It has been an excellent start to the 2025-2026 season! PAY hosted 3 meets at our facility the past few weeks: Annual Blue/White Intrasquad Meet on Friday 10/24 Home Dual Meet vs. Upper Main Line YMCA on Saturday 10/25 Home Dual Meet vs. Central Bucks Region YMCA (Senior Recognition Meet) on Saturday 11/1 Congratulations to our 16 graduating senior girls, and all meet participants! Our annual Turkey Trot invitational is just over a week away! GO PAY!

On November 15th, the Phoenixville YMCA swim community will participate in the Daniel Buchanan Swim For Life Swim-a-Thon. This event will take place between 10AM and 3:30PM for swim team members and between 4-6PM for community members. We are asking participants, and their families, to raise money to support the Daniel Buchanan Swim for Life Fund, which provides scholarship opportunities for swim team and swim lessons at all Greater Philadelphia YMCA locations. Included below is the Daniel Buchanan Swim for Life Fund story, as well as fund raising guidelines. The...

PAY Families, Congratulations on an excellent first invitational meet of the 2025-2026 season. Full PDF Results are LINKED HERE Our team finished first in the combined team score, first in the girls team score, and second in the boys team score. We have multiple new team records as well, outlined below: Audrey Abazi - 9-10 Girls 200 Fly Ryan Whitlock - 11-12 Boys 200 Free, 500 Free, 200 Back, and 400 IM Keep up the great work to start the season PAY!

Summer 2025 was a thrilling championship meet season for the Phoenixville YMCA! Our Championship Meet Slate in July included: Middle Atlantic LC Junior Champs at GCIT in Sewell, NJ PA YMCA Summer Short Course Champs at York YMCA in York, PA YMCA LC Nationals at FAST in Ocala, FL MA LC Junior Champ Team: Audrey Abazi (10 & U Girls 50 Fly, 50 Free, 100 Back, 100 Fly) Collin Byrne (13-14 Boys 50 Free - C FINALIST, 100 Free, 200 Free) Ivy Carey (10 & U Girls 50 Fly, 50...

2025-2026 PAY Swim Team Open Tryouts & Evaluations IMPORTANT NOTE: RETURNING TEAM MEMBERS DO NOT NEED TO TRYOUT. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE FALL/WINTER SEASON ON THE GOMOTION SITE INSTEAD. Evaluations will be performed on the following dates and times; on a first come, first served basis: Tuesday August 5th, 5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Myrin Pool Friday August 8th,5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Myrin Pool Tuesday August 12th, 5:30-7:30pm at the indoor Myrin Pool You may choose a day that works best for your schedule. You may arrive anytime during the 5:30-7:30pm...

PAY has been busy with long course meets and training the past few weeks! We were privileged to take part in full weekend LC invitationals the past two weekends: Cure for Cam Invite at Upper Main Line Y on June 20th-22nd (13 & Over age group picture attached) Chargers Midseason Invite at Mercersburg Academy on June 27th-29th (team records turned in by 12 year old swimmer Ryan Whitlock, and new YMCA LC National cuts by 16 year old swimmer Nathan Deeney) Our long course practices at Upper Merion Township Community...

PAY was thrilled was host our first short course meet of the summer season with Boyertown and York! Swimmers of the Meet for each age group: 8 & Under: Pin-Hsuan Wei 9-10's: Piper Plaskas 11-12's: Bryce Williams 13-14's: Kenzie Thompson 15 & Over's: Rhys Lennon

On Wednesday May 7th: we celebrated the 2024-2025 winter season at Rivercrest Golf Club with our annual banquet & awards ceremony. Pictures of each age group from the celebration (8&U's; 9-10's; 11-12's; 13-14's; 15 & Overs) are attached! These team members and volunteers were presented with the following awards: 8 & Under Girls Most Improved - Arabella Escoto Coaches - Brielle Paraschak 8 & Under Boys Most Improved - Amay Chauhan Coaches - August Smith 9-10 Girls Most Improved - Sanjh Sood Coaches - Margaret Wu 9-10 Boys Most Improved...

Last week, PAY took the largest team we have had in several years to Greensboro, NC! The following swimmers had a mix of individual and/or relay events! Girls Team: Cece Bryant Maddy Deeney Laney Dittmar Brynn Lewis Claire Mages Kaitlyn McGuire Lucille Obenski Olivia Sellers Boys Team: Nick Darragh Nathan Deeney Henry Dennin Jack Herpel Walker Hungarter Raoule Khaye Of these swimmers, we had several podium finishes, including: Brynn Lewis 15th in 200 Free 14th in 50 Free 22nd in 100 Free Claire Mages 12th in 200 Free 12th in...

Last weekend, PAY sent over 30 swimmers to the PA YMCA State Championships held at West Virginia University! Audrey Abazi, Carys Adair, Tara Bice, Cece Bryant, Collin Byrne, Ivy Carey, Nicholas Ciminera, Michelle Figueroa, Emily Gaskins, Kira Haebler, Clayton Heinzmann, Chase Hungarter, Max Kan, Ashley Kane, Ella Kozak, Ellen Le, Mila Mazzoni, Kylie McGuire, Shreya Modi, James Olenoski, Michael Ren, Lane Shearer, Mara Shearer, Micah Smith, Sanjh Sood, Sam Verderame, Ryan Whitlock, Miranda Yuan, Liv Zhang, Nicholas Zinn Highlights: Both our girls teams and boys teams had full meet performances...