76 x 50's long course meters - over 2 MILES of ALL BUTTERFLY! We certainly wouldn't encourage this for all swimmers, and only put a whisper in the air of "what if" to a couple of butterfly specialists.....but we wanted to give a GCY "shout out" to 2 swimmers who inspired a team yesterday at High Point City Lake Park! Congratulations ALEX STRASSER and MCKENZIE CAMPBELL!!! Traditionally, GCY does 76 x 50's CHOICE to bring in the 4th of July holiday, and all levels do some sort of variation of...

Applications for NC Zone Team and Scholastic All-American Teams GCY has several swimmers that may qualifity for 1 of these 2 groups, both involve self-applications (swimmer and/or parent apply directly, not coach). Even if you are a year or 2 or more away from this achievement, it might be fun to look at and get familiar with these 2 items. BOTH are swimmer driven (swimmer is encouraged to do the legwork) and are COMPLICATED processes. We have tried to talk individually with those who may qualify, but did not get...

Practice updates for Week of June 28 - July 5: This is a BUSY week for us! Please look over the schedule below closely, it is split into 4 main sections: Bryan YMCA Normal Schedule (M-F) GAC/Bryan YMCA Sunday Only Schedules (Sun only) High Point City Lake Monday and Thursday morning (M,TH only) Saturday, July 4th - No GCY Practices offered Bryan YMCA, Monday through Friday, June 29 - July 3: Bryan YMCA Monday - Friday Weekday Schedule: Morning: 6:30am-8:30am Senior, National Prep, and National 8am-9:30am AG1, AG2, Senior Prep,...

GCY Swimmers Caught Fire this past Weekend! We are way late with this news, but in case you did not hear, GCY swimmers caught fire and swam fast this weekend in BOTH Atlanta, GA AND Greensboro, NC! Mulitple team records, JO and Senior Champ cuts were made, and some more special accomplishments we have singled out here! We are so proud of the swimmers, below are a few standouts and some great pictures! Atlanta Highlights: Swimmers LITERALLY got to swim next to Olympic Gold Medalists in one of the stronger...

Practice updates for Week of June 22- June 28: We are normal through Thursday of this week, BUT because of the National Synchronized Swimming Championships some of Thursday's afternoon practices at the GAC may be short course. FRIDAY IS THE BIG CHANGE - NO TIME CHANGES BUT ALL PRACTICES ARE MOVED TO THE BRYAN YMCA! Monday through Thursday (normal schedule): GAC: Morning: 6:30am-8:30am LC at GAC Senior, National Prep, and National 8am-9:30am LC at GAC AG1, AG2, Senior Prep, National Prep Mid-Day 1:00pm-3:00pm at GAC Senior, National Prep, and National...

Practice updates for Week of June 15- June 21: We are normal through Wednesday, BUT because of our 2 meets this weekend at the GAC and in Atlanta, Ga, this is the schedule this week. We have included Monday - Wednesday as well because we realize this is NEW normal! Swimmers competing in those 2 meets are encouraged to do at least 1 practice each day, but no doubles after Monday or Tuesday (if not swimming summer league). Swimmers NOT competing this weekend may come as often as possible! Dryland...

GCY Swimmer Wins the 10K (Poseidon) at NC Open Water Champs! GCY's Morgan Davis topped all Poseidon swimmers and brought home the most unique individual trophy that NC Swimming hands out, the Poseidon 10K Championship! The Poseidon is a 10K SWIM, that's correct, 6.2 miles in the water, and Morgan did it faster than anyone else in NC! GCY has had several swimmers complete the Poseidon, but this is the first time we've had the fastest female, congratulations Morgan! GCY also had 3 other swimmers who completed that race this...

Winning Logo Design gets a FREE Speedo Swim Bag! As many of you know, the GCY Swim Team is hosting North Carolina's State Championship Meet this July, and we'll need a logo for the meet! We thought it would be a great idea to invite all of our GCY swimmers, parents, coaches, and friends an opportunity to design the meet logo; we hope you will! We have a very tentative concept, with a swimmer in the outline of the state or something similar. Anything is possible though, and the winning...

PRACTICE UPDATES: Just an update on practices...We will have a full schedule out shortly, but ALL sites will keep NORMAL schedules through the end of May. Beginning June 1st we will MERGE all sites to GAC and Bryan YMCA, and starting June 15th we will start our normal long course schedule primarily at the GAC. We call this the 3 phases of long course and here's how it goes: PHASE 1: Today - May 31st - Practices normal times at normal sites, as scheduled currently, except NO PRACTICES on Memorial...

GCY Season Highlights! It was great to see everyone at the banquet this past weekend....here are a few highlights from GCY for the 2014-2015 Short Course Season that just finished, that we may have missed! Team Rankings GCY finished 1st in Greensboro, 10th in the state of NC, and 220th in the country! (Over 50 teams in NC, one of top 3 states in the country for swimming, over 3,000 teams in the US)! Here's how we stacked up in the state (we think we MIGHT climb to 9th with...