2012 Short Course Yankee Cluster Championships

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Andy Scherer

We have received the meet information for Yankee Cluster Championships (I have attached these documents to the e-mail). Some things to consider: (1) this meet is mandatory for all of our athletes, (2) if there are extenuating circumstances that your swimmer absolutely cannot attend, that needs to be expressed/explained to me by Friday, February 3, (3) Entries will be determined by the coaching staff by Wednesday, February 8 that will include entry fee amounts per swimmer, and (4) entry fees are due by Wednesday, February 15 in either cash or check made out to the Hamden-North Haven YMCA Typhoons. If we do not receive entry fees by February 15, the swimmer will be scratched from the meet.

Here are the meet sessions:

Friday, March 2, 2012 (11 & Over Distance Events)

Female Session: Warm-up: 4:00 pm, Start: 5:00 pm
Male Session: Warm-up: 6:00 pm, Start: 7:00 pm

Saturday, March 3, 2012 (10 & Under Events)

8 & Under Girls: Warm-up 7:30 am, Start 8:30 am
8 & Under Boys: Warm-up 10:00 am, Start 11:00 am
9/10 Girls: Warm-up 12:30 pm, Start 1:30 pm
9/10 Boys: Warm-up 4:00 pm, Start 5:00 pm

Sunday, March 4, 2012 (11 & Over Events)

11/12 Girls: Warm-up 7:30 am, Start 8:30 am
11/12 Boys: Warm-up 11:00 am, Start 12:00 pm
13 & Over Boys / 15 & Over Girls: Warm-up 1:30 pm, Start 2:30 pm
13/14 Girls: Warm-up 4:00 pm, Start 5:00 pm

While there are some significant changes to this year’s championship meet, our team goal is always to have fun while improving on the previous season. To that end, the coaches will determine the most opportune events for each individual swimmer as well as combinations for relay teams.

If there are any questions regarding the meet, please let me know and I will do the best I can to help!

Go Typhoons!

Northern Middlesex YMCA Results

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Andy Scherer

The results have been posted from this past weekend’s swim meet. You can click the following link for them (NMYB Results) or find them under our swim meet results page.

As a meet recap, all of the Typhoon swimmers did an outstanding job on Saturday morning against the Northern Middlesex YMCA Barracudas! Both swim team‘s had great results with quite a few swimmers dropping time which is always hard in this part of the season! Along with the great times, we had one more swimmer qualify for New England’s and another swimmer qualify for New England’s in an alternate event! Great swimming to the both of you!

See you all on deck!

Mystic YMCA at HNH YMCA Swim Meet Results

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Andy Scherer

The meet results for this past weekend have been posted. I want to congratulate all swimmers who participated and thank the Mystic YMCA Hammerheads for traveling to us for our first home swim meet of the season! Both swim teams did a phenomenal job in the water!

Updated Hamden North Haven Swim Team Website

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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, feel free to take a look at our new swim team records, and let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. As always, we are breaking records almost every meet so it will be a bit tough to keep up with this year…no complaints on my end with regard to the record-breaking! Keep up the great work, Typhoons!

Also, as a quick reminder, I do need to know if you are attending the upcoming swim meet against Southington YMCA’s Swim Team. The meet is at home so there is little to no travel for everyone, and this is our last YMCA Dual Swim Meet prior to Yankee Cluster Championships in Plainville (weekend of February 20th). Thanks, again, Everyone!

Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Meet with Northern Middlesex YMCA

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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 I saw and heard, had a great time supporting each other, and times looked great from what Coach Elaina, Coach Alisse, and I were recording. One new swimmer qualified for New England Regional Championship (which will allow us to send a 9-10 boys’ relay team), and two of our swimmers (already qualified) improved their seed time for their qualifying events. I will, hopefully, have the swim meet results to post on the website by tomorrow evening!

Next weekend (February 14, 2009) will be our last YMCA Dual Swim Meet until the Long Course Season. We will be at home (Albertus Magnus) with the arrival time of 7:45 am and warm-ups starting at 8:00 am. Please make sure you let me know as soon as possible whether or not you plan on attending. Since this is the last dual meet for our Hamden North Haven Swim Team, and we are nearing the Yankee Cluster Championship (entries posted on our YMCA Swim Team website, I hope that we can get a good showing from all of our swimmers!

Happy Swimming, and Go Typhoons!!

Swim Meet Against Farmington Valley YMCA Swim Team

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Andy Scherer

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 we’ll be swimming against the Farmington Valley YMCA Swim Team. This will be a 70 event dual meet with the arrival time at 8:00 a.m. and the warm-up time at 8:15 a.m – 8:30 a.m. We will do one way starts from 8:30 – 8:40 a.m. with the meet starting at 8:45 a.m.

Should anyone have any questions regarding how to get to Albertus Magnus or if you need anything else, please feel free to let me know!

