PAY Swim Team News- 8/18/2023

PAY Swim Team News - 8/18/2023 

Happy Summer!  We hope you are enjoying your last few weeks before school begins! We want to take this month’s newsletter to give shout outs to our swimmers who competed in the July Championship meets–amazing effort and swims!!  There is a lot of exciting news so please scroll down to the end.

 

COACH NOTES:

July Championship Meet Recaps:

 

Middle Atlantic LC Senior Champs - Meet Recap

16 PAY Swimmers competed at the Middle Atlantic Long Course Senior Championship Meet at the Keystone Aquatic Center in Carlisle, PA.

 

Patrick Baganski, Nick Darragh, Madelyn Deeney, Nathan Deeny, Gwen Devenney, Matthew Ferenz, Tyler Ferenz, Paul Florio, Jane Hummel, Meredith Hummel, Whitney Kane, Kyle Kruppa, Brynn Lewis, Maris Sadowski, Macey Speakman, and Andy Yu

 

Congratulations to all and special shout outs to the following swimmers:

 

New YMCA LC National Qualifying Swims: 

 

Nick Darragh - Boys 100 Free (56.33)

 

Kyle Kruppa - Boys 100 Free (56.21) and 200 Free (2:01.60)

 

Meredith Hummel - Girls 100 Back (1:08.34)

 

Madelyn Deeney - Girls 50 Free (27.76)

 

Maris Sadowski - Girls 200 Breast (2:50.45)

 

 

Finals/Point Scoring Swims

 

Madelyn Deeney - Girls 1500 Free (23rd; 19:13.15), Girls 50 Free (28th; 27.76)

 

Meredith Hummel - Girls 100 Back (19th; 1:08.34)

 

Kyle Kruppa - Boys 200 Free (20th; 2:01.61)

 

Brynn Lewis - Girls 1500 Free (16th; 18:35.86), Girls 50 Free (30th; 27.87)

 

Maris Sadowski - Girls 200 Breast (21st; 2:50.45)

 

Macey Speakman - Girls 200 Breast (26th; 2:52.49)

 

 

Middle Atlantic LC Silver Champs - Meet Recap

 

24 PAY Swimmers competed at the Middle Atlantic Long Course Silver Championship Meet at GCIT in Sewell, NJ.

 

Austin Adair, Carys Adair, Ella Bice, Tara Bice, Cecilia Bryant, Kira Haebler, Clayton Heinzmann, Stacey Jiang, Aarav Khandelwal, Natalie Kibalo, Campbell Knecht, Ellen Le, Max Miller, Shreya Modi, Lucille Obenski, Riya Patel, Sahil Patel, Grady Reiman, Logan Seiss, Howard Shui, Jacob Sutton, Derek Wan, Ryan Whitllock, and Erick Zinn

 

 

Finals/Points Scoring Swims

 

Carys Adair - 15-18 Girls 200 Back (15th; 2:43.81), 100 Back (12th;  1:15.98)

 

Ella Bice - 15-18 Girls 50 Free (12th; 29.90)

 

Kira Haebler - 11-12 Girls 50 Back (12th; 37.13), 100 Back (7th; 1:19.28)

 

Clayton Heinzmann - 13-14 Boys 200 Breast (8th; 2:54.45 Prelim Time), 100 Back (14th; 1:12.60), 200 IM (1st; 2:26.10), 100 Free (14th; 1:01.57), 200 Back (11th; 2:33.28), 200 Free (9th; 2:11.54)

 

Stacey Jiang - 11-12 Girls 200 Breast (10th; 3:23.35), 50 Free (2nd; 30.42 - NEW JUNIOR CHAMP TIME), 50 Breast (7th, 42,51 prelim time), 100 Breast (13th; 1:34.10 prelim time) 

 

Campbell Knecht - 10&Under Girls 100 Free (6th; 1:20.05), 200 Free (3rd; 2:50.39 - NEW JUNIOR CHAMP TIME)

