All YMCA's are CLOSED tomorrow, Thursday, February 13th (all of our practice sites are included - Reidsville, Bryan, Ragsdale, Spears). This corresponds to the GAC also closing, so there will be no swim opportunities tomorrow. Some of you may have missed now 2 days out of the water going into Friday - here's what's going to happen to all of you... As long as you've been practicing consistently, it takes 5 days to lose your fitness... as long as you get in on Friday (first day of the meet for...

Weather Updates: There are no morning swim practices tomorrow, Thursday, February 13th. The GAC will not open Thursday, February 13th at all. IF any YMCAs open, we will send out an email on the pool options for the swimmers as soon as we know them, no formal practices will be offered. NC 14&Under Champs starts Friday, February 14th now, not on Thursday (swimmers participating received an earlier email, details are also on our meet event page). For now everyone stay safe and enjoy the snow!

All site specific practices are cancelled, swimmers have these practice options only for tomorrow, Wednesday, February 12th: OPTION 1: MORNING OPTIONS AT THE GAC: 5:30am-7am at the GAC - Open to all Seniors and National Groups 6:00am-7:00am at the GAC - Open to all Senior Prep, National Prep, and any JO Qualifiers OPTION 2: AFTERNOON OPTIONS AT THE GAC: 2:00pm-3:00pm at the GAC - Open to all AG1, AG2, and all Seasonal Swimmers 3:00pm - 4:00pm at the GAC - Open to all Senior Prep and National Prep 2:00pm-3:45pm at...

Congratulations Coach Connor, you're going to San Antonio, Texas this summer! NC Swimming is a performance driven LSC (local swim committee), and it recognized the performances coming out of the water at GCY by naming one of our team's top coaches onto this select staff! Connor primarily works with our Senior Prep and National Prep swimmers and is currently the Head Age Group Coach, coaching practices downtown at the Bryan YMCA flagship branch and the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Below is the official announcement by NC Swimming witht he complete staff:...

GYSSA and USRY, aka "The T-Shirt Meets": GYSSA and USRY: Please visit the website to sign-up now for ONE OR MORE of our remaining meets, all dubbed the "T-shirt Meets" as that comes along with each meet offered. Deadlines are approaching and hotels are filling up! ALL swimmers are eligible for GYSSA, USRY is for qualifiers only (there is an updated list on the meet event page). Those qualifying for SENIOR CHAMPS still have through the weekend to sign-up! Practices this week, February 9th - February 15th: All normal times...

Thursday, January 30th We are going to be normal times at all locations today, all sites and groups. We appreciate the attendance yesterday at the GAC (both practice options), and we were strongly considering repeating and doing the same 2 options, but we could not for various reasons. Again, all practices are back to normal times and locations, all groups.

Wednesday, Jan 29th: All practices at Bryan, Ragsdale, Spears, and Reidsville YMCAs are cancelled for today - BUT we will offer practices for all sites at the GAC location. Seasonal Groups: May swim today at the GAC from 3pm-4pm OR 6:30pm-7:30pm Year-Round Groups (AG1*, AG2, Senior Prep, National Prep, Senior Development, Senior, National): May swim today at the GAC from 3:00pm-4:30pm OR 6:30-8:00pm *AG1 will get out after 75 minutes. These will be swim only practices with no formal dryland.

CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON IS UPON US! We have a lot of big meets approaching that we offer this time of year – we’d like all of year round swimmers to participate in at least one, and realize MOST of you will be doing multiple meets! It gets confusing, especially for our new swimmers, so we have brief explanations of each meet below. All of these championship meets have been updated with as much information as there is out there at this time, including NC 14&Under Champs, NC Senior Champs, GYSSA, USRY,...

We have 160 swimmers and all coaches at the January Jump Start Meet this weekend, which runs Friday, January 17th through Monday, January 20th. There is also a high school meet at Bryan YMCA, so we do have some practice adjustments for this weekend: Friday, January 17th - All sites normal except Bryan YMCA - at Bryan YMCA only, there will be a 3:30-4:30 for normal groups and also and AG1, AG2, or Senior Prep swimmers. There will also be a 4:30-5:30pm group for ALL other levels (AG1, AG2, Senior...

MAYA DIRADO: SWIMMING FOR THE RIGHT REASONS 1/10/2014 BY MIKE WATKINS//CORRESPONDENT Maya DiRado doesn’t think of her performances at last summer’s Phillips 66 USA Swimming National Championships as a breakthrough. To her, they were simply the culmination of a process encouraged and supported by her parents and coaches throughout her swimming career since she started as a 6-year-old in Santa Rosa, Calif. “I look at it as more that many, many years of hard work and effort finally paid off,” said DiRado, a senior at Stanford who will finish her...