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!

Last Week’s Swim Meet with the Waterbury Swim Team

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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 thought the swimmers did an outstanding job and I hope they all had fun out there! I definitely look forward to seeing everyone this upcoming Friday at the Mystic YMCA as their swim team plays host to our second meet of the season!

Happy Swimming, and Go Typhoons!

New site widget for the Typhoons

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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!

Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – Last Practice

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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!

1 More Day For Yankee Clusters 2009

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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!

Last Practice

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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 sent, entries have been posted on our website, and directions to Plainville are also available on the website. If you have any other questions please feel free to give me a call or e-mail me at any point!

Also, since we are nearing the end of the Short Course Season, thoughts of the Long Course season are coming up. With that said, the Swim Clinic registration has started and will begin April 27, 2009. The clinic is two weeks and leads directly into the Long Course Season. Registration Information can be found on our website under www.typhoonswimming.com/registration.html. There will also be a registration form posted on the home page and the Long Course page as soon as possible.

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!!

Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team – Practice Cancelled Tonight

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Andy Scherer

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 “thank you” for not letting the weather affect how you practice!!

As a quick reminder, I do need to know which swimmers are planning on swimming at the Yankee Cluster Championship as soon as possible. I need to submit the swimming entries no later than February 6, 2009 which only gives me a few days to fill everything out. That being said, I somewhat expect (and please pardon my tone) our swimmers to attend the meet that weekend in Plainville (at the Plainville High School). It is a very important meet as it will be the last “hoorah” for the season for several of the swimmers and is somewhat unfair to the swimmers who are going to be there and relying on a team relay for 5 events. So, it is not necessarily for my sake that you would attend, but for the sake of the team and your swimmers’ friends (no guilt trip or anything .

Alright, so I look forward to no snow tomorrow and back to practice as usual for our Hamden North Haven Swim Team!

Happy Swimming!!

Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team’s New Forum

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Andy Scherer

I am proud to announce that we, the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team (the Typhoons) now have an open source forum for parents to leave comments, question, news, etc. They now have the ability to openly communicate with eachother via the internet and do not have to wait on e-mail to get a response as the forum is accessible from any computer or smart phone. You can visit the forum by clicking: Hamden North Haven YMCA Swimming Forum. I am currently, however, still working on the design so that you are able to easily navigate back to the home page. I will keep everyone up to date on how that re-design is going, but please enjoy the forum!