The Spring and Summer long course practice schedule has been updated on our website. This will cover our schedule from April 1st– the end of August and the beginning of our Fall 2012-2013 season. We have highlighted some of the upcoming significant events that are approaching very shortly: SPRING BREAK and Y-NATIONAL WEEKS – April 2nd– April 13th Traditionally, GCY has taken a week off during Spring Break…this year we decided not to do this……because Spring Break and Y Nationals fall on 2 separate weeks (Y-Nationals April 2-5 and Guilford...

Congratulations to all GCY Makos swimmers who competed at USRY's this past weekend! We had a great deal of accomplishments, thank you to Nancy Seay for putting together this top 10 list! All results can now be found at the on the meet information page on our website, look under past/archived events - thanks everyone! Upper Southeast Regional YMCA Championship Results For: Greensboro Community YMCA (GCY) Rock Hill, SC Aquatic Center March 16-18, 2012 Top Ten Finishes: Girls 10U McKenzie Campbell 1st 50 Free 28.95, 1st 100 Free 1:02.59, 1st...

In addition to McKenzie Campbell's recent acheivement, I realized I failed to spotlight Randy Chen, who also took home a state title! He won the gold medal at the Men's Swimming and Diving 3A State Champs in the 50 yard freestyle. He also won a bronze medal and placed fourth in the state for the 100 yd freestyle. Congratulations Randy! Randy was competing for Northern Guilford HS during that meet, and was recognized by Greensboro News and Record with a very nice article. We are currently working on gathering all...

A VOLUNTEER APPLICATION IS REQUIRED and has been added to our event page (FILL OUT AND RETURN TO COACH BRAD OR KIM if you plan to volunteer, thanks!) We're hosting an exciting event in Greensboro, and the Y wants you to be a part of it! The YMCA 2012 Short Course Swimming Championships is coming to the Greensboro Aquatics Center in April. This event is expected to attract about 1,600 swimmers and divers to the aquatic center for the event planned for April 2-5, with an additional 4,000 spectators. The...

Congratulations to GCY's own McKenzie Campbell for taking home this weekends High Points Award at the NC 14&Under Championships. McKenzie won 3 separate events: the 50 breast, 100 breast, and the 200 IM, and placed high in everything to take home the meet's top award. Congratulations McKenzie and to all the GCY Swimmers who competed this weekend! McKenzie broke a GCY Team Record in every individual event swum, and also helped the 10-under girls 200 medley relay team set a new record - that team included Kennedy Reid, Omega Pinnix,...

WBP Swim Team Update, The We Build People Campaign is underway and we need your help to make our team goal of $5000 by the March 31st deadline. My thanks to those that have already given. The campaign is based on the premise that "every child deserves experiences such as camping, swim lessons, leadership and mentoring, regardless of their family’s financial circumstances." When you give to the Bryan Y WBP campaign it provides some funding for our swim team scholarships regardless of the practice site. If you donate to the...

Swimmers and Parents: Below is a list of all the swimmers who have made at least one USRY qualifying time for our meet in Rock Hill, SC, March 16-18. Remember, we still have our GYSAA Championships in Salisbury, NC March 2-4 to add more qualifiers and qualifying events. I'm counting 56 swimmers now, up from 47 in December. If you see anything missing, please let us know - we are already aware of the time trial swims not showing from our home meet and are addressing that now. We are...

GCY Mako Volunteer is Recognized by Guilford County Schools! Our own "Auntie" was recognized in December as the Guilford County School system volunteer of the month, for her work at Jones. She's been recognized in the past for her service to the Y, but this is another wonderful honor. She's a great role model for the swim team, and has done countless things in the past to make our team and our team events run smoothly - I cannot thank her enough! Here's the press release: Employee, Volunteer of the...

Below are the 48 swimmers that have qualified SO FAR in at least 1 event for the 2012 Southeast Regional Championships in Rock Hill, SC (March 16, 2012). Great job swimmers! Remember we have through our GYSSA Championships to qualify, and these name are based on AGE as of 3/16/2012. Several swimmers are VERY CLOSE in several events - let's grow this team even more in the upcoming meets! GIRLS REGIONAL TEAM (23 swimmers): Black, Aleah Blasingame, Alie Brassfield, Caroline Campbell, McKenzie Crump, Sarah Daly, Emily Dockery, East Ham, Helen...

Each month, NC Swimming posts a Top 10 list for this season's best times by AGE (not by age group), starting at age 11. On the November 1, 2011 NC Top 10 list we had 10 GCY swimers in MULTIPLE events appear - CONGRATULATIONS to the following who appeared at least once on this month's list: (the list DOES NOT include results from the GCY Fall Festival, swum Nov 4-6). Jon Pulaski Libby Seay Laurel Kiselis Alexandra Kreager McKenzie Cole Sarah Tomlin Joanna Williams Mitchel Cole Isaac Klinger Randy Chen...