Zone 3 Championships • October 15, 2011 • Vallejo, CA

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” ~Margaret Carty

WORD FROM TINA VU (Team VP)

Hi Everyone,
Congratulations to the Rossi Swim Team!  We had a great meet this weekend and did quite well. Our team came in 4th overall out of 31 teams entered in the meet - only about 55+ points or so away from 3rd. We did not get a trophy this year but hopefully can place next year!

We'd like to acknowledge a few of the families for putting in extra effort this year since we had to handle hospitality for the meet on short notice:

Brian and Irene (Kaitlyn/Emily's parents) for going to the meet early on Friday to get our team a great space for set-up for the meet and Peter and Jennie (Taylor/Tyler/Sophia's parents) for taking down and bringing back all the canopies and helping out with team photography.

Nam and Jeannie (Nathaniel's parents) and Thuy and Duc (Amberlynn's parents) for ordering and prepping everything for the Vietnamese sandwiches served on Saturday.

Ed/Uncle Ed (Emily's dad) for ordering all the Chinese food for Sunday's meal and for Coach Mike who ran errands with us at Costco on Friday.

Coach Billy for picking up the food and lapcounters on Sunday.

Jeremy Vu (Jared/Jordan/Brooke's dad) for being our only official for both days allowing our team to get points at this meet.

Christine Leong (Sydney/Diego's mom) for being there to photograph the team for our wonderful blog!

And a big THANK YOU to all our Rossi parents that stepped in to time and prepare all the snacks and meals. It was really a team effort and we're so happy that everyone participated.

FYI, the Vallejo team that ran the meet said that we were "The Bomb".  Everyone really enjoyed all the food that we came up with and hope we can do something again. Oh dear....

And let's not forget the best - our kids were wonderful. Many of them volunteered to help with prep work and served the timers, coaches and officials too. Great job!

Cheers!
Tina

And THANK YOU, Tina, for ALL you do at every single meet.

Enjoy these snapshots from that day! Thanks, Emily (Woo) for taking some pictures for me. We might not have received a trophy that day but I think we got first place in teamwork. Go Rossi!

More photos HERE. Remember to link back to this blog when you share these photos. Thanks.