PAY Swim Team New 9-20-2023
PAY Swim Team News - 9/20/2023
Hope you all are having an amazing week! There is a lot of exciting news so please scroll down to the end.
SWIM PRACTICE SCHEDULE:
Attached is a link to our schedule for the fall season:
2023-2024-pay-practice-schedule---fall---9-2-23-update-1-_098373.pdf (gomotionapp.com).
WEEK 3 SPECIFIC UPDATES:
NO THURS AM PRACTICE THIS WEEK. *** DRYLAND HAS BEGUN!
Novice 1 practices this Friday from 6:15-7:15pm.
Novice 2 practices this Saturday from 2:30-3:15pm.
Saturday’s 10:30am practice this week will be Nat/PreNat/Senior + Senior Prep 1 Swimmers 8TH Grade and Older ONLY
All schedules, group descriptions, equipment needed, etc. are found under the PAY 23-24 tab on our website: Phoenixville YMCA swim team Home (gomotionapp.com)
COACH NOTES:
Practices
I am thrilled with the turnout, effort, and energy that all of our groups continue to have in week 3 of our season! Nat/Senior level swimmers have now added in a morning workout each week, and many of our training groups have hit the ground running (figuratively and literally!) with dryland starting this week as well.
While the early season is still focused on building good fundamentals and the building blocks for what we want to accomplish later in the winter, the kids are still being pushed and getting better on a daily basis in all groups.
USA Swimming
For our USA registered swimmers, I can still add last minute entries to our meet at York. However, you have to let me know by 9:00pm tonight (9/20/2023). I will be submitting our final entries to York first thing in the morning on Thursday.
Team Dual Meets
For our entire team at large, you will notice I added a few meets to our calendar. We will be hosting our friend to the north, the Upper Perkiomen YMCA, for a home dual meet on Saturday November 4. We now have the lucky number four dual meets on our winter season calendar that I was hoping for. ALL TEAM MEMBERS should be showing out for our team dual meets.
October Invitational Meet @ West Chester Y - the 1st Annual Monster Mash
For our invitational meet at West Chester in October, we are pretty much at a point where I have to close entries to any swimmers that are not already on our tentative entry list. If you aren’t already signed up, I can see what I can do, but I make no guarantees of added entries at this point. For those that are on our tentative entries, entries are NOT final yet. I can and likely will pare down entries for some swimmers a bit, in order to lighten event loads and help our hosts at West Chester with meet timelines for various sessions of the weekend. I can tell you now that we have 165(!!) swimmers across all age groups and levels entered. This is the largest turnout we have had for an invitational meet since I have been involved with our team here at PAY. It is a testament to the excitement and investment that we are building together from top to bottom as a team.
November Invitational Meet - The York Y’s Tournament of Champions
We have an invitational meet at the York YMCA in the month of November known as the Tournament of Champions. Like our October meet at West Chester, it is open to ALL TEAM MEMBERS as a Closed YMCA Invitational. The meet also has USA approval, meaning that those swimmers that are USA registered will have their times submitted to the USA SWIM database for future qualifying meets and USA swimming milestone recognitions. We annually send a large contingent to this meet, and this is a point in the season where kids are hitting a groove and taking things to a new level in their best events. It sets the tone for our bigger Prelim/Final meets that we have in the months of December and January.
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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.
TURKEY TROT TSHIRT DESIGN CONTEST-. Let your imagination soar as share your best artwork for our 2023 Turkey Trot T-shirts! Your design will be entered into our contest and the winning design will be reproduced on all of our custom Turkey Trot shirts for the PAY 2023 Turkey Trot! GUIDELINES: Please stick to thick, reproducible lines in your drawing and, if applicable, use clear, easy-to-read text (see the examples in prior News/Emails). Fine lines and thin fonts do not print as well and we want to make sure your design shines through on the final product! Email your submission to: PAYtshirtcontest@gmailcom or hand your paper submission to your coach at practice! Artwork Submissions must be received by Sunday 9/24 in order to be considered for the contest . Winner will receive: Your design and name on all Turkey Trot shirts sold before and during the meet; A Free Turkey Trot Shirt; A Pair of TYR Goggles and…Bragging Rights!
