Good morning Stingray Nation,

Wow! What a great performance by the 20+ swimmers who entered the HVP IMX Challenge Meet this past weekend at Lakeland High School. The hard work that the swimmers are putting in at practice is paying off. Coaches are very excited to see the whole team in action at our first YMCA meet of the season coming up on October 28-29. 

Congratulations to those who competed in the IMR and IMX Extreme Challenges!  These swimmers swam a slate of five events, which included an extra trip to Lakeland on Friday night for the 500 freestyle for the IMX!

Maryn Varga - 2nd Place for 9/10 Girls in the IMR Challenge: 100 Free, 100 IM, 50 Fly, 50 Back and 50 Breast

Jill Stricher - 3rd Place for 11/12 Girls in the IMX Extreme Challenge: 500 Free, 200 IM, 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast

Timothy Simpson - 2nd Place for 11/12 Boys in the IMX Extreme Challenge: 500 Free, 200 IM, 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast

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TEAM UPDATE - URGENT

STILL DESPERATELY NEEDED - Home Meet Concessions Leader(s): We are looking for someone, or a pair of someones, to take over coordinating concessions for our two home meets this year. (December 1-3 and February 9-11)  This is a big money-maker for our team!  You WILL have help and support from other parents and can assign jobs to ALL of your friends! Bonus: This fulfills your volunteer slots for the entire season!

Please contact Dave Rembiesa ASAP at [email protected] if you would like to fill this important and necessary position.

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Practice updates:

The Practice Schedule is available here! 

When we have swim meets, there is no Sunday practice.  These are the upcoming Sundays that we will not have practice.

Sunday, October 29

Sunday, November 5

Sunday, November 12

Sunday, December 3

Sunday, December 17

Event updates:

The sign up for our fall social event at Three Cedars in Northville on Wednesday, October 25th will be live soon on our website!  The evening will include a hayride, bonfire, cider, donuts and all of your favorite Stingray family members! This is a great chance to meet other swimmers, parents, and coaches!  The cost is $5 per swimmer and $15 for non-swimmers (adults and siblings).

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Stingray Sponsorships

We are asking ALL of our families to please try to get at least one sponsor! Simply take or email this sponsorship form to your…

• Dentist

• Orthodontist

• Massage therapist

• Florist

• Ice cream shop

• Insurance agent

• Favorite restaurant or brewery

• …Or any local business!

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Officials Training

YMCA Officials is on Saturday, October 21 at our Farmington YMCA.   Registration Deadline for the trainings at our Farmington Hills YMCA is 11:59 pm on Wednesday, 10/18/23.

Level 1 (new officials): Saturday October 21 8:00 am -12:00 pm, registration link: https://lcdc.yexchange.org/s/c52d49r

Level 2 (returning officials): Saturday, October 21 12:30 pm -4:30 pm, registration link: https://lcdc.yexchange.org/s/c40w76b 

• ​Prerequisites for Level 2 clinic: 

  • For new Level II officials, they must have been certified for at least 1 year as a YMCA Level I Official and worked at least 8 sessions on deck as a Level I Certified Official. 

  • For re-certification, they must have worked at least 12 sessions on deck as a Level II Certified Official over the previous three-year certification period

Cost = FREE 

Please click the registration link above for registering if you already have a YMCA account, or you can create a new YMCA account by following the instructions HERE.

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This week in the pool:

Miniray/Bronze

Continued emphasis will be on rotary breathing in freestyle, backstroke finishes and streamline position off the walls. Please make sure to bring the necessary equipment to practice and be ready to listen to the coaches.

Silver

Great progress is being made in this group. Coaches will spend time with the swimmers on the breastroke pullout, underwater streamline kicking and flipturns this week. Again, make sure to have all equipment (especially when we are at North Farmington) and don’t forget your water bottle!

Gold/Senior

We will ramp up the yardage a bit this week and work on continuing to improve our underwaters. Building speed into turns, breath control off of the wall and changing speeds with stroke tempo will also be a focus this week. Test sets have been going well and we will have our distance set this week. In addition, there may be a turn stick day or two while we work on our turns and underwaters.

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Swimmers of the Week: Congratulations to our swimmers of the week!

Senior - Luke Sosnowski

Gold - Luis Cervantes

Silver - Santiago Zamora Rodriguez

Bronze - Carter English

Mini-Ray - Blake Adams