GCY Hosting the GCY Fall Spooktacular this Weekend! We are hosting a meet this weekend for the GCY competitive team, the following are the practice modifications on Friday only due to the event (all afternoon practices at Bryan YMCA), there are no Saturday morning practices! PRACTICES CHANGES: Friday Morning: No Change! Friday Afternoon: Bryan YMCA modified times only (no practices offered at Spears, Ragsdale, or GAC) Saturday Morning: No Saturday practices due to the GCY hosted event at the GAC FRIDAY COMPLETE SCHEDULE: GAC Normal Morning: 5:15-7 AM GCY National,...

Coach Sarah wins a GEM! At the Ragsdale Branch, they recognize a staff GEM (Going the Extra Mile) of the month. The GEM is voted on by the full-time staff. Ragsdale YMCA looks at the comments that they receive from members, comments from other part-time staff, and comments from full-time staff to make the big decision. Ragsdale wanted to let GCY know that they "broke the rules" to recognize Coach Sarah Ramirez (with GCY) as their GEM of the month employee for September! From Kevin at Ragsdale: "Coach Sarah is...

RSVP today for a BONUS Dryland Saturday at HANGING ROCK! DATE: THIS Saturday, October 24th - 10:30AM/11:00AM RELEASED FROM POOL AT 8:45am, have a BIG breakfast "ON THE GO" on way to Hanging Rock (on your own), then meet between 10:30am-11:00am (start at 11am sharpe)! PLEASE RSVP ON THE MEET EVENT PAGE BY CLICKING ACCEPT OR DECLINE!!!! (Yes or No) - NO CHARGES, FREE EVENT! Park at the top of Hanging Rock State Park: ADDRESS: 1790 Hanging Rock Park Rd, Danbury, NC 27016 Here's the schedule: 7:00AM-8:45 AM - National,...

Weekly Update: October 19 - October 24 3 Big Highlights this Week: All practices normal except NO Flex Friday practice at GAC on Friday evening (GAC closed for swim meet). Deadline for the GCY Spooktacular Meet is Tuesday, midnight (October 20) - Coaches Deal: If we meet our goal and get 150 or more swimmers to sign-up to compete at our home meet, coaches will be dressed up in Halloween costumes on Saturday!!! This will be a great event, with what should be excellent competition and 3 hour sessions (versuses...

This Weekend's Schedule, Oct 16-Oct 18 Most of our team will be competing at the GAC this weekend at the TYDE Autumn Leaves Meet, here is our scheduled practices on Friday, no Saturday morning practices this weekend due to the meet! GAC 5:15-7 AM GCY National, National Prep, Senior, Senior Prep, HS Prep, Flex (Morning before school 5:15AM - 7:15AM, not afternoon! Bryan YMCA: 6am-7 AM GCY Masters Team 1:30-2:30 PM GCY Homeschool Team 3:30-4:30 PM GCY Seasonal (Make-Up Day) 3:30-4:45 PM GCY Competive (AG1, AG2, and Senior Prep, NO...

Notes from Parent Meetings! Here are the key notes if you missed the beginning of year parent meetings, we apologize this is out a little late - please read carefully, start to finish, all parents responsible for knowing! Meet Sign-ups/Participation: PLEASE PARTICIPATE! Participating in meets on a regular basis is the number one thing that will keep swimmers engaged in our sport - PLEASE PARTICIPATE when you can. The meets involve higher level stroke work, focused feedback, stroke mechanics, and accountability - we ALWAYS see the most improvement from the...

SHOUT OUT - CAROLINE COX - 9 Swimmers Recognized, not 8! It was a BIGGER WEEKEND for NC Swimming and GCY than I mentioned - we mentioned 9, BUT only listed 8 on our email, NO ONE caught this unbelievably until we started passing out the hardware - SHOUT OUT TO CAROLINE COX for also making this list! 9's such a huge number - it looked like about 9 names, but only 8, GREAT JOB CAROLINE! We are so sorry we missed this - HERE'S A FEW BLASTS from the...

GCY has a Meet at the GAC this Weekend, Oct 16-18: Here is how our practices are affected: Monday - Thursday, Oct 12-15th: Normal, no changes! Friday AM, October 16th (before school): Normal, no changes! Friday PM, October 16th (after school): GAC: No Flex Friday at GAC. Bryan YMCA and Ragsdale YMCA: No Senior/National level practices at Ragsdale or Bryan. All other practices are normal (Seasonal, AG1, AG2, and Senior Prep are normal at both sites, no changes). Spears YMCA: Normal, no changes! Saturday AM, October 17th: No practices, no...

Pictures from NC Awards Banquet and All-Star Camp! It was a BIG WEEKEND for NC Swimming and GCY...we also had 2 raffle winners: Noah Rock won a raffle to eat dinner beside Cullen Jones (picture proof below): Coach Brad won $250 in coach education classes for our staff! In case you missed it, here are swimmers that were recognized over the weekend, which included NC House of Delegates, Coaching/Officials meetings, clinics, certification classes and more! Here are the NC All Stars: Agnes Cruz Noah Rock Here are the NC Swimming...

No GCY practices Friday October 9th due to Friday Night at the Races! No Friday practices offered at GCY, all sites, all locations! (Normal Friday AM before school practice) Saturday morning is still ON AS NORMAL at Bryan YMCA, including the seasonal make-up and start focus! Plus this Saturday, there is an enhanced dryland after practice for levels SENIOR PREP and above! CLICK HERE TO BOTH RSVP AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPECIAL DRYLAND CLASS AT COUNTRY PARK Thanks everyone and GOOD LUCK to those competing, go to the MEET...