Last Week’s Swim Meet with the Waterbury Swim Team

Last Friday’s swim meet with the Waterbury YMCA Swim Team went extremely well for the Hamden North Haven Typhoons!  Our swimmers posted 70% of their swims as personal best times and several team records were broken; keep in mind this was the first meet of the 2009 Summer Season as well!

With all of that said, I . . . → Read More: Last Week’s Swim Meet with the Waterbury Swim Team

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Hamden North Haven Swim Team Clinic – Spring 2009

The Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team is about to complete their first week of the semi-annual swim team clinic.  Here is a general outline of the first week:

8 and Unders

Freestyle drills and technique (12 beat switch, 6 beat switch, catch-up, finger drag, zipper, and streamline one arm)
Backstroke drills and technique (shoulder roll, roll and pull, wave, . . . → Read More: Hamden North Haven Swim Team Clinic – Spring 2009

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Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – New England’s

The Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team has their final meet of the short course season this weekend in Boston, MA at the New England Regional Championships.  The Typhoons did extremely well this year throughout all of their meets and we had 5 of our swimmers who were able to swim qualifying times for the championships.  . . . → Read More: Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – New England’s

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Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – Year End Summary

As the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team has officially ended our Regular Season for 2008/2009 Short Course, I would like to look back on this year’s happenings.  However, before that I would just like to thank all of the swim team parents, swimmers, and everybody else that has been involved with this past season!  Without . . . → Read More: Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – Year End Summary

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Last Practice

The Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA Typhoons) held their final regular season (Short Course) practice last night.  Everyone did a fantastic job during the taper, and will hopefully benefit from all of the hard work at this weekend’s swim meet!

With regard to this weekend’s YMCA championship swim meet, arrival times for all swimmers have been . . . → Read More: Last Practice

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Updated Hamden North Haven Swim Team Website

Alright, I just updated our Hamden North Haven Swim Team site, and added our team records.  I know that there are several records that have been broken this year and not all of the records are current to today’s date.  However, I will be updating them as we move forward throughout the year.  With that said, . . . → Read More: Updated Hamden North Haven Swim Team Website

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Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Meet with Northern Middlesex YMCA

This past weekend marked one of Hamden North Haven YMCA Typhoons’ last swim meets of the season.  The meet was held on February 7th at the Northern Middlesex YMCA with the Barracudas Swim Team.  There were a few technical faults with regard to entries, but everything worked out fine in the end!

The Typhoon swimmers, from what . . . → Read More: Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Meet with Northern Middlesex YMCA

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Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – Practice Cancelled Tonight

So, due to the snow (once again) we had to cancel practice for our Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team (the Typhoons).  While we cancelled for the Silver and Gold group, we still had practice (though abbreviated) for the Junior and Senior groups.  With that said, those two groups works extremely hard and deserve a huge . . . → Read More: Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – Practice Cancelled Tonight

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Swim Meet Against Farmington Valley YMCA Swim Team

I will send out an e-mail to everyone regarding this information, but I also wanted to post this on our blog so it is out there in the open for anyone interested!

The next ymca swim meet for the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team (the Typhoons) is going to be held at Albertus Magnus College where . . . → Read More: Swim Meet Against Farmington Valley YMCA Swim Team

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Flip Turns and How To Get Swimming Faster

Our Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA Typhoons) will always hear us, as we coach our Juniors and Seniors, that there are a lot of factors that go into swimming a faster time.  The easiest change for swimmers, in my opinion, is the speed, efficiency, and power of the flip turn.

If you look at a . . . → Read More: Flip Turns and How To Get Swimming Faster

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Important Dates

8.1.2010 - Registration Opens for Short Course Season (more info)

9.20.2010 - Pre-season clinic starts (more info)