NYAC Bulletin Board
 Murray Drudge NYAC Head Coach | NYAC
2009
SWIMTEC Summer Camps | |
| What you will learn... | ||
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Our
Swim Season Comes to an End |  Natalie Lychy NYAC President | |
| As
our swim season comes to an end, many parents and swimmers will happily move to
summer activities, fun in the sun, holidays and become familiar again with fresh,
not chlorinated air! We thank-you for your support as members, and wish you a
well deserved break! Read more... | ||
 | Swim
Ontario Position Statement Regarding Swimsuit Technology | |
| Swim Ontario and the SDC have been monitoring the advancements made in swim suit design and their impact on the sport over the past year and has been discussing the possible effects on competition at the Age Group level. Read more... | ||
 Steve Downs Coach: Youth Group | NYAC
Profile | |
| Be sure to see our new feature of the month. All our training groups will eventually be profiled with a short overview of their training approach, coaching style and some interesting observations. Our Youth Training Group, coached by Steve Downs, is the first group to be profiled. Read more here... | ||
| Swim-A-Thon Update | ||
| NYAC would like to thank all the swimmers, coaches and parents that participated in the 2009 Swim-A-Thon. NYAC families raised over $14,000…and we are still counting. There were some great swims and a wonderful breakfast to enjoy afterwards. | ||
 Christopher Yan | Congratulations to Christopher Yan of Provincial 1. He was the top fundraiser, collecting $1200 in donations, and the winner of the “PHELP8” t-shirt, compliments of Swim & Sports! Thank you for such a fantastic fundraising effort! | |
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The Provincial 1 group raised the most money (even if we don't count Christopher's contribution!). Well done and enjoy the pizza party!
Coach for a Day prizes were handed out to the top fundraiser in each group: | ||
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Our
Pools Have Been Saved |  Photo: Enzo Lomonaco | |
| What exciting news we have today! All four of NYAC's TDSB pools at risk of closing have been saved! I would like to thank all of the following people and organizations for their outstanding efforts, time and dedication! Read more... | ||
| Fantastic
New Coaching Technique for Really Fast Swimming | ||
| Coach John is wondering if you would like to be coached like this... Please let him know. | ||
Murray Drudge NYAC Head Coach | 2009 Junior SC Provincial Championships Meet Report March 2009 | |
| Exciting racing and swimmer breakthroughs highlighted this year's Junior SC Provincial Championships. How good it is to see our up and coming stars of the future win medals, earn points and break club records. We even had some meet records set that pave the way for future results. The 13-14 girls and boys age groups were the big point winners scoring 608 individual points. Relays were outstanding with the boys 12-13 winning all four relays. Read more... | ||
 John Calnan National Development Group | Optimism
Becomes Reality Short Course Season Wrap-Up March 2009 | |
| The real goal for a coach is to build in each swimmer a ship that will sail sturdily through the most troubled waters and will emerge from the darkest clouds ready to continue the voyage. The National Development group strengthened their ships and surpassed their defined goals to create a genuine feeling of optimism for their future goals. The picture of an exhausted swimmer, arm raised in victory, with a knowing smile across their face repeated itself many times at the Provincials and the Central Region Champs. Read more... | ||
| Upcoming
Events See full Events Calendar here... | ||
July
2 - 5, 2009 | ||
| Results of Recent Meets | ||
June
20 - 21, 2009 - Etobicoke Olympium June
11 - 14, 2009 - Etobicoke Olympium June
6 - 7, 2009 - Douglas Snow Aquatic Centre June
4 - 7, 2009 - Etobicoke Olympium | ||
| New to NYAC Photo Galleries | ||
Pictures
of the following are now posted: | ||
 | Quick Links | |
| New
Member Online Registration Login for Volunteer Sign-up Swim Ontario Officials Training Video Insider Monthly NYAC Fundraising NYAC Handbook 2009-2012 Time Standards Winning Strategies Nutrition for Competitive Swimming | ||
| Congratulations | ||
 Allison Martin | Allison Martin of Provincial Group 1 set a new NYAC long course record in the 400m IM for Girls 10&under at the 2009 Central Region Long Course Championships with a time of 6:16.44. This is an improvement of close to 30 seconds from the previous record of 6:45.91. | |
 Stanford Li | Stanford Li of NYAC's Intro2 group became the youngest competitor - at 6 years of age - to win a gold medal in the 8 & under 100m Breaststroke at the 2009 Top Cup. He also came third in the 200m IM. | |
 Youn Ho Choi | Youn
Ho Choi recently achieved the age group national qualifying standard for 13
and under for the following events: 800m Free LC - 10:00.01 - at the Brandfort Meet 400m Free SC - 4:38.96 - at Team Champs 200m Back SC - 2:27.52 - at Team Champs 200m Fly SC - 2:34.83 - at Team Champs | |
| Alexander Jin recently achieved the age group national qualifying standard for 13 and under for the 200m Fly LC with a time of 2:36.64 at the 2009 May Performance Meet. | |
 Kathryn Martin | Kathryn Martin improved the NYAC short course record for the 100m Back for girls 13-14, that stood since 1986, at the 2009 Team Championships with a time of 1:06.00. Recently she also improved the short course record for the 200m Back for girls 13-14 at the 2009 Junior Provincial Championships with a time of 2:21.24. | |
 Caitlin Hodge | Caitlin Hodge improved the NYAC long course record for the 200m Freestyle for girls 13-14, that stood since 1990, at the 2009 Team Championships with a time of 2:07.12. Recently she also set a new NYAC short course record for girls 13-14, and the Open category for the 1500m Freestyle at the 2009 Speedo Western Canadian Championships. Her time of 17:28.73 improves her own previous record of 18:08.31 by 39.58 seconds! She also swam a senior national time of 4:22:30 for the 400m Freestyle at the 2009 Junior Provincial Championships. | |
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| Alex Mierzynski set a provincial meet record in the 200m Freestyle for 13 year old boys at the 2009 Junior Short Course Provincial Championships with a time of 2:01.36. In total, he won 4 individual golds and 3 silvers at the Provincials, as well as 4 golds for the relays he was a member of. | |
 Alexander Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton set a new NYAC short course record in the 800m Freestyle for Boys 13-14 at the 2009 Junior Provincial Championships with a time of 8:44.96. This time is also a meet record for 13 year old boys. | |
 Casey Gallagher | Casey Gallagher set a new NYAC short course record in the 200m Back for girls 13-14 in the prelims of the 2009 Junior Provincial Championships with a time of 2:21.64. This record, however, was short-lived as Kathryn Martin improved this time in the finals that same evening. | |
 Kyungsoo Yoon | Kyungsoo Yoon set a new NYAC short course open record of 22.97 for the 50m Freestyle at the 2009 Ontario Cup. | |
 Yi Wen Li | Yi Wen Li set a new NYAC short course record for the 200m Fly for boys 10 and under at the 2008 Youth Cup with a time of 3:02.96. | |
 Michelle Williams | Michelle Williams set a new NYAC short course record of 54.96 in the open category for the 100m Freestyle at the 2009 Spring National Championships. | |
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