Welcome Back!

 I would like to welcome everyone back for what I believe will be a great year for everyone! 

All parents should have received an email that included a team handbook and schedule for both August and September.  Please let me know if you did not recieve this and I'll add you to my email list.  We will have a mandatory parent meeting on Monday, August 29th at 6:30pm in the South Campus Cafeteria. I will address season expectations, and answer questions. We will then have our first Booster Club Meeting of the year. I will then stay after for a meet and greet time with new parents.

A little information you may need right now:

1- If your son, or daughter is NOT planning to swim this year, please let me know. This way I can help get their schedule fixed before the start of school.

2- All athletes are required to have a new physical EACH year (it used to be every other year, but has changed). This means that all athletes must have their athletic packet filled out, get a sports physical, and have this paperwork turned into the trainer’s office before the start of school. You can get the athletic packet online from the athletics page.

3- All athletes/parents must read and sign the Athlete Code of Conduct and return the last page to me on the first day of school (this is also found online at the athletics web site).

4- 1st period swim team is reserved for varsity level athletes and must have permission to stay in this class period. To be considered a varsity level athlete, swimmers must be able to complete 16x100 Free @ an interval of 1:30. This test will be done the first week of school. If an athlete is not able to make this set, they will be moved to 7th period swimming.

5- THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF SCHOOL: Monday morning, all students will report to their campus and go to an advisory classroom. They will be given a new schedule (some will have changed, some will be the same as the one they received at registration). After advisory, South Campus swimmers will report to my classroom (RM 1271) and the North Campus swimmers will report to the cafeteria (I will not be there on Monday because I’ll be at South Campus). 7th period swimmers do the same thing…South Campus will see Coach Willis in RM 1271, and North Campus swimmers will report to the Cafeteria (I will be there). Tuesday will be the same, but I will be on the North Campus Tuesday morning for 9th grade varsity swimmers.

6- On Wednesday, swim practice will start. 7th period swimmers must HURRY after 6th period to get on the bus that will bring them to South Campus and they then report to the pool. They will be picked up from the pool at 4:30pm (Parents may pick up students on the south side of campus by the tennis courts / NO Parents should be parked on the North side by the football practice fields).

Please let me know if you have any other questions before the start of school. My email is dhuffman@dpisd.org