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Nov 3rd Update: Upcoming dates (November and December), Regionals information, and more

Joseph Shelly

Good morning SVYA Tritons,

I have several announcements to make, and will be updating our event calendar to reflect these announcements!

First off, I haven't had the chance to say thank you to Alissa Bostrom (Shelby's mom) for creating the swim team bag tags! Every swimmer will have one, and they will earn beads that they can attach based on several achievements (personal bests, 4 core values awards, Y Regionals qualifiers, team records, and more). There is a key attached to each bag tag that lists which colors represent what! I will also have a key posted on the pool deck.

We will be bringing back our swim team mailbox (Some of our older swimmers may remember these at the old Fulton location)! Each swimmer will have a folder with their name on it, and coaches will be able to put any awards that may have been missed into these folders. I hope to have it ready by the end of the year!

YMCA Regional Championships

I have confirmation that our 2024 YMCA Regional Championship meet will take place on March 1-3, at Boise, Idaho. The meet announcement will come soon, but wanted to let those of you going know in advanced so you may have more time to prepare! Qualifying times are the same as last year (though they may be adding some time to some of the distance events, waiting for that information). Based on what I know, here are the current SVYA qualifing swimmers:

 

Swimmer Events qualified
Artemiy Lisitskiy 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Fly, 200 Fly
Gabby Fernandez 50 Free, 50 Breast, 100 Breast
Heather Santangelo 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Breast, 100 Breast, 200 IM
Mackenzie Millican 50 Free, 50 Back, 50 Breast
Micah McNeil 50 Free, 50 Fly
Suhani Karwal 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 50 Breast, 100 Breast, 200 IM
Tim Eilers 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Back, 50 Fly
Alex Lisitskiy 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 50 Fly
Shelby Bahe 50 Free, 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back, 50 Breast, 100 Breast, 50 Fly, 100 Fly, 200 IM
Dima Lisitskiy 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Fly
Gideon Carpenter-Eells 50 Breast
Ella Inman 100 Back, 50 Fly, 100 IM
Logan Hobson 100 Breast
Weston Weishaar 50 Free, 100 Free, 50 Breast, 50 Back,

 

Congratulations to our swimmers for qualifying already! We have several who are also very close, and I would love to see us have more additions to this list!

 

Upcoming events

November:

  • Our officials course with Jim is set to be on November 17th at 5:00pm! Please consider registering to become a swim official, as we do need all the help we can get to continue running our swim meets. Registration link is here: https://lcdc.yexchange.org/s/c54n85q
  • We will have a deadline of November 22nd to sign up for our home meet on Sunday, December 3rd. I will be posting the information and meet announcement for it by tonight after I create the event files
  • There will be no practice on Thanksgiving day, or the Friday after (23-24)

December:

  • Our home meet is on Sunday, December 3rd! Doors will open at 7:15am, and the timeline will be similar to the previous home meets.
  • Our Winter Break party will be on Wednesday December 13th! All practice groups are in the water from 5-6pm and we will have a sock exchange from about 6pm-6:30pm.
  • We will have normal practice times December 18-21 for those that are still in the area.
  • Winter Break for swim team will be December 22nd-January 1st. Normal practice times will resume on January 2nd.
  • Our Polar Plunge event will be on January 1st at 12:00pm. Same deal as last year! More information will be out soon.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions!

Best,
Joseph Shelly