Barracudas,

We look forward to our Division A Championship Meet (Divisionals) at River Falls pool. Please sigh up "attending" or "not attending" before Saturday 9:00 pm, July 16.

Details will be posted soon.

Who is swimming? Coach Malka will send out a lineup of who qualifies to swim this Saturday. Swimming at Divisionals is highly prized, so if you confirmed but later find that you (your swimmer) can’t attend, please notify Coach Malka ((240) 461-1768 or [email protected]) immediately so that we can give another swimmer the opportunity to swim at the meet.

Date, Location & Schedule

The rescheduled MCSL Coaches Invitational Long Course Meet will be held at the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center on Tuesday, July 19^th. The meet will begin at 6:30 pm and the facility will be opened at 5:00 pm. The warm-up schedule is listed below:

There will be no halftime break. Instead, we have three lanes for continuous warm-up/warm-down in the upper pool. These lanes will open after the warmup period in the competition pool has concluded.

Swimmers may only warm-up in the Competition Pool during the designated warm-up period.

Barracudas,

We look forward to our 5th "A" Meet of the season against River Falls (RF) at River Falls Pool. Please be at the pool by 7:30am. See below for important details.

Who is swimming? Coach Malka will send out a lineup of who qualifies to swim this Saturday. Swimming at A meets is highly prized, so if you confirmed but later find that you (your swimmer) can’t attend, please notify Coach Malka ((240) 461-1768 or [email protected]) immediately so that we can give another swimmer the opportunity to swim at the meet.

Location: River Falls Pool: River Falls 7915 Horseshoe Ln, Potomac, MD 20854. Driving directions

Parking: Please use the parking lot adjacent to the pool. Overflow parking is located @

Important Times

• RF Warm-up: 7:45am - 8:15am
• BE Warm-up: 8:20am - 8:50am

• Officials' Meeting: 8:15am
• Timer Meeting: 8:30am
• Scratch Meeting: 8:45am
• Meet Start Time: 9am

Volunteers: If you haven’t already done so, please sign up for a job to help us run Saturday’s meet. To sign up:

• Go to www.bebarracudas.org,

• Click on "Meets & Events" tab
• Scroll down to "July 16"
• Click on the "Job Sign-Up" button
• Choose a job to perform

Dress-Up Theme: 

BE Team Seating Area: Our team will sit in the grassy area closest to the diving boards and slides. The visiting team will sit in the portion of the grassy area along the fence closest to the Crescent Rail (+ the bleachers), so please don't sit in that area. There is little shade, so bring tents.

What to bring to the meet: See here

Programs: We will email programs to you Friday night. We will have programs at the meet to give to officials & reps but not for others, so please print out a hard copy of the program if you want one at the meet. We will try to have a running display of the meet via Meet Mobile.

Food: Our concession stand will sell food and drinks at the meet.

We look forward to seeing you Saturday. If you have any questions, please contact Coach Malka or any Team Rep.

Go Barracudas!

Every Wednesday evening, all swimmers are given the opportunity to swim 3 stroke events plus an Individual Medley (IM) in an effort to improve their times and swim in the A meets held on Saturday mornings. If a swimmer has swum the event in the previous Saturday "A" meet, they cannot swim that event in the B meet. This practice is designed to give everyone a fair chance to qualify for the Saturday (A) meets. In case a swimmer is signed up for 4 stroke events instead of allowed 3 events he/she will be dropped from Fly event.

 Sign up for Sunday's Relay Carnival at River Falls. The deadline for signing up for Relay Carnival is Wednesday, July 6 @ 9pm (same deadline as signing up for Saturday A Meets ). Beat the rush and sign up now!

Relay Carnival is an annual meet that Bethesda joins with the other 5 swim teams in our MCSL's Division B (Wildwood Manor, Potomac, Old Georgetown, River Falls, Clarksburg Village). Each of these 6 swim teams forms 22 of their fastest relay teams (see the 22 relays here) and turns them loose this Sunday morning for some fun, fast swimming.

To sign up for this relay carnival, go to www.bebarracudas.org, click on "Meets & Events" tab, scroll down to "A Relay Carnival @ River Falls", click on the green "Meet Entry" button, & then declare whether your swimmer(s) will attend (or not).