Blue Ash YMCA Swim Team

Newsletter for April 28, 2008

Days Left We have 11 weeks till Y Championships and 13 weeks till Summer Y Nationals! Don’t waste any of them in getting prepared to be at your best for each meet!

Practice Schedule Changes

Regular practice schedule this week of April 28

Saturday, May 3 – Elite and Senior – 7:30 AM till 9:30 AM plus weights

CINCINNATI REDS HALL OF FAME PASSES We are going to sell passes to the Reds’ Hall of Fame, each costs $10, you’ll get half of each pass sold put towards you account. Passes are good till the end of 2008 and you can visit as many times as you would like. We will get a free tour of the Reds’ stadium if we sell over 200 passes. We’ll invite the top 40 sellers to go on the tour! We’ll sell passes for the month of May. The Main Desk will also sell passes. To get passes, please let Coach Bill know via email and he’ll leave them for you at the Main Desk in an envelope.

New Swimmers for the Summer Have your friends call Coach Bill if they are interested in swimming for the Y this summer!! We’ll have tryouts by appointment. New swimmers must join the team as soon as possible!

WINTER SWIM TEAM BANQUET Next Thursday, May 8^th at 6:00 PM in Moeller High School’s Cafeteria (enter side of Moeller closest to All Saints Church). We are having the dinner catered, the cost per person is still be negotiated and I’ll send out soon. All BASH swimmers who swam this past winter are invited (along with their families) and each will receive an award at the Banquet! We hope all will be able to attend, please send your RSVP (include name and number of family members coming) to Mary Fischer at maryfischer@fuse.net

Swim team screening Wednesday, May 5^th for Elite and Senior Groups

Mark Daasch, Physical Therapist for NovaCare, will be at practice on Wed. May 5^th to screen all swim team members for potential factors that contribute to shoulder and upper back pain in adolescent swimmers. This is part of an ongoing research project that began in 2004. The data obtained from the first 3 years will be included in an upcoming research paper about shoulder pain in competitive swimmers ages 10-18. The measurements will be taken during swim practice and take about 5 minutes per swimmer and is at no cost. Information obtained will assist the coaching staff in modifying the dryland program to prevent injuries and produce better swimmers. He will then be back and re-test in a few months, checking on any problems along with progress in improvements. There is a consent form for each swimmers and will be sent home later this week. Senior Group will come in earlier on May 5^th. Any questions may be directed to the Coaches or to Mark. He looks forward to working with your team this year. His phone is 513-671-6362 or mdaasch@hq.novacare.com