The Illinois YMCA Committee meet last night to discuss the Date for the 2024 Illinois YMCA Swimming Long Course Championship Meet. The original date that was set for the meet had to be changed due to a conflict with Lake Central High School. After receiving feedback from the teams in the state and looking at the YMCA National Long Course date, it was unanimously decided that this year’s Long Course Meet will be held on July 12th – 14th at Lake Central High School.

Illinois YMCA Swimming would like to congratulate all our YMCA National Long Course Swimmers on a great job representing Illinois YMCA Swimming at the 2014 YMCA Long Course National Championship. Theresa Alef, Dominic Azar, Jacob Bjork, Courtney Boak, Austin Bockman, Olivia Borawski, Hayley Brown, Noah Brunner, Michael Carlson, Travis Charlow, Samuel Childress, Ryan Clark, Alanna Dassoff, Annabel Davis, Jane Denenberg, Nathaniel Fierstos, Bailey Flemming, Corey Gambardella, Grace Gladding, Mark Gullickson, Paige Haden, Daniel Hein, Sarah Hein, Spencer Hohm, Stuart Hohm, Kerby Ingram, Adrien Lafont-Mueller, Meghan Lavelle, Paige Lay, Lucy Londergon,...

TEAM/COACH REGISTRATION Please remember team and coach registration is due by FEBRUARY 1, 2014! I have verified all coaches up to this point who have registered and provided proof of certifications and will be mailing out deck passes soon; however, there are a lot of teams left to register and many coaches still unverified because I haven’t received proof of certification. Let’s work together quickly over the next 2-3 weeks to get this knocked out! Here are the most common issues with registration: - Registering as a coach but not...

Below is an e-mail that USA Swimming sent out about the breaststroke and butterfly separated hands interpretation. This is effective immediately. January 15, 2014 To: General Chairs Board of Directors, USA Swimming Officials Chairs USA Swimming Officials Rules & Regulations Committee USA Swimming Coach Members From: Daniel W. McAllen III, Chair, Rules & Regulations Committee Re: Breaststroke and Butterfly Separated Hands Interpretation The FINA Technical Committee met in Bangkok, Thailand on December 6-7, 2013. At the meeting there was a discussion of the term “separated hands” as it relates to...

Effective 9/1/13 all meets will be required to have a certified Administrative Official. The below table will help you determine what type of officials you will need and the minimum certification level each official will need for their position. While looking at this table please keep in mind the Referee must be YMCA certified and there must be at least one other YMCA official at all YMCA meets whether or not the meet is sanctioned and/or approved by ISI. Official Number Required Certification Level Notes Referee 1 YMCA Level 2...

On May 4th, the Illinois Missouri Area Committee was informed by the St. Louis District that they were formally requesting to leave the Illinois Missouri Area. The committee voted unanimously to allow the St. Louis District to leave to form their own Area and wish them the best of luck. With the departure of the St. Louis District the Committee voted to adopt a new name. Effective immediacy the Illinois Missouri Area will now be referred to as Illinois YMCA Swimming which is governed by the Illinois YMCA Swim Committee...