 

Ellen Le - 11-12 Girls 200 IM (14th; 2:57.73)

 

Max Miller - 11-12 Boys 50 Fly (15th; 36.19), 200 Back (13th; 3:00.61)

 

Shreya Modi - 11-12 Girls 50 Fly (13th; 35.65 prelim swim)

 

Lucille Obenski - 15-18 Girls 200 Back (2nd; 2:34.21)

 

Sahil Patel - 11-12 Boys 50 Back (12th; 38.14 prelim swim), 100 Back (12th; 1:22.40), 100 Breast (3rd; 1:31.16), 200 Back (14th, 3:01.76)

 

Grady Reiman - 15-18 Boys 200 Breast (1st; 2:38.07 - NEW SENIOR CHAMP TIME)

 

Logan Seiss - 15-18 Boys 200 Back (8th; 2:28.80)

 

Howard Shui - 13-14 Boys 200 Fly (4th; 2:37.85)

 

Jacob Sutton - 13-14 Boys 50 Free (9th; 28.06 prelim swim)

 

Derek Wan - 13-14 Boys 100 Free (7th; 1:00.98) 

 

Ryan Whitlock - 10&Under Boys 50 Breast (12th; 51.51), 100 Fly (10th; 1:52.94)

 

Erick Zinn - 11-12 Boys 100 Fly (1st; 1:16.17 - NEW JUNIOR CHAMP TIME), 200 IM (12th; 2:53.48), 200 Free (9th; 2:29.99)

 

 

Middle Atlantic LC Junior Champs - Meet Recap

 

18 PAY Swimmers competed at the Middle Atlantic Long Course Junior Championship Meet at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

 

Cecilia Bryant, Collin Byrne, Nathan Deeney, Gwen Devenney, Clayton Heinzmann, Meredith Hummel, Vivien Hummel, Chase Hungarter, Walker Hungarter, Stacey Jiang, Whitney Kane, Campbell Knecht, Sahil Patel, Sam Vallino, Derek Wan, Ryan Whitlock, Andy Yu, and Erick Zinn

 

 

Finals/Point Scoring Swims

 

Collin Byrne - 11-12 Boys 50 Free (4th; 28.71), 100 Free (10th; 1:04.19)

 

Nathan Deeney - 13-14 Boys 200 Back (4th; 2:20.06), 50 Free (15th; 26.92 prelim swim), 100 Free (58.32 prelim swim), 100 Back (8th; 1:06.18 prelim swim), 400 Free (8th; 4:34.30) 

 

Gwen Devenney - 13-14 Girls 50 Free (15th; 29.01), 100 Free (22nd; 1:03.94)

 

Meredith Hummel - 13-14 Girls 100 Back (7th; 1:09.22)

 

Vivien Hummel - 11-12 Girls 50 Fly (11th; 32.30)

 

Chase Hungarter - 10&Under Boys 100 Free (10th; 1:14.79), 50 Breast (11th; 46.98), 200 IM (6th; 3:03.46), 100 Back (5th; 1:23.36), 50 Fly (16th; 41.27), 100 Breast (13th; 1:42.26), 200 Free (8th; 2:44.70), 50 Back (7th; 39.29), 400 Free (8th; 5:48.91)

 

Walker Hungarter - 13-14 Boys 100 Fly (9th; 1:03.97), 200 Fly (9th; 2:28.41)

 

Whitney Kane - 13-14 Girls 100 Free (14th; 1:02.99)

 

Campbell Knecht - 10&Under Girls 200 Free (15th; 2:48.08)

 

Sahil Patel - 11-12 Boys 200 Breast (14th; 3:15.56 prelim swim)

 

Sam Vallino - 13-14 Boys 100 Fly (12th; 1:05.31), 50 Free (8th; 26.16 prelim swim)

 

Ryan Whitlock - 10&Under 100 Free (9th; 1:14.23), 100 Back (8th; 1:27.41), 200 Free (4th; 2:42.11), 400 Free (4th; 5:37.87)

