As an update to parents and swimmers, I have posted the meet results from this past weekend’s meet with Fairfield YMCA’s swim team (Flyfins). Congratulations to all swimmers on some great swims, and a huge thank you to the parents who helped out this past meet! Here is a direct link to the results: Fairfield YMCA
Looking forward to a great meet this Saturday as we swim against the Indian Valley YMCA swim team!
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!
The third annual Hamden/North Haven YMCA Typhoons Swim-A-Long is approaching fast! As one of the larger fundraisers for the team, Typhoon families have 4 more days to raise funds (event is on 10-29-2010). Please remember that pledge forms and pledges are due the day of the Swim-A-Long, and swimmers are broken into their respective groups.
This means that there is no practice this Friday, but there is (obviously) the Swim-A-Long in the following order:
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, and I look forward to a great event this upcoming Friday!
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.
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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!
I have been having quite a few parents ask about “taper”. Some parents have a general idea, some parents know a great detail of what they used to do as swimmers, and some have no idea. Either way, it is a good thing for all parents to understand what taper is, and what type of taper we (the Hamden/North Haven YMCA Typhoons) use.
First and foremost, taper is the significant decrease of yardage per hour while maintaining intensity within the practice sets. So, while we will practice for relatively the same amount of time, there is more purposeful (and fast) swimming with more rest after each swim or set.
With that said, let’s take a look at the three different types of taper:
We utilize a progressive taper with our Juniors and Seniors as we typically plan for a 14 day taper period. Again, this has been scientifically proven to be the most effective form of taper throughout several studies which involve highly trained athletes. Typically, sprinters will see a decrease in time of 3% to 6% while mid-distance and distance swimmers will experience a 2% to 4% decrease in time.
For the Silver and Gold groups, we do more of a steep step taper where we will decrease the yardage within the last week of training to a significant exponential amount. This allows swimmers (and coaches) to focus strictly on race technique, starts, turns, and breathing patterns.
Hopefully this helps our parents a bit in understanding what taper really is along with which kind of taper we use throughout our seasons. However, if you do happen to have any questions, comments, or feedback just leave a comment below.
As we go into the New England Regional Championships, I want to recap our 2009/2010 Short Course season with the Hamden North Haven YMCA Typhoon swim team. So, without further ado, here is how our season played out:
We started our season with our swim clinic about 3 weeks prior to any other swim team in our Yankee Cluster, and it proved to be very successful! The swimmers learned a plethora of drills and skills that they would be then used throughout the regular season to improve their stroke and racing technique. Following the clinic, we had our first meet in early October.
The 2009 National YMCA Virtual Invitational had 220 swim teams (in total 11,605 athletes throughout the U.S.) swam locally to compete nationally against each other which was the first time that an event like this has been run by the YMCA. The Typhoon swimmers did extremely well with the following as highlight swims:
The Autumn Classic was the next stop for the Typhoon swim team, and we did excellent! Some of the highlight swims were:
Our meet against Farmington Valley YMCA, though long, was a very fast meet for the athletes. In total, there were 18 Typhoon swimmers that dropped time for a cumulative of over 3 minutes dropped by those 18 swimmers. That equals out to an average of 17 seconds dropped per swimmer!
And the times just kept getting faster and faster throughout the year! Typically swimmers will usually flatten out (or plateau) with their times as the season progresses until it is time to taper. However, the Typhoon swimmers truly didn’t experience this – at least not at looking through everyone’s times! That not only shows that we still have room to grow, but that the swimmers have tremendous heart and dedication to get better no matter the circumstances!
So, the short course season went on and into Yankee Cluster Championships. Last year, we (as an almost brand new team) finished 11th out of 13 teams. This year, we were able to overtake significantly larger teams and place 9th overall out of 13 teams – as an aside, we were the second smallest team in attendance! Not only were we able to accomplish that, but take a look at our other achievements:
The Yankee Clusters wrapped up our regular season which produced 8 individual qualifiers for New England Regionals, but our swimmers wanted more! So, we ventured off to the Last Ditch meet where we entered 8 individual events. Four of those events ended up as qualifying times where we added 2 more individually qualified swimmers to our total!
Our year-end stats are still in limbo depending on how the swimmers do at the Regional meet, but here is a quick look at how we stand so far:
So, congratulations to the swimmers, the coaching staff, the parents, and the Hamden North Haven YMCA community! I will try to update all of you on our happenings in Boston as we travel this weekend so stay tuned for more Typhoon News!
Go Typhoons!!
I wanted to congratulate all of the Typhoon swimmers who participated in the meet against Northwestern YMCA Lasers this past weekend. You all did an outstanding job, and we had one more swimmer qualify for New England Regional Championships! A huge congratulations to that swimmer, and let’s swim hard this week!
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