THIS THURSDAY- TEAM TYR BATHING SUITS: Thursday, September 21st from 5-7pm JUNIOR 1 and JUNIOR 2 families- please stop by the tables PRIOR to your dryland session. Joe Eiden, our TYR Rep, will be at the Y for a second try on session. He will have all team suits available for try on plus TYR gear for sale (goggles, fins, paddles, mesh bags, practice suits, etc etc). Please note, custom team suits are not a mandatory purchase but ANY purchase made via our TYR team portal, helps support our team & gets you a discount, so please consider using TYR and be sure to log in through our TYR team portal before you do your shopping. Any questions about suits or apparel, please email our volunteer Apparel Moms: Kelly Miller kelly211miller@gmail.com or Claudia Zinn at claudiavian7@yahoo.com
TYR PORTAL - If you need a team swim suit apparel or equipment, please visit our TYR team portal.
As a reminder here are the steps to log into the portal and order for the season. The portal is also linked on our team website: https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/mapay/page/documents/apparel
25% off all TYR items (training suits, goggles, equipment, tech suits, gym apparel)
10% off made to order Custom Logo Items (team suit, parkas, bags, hoodies, t-shirts, and more)
1. Go to TEAMS.TYR.COM
2. Click Create an Account.
3. Use Access Code 16659
4. Email jeiden@TYR.com with any questions or portal issues.
USED EQUIPMENT or OUTGROWN APPAREL and SUITS: If your family has used equipment or outgrown bathing suits or apparel to donate to our PAY team, please let Kelly Miller or Claudia Zinn or Kate B know because we will be having a Previously Used Sale soon.
OFFICIALS (YMCA or USA trained): New this year, our winter league is asking for our officials to complete this simple form for the league to have a list of all certified officials to improve communications prior to meets and to help with requests if teams are in a pinch prior to a meet. If you are already a certified YMCA or USA official, please complete this PennDel League google form: Penn Del Officials Registration Form (google.com)
Also, please remember that if you are a certified Referee, AO, or Meet Manager you need to sign up for an annual PennDel league clinic. The current available list of clinics/classes are listed on PennDel’s site HERE. ***USA Officials- you will need to complete your annual online Safe Sport training.
Are you a parent interested in becoming a NEW OFFICIAL? Please email Kate Baganski, if interested, so we can coordinate a list and a date(s) for a Zoom training class. NEW INFO- There is a YMCA Level 1 Stroke and Turn Zoom Class on Monday, Sept 25 6pm-9pm. Please reply if interested!! Do you want to learn how to be a Stroke and Turn Official or, if you are already one, would you like to learn how to be a Starter? Or are you more a numbers person and would like to learn how to be a Scorer, Administrative Official or ScoreBoard operator? If so, please see the updated list of training options on PennDel Leagues website HERE ***Certifications usually involve just one 3-3.25 hour Zoom with an open book exam and then shadowing at our meets. Our Swim Team will cover the cost of the class.
Scoreboard Operators (Daktronics operator at our scoring table) can be trained in 15 minutes- we always need volunteers for this job- a 2 person job to keep it interesting! Please reply if interested!
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 ***New this season- We also have a private “PAY Swim Parents” Facebook page that will be a parent-share page for quick questions, etc. Search for PAY Swim Parents then you’ll be instructed to type in your child’s swim practice group and someone will approve your request if your swimmer is on our PAY team this year. This private site will be monitored for content and is not meant for photos. We will still have our public PAY Swimming FB page, noted above, for sharing photos through parent Donna Hungarter.
NOTES FROM OUTSIDE THE POOL - PAY swimmer Leo Cuevas Riego de Dios is riding in the City to Shore MS 150 ride on Sep 30-Oct 1. He’s been training hard for this worthy cause. Wish him well if you see him! If you want to write him a note or to donate to the National MS Society, see the following link: National MS Society - Fundraiser Search
BIRTHDAY ROUND-UP Happiest of Days to our teammates who have or had birthdays in September!
Henry McDannell turned 15 on September 4th!
Lexi Elsner turned 18 on September 6th!
Laila Gordon turned 13 on September 7th!
Ryan Tighe turned 14 on September 8th!
Sanjh Sood turned 9 on September 10th!
Hannah Wallace turned 10 on September 12th!
Jaarun Jairaith turned 8 on September 13th!
Sam Vallino turned 15 on September 13th!
Peter Verderame turned 10 on September 14th!
Audrey Abazi turned 8 on September 18th!
Katelyn Burks turned 10 on September 18th!
Grace Hutto turned 17 on September 20th!
Diya Narang turns 9 on September 25!
Caroline McMullan turns 17 on September 27th!
Collin Byrne turns 13 on September 28th!
Ben Nguyen turns 12 on September 28th!
***Please remember: if your USA swimmer turns 18 years old during this swim year, they will need to complete USA Swimming’s Athlete Protection Training after their birthday and prior to competing in any subsequent USA meets. See Coach Dave for details.
Have a Wonderful Week!
“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” -Wayne D. Dyer
