Dec 2 Update: Y State eligibility, upcoming events, winter break, and more!
Good morning Tritons!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, and a good first day of December. We got a quick update here to give you the important upcoming dates/events for December and January.
Starting off with our timeline for December and January:
- Deadline to order a team suit is December 10th
- Link to the store here: https://qteamstore.com/collections/svya-tritons
- December 13th is our hosted swim meet at the Snohomish Aquatic Center!
- Registration is closed, info will be coming soon as I process entries from other teams
- We are the hosts; I am confident our team can give a great example of how to run a big meet, but it will take volunteers! Sign up page will be sent out in the next couple of days when I assign each team timing lanes
- December 17th is our winter potluck and sock exchange
- We will be at the Mount Vernon City Library
- Doors open 5:00pm with food shortly after
- Sock Exchange after team dinner, more info coming soon in a seperate post!
- SVYT Winter Break from December 22-26, no practice scheduled during this time. Facility closure Dec 24-26
- Combined practice on Dec 29-30 from 4:30-5:30; Facility Closure on Dec 31-Jan 1
- Polar Plunge on January 1st!
- Meeting at Lake Padden (west side) at 11:30am for a 12:00 noon plunge!
- Coach Joseph is bringing Hot Coco to share, feel free to bring snacks to share with the group as well!
- Y State is on January 24th, at the King County Aquatic Center
- This is our big championship meet of the fall-winter season. The only requirements are that each swimmer has 2 Y meets since the spring (not including Y Regionals) and has been a member 90 days before Y State.
- I will post a list below of those who are eligible, and those who need 1 more meet to qualify.
All of this and more can be found on our event calendar on our website!
As mentioned, the following list is from our team website and tells me how many Y meets each swimmer has (USA only meets don't count):
| Memb. First Name | Memb. Last Name | YMCA Meets since April, 2025 including Dec 13th |
| Shelby | Bahe | 2 |
| Analuna | Cambron Ocampo | 2 |
| Gideon | Carpenter Eells | 2 |
| Finn | Clark | 2 |
| Emerson | Clark | 2 |
| Ezra | Dryden | 2 |
| Sarah | Fernandez | 2 |
| June | Gigot-Luce | 2 |
| Aaren | Goett | 2 |
| Barrett | Hobson | 2 |
| Ella | Inman | 2 |
| Emma | Jackson | 2 |
| Rowan | Johnson | 2 |
| Lachlan | Johnson | 2 |
| Henry | Jones | 2 |
| Kodi | Levy | 2 |
| Alexander | Lisitskiy | 2 |
| Dmitrii | Lisitskiy | 2 |
| Marie | Long | 2 |
| James | Long | 2 |
| Langley | Ludemann | 2 |
| Anuhea | MacFarland | 2 |
| William | McCann | 2 |
| Micah | McNeil | 2 |
| Eileen | Munoz | 2 |
| Quentin | Ochoa | 2 |
| Ellie | Ochoa | 2 |
| Anthony | Papendorf | 2 |
| Andrew | Papendorf | 2 |
| Julie | Price | 2 |
| Maricarmen | Quiroz Baltierra | 2 |
| Rachael | Shipman | 2 |
| Levi | Slagg | 2 |
| Uriah | Slagg | 2 |
| Alice | Smith | 2 |
| Kimberlie | Stark | 2 |
| Landon | Taylor | 2 |
| Alexandra | Van Dyk | 2 |
| Katherine | Van Dyk | 2 |
| Caroline | Veltri | 2 |
| Michael | Veltri | 2 |
| Russell | Venner | 2 |
| Weston | Weishaar | 2 |
| Merrick | Weishaar | 2 |
| George | Windler | 2 |
| Morgan | Abrams | 1 |
| Madison | Burke | 1 |
| Thatcher | Carpenter Eells | 1 |
| Logan | Hobson | 1 |
| Caroline | Johnston | 1 |
| Jayden | Pham | 1 |
| Jolin | Pham | 1 |
| Gwendolyn | Bullard | 0 |
| Amelia | Faber | 0 |
| June | Johnson | 0 |
| Sadie | Jones | 0 |
| Ole | Lervick | 0 |
| Lindsey | Luo | 0 |
| Stacy | Luo | 0 |
| Margaret | Nichols | 0 |
| Emily | Riley | 0 |
| Clara | Ruff | 0 |
| Rehana | Sharma | 0 |
| Silas | Slagg | 0 |
| Jayden | Zheng | 0 |
| Olivia | Zheng | 0 |
I am trying to put together a quick home meet in January with Whatcom to give another Y meet opportunity for those that are close to qualifying for Y State. If you have any questions about the list above or about Y State, please let me know!
Poinsettia Fundraiser update:
Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual Poinsettia fundraiser! We were able to raise $1433.72 for our team, making good progress towards saving for new racing blocks!
I will be getting a new team banner for our sponsors soon, and will be putting it up in the pool area directly over the pool windows! If you know a business that is interested in sponsoring our team and donating to a nonprofit, let me know. I put together a sponsorship package here: https://www.gomotionapp.com/recpssvy/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/sponsorship-package-svyt-1-_054686.pdf
Looking forward to our winter season!
