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Kate Baganski

PAY Swim Team News – August 7, 2024 Welcome August and the final lazy days of summer! Please scroll down to read a recap of our July Champs meets and monthly news! COACH NOTES: Our summer season was filled with so much fun, excitement, team building and fast swimming! It went by SO fast! I am so excited, and so proud of our ENTIRE team! It was so nice to see everyone who came out for our end of summer team picnic at Baker Park! Our end of summer Championship...

Dave Rue

2024-2025 PAY Swim Team Open Tryouts & Evaluations Evaluations will be performed on the following dates and times; on a first come, first served basis: Wednesday August 7th, 5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Myrin Pool Monday August 12th,5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Heritage Pool Wednesday August 14th, 5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Heritage Pool Wednesday August 21st, 5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Myrin Pool You may choose a day that works best for your schedule. You may arrive during the 5:30-7:30pm window. We will have multiple coaches on deck, and we will perform evaluations...

Dave Rue

PAY Swim Team Families! Please join us in congratulating Kate Deeney as she is joining our team full time. We are so excited for Kate and the opportunities that this will bring to our swim team. Kate is so excited to be joining the Phoenixville YMCA as a full-time employee. She has been a part time YMCA employee since 2011. During that time, she has been part of the Spring Valley Aquatics Program as a swim lesson instructor and the Phoenixville Aquatics Program as a swim lesson instructor and a...

Kate Baganski

PAY Swim Team News - July 11, 2024 We are more than halfway done with our short summer season and we are anticipating some amazing meets ahead over these next 3-4 weeks! And the OLYMPICS at the end of this month!! There is a lot of news and updated info so please scroll down to the end. PRACTICE SCHEDULES: Please refer to the following link for our Summer Practice Schedule(unless weekly edits are communicated via email): 2024 PAY Practice Master Schedule for the Summer - Google Sheets (gomotionapp.com) COACH NOTES:...

Kate Baganski

PAY Swim Team News - June 19, 2024 SCHOOL’s OUT FOR THE SUMMER! Happy Summer!! Hope everyone is excited with the OLYMPIC TRIALS!! There is a lot of exciting news and updated info so please scroll down to the end. PRACTICE SCHEDULES: Please refer to the following link for our Summer Practice Schedule(unless weekly edits are communicated via email): 2024 PAY Practice Master Schedule for the Summer - Google Sheets (gomotionapp.com) COACH NOTES: US Olympic Trials News A wonderful piece of news to share! Anya Mostek, a part of both...

Dave Rue

PAY Families, A wonderful piece of news to share! Anya Mostek, a part of both the Phoenixville YMCA and Baldwin School's Class of 2022, competed in the Women's 100 Back Preliminary Heats at the 2024 US Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis! Anya just finished her Sophomore year at Harvard University. Be sure to catch her highlight, as well as all highlights from this entire week streaming/broadcasting on Peacock (AM Prelims) and NBC (PM Semi-Finals & Finals). USA Swimming Livestream Link: https://streaming.usaswimming.org/ GO PAY! Coach Dave

Kate Baganski

PAY Swim Team News - May 19, 2024 There is a lot of exciting news and updated info so please scroll down to the end. PRACTICE SCHEDULES: Please refer to the following link for our SPRING practice schedule: https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/mapay/page/documents/monthly-practice-schedules ^^WE WILL CONTINUE TO USE THIS SCHEDULE ABOVE ON MOST DAYS THROUGH JUNE 9 but see changes below for May. 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) PRACTICE UPDATES FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 20th-27th:...

Kate Baganski

PAY Swim Team News - April 29, 2024 There is a lot of exciting news and updated info so please scroll down to the end. PRACTICE SCHEDULES: Please refer to the following link for our SPRING practice schedule: https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/mapay/page/documents/monthly-practice-schedules Practice Notes: Dryland will run as normally scheduled this week, barring coach availability. Updates will be sent out if any dryland needs canceling. No Morning Practices this week. These will start up later in May. We plan to run practices as normal this weekend for those that are not competing at...

Kate Baganski

PAY Swim Team News - April 16, 2024 There is a lot of exciting news and updated info so please scroll down to the end. PRACTICE SCHEDULES: Please refer to the following link for our SPRING practice schedule: https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/mapay/page/documents/monthly-practice-schedules Note: No Morning Practices or Drylands this week. 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: Currently Posted Long Course Meets in May/June: 5/3-5/5/2024 GPAC LC Derby @ GCIT in Sewell, NJ- signup deadline...

Dave Rue

Please join me in congratulating all 10 individual qualifiers that PAY had this 2023-2024 Winter Short Course Season! Patrick Baganski Gabe Carroll Nick Darragh Madelyn Deeney Laney Dittmar Kyle Kruppa Brynn Lewis Kaitlyn McGuire Macey Speakman Sam Vallino Last week, this set of swimmers traveled down to the YMCA Short Course National Championships, held in Greensboro, NC. Highlights from the meet week are below: Relays This was a group of kids that swam their hearts out for each other on their set of relays. Every single relay entry moved up...