Weekly Update

PCY INVITATIONAL AND CARMEL ENTRIES

If you would like to view what your child is swimming at either of these meets, just click on ATTEND EVENT under the meet and you can see what events they have been entered in. Questions should be directed to your individual age group coach.

CARMEL HOTEL BLOCK RELEASE DATE

Our hotel block for this meet will be released as of  Wed. Dec. 23rd. If you have not already made your reservation, please do so immediately as the hotel has informed us that this weekend is extremely busy. All hotel contact info. can be found on our website under HOTELS. You must be logged in to view it.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING

The deadline to register your swimmer for the TYR Marlin meet (Feb. 5-7th) is January 1st!! Please check with your individual age group coach if you have questions regarding this meet.

RELEASE DATE FOR YMCA LEAGUE CHAMPS APPROACHING

The release date for our hotel block for 2010 YMCA LEAGUE CHAMPS (March 12-14th at Miami University) is January  12th. If you have not already made your reservations, please do so. As always, our hotel information can be found on our website under HOTELS, but you must be logged in to view it.

LASER TAG OUTING

All swimmers in Red II, Red I, White II and White I have been invited to participate in our annual laser tag outing on Tuesday, Dec. 29th from 9-11:00pm at Scallywag Tag on Beechmont Avenue. The cost per swimmer is $12 which can be given to your age group coordinator.

WHITE II PIZZA PARTY

All White II swimmers are invited to join their group at Coach Keith’s home on Wednesday Dec. 30th for a pizza party. Cost is $3. This party is celebrating the Boys win over the Girls at the Larry Lyons Invitational. (Watch out boys, the girls say they have more “money in the bank” for Y Champs !! J

JANET NEMANN MEMORIAL EVENT

Turpin High School swim team is sponsoring the Janet Nemann Memorial Relay Swim on Saturday Jan. 23, 2010 from 2-4 pm at the Turpin pool to benefit the Neurosurgical Fund at UC's Neuroscience Institute.  The entire Turpin team will swim but wanted to open it up to other swimmers who might be interested in supporting this great event.  Swimmers will swim in 30 minute shifts and will include lap swimming, relay swims, and 'fun' races (like corkscrew swims).

If any ABLY swimmers would like to participate we would love to have them! They can contact Sally Easley at  equussal1@aol.com  or 474-5100 to express their interest.

Donations will be accepted before and during the event and are tax deductible.

HOLIDAYSCHEDULE

Our holiday schedule starts Wednesday! It is posted on our website under PROGRAMS/COMPETITIVE SWIMMING. Please note that the Campbell County Practice Group schedule has been revised from what was originally posted.

SWIM TEAM FEES DUE

All swim team fee were due in full by December 15th. Any families who still have outstanding balances have been e-mailed. You can always call the front desk to find out what your balance is. Please note that swim team fees are separate from swim-a-thon fees. Families with outstanding swim-a-thon balances (which were due on Dec. 1st), were also e-mailed. If all swim-a-thon fees were not paid by Dec. 15th, the balances will roll over to escrow and you must first pay these swim-a-thon fees before any money is applied to your escrow account. Richard Tomkins will send you an invoice as to what your new balance is. He will not be entering any swimmers affected by this, in any meets, for the rest of the season, until all of these fees are paid. If you have not paid your swim team fees, the deadline has been extended to Dec. 31st. If, at this time, the fees have not been paid in full, your swimmer will not be allowed to practice. Questions can be directed to our Head Coach, Jeremy Bannon regarding this. He can be reached at 474-1400 or jbannon@ablyswim.org or jbannon@cincinnatiymca.org.

PRE-COMP SESSION

Our next session of Pre-Comp starts on Jan. 4th and runs to March 13th. The cost is $200. Only "screened" swimmers can register for this practice group. Registration is done through the front desk.

WELCOME NEW SWIMMER

We would like to welcome Gabbie Prince to the Barracuda family. Gabbie is now in the Red I group. Please introduce yourself to her!

ADOPT-A-TROOP SOLDIERS

In case you are interested in keeping up on the soldiers who are team “adopted” for the holidays, please go to the following link to see what they have been doing in Afghanistan:

 http://abcnews.go.com/International/Afghanistan/strykers-patrol-massive-afghan-border/story?id=9356574&page=1