Friday YMCA national results

There were lots of great swims today.  The team is in 8th place after all of todays events were swum.  We hope to see everyone there tomorrow and Sunday!!!

Real time results for Nationals

The downtown Orlando YMCA team is in 10th place out of 38 teams right now.

Thursdays swims included:

1650free  Sean McClean 3rd place

John Keen 4th place

1000Free Linda Visser 1st place

Kathleen 4th place

Chandler 8th place.

The results are being posted in real time on the web.  Click here to access results.

Great Job MOO!!!

Ready Set Swim- YMCA nationals

YMCA nationals are this weekend at Ft Lauderdale.

WARM-UPs 

Wednesday from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM in the entire pool; 

Thursday through Sunday from 6:30AM to 7:45 AM in the entire pool; and from 6:30 AM to the end of the day’s session in the warm-up/warm-down pool. The meet starts at 8:00 AM each day.

Please click here for meet info and Psych sheets.

Good luck MOO swimmers!!!

*** Please pay attention during the meet as 2 heats will be running at the same time.  It is very easy to miss your event, especially 50's because the heats move so quickly.  If you don't believe me ask Wayne.***

MOO apparel

See order form of the apparel available to any MOO swimmer. There are different sayings and artwork that are available for T-shirts. Embroidered polos, baseball caps and fleece jackets are also available - not to mention, swim caps.

If you are planning on attending Y Nationals, you will need to return your order form to Bruce, with payment, by Wednesday, April 8th, in order to receive you items on time. If you do not make this timeline, the next order due date is Thursday, April 29th.

Please fill in all personal information at the top of the order form and ALL CHECKS MUST BE MADE OUT TO: MASTERS OF ORLANDO

Great Job MOO at st. Pete

For meet results click here. Great Job to Erin, Teresa, Ryan, John Jackson, Sean McCormack, John Schrantz, Kirby, Steve, and Chand Crownover. These 9 swimmers had lots of good competition at the meet and took home lots of individual awards and 3 relays placing 1st, 1st, 2nd, and 1st. More than 56 events were swum by these team members!

Go MOO!!!

St Pete this weekend

The meet is at the Beautiful North Shore pool in St. Pete.  Even if you aren't swimming it is a nice drive and a beautiful outdoor pool!  Come show your team spirit!  1650 starts at 5:00pm Friday and sign in is required.  All other events are Saturday and Sunday.  Warmup begins at 8:00 each morning and the events start at 9:00. Click here for more details.

pick up practice

In the spirit of getting ready for the St Pete meet and the Y nationals we are having an informal pick up practice at the aquatic center this Sunday at 12:30pm. See you there!

Nationals swimmers

Here is the list of masters swimmers who are signed up for nationals. A total of 30 including coach Bruce. We've got 27 relays entered and 163 individual events. We've got a great team this year! Click here to view the Psych sheets.

Erin Crabtree
Jackie Spence
Linda Visser
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Ryan Hall
Teresa Szakos

Vanessa Martinez
Debbie Baker

Maria Gonzalez,

Kathy von Dohlen, Starlene Burns, Aaron Huie, Colin Schneider, John Keen, John Jackson, John Schrantz, Keith Organ, Kirby Bell, Mark Kowalak, Sean McClean, Sean McCormack, Steve Laugen, Tom Bliss, Wayne Baker, Chandler Crownover, Gilberto Hall, Chris Bolfing, Andrew Greener, Bruce Schmidt

Please see Sean McCormack if you would like a team swim cap. They are $5 each or 4 for $15. There are still several available

Upcoming Events

JUNIOR NATIONALS HELP NEEDED - Junior Nationals are being held this week at the Aquatic Center. If you would like to volunteer to help, they need timers for the Thursday and Friday morning sessions from 8:30am - 1:30pm. If you can help, please call Gay Wright at 407.432.9447.

SHORT COURSE MEET IN ST. PETE NEXT WEEKEND - Even though the deadline for the St. Pete meet on March 28-29 was yesterday, they will still except entries. Check out the details for the meet at www.floridalmsc.org if you would still like to go. For those that are planning on going, please let Bruce know what days you will be swimming.

YMCA NATIONALS - I want to encourage each of you that are attending Y Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale to be diligent in attending practice. I realize that you each have varying work schedules and other commitments, but the more time spent in the water at practice, the more effective your taper will be.

St. Pete SCY Championships deadline

St Pete meet deadline comming up soon. Meet entries must be postmarked by Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Late entries received by mail (postmarked after March 17), phone or e-mail after this date will be accepted with an additional $10.00 fee until Friday, March 21st. Meet is at North Shore Pool, located at 901 North Shore Drive NE, in St. Petersburg, FL. Friday March 27-Sunday 29.

How to get the most out of your workout while circle swimming

Here are some suggestions to improving your workout while swimming by Samantha Grant Swimer Magazine.

First choose a lane with swimmers of a similar speed.

If you are circle swimming with other people in your lane pay attention to where you push off the wall when you flip-turn. Envision yourself swimming down the right side of the lane, with another swimmer five seconds in front of you. If that person swims straight into the wall and flips such that her feet push off the right side of that big black cross, she will have to cut a very sharp angle to gracefully end up on the other side of the lane. She will narrowly miss crashing into you with each turn. If, conversely, she angles left into the wall, and pushes off to the left of the black cross, she can then streamline straight off the wall and is automatically on the correct side for the return lap. No near crashes. No need for you to give her ten seconds of lead time.

If you are slower than anyone else in your lane, you must always yield to them. Never begin your lap as they are approaching your wall for a flip turn. Let them go first. If you notice that they are normally doing freestyle but end up stuck behind you and start doing breaststroke to slow down, you need to let them pass at the next turn.

When you need a rest break, don’t stand at the end of the pool in the middle of the lane. Other swimmers need to use the wall for flip turns. To take a break, swim into the wall on the right side, and stay as close to the lane line as possible.

If you are doing a set with a group of more than three people, pay attention to the person behind you. With three people, each person can touch the wall at the end of the set and look up to see his or her time. With four people, the third swimmer needs to move away from the wall so that the fourth person can touch the wall at the end. Usually the way this works is at the end of a set the first person touches in on the far left side of the lane. The second person touches in the center, and remains there. The third person touches to the far right, and then immediately moves to the center of the lane, no longer adjacent to the wall, so that he is pool-side of the second person. Now the fourth person can touch in on the far right. This seems complicated, but I’ve swum with upwards of 10 people in a lane, and it works if everyone plays along. With more than four swimmers, each additional person needs to move to the center of the lane after they touch in on the right.

Moo Spotlight Swimmers of the month-March

Congratulations to Mark Behrens, our spotlight swimmer of the month for March!  Mark started with MOO back in 2000, and swam his first meet with the team this past year.  His first event was the infamous "900" meter event at Cocoa.  To learn more about Mark click here

volunteer timers needed

There's a large meet at the Aquatic Center this weekend and volunteer timers are needed. Below is a schedule of when events start. If you're able to help out in any of these sessions, please be at the pool 30 minutes prior to the session starting.

Friday and Saturday: Prelims @8:30, Finals @ 5
Sunday: Prelims @ 8:30, Finals @ 4

Free breakfast, lunch and dinner for anyone that helps out. They are way short of timers on Friday and Sunday during the day.

any questions contact erin