Youngstown YMCA Neptunes

Welcome!

Welcome to the Youngstown Neptunes Swim Team. We swim at the Youngstown YMCA Central, 17 N. Champion St.,
Youngstown, OH 44503 PH: (330) 744-8411

Swim Clinic at Cleveland

Swim Champions

Fitter Faster Tour

Cleveland, Ohio

October 25, 2009

http://swimchampions.com/detail/cleveland-oh/

2009-2010 YMCA Swim Schedule

Here is our tentative YMCA meet schedule for 2009-2010. Coach Sue put in away meet start times according to the current neoyswim.org website, but these could be updated as well. Unfortunately, all our away meets have later start times. On the positive side - we have four home meets!

Beginning of Season

Meet the Coaches
Thursday, September 10

First Day of Pre-Swim Trial Period
Monday, September 14th

First Day of regular swim practice - dues paid/forms in to be able to practice - we take new swimmers up until December 18th
Monday, October 12

Meet Schedule

October 24th
North Canton at Youngstown

November 7th
Youngstown at Green - warm-ups begin at 2:30; meet begins at 3:00

November 21
Lake Co. Central at Youngstown

December 5th
Youngstown at Ridgewood - warm-ups begin at 1:45; meet begins at 2:15

December 19th
Lake Co. West at Youngstown

January 9th
Youngstown at Cuyahoga Falls - warm-ups begin at 2:30; meet begins at 3:00

January 23
Ashland at Youngstown

Divisionals - either February 6 or 7
Presidential Meet - February 14th - right?

Leagues - March 6 - location TBA
Zones - March 19-21 at Bowling Green State University
Short Course Nationals - April 7-10 at Fort Lauderdale, FL
Long Course Nationals - July 28 - 30 - University of Maryland

PHOTOS

A really big thank you to Mary Lou Mikolay for taking such great photos. Here's the scoop... Go to the photo page to see a select representation of her work under Divisionals and Presidential Invitational albums. To see the entire 155 photos please go to this link http://s690.photobucket.com/albums/vv269/shelahmom1/ This is my photobucket account and I invite you to see them through this link. Hopefully this will work. I cannot load all 155 photos onto our page because photos take up alot of our allotted space. Thanks for following the link. Sheila

Please scroll down under the advertisements... there are 8 pages to browse.

Update: Mary Lou posted"League" photos at http://s617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/marylou615/?albumview=slideshow

be sure to check them out!

Support our Neptune Troops!

Our Coach Kristen's (Kuntzman) brother, Mark is currently serving the United States as a Marine Corps Lance Corporal in Iraq. He is a former Neptune swimmer, Boardman High School swimmer and acheived the honor of attending Zones!

We encourage all Neptune Swimmers to write to Mark. This is how to do this:

You log in to motomail and register your email. Enter his address and create a letter (almost like email... but not). Being the government... they will print your letter and mail to him directly!

Mark's Address:

LCpl Kuntzman Mark

1^st BN 7^th MAR H&S CO CEB PLT

Unit 41515

FPO AP 96426-1515

Mark,

On Behalf of all Neptunites... Thank you for your service and we wish you safely home soon!

We WON the Division 1 YMCA Swim Meet

We are Division 1 Champions!

And in the process the kids earned 129 Personal Best ribbons! And I believe the swimmers either bettered or achieved Zone times in 13 events!

We can order a new banner for the pool! Wooo Hooo!

It should be Monday or Tuesday of this week to know who qualified to compete at Leagues at Canton in March.

Stay tuned for more excitement of the Youngstown Neptune Swim Team!

The web site below has pictures from Divisionals.

www.ohioactionimages.com

Once at the website, go to Recently Photographed events, then click on 2009 Youth Divisional Swimming.

Once there, click on what pool your swimmer swam in and then select the gender. Then you'll have to click on the photo for the event that you want to see in order to view all the photos in that particular event.

Go Fish!

Congratulations to our Neptune Swimmers... Your donations made a splash! Thanks to Mr. Cowles for delivering to the Second Harvest Food Bank. That's about 100 cans of Tuna!

Home Meet Do's and Don'ts

Remember we share our YMCA with other members...even during HOME meets.

Here are a few do's and don'ts to remember:

DO	DON'T
DO Enjoy your snacks in the Youth Lobby	DON'T Sneak a snack in the gym area
DO WALK through our halls and deck area with your shoes on.	DON'T RUN to any area of the YMCA
DO - NEPTUNE families are encouraged to use the RIGHT half of the gym.	DON'T Forget to welcome our visitors
DO - NEPTUNE families are encouraged to network with other families (in different age groups) so that eveyone can see their child swim. This is important when sitting in the bleachers.	DON'T Forget to be considerate to others.

THANK YOU!

Email Option - For Web Site Updates

With our new website, we have an email option that you can use!

Simply email me: Put NEPTUNE SUBSCRIBE in the subject bar.

FOR FAMILIES: tell me who you and your children are and what age group they swim in.

FOR SWIMMERS: tell me what age group you swim in

Then I'll send you an invitation. You must reply to the invitation to automatically receive updates to this web site.

Enjoy!