 

Andy Yu - 13-14 Boys 200 Back (5th; 2:22.15), 50 Free (22nd; 27.37), 100 Free (24th; 59.49), 100 Back (7th; 1:06.32 prelim swim), 200 IM (18th; 2:27.89)

 

Erick Zinn - 11-12 Boys 100 Fly (14th; 1:17.03), 200 Fly (8th; 2:51.57 prelim swim)

 

 

Record Breaking Relays - 13-14 Boys 400 Medley Relay (Andy Yu, Sam Vallino, Walker Hungarter, Nathan Deeney - 4:30.58) and 400 Free Relay (Sam Vallino, Derek Wan, Andy Yu, Nathan Deeney - 4:00.10) were both new team records by over 7 seconds each!

 

 

YMCA Long Course National Championship - Meet Recap

 

9 PAY Swimmers competed at the YMCA Long Course National Championship at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, NC

 

Nick Darragh, Madelyn Deeney, Meredith Hummel, Whitney Kane, Kyle Kruppa, Brynn Lewis, Grady Reiman, Maris Sadowski, and Macey Speakman

 

 

Finals or Point Scoring Swims

 

Madelyn Deeney - 24th place in the Women 50 Free (27.56 prelim swim, 27.53 swimoff win for the last spot in the C Final)

 

Brynn Lewis - 32nd place in the Women 100 Breast in the 15&Under D Final (1:18.79). 27th place in the Women 200 IM in the 15&Under D Finals (2:29.12)

 

Macey Speakman - 23rd place in the Women 100 Breast (1:17.17 prelim swim) 

 

Women 200 Free Relay (Meredith Hummel, Maris Sadowski, Madelyn Deeney, Brynn Lewis) - 14th place with a time of 1:51.12

 

 

New YMCA LC National Qualifying Swims: 

 

Nick Darragh - 50 Free (25.73)

Meredith Hummel - 50 Free (28.44)

 

Brynn Lewis - 100 Breast (1:18.78)

 

Grady Reiman - 200 Breast (2:34.99)

 

Macey Speakman - 200 Breast (2:51.07)

 

 

 

PA YMCA Short Course Yard Summer Champs 

 

 

107(!!) PAY Swimmers competed at the YMCA Short Course Yards Summer Champs at the Graham Aquatic Center in York, PA

 

 

ALL of these swimmers represented PAY beautifully both at this champs meet and throughout the summer season through both our long course and short course summer meets!

 

Audrey Abazi, Austin Adair, Carys Adair, Kealey Adair, Elizaveta Akimova, Patrick Baganski, Miles Beechner, Cody Bice, Ella Bice, Tara Bice, Eya Bierman, Abigail Burke, Anya Burke, Hunter Burns, Anderson Chan, Violet Chan, Nick Darragh, Nathan Deeney, Ella Dittmar, Laney Dittmar, Kellen Dooney, Tyler Ferenz, Iva Filipovski, Luka Filipovski, Teo Filipovski, Avery Gall, Connor Gall, Charlotte Gerber, Nathan Ghrayeb, Gabrielle Godman, Laila Gordon, Lilly Gordon, Abigail Hadfield, Kira Haebler, Ashton Heinzmann, Clayton Heinzmann, Jane Hummel Vivien Hummel, Chase Hungarter, Walker Hungater, Amelia Jenkins, Miraan Jhaveri, Stacey Jiang, Brooks Kachline, Dalton Kachline, Harrison Kachline, Max Kan, Adithi Kashyap, Advik Kashyap, Aarav Khandelwal, Raoule Khaye, Natalie Kibalo, Campbell Knecht, Kyle Kruppa, Michelle Lawrence, Ellen Le, Cearaigh McAllister, Seamus McAllister, Samira McAllister, Callie McAuley, Zoey McLeod, Sahasra Mettupalli, Sree Mettupalli, Annie Miller, Lola Miller, Max Miller, Shreya Modi, Suria Nalubandhu, Ben Nguyen, Caroline Nguyen, Victoria Nguyen, Lucille Obenski, Jayden Pan, Gracyn Parsons, Maren Parsons, Riya Patel, Sahil Patel, Juliana Polce, Beckett Pucke, Marshall Pucke, Suhani Rangaraj, Olivia Reimer, Michael Ren, Tessa Shaker, Lane Shearer, Mara Shearer, Evan Shi, Joel Smith, Sanjh Sood, Jacob Sutton, Molly Thiel, Jimmy Thiel, Teddy Thiel, Sam Vallino, Will Vaughen, Peter Verderame, Sam Verderame, Ben Welsh, Charlie Welsh, Ryan Whitlock, Bryce Williams, Austin Wimmer, Owen Wimmer, Liv Zhang, Erick Zinn

