Hello Panthers!

Congratulations to both our boys' and girls' teams for big wins over Peachtree Ridge. For many athletes, this was their FIRST EVER high school swim meet. Great job! A special shout out goes to our state qualifiers: Hannah-Claire Jowers, Quynh Diep, Emily Atkins, Tadd Duffield, Nathaniel Beeney, and Alan Nguyen. Meet results and scores are on the website calendar section. They will be there each week after the meet. Gwinnett County publishes county rankings each week. Here are the rankings after week 1.

Athletes of the Week

Congrats to our female athlete of the week, Zara Boyer. We are so excited to have Zara back on the team after a year of recovering from an injury! Despite swimming through some lingering pain, the team is thrilled to have her swimming again!

Congrats to our male athlete of the week, William Leonard. Will has moved into the highest level training group at Spartans Aquatic Club due to his consistency and work ethic. Last year, he qualified for state at the county meet. This year, watch for him to qualify much sooner!

– Coach Brown

*New this year, athletes of the week will head home with a yard sign to display for the week, showing our Panther pride all around Lilburn. Please bring the signs back to practice the following week. 

FOR ATHLETES

Team Meal: Friday, November 1 6-8 p.m.
A big thank you to the Diep Family, who will be hosting the team this Friday in their backyard for our second team meal of the season. All athletes are encouraged to attend!
Address: 5355 Haverford Mill Cove, NW, Lilburn
Menu: Asian beef balls on rice, vegetable lo mein, egg rolls
Female athletes please bring a dessert to share.

Meet #2: Saturday, November 2 at 7:20 p.m. vs Mill Creek
Once again the Panthers are swimming Saturday evening at Mountain Park. Mill Creek is consistently one of the top teams in Gwinnett and Georgia, so we look forward to a great meet! Athletes should arrive between 6:15-6:20 p.m. The meet will begin at 7:20. Athletes, wear your orange team t-shirt, new team suit, and orange swim caps.

NG3 Teamwork Talk: Thursday mornings, 6:45 a.m.
Head to Coach Brown’s room (15.114) on October 31 for a team-building early morning talk on the topic of Excellence. There will also be a costume contest! And donuts! NG3 is a faith-based mentorship program aimed at supporting Next Generation Character, Community, Change. All are welcome! Questions? Reach out to Katie Robinson (Lillie’s mom)

Team photo: Friday, November 8 at 6:45 a.m.
Plan to meet in the old gym at 6:45 a.m. for the yearbook team picture before school on Friday, November 8. GSMST and Dual Enrollment students, come if you are able. This photo will be used for the Parkview yearbook. All athletes should wear their orange team shirt for the team picture and to school on Friday.

FOR PARENTS

For this week’s evening meet, volunteers need to arrive and check in at the front desk at 6:30 p.m. If you need to change any of your volunteer roles for meets this season, you can do so by logging in to your SwimTopia account and heading to the calendar page – click on “Job Signup”. If you have LAST MINUTE CHANGES, PLEASE make them by EOD Wednesday and notify Volunteer Coordinators so that they have time to find a replacement.

We still need a BACKUP TIMER for this week’s meet. If you are able to volunteer in this role, please sign up ASAP. Thank you!

Thank you to this week’s volunteers!
Console & Computer: Kelly Jowers (Hannah-Claire & Caroline) & Daniel Boyer (Zara)
Diving: Pilar Hernandez (Amelia & Natalia) & Maleeka Glover (Qadira)
Runner: Andrea Prussing (Ellis)
Timers: Kelly Blake (Jason), Lizheng Guo (Andrew), Sarah Oliver (Addison & Lauren), Thao Pham (Brendan), Zach Priceman (Ava), Jean Rodrigo (Jessica), Michael Rothman (Tyler), Angela Sloggy (Laila), Hugh Tran (Hayden), Isaac Whitfield (Zaria)

If you have questions about your volunteer role, please reach out to our Volunteer Coordinators Laurie Boltin (Henry’s mom) and Lorri Beeney (Nathaniel’s mom).

Volunteer Descriptions
Did you know there are descriptions of the different volunteer roles on the Parkview website? If you are new to the team or have signed up for a new role, read through the descriptions so that you are better prepared to serve at the meet.

Meet Photos
Did you know there is also a photo page on our website? Parkview senior Austen Bennett will be not only posting to the team’s Instagram page this season but also to the website.

Yard Sign Pickup
Parents of: Sarah Barnett, Arthur Bombard, Isabella De Leon, Alexis Martinez, Tamara Persell and Sasha Rennick – please reply to this email and arrange to pick up your swimmer/diver yard sign.

First Parent Tailgate
Thanks again to our social chairs Adrianne Leonard and Ginger Mercer for planning our first-ever Parent Tailgate. Hopefully all the parents that attended enjoyed meeting some new people. Our social chairs will also be planning Senior Night and the end of season banquet. If you have skills and ideas around social events and would be willing to volunteer and work alongside our chairs on these events, please let us know! 

See you at the pool!

Patricia Heys
(Ayden & Micah Raffield’s Mom)
Communications Coordinator, Parkview Swim & Dive Board