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Welcome to the Y-Neptunes Website!
(Updated July 22, 2008)
Coach Sue Mellish!
Join the Most
Dynamic Swim Team in Northeast Ohio
The
Youngstown Y-Neptunes
YMCA and
USA Team
Age Group
and High School Programs
Dual Meet
Competitions
Season runs
from September through March
Trial Period
- $50 (September 8 through October 2)
COME SEE
WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT
“Meet the
Coaches Night”
Thursday,
September 4, 2008 – 7:00 p.m.
Downtown
Youngstown YMCA
Head Coach
– Sue Mellish
Assistant
Head Coach – Stacy Sowers
Assistant
Coach – Kristen Kuntzman
Questions?
Visit the Neptunes’ Booth at the YSL Relay Meet and YSL
Championship Meet; Call Coach Sue at (330) 424-1128
Or visit
our website at www.y-neptunes.com
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Our new meet schedule for the 2007/2008 season is now posted on
our league website at
www.neoyswim.org.
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Ashley Emerson
Named Female Swimmer of the Meet at 2008 Great Lakes Zone
Championship!
Ashley with Jeffrey Shade
from the Greater
Flint (Michigan) YMCA. Both were the Paul
Atkinson Scholarship Award winners.
Our own Ashley
Emerson of Leetonia, Ohio representing the Youngstown YMCA
Y-Neptune swim team was awarded the Paul Atkinson Scholarship
naming her the 2008 Great Lakes YMCA Zone Female Swimmer of the
Meet at the 2008 Great Lakes YMCA Zone Championships held March
14, 15 and 16 at Cleveland State University. This is the first
time a Youngstown Y-Neptune swimmer has received this award.
Graduating senior YMCA swimmers from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky,
Indiana and West Virginia were nominated for the Paul Atkinson
Scholarship Award with one scholarship going to a female swimmer
and one award going to a male swimmer. Jeffrey Shade a swimmer
from Michigan won for the boys. The scholarship is awarded based
on the swimmer’s accomplishments, academic record, volunteer
efforts, church activities, involvement with YMCA swimming and
letters of recommendation submitted by individuals familiar with
the nominee.
We are so
very excited Ashley won this award. There is no one more
deserving of this honor than Ashley. She has swum for the YMCA
since she was 4 years old and has qualified to compete in the
Zone Championship meet every year since she was a 9-year-old.
More importantly, Ashley is a wonderful person who gives back to
her community through her volunteer efforts, is supportive of
her teammates, and is a fantastic example of what the YMCA hopes
to instill in their young adult members. The Paul Atkinson
Scholarship Committee made an excellent choice when they awarded
Ashley Emerson this honor.
Y-Neptune
Swimmers Place in Top Twelve at Zones!
I very proud to announce that the
Youngstown YMCA Y-Neptune Swim Team qualified 29 swimmers to the
2008 Great Lakes YMCA Zone Championship meet held at Cleveland
State University March 14-16 with several swimmers placing in
the top twelve in their respective events. The Great Lakes Zone
Championship consists of top YMCA swimmers from Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia.
Tom Boniface placed 4th in the 15-18 Boys 100 yard
backstroke with a time of 54.54, and 10th in the Senior Boys 50
yard backstroke (26.36). Nick Boniface placed 8th
in the Senior Boys 50 yard breaststroke (28.77) and 10th in the
15-18 Boys 100 yeard breaststroke (1:03.68). Ashley
Emerson placed 11th in the 15-18 Girls 100 yard butterfly,
1:01.97 and 7th in the Senior Girls 50 yard butterfly in 27.58.
Mikayla Morrow came in 7th in the 11-12 Girls 100 yard
breastrokd (1:15.92) and she placed 7th in the 11-12 Girls 50
yard breaststroke with a time of 34.93.
Neptune relays also did well with the
Men’s 400 yard medley of Tom Boniface, Nick Boniface, Jeff
Cowles and Ryan Nasci placing 10th with a time of 3:51.06.
The 9 & 10 Girls 200 yard medley relay of Daniela Cabrera,
Theresa Mikolay, Taylor Tofil and Jessica Morrow swam this
event in 2:23.30 to place 11th.
We coaches were very
pleased with how well the kids did this year. All of the
‘A’ relays re-qualified in their events for next year’s meet as
did most of the swimmers who did individual events.
Sue's News for March 10, 2008:
This is the last Neptune
News for the Season.
As I said last night
at the Banquet,
Thank You to all the swimmers, parents and Neptune Board members
for making this a truly fantastic year! Keep swimming this
summer and I will see you either at FAST or when FAST swims
against your summer team. If you are in need of a place to swim
this summer, I coach the Firestone Area Swim Team out of
Columbiana, and we would love to have you. Give me a call at
330-424-1128 or email me at
suemellish@gmail.com if you need information about the team.
Regardless of who you swim for this summer, encourage your
friends to try the Neptunes next fall if they need a place to
swim this winter. Let’s see just how big a team we can come up
with by September! Thanks again for everything this year!
Spring
Swim News
The
YMCA Spring Swim is
a great option for those wanting to train prior to the beginning
of the summer season. Spring Swim takes place on Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday beginning March 31 and runs for 6 weeks.
