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YFD swimmers walked away with numerous individual titles and high point trophies along with many personal best swims at the big apple classic meet. Special Congratulations to: Jessica Lipton (15): 1st Place in the 15-18 Girls high point trophy contest with four gold medals Emily Weiss (10): 3rd Place in the 9-10 Girls high point trophy contest with four silver medals Mariana Suarez (14): 4th Place in the 13-14 Girls high point trophy contest with one gold and two silver medals. You all continue to impress us with your commitment...
Dear Flying Dolphins and Parents, Please find the November Calendar for our Saturday & Sunday practice schedule below. Date Flippers & Bronze Silver & Gold Junior Elite National Saturday 17 No Practice 8&Under Meet No Practice Big Apple Meet No Practice Big Apple Meet No Practice Big Apple Meet Sunday 18 OFF OFF No Practice Big Apple Meet OFF Saturday 24 No Practice Thanksgiving Weekend No Practice Thanksgiving Weekend 6:00 am – 8:00 am 6:00 am – 8:00 am Sunday 25 OFF OFF 6:00 am – 8:00 am OFF
Three YFD Swimmers, Molly Brickman, Sophie Siegel and Sophie Halper made a big impact on the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Minnesota. The meet featured USA Olympians and several international teams; including Ryan Lochte, Missy Frankly, Chloe Sutton, David Plummer, Dagny Knuston to name a few. In one of the fastest meets in the 46 year tradition of the invitational, the YFD swimmers achieved several lifetime and season best performances and set two team records. Molly Brickman and Sophie Siegel got things started by qualifying for finals in the 100...
Three YFD swimmers are entered in the Minneapolis Grand Prix meet this weekend. The meet begins on Friday and runs through Sunday evening. Many Olympians, National Team members and rising stars will be competing in the meet this year. The meet is a great opportunity for our swimmers to race against the nation's best swimmers. Click on the link below to see our girls featured on the 92nd Street Y Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=479285825444935&set=a.260492580657595.63095.111521475554707&type=1 Click HERE to read USA Swimming’s meet preview. You can watch all prelims and finals races live on...
Our 92nd Street Y Flying Dolphins swimmers have been training very well and the size of many of the big drops in time, this past weekend at the LIE Octoberfest meet, are a testament to their hard work and commitment to excellence. YFD swimmers rocked up an impressive147 personal best swims. Along the way, they smashed 17 team records and also achieved many championships qualifying times. Click HERE to find meet results. New Team Records: Emily Weiss: Girls 9-10 age group 100 Free 1:04.12 200 Free 2:20.94 500 Free 6:24.50...
Dear Flying Dolphins and Parents, Please find the October Calendar for our Saturday practice schedule below. October Date Flippers & Bronze Gold & Silver JuniorElite National Oct 6 2:00 – 3:00pm 1:00 – 2:00pm 6:00 – 8:00am 6:00 – 8:00am Oct 13 2:00 – 3:00pm 1:00 – 2:00pm 6:00 – 8:00am 6:00 – 8:00am Oct 20 *1:00 – 2:00pm No Practice LIE Meet No Practice LIE Meet No Practice LIE Meet Oct 27 No Practice 8&under Middies Meet 1:00 – 2:00pm 6:00 – 8:00am 6:00 – 8:00am *Please note the...
Dear Flying Dolphins and Parents, Please find the September Calendar for our Saturday practice schedule below. September Date Flippers & Bronze Gold & Silver Junior Elite National September 15 2:00 – 3:00pm * 3:00 -4:00pm 6:00 – 8:00am 6:00 – 8:00am September 22 2:00 – 3:00pm 1:00 – 2:00pm 6:00 – 8:00am 6:00 – 8:00am September 29 2:00 - 3:00pm 1:00 - 2:00pm 6:00 – 8:00am 6:00 – 8:00am
Three swimmers from the 92nd Street Y Flying Dolphins qualified to represent Metropolitan Swimming (Metro) at the All-Star Eastern Zone Long Course Swimming Championships last weekend. Leading the way Emily Weiss (10) the busiest Flying Dolphins in the meet who qualified to represent Metro in a total of 7 events; 50 breast, 100 breast, 50 back, 100 back, 50 fly, 100 fly and 200 IM. Emily finished 9th over all in the 100 Breast with a lifetime best time of 1:30.07, 11th in the 50 Breast, lifetime best 41.25, and...
Finishing off the Long Course season in incredible fashion; 2 members of the Senior team traveled to buffalo to compete in the 2012 USA Swimming Speedo Champions Series – Super Sectional. Molly and Sophie both had a fantastic weekend with many lifetime best times achieved, including 5 new team records and Metro Top 10 performances. Molly Brickman splashed in with two finals performances in the 200 Meter Free with a lifetime best of 2:08.99; and the 400 Meter Free with another lifetime best and over 2 seconds drop with a...
YFD is making a big impact on the Metropolitan Senior Mets & Junior Olympic Championships. Our swimmers really had an impressive four days of swimming at Senior Mets and Jo’s over the past two weekends. We had many swims that ranked in the top A, B and C finals with lifetime best times. Here are some of the highlights of the meets: Molly Brickman (15): 100 Meter Free: 6th in Final A – Season Best 1:00.44 200 Meter Free: 3rd in Final B – Season Best 2:09.95 200 Meter IM:...

