Typhoons swimmers and parents, I am happy to announce that we have an intra-association meet with the Branford YMCA Stingrays on December 18th. I am waiting on meet details such as arrival time and meet events, but this has been confirmed as an “early morning” meet and will take place at the Branford YMCA.
This, of course, means more chances for kids to qualify for Regional Championships and yet another opportunity for us to have fun on a Saturday morning!
Go Typhoons!
This past weekend proved to be an outstanding meet for both the Meriden YMCA Seals as well as the Hamden/North Haven Typhoons. Several swimmers from the Hamden/North Haven YMCA achieved personal best times, and all swimmers looked like they had a great time (yet again). In fact, when I had asked the Silver group what was their favorite part of the weekend they almost immediately exclaimed “The Swim Meet”!!
With that said, I have posted the results to the swim meet on the Meet Result page, but you can also find it here (Meriden YMCA). Again, great job to all swimmers, and I am looking forward to our next meet (December 4th against Fairfield YMCA).
Go Typhoons!
This past Sunday (November 14th) marked the official start of the Hamden/North Haven YMCA Typhoon swim team’s short course meet season. As we played host to the Valley Ansonia YMCA Sprinters, the meet went off without a hitch! Parents from both swim teams stepped up to help time, the kids had a great time overall, and the coaches are extremely proud of everyone’s accomplishments.
We have posted the results on our Meet Result page, but you can also find the results here: Valley Ansonia YMCA Results.
Again, congratulations to all the swimmers, and I am looking forward to another great meet this weekend as we swim against the Meriden YMCA in Meriden!
Go Typhoons!
I will keep everyone posted as this process moves forward, but the dates of the YMCA Yankee Cluster Championships are in question from the originally discussed dates. This change was generated from two primary reasons:
With all that said, the new dates for Yankee Clusters are February 25, 2011 to February 27, 2011. I know that a lot of you have already started planning your vacations so I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
Please, as always, let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
-Coach Andy
As a quick update and note to swimmers and parents, the YMCA New England Regional Championship will be held (pending final approval) the weekend of March 25th through March 27th. I have posted the qualifying times for this meet on our swim meet schedule, but you can also find them here: 2011 YMCA New England Regional Qualifying Times.
For those of you who need more information on this meet, this meet either requires the swimmer to meet a qualifying time or participate on a relay team to attend. We plan on having relay teams for all age groups attend and will communicate those relay teams and individual qualifiers as we near closer to the end of our regular season.
Should anyone have questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to let me know.
Happy Swimming and Go Typhoons!
Tomorrow marks the first meet of the 2010-2011 short course season for the Gold, Junior and Senior swimmers of the Hamden/North Haven YMCA Typhoons. At the YMCA National Virtual Invitational Meet, swimmers compete locally and have their times entered into a database which will place their events throughout all competitors throughout the nation. Last year, the Typhoon Swim Team had a very successful meet with several swimmers placing in the top 16, and we are looking forward to more fun and outstanding swims.
Warm-up starts at 12:00, and we look forward to seeing you all (Gold, Junior and Senior swimmers) on the pool deck in Middletown.
The Hamden/North Haven YMCA Typhoon swim team has posted the tentative schedule for our YMCA swim meets. As always, we will be participating in the Yankee Cluster League which currently includes 13 other teams from YMCA’s throughout Connecticut. You will notice that I also placed the Short Course Nationals date along with this past year’s qualification times; we are nearing a point with our athletes that we will have some swimmers potentially qualifying for Y Nat’s.
Without further ado, here is the tentative schedule to be confirmed next week:
As always, if there are any questions, comments or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact me via e-mail or call 203-248-6361.
The YMCA Yankee Cluster Championships for the 2010 long course season was held this past weekend by the Northern Middlesex YMCA. This YMCA swim meet marks the end of the Hamden/North Haven YMCA Typhoons swim season (the next season’s registration starts August 1st), and all of the swimmers in attendance did a phenomenal job in their events! Here is a quick synopsis of the two day meet which was attended by a total of 10 YMCA swim teams:
Overall, it was a great meet for all of the swimmers as we had a fun time on the pool deck both Friday and Saturday. This has been a great season for the Typhoons, and I greatly look forward to the upcoming short course season which starts in September with our pre-season clinic. Have a great August, rest up, and we will see you on deck in September!
Going into the next week, we will be dropping the hammer with the Hamden/North Haven Typhoon swimmers. Each individual swimmer will be focusing on race technique and overall meet performance as we near closer to Friday and Saturday.
For Friday evening, the arrival time for 13 and over swimmers at the Northern Middlesex YMCA is 4:45pm. Warm-ups will start at 5:00pm, and the meet will start as soon as possible following warm-ups and one-way starts.
For Saturday, the arrival time for the 12 and under swimmers at the Northern Middlesex YMCA is 6:45am. Warm-ups will start at 7:00am, and the meet will start (as long as all goes to plan).
So, in the coming week, practices will be a bit shortened for the Juniors and Seniors as we will be decreasing our total yardage by 100 yards per day until we reach our max taper at 1350 yards per hour. The intensity of practice will maintain, and hopefully we will see an ideal 4 – 6% drop in times for our sprint/stroke events, and around a 2 – 4% drop for the distance events.
As always, if you have any questions about the meet or practice times, etc, please contact me at any point!
Please make sure that you turn in your Yankee Cluster Championship checks ($12 per swimmer) by Thursday, July 15th if you are planning on having your swimming attend the meet. Remember that 13 and over swimmers are Friday evening while 12 and under swimmers are competing on Saturday morning).
Again, please make sure you get the checks and/or money into me no later than tomorrow or your swimmer(s) will not be entered into the meet. As always, if you have any questions please feel free to let me know!
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