News

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 4.17.2023-5.7.2023 - Spring Session Updates! Here is what else you need to know for the past 3 weeks. There is a lot of news so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES PRACTICE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK: NO CHANGES TO THE REGULAR SPRING SCHEDULE YET A Nutritional Informational Session for Senior/Senior Prep Level Swimmers was held on May 2 @ 5:30PM- Thanks to all who attended! THANK YOUs: Thank you to all the teen and adult volunteers who stepped up to help us host our annual...

Kate Baganski

Are you new to PAY swim team and have questions? or not-new but still have questions? If so, stop by these Swim Team Q&A sessions at our Y next week---swim team parent volunteers will be in the room down from Childwatch rooms to help you. Tuesday, May 2 7pm – 8pm Wednesday, May 3 5:30pm-7:15pm

Dave Rue

Good Evening PAY Families, I wanted to share a piece of exciting news. Our team at PAY is thankful to welcome a new addition to our staff for the start of the Spring season: Briann Zak! Please read through the note from Brianna herself below. She's excited to be at the pool on Mondays, Wednesdays, and sometimes other days through out the week with us! Hello PAY Swim Families! I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Brianna Zak (Coach Bri). This is my first year coaching but I have...

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 3.27.2023-4.16.2023- Spring Break Time! Here is what else you need to know for the past few weeks. There is a lot of news so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES PRACTICE SCHEDULE: NO CHANGES- SAME AS LAST WEEK Recap of the YMCA SC National Championship: PAY sent 10 swimmers to the YMCA SC National Championship meet in Greensboro, NC in early April. (Patrick Baganski, Gabe Carroll, Nick Darragh, Maddy Deeney, Jane Hummel, Kyle Kruppa, Brynn Lewis, Blaise Sadowski, Maris Sadowski, and Macey Speakman). This...

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 3.27.2023-4.2.2023- Spring Break Time! Here is what else you need to know for this past week. There is a lot of news so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES Recap of our PA YMCA State Championship Meet: Overall Team Scores (Keep in Mind that there are over 70 YMCA swim teams across PA!): Combined: 4th overall with 411 points! Girls: 2nd overall with 283 points. Boys: 6th overall with 143 points. We received a banner for our girls finishing 2nd overall, and a trophy...

Dave Rue

Good Afternoon PAY Families! In addition to the notes on the Newsletter that was sent out this week, I wanted to acknowledge our new cuts, qualifiers, and finalists for YMCA SC Nationals, MA Junior Champs, and Eastern Zone Age Group Champs from the past couple of weekends. All of these new cuts were achieved at either our YMCA Central District meet, or Middle Atlantic Junior Champs. We also had some individual and relay records that went down as well! When I send out the recap from PA YMCA States after...

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 3.13.2023-3.26.2023 Here is what else you need to know for this week. There is a lot of news and practice time changes so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES Recap of our YMCA Central District Championship Meet: Overall Team Scores: Combined: 2nd place to York (out of 25 teams!) with 1889.5 points! Girls: 2nd overall to York with 1103 points. Boys: 2nd overall to York with 786.5 points. Age Group Team Scores: 10 and Under girls: 2nd overall with 215 points 11-12 girls :...

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 3.6.2023-3.12.2023 Here is what else you need to know for this week. There is a lot of news and there are practice time changes so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES BAKER PARK QUESTIONS: We have been fielding questions regarding the new policy for Baker Park Outdoor Pool memberships. Clarification: if your swimmer is on the PAY Swim Team and if they’ll be outside for swim team training or swim meets, then they do not need a Baker Park Summer Pool membership because they...

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 2.27.2023-3.5.2023 Here is what else you need to know for this week. There is a lot of news so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES Charlie Hartley Silver Champs and LCY Last Chance Recap: Between these two meets, we had nearly 100 swimmers competing this past weekend! BRAND NEW YMCA District Qualifiers: Katelyn Burks, Advik Kashyap, Anna Shiskov. This puts our team’s total at 104(!!) District qualifiers for the 2022-2023 season! 5+ Second Time Drop List Carys Adair 9.91 Tara Bice 7.18 Leo Cuevas...

Kate Baganski

PAY Weekly News for 2.13.2023-2.26.2023 Here is what else you need to know for this week. There is a lot of news so please scroll down to the end. COACHES NOTES Best of Luck to our swimmers competing at Charlie Hartley Silver Champs and the LCY Last Chance meet this weekend (and at High School Districts). Please refer to the YMCA District qualifying times and eligibility report below for our updated Districts Meet qualifier list! IMPORTANT LINKS ARE BELOW: LATEST YMCA DISTRICT ELIGIBILITY REPORT AS OF 2-22-2023 YMCA DISTRICT QUALIFYING...