Blue Ash YMCA Swim Team
Newsletter for May 5, 2008
Days Left We have
10 weeks till Y Championships and 12 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
Wednesday, May 7 – Senior Group –
please try and come about 6:00 PM for physical screening (not all Seniors need
to come early, but we need some to start evaluations early).
Thursday, May 8 – No practices for anyone due to Swim team Banquet at
Moeller HS
Saturday, May 10 – 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.
Swim team screening Wednesday, May 7th for Elite
and Senior Groups AND 12 and overs in Advance Age
Groups
Mark Daasch, Physical Therapist for NovaCare, will be at
practice on Wed. May 5th 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 has been sent home. Senior Group will come in earlier on May
5th. 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
NEW PARENT MEETING We will have a Parent meeting for all new families this coming
Thursday, May 15th at the YMCA (location to be announced) starting
at 6:30 PM. It should last only about 30 Minutes. Any Swim Team Family can
attend that wants to gain more swim team information. We’ll go over swimmers
and parent expectations, swim meets and swim meet sign up procedures and answer
any other questions about our team. All new families should try and send a
parent to this meeting!
FIRST SWIM MEET OF SEASON This Saturday’s meet for Senior and Elite
groups has been postponed PCY’s outdoor pool is behind schedule in opening,
we’ll try for Tuesday, May 13, warm up at 3:15 PM, meet at 4:15 PM, finish by
5:30 PM
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!
NOVICE MEET FRIDAY May 16th
Friday, May 16, we have the only Novice (beginner) meet of
this season. We encourage all BASH swimmers with less than 4 months of
experience to go and try this meet. It is at Powel Crosley YMCA is at 9601 Winton
Rd Cincinnati, OH 45231. Warm up at 6:30 PM, meet at 7:00 PM
Phone: (513) 521-7112.
These kinds of meets usually last about 1½ hours. The YMCA’s
water park will be available after the meet is over on May 16th.