 

 

 

 

 

For detailed reports on:  improvements, point scorers, placements. etc for our 107 strong at summer champs, please refer to the meet results on SwimCloud  : PAY Team SwimCloud Page 

 

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OTHER NEWS:

Parent Swim Team Questions- if you are new and have questions about swim team, email Kate Baganski (kbaganski@verizon.net) and she or someone else will get back to you and/or meet you to go over your questions. ***Stay tuned for dates for New Parent Q&A Drop In Sessions in early September!!

 

NEW SCOREBOARD UPDATE:  Exciting News- we’ve been told the new scoreboard for the Myrin Pool will be arriving in October and hopefully installed the same month–just in time for our Annual Turkey Trot Invitational Meet- Fingers Crossed!!

KINETIC PHYSICAL THERAPY AT OUR YMCA for swimmers or family members:. Our branch and association partner, Kinetic Physical Therapy, serves the needs of a wide variety of YMCA members, right at our branch in Phoenixville!. Please visit their website and watch their “YMCA partnership video” at the bottom of their homepage at the following link: https://www.kineticptpa.com/  Kinetic also has additional local locations in Collegeville, Chester Springs, Exton, Downingtown, etc. 

 

FACEBOOK-Come follow “PAY Swimming” on Facebook to celebrate the achievements of all of our kids.  Even better, text or email your child’s photo and “brags” from our swim meets to swim mom Donna Hungarter to share on the PAY Swimming page at (484) 686-3156 or  dmhungarter@gmail.com  

TYR PORTAL - If you need a team swim suit apparel or equipment, please visit our TYR team portal.

Our team portal can be accessed following the below steps.  

Access via our Team Unify Website at Phoenixville YMCA swim team - Apparel (teamunify.com) or

1. Go to TEAMS.TYR.COM  

2. Click create an account

3. Use access code 16659

By shopping through the custom portal, you will receive 25% off anything you order including parkas, suits and equipment PLUS, your purchase helps to support the team as TYR provides benefits back to us, based upon our total sales. Please email our TYR rep Joe Eiden with any questions at jeiden@tyr.com.

BIRTHDAY ROUND-UP Happiest of Days to our teammates who have or had birthdays in August!  

Tara Bice turned 13 on August 4!

Margaret Wu turned 9 on August 4!!

Campbell Knecht turned 10 on August 8! 

Samira McAllister turned 14 on August 14!

Evan Shi turned 10 on August 14!

Maddox Gutowski turned 10 on August 16! 

Victoria Leary turned 11 on August 17!

Wesley Sadowski turned 12 on August 18!

Declan Watson turns 10 on August 19!

Max Miller turns 12 on August 20!

Samuel Schaffer turns 10 on August 22!

Eleanor Knecht turns 7 on August 23!

Howard Shui turns 15 on August 26!

Grady Reiman turns 16 on August 29!

Victor Chao turns 7 on August 30!

Praneet Malvankar turns 11 on August 30!

Samantha Smelzter turns 15 on August 30!

Have a Wonderful Week!  Enjoy the last few lazy days of summer!