On a separate subject, I still have a couple of time slots available to swimmers for private coaching sessions throughout the week!

All the best, and Go Typhoons!

Excellent Swim Meet – Valley Ansonia YMCA Swim Team

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Andy Scherer

I have to say that both of the YMCA Swim Teams today (Valley Ansonia YMCA Swim Team – The Valley Sprinters and the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – The Typhoons) had an outstanding swim meet today! There were several personal bests achieved and quite a few qualifying times for the YMCA New England Championship Swim Meet!

All in all, it was a great swim meet to lead into our Winter break! So, thank you to the Valley Ansonia YMCA Swim Team for hosting a great swim meet, and thank you to our Hamden North Haven Swim Team (Typhoon Swimmers) for swimming their best today! As everyone knows, we (as coaches) love to watch you all have fun and swim your hearts out, and it’s always a great feeling to see you all enjoy your time spent with your friends at the meets! That being said, Congratulations to all of our Typhoon Swimmers!

As a reminder, we do have our Friendly’s Fundraiser on Tuesday, December 16th at the Friendly’s in North Haven. There is a modified practice time for all four groups on Tuesday in order to make time for everyone to attend out fundraiser.

Our next swim meet is January 10th, and I will update everyone on the details as we get closer to the event! Happy Swimming, and Go Typhoons!!

Swim Meet Against Wallingford and Valley

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Andy Scherer

Alright, so here we go into the third swim meet of the year! I think that we have done a great job so far with regard to improving our times, and I can only see more improvement from all of our swimmers! That being said, the third meet will be held in Wallingford against the Wallingford YMCA Swim Team (The Wallingford Dolphins), and Valley YMCA Swim Team (The Valley Sprinters). The meet will be an 82 event YMCA Swim Meet, and we need to know who is going to be attending this tri-meet on December 6, 2008 by this Tuesday.

If anyone has any questions regarding the meet against Wallingford’s Swim Team and Valley’s Swim Team please feel free to let me know as soon as possible! I will do my best to keep everyone informed if there are any changes to the meet schedule for our Hamden North Haven Swim Team! Go Typhoons!

Waterbury YMCA Swim Meet

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Andy Scherer

I have to say that our swim meet today against the Waterbury YMCA Swim Team (the Barracudas) was a great first meet to have at home. From Waterbury YMCA’s sportmanship and coaching to all of the parents helping out, and the great swims that all of the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team (the Typhoons) had! It was, honestly, a pleasure hosting this meet so a huge congratulations and “Thank You” has to go out to all that helped make this a more efficient meet for the two YMCA Swim Teams involved!

So, as the head coach of this Hamden North Haven Swim Team I have to say that Coach Elaina and I are so extremely proud of everyone of our swimmers today! As I was going over the results (which will be posted on our Short Course page tomorrow afternoon), I noticed that almost all – if not all – of our swimmers had personal best times in at least one event! As I had previously mentioned in other posts (and what I have mentioned to some of the swim groups and parents), we increased yardage again this past week so the drops in times for a second consecutive week was completely unexpected. I know I said the same thing last week after our Mystic Swim Meet, but I truly am impressed with the effort our swimmers give in practice and the meets! It shows us (as coaches) that they truly love swimming for the Typhoons and love the sport of swimming! With that in mind, we had two more qualifying times for the YMCA Regional New England Championship swim meet! So, congratulations to everyone, again, and definitely check out the results tomorrow!

Well, on to the next topic which is a big tri-meet with the Wallingford YMCA Swim Team (the Dolphins) and the Valley YMCA Swim Team (the Sprinters)! We have a couple weeks of rest between today’s meet and this event, but it is well deserved! So, swimmers, enjoy the rest between meets and let’s have some fun in practice over the next two weeks or so!

Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Meet

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Andy Scherer

Alright, so just very quickly I wanted to remind everyone about the events tomorrow so that everyone has accurate and up to date information on tomorrow’s home swim meet against the Waterbury YMCA Swim Team (the Barracudas). The Applebee’s Pancake Breakfast will be held tomorrow morning from 8:00 – 10:00am. Tickets are being sold at the door for people who haven’t bought tickets at this point. A large portion of the ticket price is coming back to the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team so this is a great way to eat food for a good cause (don’t find that all too often). Anyway, following the breakfast there is a quick break until the meet warm-ups.

With regard to the meet, warm-ups will start at 1:15pm as soon as the lesson groups exit the natatorium. We are slated to start the swim meet at 2:00pm. The two YMCA Swim Teams (the Typhoons and Barracudas) agreed to lower the event list from an 82 event to a 70 event meet in order to speed up the entirity of the meet which is a good thing overall! On top of that, we will be adding a bullpen to tomorrow’s meet that will be managed by a parent volunteer to help out with the efficiency of the meet. So, overall, this looks like it will be a great meet (and day) for both the Waterbury YMCA as well as our Hamden North Haven Swim Team (the YMCA Typhoons)!!