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!

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!

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)!!