Congratulations to all of our age groupers who competed this past weekend at the Carmel Invitational. What a wonderful opportunity for our swimmers to be able to compete in such a fine facility. We had several swimmers make it back to finals as well as achieve LTB’s. You all should be proud of the hard work it took to get you to this spot. A special congrats to Audrey Mooney for being the champion in 50 and 100 breast! We also would like to recognize Mia Fatuzzo for breaking the team record in the 200 breast. Her time of 2:32.46 broke the old record set in 1987!
SOUTHWEST DISTRICT CLASSIC
Our high school swimmers competed this past weekend at the largest high school meet in the country!Over 3,000 swimmers competed at 7 different sites for prelims and the top 16 came back to finals at night. We had 2 Champions: Alex Miller (500 free & 1650 freestyle) and Molly Hazelbaker (1650 freestyle). Congrats to the following swimmers who finished in the top 16 in one or more of their individual events: Julia Comodeca, Kaitlyn Ferrara, Molly Hazelbaker, Katie Nemann, Erin Ridge, Megan Daniher, Kaitlyn Click, Amanda Hardewig, Gabbie Pettinichi, Bridget Kelley, Alex Lewis, Matt Montague, Matt Luehrmann, Brogan Dulle, Alex Miller, Harry Hamiter, Sean Monahan, Sean Drake, John Kelley, Patrick Kimutis, Kienan Adams and Mark Johnson.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR BASH TEDDY BEAR INVITATIONAL
The deadline to register your swimmer for this meet was January 17th. This meet is held at Blue Ash YMCA on February 5th-7th2010. Please check with your individual age group coach if you should register your swimmer for this meet.
YMCA NATIONALS PARENT MEETING
Keith Ferrara will be holding a meeting for parents of any current or potential Y National swimmers. You should have received an e-mail inviting you to attend this meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 20th at 6:00pm downstairs at the Y.
PRE-COMP MEETS
Our pre-comp team will be attending a meet at Countryside YMCA on January 30th. Please see the home page of our website for more details. Our team will be hosting a meet on February 13th. Look for more information on this soon.
MARLIN TIME TRIAL MEET
This meet is held at St.XavierHigh School on Tuesday, March 2nd. Please speak with your child’s age group coach if you have questions as to whether your child can attend this meet since there are certain time standards associated with it. The deadline to register your swimmer for this meet is February 12th.
OFFICIALS INFORMATION
There are a number of Y and USA officiating opportunities coming up. January 8-10, 2010 PCY is hosting a meet at MiamiUniversity. You must be a Y official to work this meet. (Shadows welcome)
February 5-7, 2010 Cincinnati Marlins is hosting a meet at Keating. You must be a USA official to work this meet. Contact officials chairagrender@cinci.rr.com. (Apprentices welcome).
PLEASE NOTE ON YOUR CALENDARS THE SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AT ME LYONS ON MARCH 5 THRU 7. SEVERAL CLUBS WILL ATTEND AND SHOULD BRING OFFICIALS, BUT HAVING A STRONG SHOWING FROM ABLY OFFICIALS AND ALUMNI WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
JANET NEMANN MEMORIAL EVENT
TurpinHigh 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. Please refer to the home page of the website for the flyer concerning this event.
PEP RALLY
Our annual pep rally will be held on Sunday, February 28th. The time will be posted soon. Please mark your calendar for this date. EVERYONE (yes, you too parents) are encouraged to come and listen to our senior reps speak, do cheers and get fired up for Y CHAMPS!
LOST AND FOUND BIN
One of our parents has been gracious enough to offer to bring in a tub for any items left in the dome by our swimmers. Hopefully our swimmers will pick up any items left behind after practices and place them in this bin. This is not the job of our coaches! We encourage our athletes to hang up their mesh bags on the hooks provided and not leave them laying on the pool deck. Our goal is to keep the dome as clean and neat as possible.
HAMPTON INN RENAMED
Per Coach Keith, the Hampton Inn in Oxford (513-524-0114) is now called the Miami Valley Inn. In February, it will be called the Comfort Inn. Please make note of this change if you intend on making any future reservations with them.
THANKS
Thank you to Whitney Campbell for her crafty and creative work on the back team bulletin board. We already have her lined up to use her creative ideas on the front hall lobby trophy case.