Times are as follows. Swimmers 10 & Under Monday and Wednesday
6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday 6 to 7:00 p.m. Swimmers 11 & Older –
Monday and Wednesdays 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.; Thursday from 7 to 8:00
p.m. Call the Y to register. Coach Jeff will be running Monday,
Coach Sue and Coach Kristen will be in charge on Wednesdays and
Coach Kristen will be doing Thursdays.
If the
Neptune Spring Swim times do not work for you, I (Coach Sue)
will also be doing a Spring Swim at the Salem Community
Center also beginning March 31 and running for 6 weeks. This
Spring Swim meets Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Swimmers 11 &
Older practice from 4:30 to 6:00 each day and Swimmers 10 &
Under swim from 6 to 7 p.m. each day. Call me at 330-424-1128 if
you need information about either Spring Swim.
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Concerning Qualifying for Divisionals
and Leagues
Click here
for the the all the Info!
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Boniface & Henson are State Qualifiers!
Neptune Swimmers Tom
Boniface & Katie Henson
take in the Ohio High School State Swimming and
Diving Championships at C.T. Branin in Canton, OH
on Saturday, February 23rd. Tom (Cardinal Mooney)
qualified in the 100 backstroke and Katie
(Boardman High School) qualified in the 200 Free Relay.
Congratulations Tom & Katie!
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CANCELLATION PLANS
If you are not sure if practice will take place due to the
weather, you have several options. If practice is to be
canceled, Coach Sue will do so by 2:00 p.m. Coach Sue will call
the local television stations (Channels 21, 27 and 33) and ask
that the practice cancellation run across the bottom of the
screen with other cancellations. She will also call the Y and
inform the front desk. So by 3:00 p.m. you can turn on your TV
or call the YMCA to see if practice has been canceled. If you
feel the roads are too bad to come - do not come! Stay safe and
warm at home and practice another day!
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ZONES 2007
For more Pictorial
Highlights of Zones 2007, Click Here!
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KRISTEN KUNTZMAN WELCOMES A FUTURE NEPTUNE
TO THE WORLD ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2007: WELCOME TIMOTHY
CHRISTIAN!
Weighing in at 7lbs 10oz and more than 20in long!
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YMCA
NEPTUNES FUNDRAISER CLOTHING SALE
Our vendor for the sale
this year is Custom Creations in Salem. Candace Tegey, who owns
Custom Creations, has children who used to swim for the Neptunes.
She has suggested items that parents and swimmers have asked for
in the past.
All items can be
personalized for an extra $5.00.
We will take orders
from Wednesday, October 3 through Wednesday, October 10.
Neptunes items make
wonderful Christmas presents! Keep that in mind as you shop!
Allow 2-3 weeks for the
items to come in. We will post information on the website and
in the newsletter when the items are available and where you
should pick them up.
If you cannot make the
sale, you can fill out an
order form, attach a check, and mail it to:
Jane Heaven
101 Sandstone Lane
Canfield, Ohio 44406
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Neptunes YMCA Officials Clinic
to be held October 27
Gordon Grinham will be teaching a Level 1 Officials Clinic on
Saturday, October 27 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Youngstown
YMCA's downtown Central Branch. The actual cost of the clinic
will be posted as soon as it is made available, but know that
it will be no more than $35.
If you wish to attend this clinic and become a Level 1 Official,
please contact Gordon by calling (330) 540-0978 no later than
October 24. Classroom time will be spent covering material found
on the open book test which is taken on-line at your
convenience. The test consists of 100 questions. Earning an 80
percent is passing and the test can be taken three times.
The Neptunes are always in need of officials, so please consider
being certified so you can help officiate our dual meets!
Thank you in advance for participating!
FYI –
**Neptune Mailboxes
will be updated this week.
**If you have fins, bring them to practice to use during
warm-ups
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Please Note - Swimmers may join
the Y-Neptunes at any time. The only requirements to
participate in practices is to have paid your team fee ($50 for
the first four weeks) and have a registration form and a medical
release form filled out and turned in at the front desk.
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New Website Links as of September 9, 2007:
2007-2008 Registration Form
2007-2008 Emergency Medical Form
2007-2008 Important Deadlines
Corrected 9/10/07
2007-2008 Neptune Parents Information
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2007-2008 PRACTICE SCHEDULE
2007-2008 MEET SCHEDULE
YMCA INVITATIONALS
Y-NEPTUNES USA
SWIM TEAM
HIGH SCHOOL SWIM
PROGRAM
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What You Need to Know:
For
Sue's Rules, click here
About the Neptunes, click here
About
Swim Meets, click here
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If you are in need of swimsuits, goggles and
more, we encourage you to check out our swimsuit vendor's site
which is
www.knabes.com.
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Click the following Link to the new New Website
for the teams in our League:
www.neoyswim.org
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Youngstown YMCA, 17 North Champion St.,
Youngstown, OH 44501
Phone:
(330) 744-8411
Aquatics Director: Whitney Felger
Website Maintained by Attorney Mark
Huberman:
mhuberman@zoominternet.net
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