Spirit Gear: Our team store with Pokey's has been extended through 11am on Thursday the 14th to purchase this summer's t-shirt and other spirit wear. GMST Team Store. Please get your orders in by Thursday morning! 

Registration: If you have not registered yet for this summer, please take a moment to get your registrations completed. 

Pancake Breakfast: Our first official day of practice will kick off with our annual pancake breakfast. We'll have pancakes being served starting at 8:30 for our older kids practice. Come around your child's practice time to grab pancakes and hang out. We will be swimming/calling kids over around the normal practice times. For our meal to be amazing, we are asking that parents sign-up to bring something if possible. Visit our website and sign-up for an item for the Pancake Breakfast (Go to Swim Meets then click on Job Signups to see the list and sign up). Items can be dropped off at the pool over the weekend during pool hours or brought to the breakfast on Monday morning. Watch social media for any changes due to weather (and hope for sunshine!)

*For new kids on our team age 6 and under, we will not be getting in the water on Monday. We have found that it's overwhelming enough for the kids that first day, so we will call them over and introduce ourselves on land but will not be getting in the pool. The chaos dies down after the first few days, so we'd like to ease into the summer with our newest swimmers so that we don't overwhelm them!

Officials Training: We sent an email regarding certified officials for the summer a few weeks ago. If you are planning to get certified, please get online and get your stroke & turn training completed. The Officials Certification page on the GKAISA website (GKAISA Officials) has all of the information needed for that. There is one last training opportunity tomorrow for Referees and Starters. Link below. 

Wednesday, May 13th 2026 at 7:00PM- Login to Teams Meeting with this link Join the meeting now

Junior Coaches: We are opening applications for Junior Coaches this summer! Junior coaches must be between the ages of 12-18 and will assist with our Learn-to-Swim program. This is a wonderful way to earn community service hours. If interested, please fill out [this Google Form]. Please note: athletes must be registered for the team to sign up to junior coach.

Social Event Assistance: One area where we'd love to have some assistance this summer is in planning some small social events for each age group. We'd love to get a few parents for each age group willing to organize a session for an age group. Events by age group that have been successful in the past that we are targeting (but are not limited to these):

• 8 & Under Ice Cream Social
• 9-10 Bowling
• 11-12 Laser Tag or River Rat tubing
• 13-14 River Rat tubing, rafting, hike, or movie night at the pool

Please respond via email if you'd be willing to help, and let us know which age group you want to plan.

Meet Schedule: Our meet schedule is posted online. Meets are not ready for sign-up yet due to hangups with GKAISA but we will send out an email, hopefully soon, once they are live for sign-up. Please go ahead and note the dates for meets as we want as much participation in them as possible! 

Thanks!

GMST