Somerset Valley YMCA Swim Team

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What's New...
Date	Posting
3/10	Posted Michelle Deasey Mini Meet Results
3/10	Posted NJ Junior Olympic Entries on parent page
3/10	Updated USA 11/12 Silver/Bronze Championship Entries on parent page
3/9	Updated Top Times on parent page
3/9	Posted USA 11/12 Silver/Bronze Championship Entries on the parent page
3/9	Posted 13 & Over USA Silver/Bronze Championship Results on the parent page
3/9	Posted revised 12 & Under Y State Championship Results on parent page
3/3	Posted new SVY long course policy and registration packet

News
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2010 SVY Team Banquet Announcement

FINA 2010 Approved List of Swimsuits

Available Room Blocks

13 & Over Y States

Homewood Suites ($129)
1 Queen w/ pullout + small kitchen
1-717-381-4400

Willow Valley Resort ($99)
Dbl queen w/ sm refrig
1-800-444-1714

Country Inn & Suites
Details to follow
1-717-665-5440

(posted 01/10/10)

2010 SVY Hosted Summer Meets

YMCA Long Course Cup Championships

YMCA Meet

June 11th, 12th, 13th
Princeton

July Independence Meet

USS Swimming Meet

July 9th, 10th & 11th
GCIT

2009/2010 SVY Hosted Winter Meets

New Year's Splash

USS Swimming Meet

January 9th & 10th
Ages 9 & Older
RVCC

New Year's Splash
Mini Meet

YMCA Meet

January 10th
Ages 8 & Under
RVCC

Miles of Miles

YMCA Meet

January 31st

HEAT SHEETS POSTED 1/29!

Bridgewater YMCA

2009 Fall In The Pool

YMCA Meet

Session 1 Results
Session 2 Results
Session 3 Results
Session 4 Results

October 10th & 11th
RVCC

2009/2010 Team Captains

Captains
Christina Santamauro
Adam Goldberg
Nick Warner

Junior Captains
Silke Herold
Dana Rzewnicki
Mara Valenzuela
Brian Barr

SVY
Class of 2009

Need Information

For information on the
SVY Swim Team
contact:
Matt Donovan
908-526-0688 ext 12
or coachmatt76@yahoo.com

601 Garretson Road
Bridgewater, NJ 08807

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PLEASE NOTE: If using a GPS device to locate the Hillsborough Y use the intersection of South Branch Road and East Mountain Road.
Using the street address will not work and will take you to somewhere other than the Y.

For all those swimming this weekend, don't forget to move your clocks ahead 1 hour (Spring Forward!!) Saturday night as it is the beginning of daylight savings time

Picture of the Week

! Relay Racing Dominance !

SVY 11/12 boys relay Y state championship team.
Medley and Free Relay winners at the 12 & under Y State Championships. Great job guys!!

If anyone has any pictures from SVY events for the Picture of the Week email it (only one photo please) to me with a description of what is in the picture and we'll try to get them on the web

Picture courtesy of Allen Zdroik
(posted 3.10.10)

13 & Over YMCA State Championship Information

Session Information

**Please Note** - There have been several changes made to session times and movement of events between sessions. The 13/14 Boys and Girls 100 Fly Prelims has been moved from session 3 to the sunrise session (sessions 1 & 2) on Friday, the 15/18 Boys and Girls 50 Free Prelims has been moved from session 9 to the sunrise session
(sessions 7 & 8) on Saturday, and the 13/14 Boys and Girls 50 Free Prelims has been moved from session 13 to the sunrise session (sessions 11 & 12) on Sunday. It is the responsibility of the 1000 and 1650 Free swimmers to warm up in the previous session for their race session (1000 free warm up in session 3 and 1650 free warm up in session 13.

Friday, March 12, 2010
Session	Group	Warm-up	Start
1 & 2	13 - 14 Boys & Girls 100 Fly Prelims 15 - 18 400 IM Prelims	7:00 am	7:40 am
3	Preliminaries	8:45 am	10:00 am
4 & 5	Distance Finals - 1000 Free	Swimmer's responsibility to warm up during session 3 in open lanes	1:15 pm
6	Relays & Finals	5:30 pm	6:15 pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010
7 & 8	15 - 18 Boys & Girls 50 Free Prelims 15 - 18 500 FreePrelims 13 - 14 400 IM Prelims	7:00 am	7:50 am
9	Preliminaries	9:15 am	10:30 am
10	Relays & Finals	5:00 pm	5:45 pm
Sunday, March 14, 2010
11 & 12	13 - 14 Boys & Girls 50 Free Prelims 13 - 14 500 Free Prelims	7:00 am	7:40 am
13	Preliminaries	8:45 am	10:00 am
14 & 15	Distance Finals - 1650 Free	Swimmer's responsibility to warm up during session 13 in open lanes	1:15 pm
16	Finals	5:00 pm	5:45 pm

(posted 03.11.10)

11/12 Silver/Bronze Championship Information

Session Information

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Session	Group	Warm-up	Start
1	11 - 12 Boys	7:00am	8:15 am
2	11 - 12 Boys 400 IMs	end of session 1	11:15 am
3	11 - 12 Girls	12:00 pm	1:15 pm
4	11 - 12 Girls 400 IMs	end of session 3	6:00 pm
Sunday, March 14, 2010
5	11 -12 Boys	7:00 am	8:15 am
6	11 - 12 Boys 500 Free	end of session 5	11:15 am
7	11 - 12 Girls	12:00 m	1:15 pm
8	11 - 12 Girls 500 Free	end of session 7	6:00 pm

Timing Assignments

Saturday AM - Session 1 11 -12 Boys			Sunday Afternoon - Session 7 11 - 12 Girls
Wong - Head Timer			Stamler - Head Timer
Lane	First Half of Session	Second Half of Session	Lane	First Half of Session	Second Half of Session
6	Dong	Fry	8	Guo	Simon

(posted 03.11.10)

SVY Spring Stroke Clinics

See the attached flyer (click here) for several spring stroke clinics starting on March 29th. These clinics are designed to work on competitive strokes and skills and to help swimmers stay in shape between seasons. They are also designed to prepare swimmers for competition on summer clubs. There is also a clinic available for grades 3 - 5 which will focus on skills and techniques (recommended for year round swimmers).

(posted 02.15.10)

Summer Swim Team Tryouts

Summer swim team tryouts will be held for both long course and summer short course on Sunday April 18th from 4:45 pm until 8:15 pm. See the attached flyer (click here) for specific tryout times for each age group and other information. All are welcome between the ages of 7 through 18.

(posted 02.15.10)

MINDSPORT Swim Clinic

MINDSPORT is offering a competitive swim clinic designed to increase aerobic and strength-based conditioning while improving stroke efficiency. See flyer HERE for all the details.

Session 1	Grades 9 - 12	M-W-F (3:30 - 5:30)
Each session includes one hour of dryland and one hour of swimming work

Session 2	Grades 6 - 8	M-W-F (5:30 - 7:15)
Each session includes 45 minutes of dryland and one hour of swimming work

The clinic will begin on March 22nd and end Apri 16th. The cost is $200 per YMCA swimmer ($230 for non-members) and each session wil be limited to 30 swimmers. Each swimmer must have YMCA state cuts to participate. To enroll in the clinic, email Joe Weber at jweber@mindsportonline.com prior to March 7, 2010.

(posted 01.12.10)

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