Yankee Cluster Championships & New England Regional Championship Updates

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Andy Scherer

With the Championship season approaching, it’s important that I get out as much information as soon as possible to all of you. That said, please feel free to ask questions via e-mail, phone, or before/after practices.

Yankee Cluster Championships

All swimmers participate in Yankee Clusters as this is the last regular season meet and is truly a lot of fun for the swimmers and the coaches. The coaching staff is currently brainstorming some theme ideas so that we can have a little more fun as well! Here are some more details:

February 25 – February 27 @ Kennedy High School in Waterbury
$25 flat entry fee per swimmer – must be paid on/by February 11th or the swimmer(s) will not be able to participate
Friday 25 @ 5:00pm – 11 and up distance events
Saturday 26 @ 7:30am – 8 and under swimmers (need at least 3 parent “workers”)
Saturday 26 @ 12:30pm – 9 and 10 swimmers (need at least 3 parent “workers”)
Sunday 27 @ 7:30am – 11 and 12 swimmers (need at least 3 parent “workers”)
Sunday 27 @ 12:30pm – 13 and over swimmers (need at least 2 parent “workers”)
Individual events will be selected by the coaching staff
Relays will be selected in terms of “A” and “B” relays as based off our New England Regional selection process (described below)

New England Regionals

Participants in the YMCA New England Regional Championships are either individual qualifiers (Qualifying Times) or swimmers on a relay team. Here are some more details for this meet:

March 25 – March 27 @ Harvard University (Boston, MA), Blodgett Pool
Please make accommodations at the Double Tree on Soldier’s Field Road, Cambridge, MA
$6.00 per event entry fee
Relay teams are narrowed down to top 6 swimmers by the end of this week (January 18). Four of those swimmers are then selected based on practice work ethic, overall meet performances throughout the season, and other “intangible” factors. Those four swimmers will be notified no later than the first week of February, and will be considered our “A” relay for both Yankee Clusters and New England’s.
Friday, March 25 @ 5:00pm – Swimmers 15 to 18
Saturday, March 26 @ 6:15am – Swimmers 11 and 12
Saturday, March 26 @ 3:00pm – Swimmers 8 and under
Sunday, March 27 @ 6:15am – Swimmers 9 and 10
Sunday, March 27 @ 4:00pm – Swimmers 13 and 14

As always, if you have any questions or need anything at all, please feel free to let me know!

Go Typhoons!

YMCA New England’s 2011 Updated

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Andy Scherer

As a quick update and note to swimmers and parents, the YMCA New England Regional Championship will be held (pending final approval) the weekend of March 25th through March 27th. I have posted the qualifying times for this meet on our swim meet schedule, but you can also find them here: 2011 YMCA New England Regional Qualifying Times.

For those of you who need more information on this meet, this meet either requires the swimmer to meet a qualifying time or participate on a relay team to attend. We plan on having relay teams for all age groups attend and will communicate those relay teams and individual qualifiers as we near closer to the end of our regular season.

Should anyone have questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to let me know.

Happy Swimming and Go Typhoons!

YMCA National Virtual Invitational Meet (10-23-2010)

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Andy Scherer

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.

Yankee Cluster Championships – Summer 2010

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Andy Scherer

Going into the next week, we will be dropping the hammer with the Hamden/North Haven Typhoon swimmers. Each individual swimmer will be focusing on race technique and overall meet performance as we near closer to Friday and Saturday.

For Friday evening, the arrival time for 13 and over swimmers at the Northern Middlesex YMCA is 4:45pm. Warm-ups will start at 5:00pm, and the meet will start as soon as possible following warm-ups and one-way starts.

For Saturday, the arrival time for the 12 and under swimmers at the Northern Middlesex YMCA is 6:45am. Warm-ups will start at 7:00am, and the meet will start (as long as all goes to plan).

So, in the coming week, practices will be a bit shortened for the Juniors and Seniors as we will be decreasing our total yardage by 100 yards per day until we reach our max taper at 1350 yards per hour. The intensity of practice will maintain, and hopefully we will see an ideal 4 – 6% drop in times for our sprint/stroke events, and around a 2 – 4% drop for the distance events.

As always, if you have any questions about the meet or practice times, etc, please contact me at any point!

Waterbury YMCA and Wheeler YMCA Swim Meet Results

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Andy Scherer

The swim meet results for both the Waterbury YMCA and the Wheeler YMCA meets have been posted to the Swim Meet Results section of our website. Please take a moment to visit that page and look through your swimmer’s accomplishments over the past couple of weekends! If you’d like to quickly get to these results you can click below:

Waterbury YMCA Results

Wheeler YMCA Results

I look forward to seeing everyone at our first home meet this weekend!!

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!!

This Weekend’s Meet: Wallingford Swim Team & Ansonia Swim Team

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Andy Scherer

As a quick update, our Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team (the Typhoons) will be swimming against the Wallingford YMCA Swim Team (the Dolphins) and Valley Ansonia Swim Team (the Sprinters). The arrival time for our YMCA Swim Meet is 10:15 am with warm-ups starting at 10:30 am at Sheehan High School. This should be a great meet for all to attend and will be a ton of fun for everyone!

If anyone has any questions regarding this meet please let me know, and I will do my best to get any other information or changes out to everyone ASAP. As always, 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!