We have a two meets approaching this weekend (Feb. 5th-7th), which you might have registered your swimmer to compete in: Teddy Bear Invitational (At Blue Ash YMCA: 5000 YMCA Drive Cinti, OH 45242) or the TYR Invitational (At St. Xavier High School: 600 West North Bend Rd. Cinti, OH 45224). You can check to see what your child is swimming by simply logging in, clicking on the ATTEND EVENT box under the event, then the next page will show your child’s name and what events he or she has been entered in. Warmup info. * psych sheet info. will be posted on the home page of our website when they become available. TEDDY BEAR INVITATIONAL info: Maui Wowi will be selling coffee and smoothies all weekend; Sat and Sun mornings will start earlier than originally planned (8:45am). Sat. afternoon session will now start at 12:10pm. All other sessions will start as advertised in the meet info. (Fri. night:6:30pm and Sun. afternoon: Noon). Deck entries will be accepted only if there are open lanes. Officials are needed. If interested, please contact: Rob Schramm rschramm1@fuse.net.
OHIO REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS DEADLINE
The deadline to register your swimmer for this meet was January 31st. Please speak with your individual age group coach if you have questions as to whether your child should have been entered in this meet. This meet runs THURSDAY-SUNDAY Feb. 18th-21st. Please plan accordingly.
HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE MEETS APPROACHING
Some of our high school swimmers will be competing in: GGCL or GCL Division I meets to be held on Wednesday, Feb. 3rd. at St. Xavier or the FAVC (Fort Ancient Valley Conference) meet held at MiamiUniversity on Saturday, Feb. 6th. Good luck to all of you! You can go to www.swimmeet.com to view the results of these meets.
RESULTS
The following swimmers placed in the TOP 16 at their high school conference meet: CINCINNATI HILLS LEAGUE CHAMPS: Rebecca Adams: 50 free: 4th and 100 free: 2nd. GGCL and GCL DIVISION II CHAMPS: Kevin McCarthy: CHAMPION in both the 100 breast and 200 IM: Matt Luehrmann: CHAMPION in both the 500 free & 100 fly. Great job!
PRE-COMP MEET
Wonderful job by our Pre-Comp swimmers at the Countryside meet this past weekend. They had some awesome swims! Thank you to our coaches: Becky Monahan, Erin Gartner, and Erik Kemp for the good job you are doing developing these young athletes.Our pre-comp team will be hosting a meet at our YMCA on Feb. 13th. Please see the home page of our website for more details as they become available.
WELCOME NEW PRE-COMP COACH
We would like to welcome Rachel Blain to our Pre-Comp coaching staff. Rachel has been a Barracuda since she was an 8 & under and just recently "retired" her swim suit. Welcome back Rachel!
MEET WORKER SIGN UPS
K-T Overbey, our meet worker coordinator, will be posting the JOB SIGNUP link soon for the Y Sectional meet (March 5th-7th at our YMCA) and the Y League Championship Meet (AA’s) at MiamiUniversity March 12th-14th. She will send a mass team e-mail regarding this, so please be diligent about checking your e-mail!
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
ABLY officials, alumni and friends: We have some upcoming opportunities to wear our whites (and sometimes our blues).
Blue Ash Y has asked for assistance with its Teddy Bear meet on 2/5, 6 and 7. The Marlins have a large meet at Keating the same weekend. This a prelim- finals meet so lots of sessions/opportunities. This is open to anyone with USA certification. Please contact Andy Grender at Marlins if you can help him. agrender@cinci.rr.com.
And keep in mind the next meet we host – the sectional championship on March 5, 6 and 7 as well as the Champs meet to be held March 12-14th up at MiamiUniversity. We need to supply officials for both of these meets. Please contact Jon Saxton at jps@rendigs.com if you can help.
BARRACUDA TROPHY CASE
Please make sure to stop by and check out the “updated” Barracuda trophy case in the front hall of the lobby near the indoor pool. Whitney Campbell and I spent a few hours cleaning it and adding some new items.
JANET NEMANN MEMORIAL EVENT
Paul McDonald (www.avantrisphotography.com) took pictures during the event. Please go to his website and click on ABLY to view/purchase them.
SPRING Y NATIONALS ROOM RESERVATIONS - REMINDER
Those families who are attending Y Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale and need a room in our hotel block, need to contact Cathi Sander (474-1400) with their credit card info or drop off their check (payable to: M.E. Lyons YMCA). ($199 for a cityview/$219 for a waterview). Please remember to include both your hotel deposit reservation form and the supervision form.
YAA HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Did you remember to make your hotel reservations for YAA Champs at MiamiUniversity March 12th-14th? Please see the HOTEL section of our website for contact info. You must be logged in to view it. Please note the block has already been released but they may still have rooms. Call NOW!
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! Please remember to snap some pictures of your child’s group in the next 2 months. You will be able to e-mail them to Paul McDonald so we can try and include them on our annual slide show at the swim team Banquet.
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. As of February, it will be called the Comfort Inn. Please make note of this change if you intend on making any future reservations with them.
