Every GCY coach in town this weekend will be attending the USA Swimming's Southeast Regional Coaches Clinic, we will not have any scheduled practices at any site Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. We already have the topics, strokes and items covered on the event page at the GCY website for everyone's review. Your coaches will be bringing what we've learned into our practices beginning Monday, October 1st! CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT WE WILL BE LEARNING and BRINGING TO OUR SWIMMERS SELF-MOTIVATED SWIMMERS ONLY: Over the weekend and for conditioning...

Registration is now open for our first swim meet, hosted by TYDE, at the GAC, Oct. 12-14th. This also serves as YMCA's Virtual National Championships, so those that place top 10 in all Y meets held the same weekend across the nation will be recognized. The GCY Meet entry deadline is Tuesday, September 25th, midnight. This is only 1-week prior to meet entry deadline listed in the meet information, so it will not be extended, we will turn in our entries on the following Wednesday morning. 2 quick things about...

GCY Results: The list below lists how GCY swimmers and Masters Swimmers did in the race! GREAT JOB EVERYONE - Live shots of surfers standing on the boards include Will Evans, Jon Pulaski, Jacob Mendelson, and Craig Herndon! Can't wait til next year's race! MEN’S OVERALL RESULTS (place, race number, name, city, state, time) 39 244 JACOB MENDELSON GREENSBORO NC 00:36:53 49 243 ANIS YAHI * GREENSBORO NC 00:39:16 69 81 JONATHAN PULASKI OAK RIDGE NC 00:41:24 83 65 LARS HUNSUCKER COLFAX NC 00:44:43 84 121 WILLIAM EVANS SUMMERFIELD NC...

GAC Elite Practices: Time and Day Announcement In an effort to get our top performing swimmers practicing together at the new Greensboro Aquatic Center, we have added some additional evening options - there are no changes to the normal schedule on these days, this is simply an additional opportunity that the coaches felt would benefit our team at championship meets this short course season. They are later in the evening so swimmers may continue to swim at normal sites/normal times, but we encourage those eligible to try them out! Senior...

North Carolina Swimming will hold its Awards Banquet at the Doubletree Hotel (near the NCS campus) at 6:30 pm on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. The guest speaker will be North Carolina swimmer, Charlie Houchin, a recent Gold Medalist at the London Olympics! We encourage coaches, swimmers, and families to attend. Tickets to the banquet are $20 and can be purchased online (either PayPal or credit card) at the link on the NCS website posting. NC Top Five Swimmers, NC All-Stars and NCS National Top Ten Swimmers will be recognized. Since...

Great swimming this past week and weekend to ALL GCY Makos! Click the links below to see the GCY results. Here are a few highlights: YMCA Nationals Top 20 - Mitchel Cole (100 breast) and Pieter Brower (100 back,100 free, and 200 back) YMCA Nationals Top 30 - Mitchel Cole (50 breast) TEAM RECORDS: We are pulling times from years past to create our long course team records, but quick looks tell us there were at least 2 likely broken at this years YMCA Nationals, Pieter Brower 100 free (53.87)...

We hope to have the Y Nationals and Tar Heel States final updates out to everyone shortly - we had some incredible swims! We will finish out July on Monday and Tuesday with our normal schedule, morning and afternoons both days at normal long course times and locations. With no meets on the horizon, look for a lot of stroke work - now is the best time to make positive changes in stroke mechanics! Wednesday, August 1st, we will start our 4:30-6pm, 1 day 1 time all levels, off season...

GCY Swimmers Pieter Brower and Mitchel Cole both final at YMCA Nationals! After GCY was shut out from finals at short course nationals, Pieter Brower and Mitchel Cole both made sure that would not happen this meet - great job guys! Here's how we all did - check out these SCORTCHING HOT times from the MAKOS in Atlanta, Ga.! We are swimming at the site of the 1996 Olympic Games (see the Olympic rings in the photos!). GCY RESULTS: Pieter Brower - 18th - 100 meter backstroke - 1:00.98 (HEAT...

USA Swimming has a LIVE video feed to the 2012 YMCA National Championships, and 8 GCY Swimmers are participating! Check out the link below and these 8 swimmers - the meet runs Tuesday - Friday this week and you can watch anytime, even if you miss it live you will still be able to dial in and see the event. Here's the link: 2012 NATIONAL YMCA LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIP Here are the NATIONAL QUALIFYING swimmers (and his/her events) headed for Atlanta, Ga to swim at Georgia Tech's Pool where the...

Practice Updates for Monday, July 23 - Saturday, July 28 The exceptions to practices this week involve GCY only, all Masters practices are normal. There are 2 changes - Monday morning we are at Bryan YMCA from 7am-8:30am (b/c of HP City Meet), and there are no GCY practices on Friday or Saturday due to our final LC meet (Tar Heel States). Here is the schedule in detail: Monday, July 23rd: 6am-7am – Masters at Bryan **7am-8:30am at Bryan **CHANGE from normal schedule 12noon-1pm – Masters at Bryan 3:15pm-5pm at...