enjoy the fireworks. We'll have more meet details then for Dolphin families that indicated swimmer availability.

5) B Meet with Hayfield Farms highlights 

The Dolphins kicked off our week of Independence Day B Meet with a beautiful and patriotic rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner by our brass quartet of Molly Mead, Colten Wright, Aiden Bratten, and Joseph Sperber. 

Meet highlights: 

• Joshua Wolf, for the first time this season, broke his own team record in the 100m individual medley with a time of 59.97 seconds. He’ll now always have the distinction of being the first Waynewood Dolphin to ever swim the 100m IM in under one minute. And those who attended Monday had the distinction of being there to see it when it happened. Our congratulations to Joshua! 
• IMs a plenty: 46 Waynewood Dolphins swam a legal IM on Monday. Congrats to all our skilled swimmers who have pulled off this feat at a meet this season! 
• The results of the Dolphins B Meet and new swim ladder are available here. 
• The team photo gallery is also filling up with updates from the Hayfield Farm B Meet, the Dolphins’ big A Meet win with Sleepy Hollow B&R, and last week’s Relay Carnival. 

6) Monday (7/8) B Meet @Mansion House 

We’ve open swimmer and volunteer sign ups for the Home B Meet @Mansion House (7/8) at 6 p.m. All signups are available here. Key information: 

• Strokes will go in a different order: IM, free, back, breast, fly. 
• Swimming an IM counts as one of a swimmer’s two strokes (maximum) allowed for the meet. 
• Please note: Mansion House has informed us that their meet has a hard stop of 9 p.m. so it’s possible the meet will not get to all swim events. 
• Due to a Mansion House pre-meet activity, Waynewood’s warmup starts a little earlier than usual at 5:10 p.m. – please arrive 10 minutes before this at 5:00 p.m. 
• Food forecast from Mansion House: 
  • “We will have concessions available for purchase, including plenty of water, sodas, and Gatorades. We serve burgers and a variety of snack items so bring your appetites. We accept Cash, Card & Venmo.” 
• For A Meet swimmers, remember if you finish first, second, or third you can’t swim the stroke again at the next B Meet. 
• Deadline to register is Saturday (7/8) at 6 p.m. 
• The 10 & under breast/fly permission list will remain in place all season. 
• Please sign up to volunteer! 

Questions? 

Don’t hesitate to contact our Team Reps, James & Genna, at [email protected]

Go Dolphins! 

Waynewood Dolphins Communications