Hello Rockshire Sharks!

Great job everyone at the final B meet last night! This weekend is both our final A meet and PIRC relays, and divisionals practices starting next week. Please read all info below to make sure you RSVP to all of the meets and banquet!

1. Friday FUNnight- concessions for sale and decorations to bring to PIRC relays!
2. A meet AWAY at Glenmont Saturday, July 11
3. PIRC relays at Tally Ho Sunday, July 12
4. Practice schedule for divisionals swimmers
5. RSVP for minimeet and banquet!
6. Love summer swim and want to get stronger in the winter? Check out these options!
7. It’s that time: Share your photos for the banquet slideshow! Correct Link!
8. WhatsApp group for Shark communications
9. Meet Schedule and Lunch spots

1. Friday FUNnight-Friday, July 10 this week we will be selling concessions for Friday Funnight- Hotdogs, Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers, and veggie burgers as well as chips and drinks and treats. We will start the concessions sale at 6pm and go until 7:30pm so families can eat and be ready for the team activity afterwards; we will be making team decorations to bring to the PIRC relays with a Space theme and doing the team scavenger hunt! Come out, enjoy the pool and make some great space decor to bring with us to Tally ho on Sunday!

2. A meet AWAY at Glenmont Saturday, July 11. Theme: Country Club/Golfers. Be on deck by 8:00am.

Pool Address:

12621 Dalewood Dr, Wheaton, MD 20902

Parking:

We have a large parking lot with plenty of parking spaces. We recommend that you park in an available space and not along the curb unless there are no spaces left in the lot. The Park Police will give tickets when there are empty spaces available to park. Also, avoid the spaces just outside the entrance that are labeled employee parking.

Entering the pool:

The main gate to the guard house/bathhouses is closed on Saturday morning. There is a gate to the far left that will be open. As you walk thru the gate, go towards the bathhouses and then turn left immediately before you reach them. Once you go down the steps, stay to your left until you reach the far end of the pool to reach your team area.

Visiting Team Area:

There are a couple of bleachers in your team area. We recommend that families bring chairs since there is not a lot of them at the pool. Also, we don't have much shade so you should bring tents if you have them.

Warm-ups:

Glenmont: 8:00-8:20am

Rockshire: 8:20-8:40am

Meetings:

Officials: 8:20am

Timers: 8:40am

Scratch: 8:45am

Concessions:

We will serve assorted breakfast items including donuts, muffins, coffee, snacks, water and Gatorade. We accept cash and Venmo.

Volunteer Hospitality

We will have refreshments for meet volunteers during halftime.

3. PIRC relays at Tally Ho Sunday, July 12. Theme: Outer Space! Be on Deck by 8:00am. Some additional information from Tally Ho:

SAME FORMAT AS LAST YEAR:

We are not using timers or relay cards for PIRC. We will have finishing judges determine places 1-6 for each heat of each event and hand out ribbons accordingly. Ribbons will be pre-printed with the event name and slots to write in the members of the relay team receiving that place. Each participating PIRC team will need to provide ribbon writers to write in the names of swimmers from their teams.

MEET START TIME: 9:00 AM

ARRIVAL TIME: You may enter the pool at 7:00am to decorate your team area or the night before anytime between 7-9pm. If you are not decorating your team area, please have those swimmers and families arrive at 745am.

WARM-UP INFORMATION:

8:00 AM to 8:15 AM: Tallyho and Inverness

8:15 AM to 8:30 AM Old Farm and Rockshire

8:30 AM to 8:45 AM Regency Estates (and individual kids from each team who are running late)

4. Practice schedule for Divisionals swimmers next week:

A reminder that divisionals swimmers will have an adjusted practice schedule next week. Preteam will run as normal.

Morning session:

All swimmers- 9-10am

Afternoon:

11&up- 4:15-5:15

10&under- 5:15-6pm

5. It’s that time: Please be sure to RSVP on the website for the minimeet (preteam and preteam coaches) and banquet (regular team). They will both be on Sunday, July 19- the minimeet is in the morning at the pool and the banquet is in the afternoon at the Nancy Decek Center. Both require everyone to RSVP and bring a food dish, so please make sure to sign up by next Wednesday so we have a proper headcount. Thank you!

6. Looking for more swimming in the offseason? Check out these options!

Tollefson Swim- offers a range of options from lessons to competitive teams

RMSC- Lots of local sites for swimmers looking to swim and compete in the winter

Quince orchard swim academy- offers lessons and swim team options in the area

Montgomery Country Stroke and Turn Clinic- Sunday afternoon swim clinics to help swimmers keep up with their strokes

FINS- lots of options from swim lessons to teams in various areas

7. Time to share those banquet slide show photos BY SUNDAY JULY 12! Here is the CORRECT link:

Rockshire Shark Photos 2026.

A few guidelines:

-Landscape is better than portrait layout

-Seniors have a folder in the “senior photos” folder to put all of their senior photos

-please make sure all photos are unedited/original and ideally renamed to the date of the photo

Thank you!

8. Sign up for our WhatsApp messaging service! The link to join the group is here: Rockshire Sharks WhatsApp we will be using this messaging for volunteer reminders as well as any last minute needs for volunteers and events. Biweekly emails will still be sent and should be checked for most thorough information.

9. Rockshire Sharks Swim Team Meet Schedule 2026

July

7/11 Away @ Glenmont (A meet) (Lunch @ Cava at Shady Grove)

Theme: Country Club/Golfers

7/12 PIRC relays @ Tally Ho (B meet) (Lunch @ CalTor)

Theme: Outer Space!

7/18 Divisionals @ Kenmont (Lunch @ TBD)

Theme: GREEN OUT & Rockshire Gear

7/25 Relay All Star meet

7/26 Individual All Star meet

Any questions? Please contact us at [email protected].

Congrats on making it to the end:) Have a wonderful week! Spread the word and help grow our Shark family!

Your A-Reps,

Kat and Patrick Hussmann