13 GCY Makos Get NC's Top Honors Several of the swimmers and coaches below may not be at GCY's Spring Fling on Saturday...if you don't see them, it's because they will be representing the state of North Carolina at Select Camp in Charlotte, NC OR the NC vs. SC All-Star Meet in Greensville, SC! NC Select Camp: This is an annual camp NC puts on for the top 5 swimmers in each event at NC 14&Under State Championships (where GCY finished 9th). The top 14&Under coaches are also selected, here's...

STRONG KIDS Meet Results! The meet results for the STRONG KIDS meet held at Bryan YMCA last weekend are here: CLICK HERE FOR MEET RESULTS If you participated, your T-SHIRT and RIBBONS are available in the Bryan YMCA office currently, we will be distributing to coaches/sites as soon as possible. If you missed this one, we have one more coming up Sunday, May 31st, at Bryan YMCA. If you have never done one of these meets, they are quick and very swimmer/parent friendly, usually around 90 minutes or less -...

GCY Practices this Week - Normal Mon-Thurs, Fri/Sat is Spring Fling at GAC! All practices are NORMAL this week Monday through Friday morning, CORRECTED - Friday MORNING we do have normal long course practice at the GAC - but on Friday afternoon we are ONLY at the GAC, from 5pm-6pm, all competitive levels, regardless if doing meet (AG1, AG2, Senior Prep/Flex, Senior, and National levels). Anyone who IS NOT ALREADY ENTERED, and wishes to compete, PLEASE email Coach Brad directly ASAP! Friday Afternoon: 5:00pm-6:00pm at GAC (Long Course, ALL COMPETITIVE...

Long Course Meets are OPEN for Registration! All available summer long course meets have been loaded into our website for registration! Several of the Spring and early summer meets have upcoming deadlines, here is a list of all the meets through May and meet entry deadlines: *STRONG KIDS Intrasquad Meet #2 Sunday, Apr 12, 2015 Deadline 1:00pm, Sunday, April 12th GCY's SPRING FLING Apr 24, 2015 - Apr 25, 2015 Deadline: Midnight Thursday, April 16th TAC Cinco de Mayo Meet May 1, 2015 - May 3, 2015
 Deadline: Midnight, Friday,...

GCY Men's 400-FREE Relay made finals and swim's TONIGHT! Congrats to Jake Ennis, Gil Cruz, Alex Strasser, and Andre Richardson AGAIN who IN THAT ORDER all did best times AGAIN to combine for the FASTEST 400-Yard FREESTYLE Relay in GCY team history AGAIN! Splits were a blistering 47.65-47.86-48.19-46.19! Andre's last 100 free split was the fastest relay split in known GCY history! ALL boys swam faster than any of their individual 100-free swims ever! On paper, this team should NOT be in finals, but that's why they swim the race!...

GCY Men's 200-Medley Relay made finals and swim's TONIGHT! Congrats to Andre Richardson, Jake Ennis, Alex Strasser, and Gil Cruz who all did best times to combine for the FASTEST 200-Yard Medley Relay in GCY team history! Splits were a blistering 24.10-25.86-22.65-21.29! The relay qualified 10th and will be in the 3rd heat of the meet tonight, surrounded by some of the top teams in the country! Thanks for all of you that came out to support Heather Sigmon last night, your cheers helped energize her from a 15th place...

GCY Practice Schedule: Friday, April 3rd - Saturday, April 11th Seasonal Groups: Normal times and locations, NO CHANGES, except no practice Saturday morning, April 4th! Competitive and National Groups: Friday, April 3rd: AM Practice: 5:30am-7am at Bryan YMCA (no changes) PM Practices: Normal times/sites for 1-hour only after normal start time - NO DRYLAND, all groups!!! (Example: At Bryan, the 3:30 is 3:30-4:30 for AG1, AG2, SP, the 4:30 is 4:30-5:30 for AG1, AG2, and SP, the 5:30 is 5:30-6:30 for Senior, Senior Flex, and National - all sites follow...

GCY IN FINALS tonight at YMCA Nationals! GCY has its first 2015 Short Course YMCA National finalist competing this weekend in the 100-yard backstroke, congratulations Heather Sigmon! If you can drive over, we'd love to get all the GCY support we can gather for this race, the more crowd support and noise we can make when her name is called behind the block, the faster we know she can go! The devotion and national anthem starts at 5:10, and if you've never seen or heard the national version of this...

College Admission Process The Championship Meet Committee will again be hosting an educational session at this year's YMCA Short Course Nationals on the college admission process. Our 2011 YMCA National Coach-of-the-Year, Glenn Neufeld of Mercersburg Academy, will be moderating a discussion forum with four college coaches as they talk about the admissions process from their varying perspectives as the coaches of successful swimming programs at four very different institutions of higher education. The event will be held at the Pavilion located on the complex grounds just east of the pool...

GAC Closed for YMCA Nationals this Week! 13 GCY swimmers will be representing the GCY Makos at YMCA Nationals this week! The GAC will be closed, INCLUDING THE MORNINGS BEFORE SCHOOL.... ALL mornings this week will be at Bryan YMCA Only, 5:30am-7:00am (6-7am Masters), Coach Brad will be leaving promptly at 6:50am each morning so "cool down" will be a little longer and start at that time. GAC Afternoon/Evening swimmers will follow the normal " GAC is closed" Schedule (click link)