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!
With our pre-season swim clinic almost over, the Hamden North Haven YMCA Typhoons look to start their Spring/Summer season this upcoming Monday (April 26, 2010). However, before we move forward, let’s take a look at what we have done so far this past week and a half in our clinic:
Even though we have already had a great clinic with the swimmers, we still have an IM day, and a day to review with everyone! All in all, this has been a very successful clinic, and the coaches can only look forward to what is going to be an outstanding (and fun) Spring/Summer with the Hamden North Haven Swim Team!
If you’re interested in finding out more information about the Spring and Summer season, please either visit our Registration Page or contact Coach Andy.
Happy Swimming!
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!!
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!
The Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team looks to start their semi-annual preseason swim clinic today! Throughout the past years, the clinic has proven to be a great educational tool for the coaches and swimmers, and has become a staple in each of the Typhoon seasons!
Swimmers will learn a plethora of stroke technique drills, starts & turns, and other pertinent swimming skills that will be utilized by the coaching staff throughout the short course season. The coaching staff will also begin to introduce dry-land techniques and exercises that will help form stroke specific muscle memory.
The bottom line, though, the swimmers will have a great time while they are learning. This goes for the older groups as well; because the clinic is designed to focus on the swimmers that are participating, there will not be a significant amount of yardage, but there will be a lot of experimenting with new skills and drills to really focus on the individual swimmer technique.
Look for an update tonight on our blog, and if you want to check it out feel free to stop in! The Typhoons look forward to seeing you and/or your swimmer in the water soon!
Happy swimming!!
For all of our Hamden North Haven YMCA Typhoon swimmers, parents, and fans I’m sure that you are all noticing a difference on website! We have had to revise the template and the layout to help people navigate through and find information as our swim team grows.
I/we do, however, need your help to browse through the site and find out if there are any glitches, typos, or if you think we need something else. Enjoy the new and improved website, and please let me know if you find anything!
Just in case anyone hasn’t already checked out the new front page widget on the Typhoons website please feel free to click here: Hamden North Haven Swim Team. The widget is from Twitter and will help our parents and swimmers follow what is happening at the pool.
As always, please feel free to follow us on Twitter as well as our blog, and I will try to keep us all as up to date as possible.
Happy Swimming!
The Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team has their last practice tonight and will travel to the New England Regional Championships this weekend! Our 13 – 14 year old swimmers will compete on Saturday afternoon where we have one qualified male swimmer and a female relay team (should be very fun to watch). On Sunday, we have a 9 – 10 male qualifier, 9 – 10 female qualifer, and an 8 and under male qualifier with two other relay teams attending.
We (the coaches) are so excited to see the hard work pay-off for these swimmers as they have been through some intense practices over the past month! Let’s wish them all well this weekend as they attend their last YMCA Swim Meet of the season!
The Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team will host their semi-annual pre-season Swim Team Clinic in the last week of April. This will be (as always) a great time for the swimmers to learn as it is much more hands-on and more of a teaching technique than swimming workouts. It’s a great way for Hamden North Haven Swimmers to get back into the water and refresh their previous year’s experience, but it’s also a great way for new swimmers to get in the pool and learn while getting to know the returning Typhoon Swimmers.
So, again, the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team will be holding their Swim Team Clinic starting on April 27, 2009! Register soon as spots will be extremely tight for the summer swim team!
With the first day of the 2009 YMCA Yankee Cluster Championship done, I have to say that we are extremely proud of every swimmer in that competed today and throughout this year in the 8 and under & 9 and 10 Age Groups! Each and every one of our Hamden North Haven Swim Team swimmers has improved significantly over the past Short Course Season, and I can only hope that they continue to get better and have fun while learning!
With that said, I do not have official times today, but I can tell everyone that we did have a few record-breaking performances, and several personal best times today! It’s great to see a swimmer’s hard work payoff with the best times! We also had several of our swimmers win their heats and win a Yankee Cluster Waterbottle!
We are looking forward to seeing the 11-12 and 13 and Over Age Group swimmers compete tomorrow, and hopefully we will have a couple of record-breaking and New England Championship qualifying times! Good luck to everyone tomorrow (I will see you on deck), and absolutely Great Job to everyone that swam today!
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