Hello Sharks,

We are going to continue the current practice schedule for the remainder of June, unless something happens with Prairies.

There are some LCM meets happening this summer.

Next Saturday, June 21st there is a meet at Spire near Cleveland. Here is a link to the meet. Online entries are due this Tuesday the 17th.

July 12th there is a meet in Indy. Here is the link.

If you are interested in swimming at the Masters World Championships, registration is due June 26th. Information can be found here. Registration information can be found here.

See you at the pool!

Dan

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Good evening Sharks,

This upcoming week we will have practice at Antioch from 6:30-8:00am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. We will also have practice at DRAC 6:30-8:00pm Tuesday and Thursday evenings and 8:30-10:00am Sunday morning.

Antioch is willing to reserve 3 lanes for us 6:30-8:00am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. With reserving the space they will require fees from both members and non-members. Essentially this will guarantee us the lanes which is super nice for us.

Members: $5 drop in or $25 monthly.

Non-members: $10 drop in or $50 monthly.

I appreciate that you work this out in a timely way with the Wellness Center front desk as they have been quite helpful with supporting us to have pool time on very short notice. We want to keep on good terms with them.

A big thank you goes out to Franklin for orchestrating this deal with Antioch.

See you at the pool,

Dan

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Hello Sharks,

We are still working on finding a pool to swim outside for the summer. I am talking to two pools that are very promising!

Here is the schedule for the upcoming week. Note: we will have the option to swim in the evening on Tuesday and Thursday at DRAC and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at Antioch.

See you at the pool!

Dan

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Hello Sharks,

The other day we sent out an email which accidentally said we will continue our normal schedule at DRAC until June 8th. Correction. it is only until June 1st. After that we will continue to have Sundays at our normal time at DRAC.

We are working out the details for where we will be swimming for the summer. Stay posted!

I just learned that some of the Sharks emails have been going into my spam folder. Please, mark these emails as not spam. You don't want to miss all of our exciting news!

Finally, I would like to say that I am very honored to be Head Coach/Administrative Assistant. I have some big fins to fill and I will do my best to keep up the fintastic work that Franklin has done these past 13 years. I am grateful for this opportunity .

LET'S GO SHARKS!!

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See you at the Pool!

Dan

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If you have any energy left after practice tomorrow, Sunday morning, Barb and I will play pickleball with you at Lofino Park directly across the parking lot from DRAC.

If you've never played we will teach you and we will have plenty of paddles and balls.

As dryland sports go...it's pretty fun!

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

While many of you may already know, I want to be sure and get word out to everyone. We are making a leadership change with regard to our designated Head Coach.

Dan Glaser-Garbrick is moving into that role!

Dan has been a leader on our team for many years and is already one of our core coaches. Dan is an accomplished swimmer with much success. He has competed all over the country and the world. He has many USMS top tens including #1's, World Championship Medals, and a MOUNTAIN of YMCA Nationals Golds. He has great coaching leadership qualities.....he is dedicated, thoughtful, smart, is as nice as anyone...and is a talented improv comedian too!

DAS will be in great hands!

After 13 years of helping to keep things going I feel it's time to pass on duties to others. It's been an honor to help lead our team. Of course one thing that makes our team special are all the talented folks who work together to get it all done. My goal was to turn my position into being the head Administrative Assistant, and I feel I had success with that!

And in to answer in advance. No, I'm not leaving the area and have no plans to stop swimming with the best team on the planet....DAS! I look forward to continuing to train with you, coach practices in rotation with our other core coaches, and to help out as needed anyway I can.

Thank you all for allowing me the privilege of supporting each of you with your DAS swimming goals.

I look forward to seeing you all at the pool and elsewhere!

Go Sharks!!!

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All,

The first ever team hats are in! I will bring them to practice on Friday.

We did the hats this year instead of a

t-shirt.

They are $20 each and would make a great gift for all of your personal and team fans!

A few dollars from each one goes to the team for general expenses.

I have 40 of them and first come first served with this limited DAS edition.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

We will be at DRAC on our regular schedule through the end of next week., June 8.

After that we will for sure continue at DRAC on Sundays at our regular time.

We are working on our summer plan and looking at several options. The details are still in process. We will let everyone know as soon as we have it figured out.

Unfortunately it looks like Prairies will not be available for us, though it will be open with some times available for those of you with base access, though not at times that will work for our team.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

This Saturday, May 24 will be our last UD practice for the season.

Come get in a great swim and join us for an outing to the nearby Old Scratch Pizza immediately after.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

UD will be closed for pool maintenance this coming Saturday May 17.

We will be back there on the 24th for our last UD practice until fall. Let's get a good turnout so we can go up to 3 lanes and do a food outing afterwards.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

Another YMCA Nationals is finished. 11 Sharks participated. As always, it was exciting with many great races and a very well run meet. There is a reason I've been to this meet 23 times.....it's as fun and well run as any meet I've ever been to!

A few highlights:

Beth Whitehead swam both the 1650 and the 1000 on Thursday. She won the 1650 and was the team leader after day 1 for the annual high point race!

After day 1, Emma took over doing something that has never been done by a Shark.

12/12 individual events.....all golds, plus 4 relay golds and one silver! What beautiful swimming she did....and her husband and parents were there as fans.

Barb, Margaret, Morgan and Emma won all 3 of the women's relays. And though it pains me to mention it, they beat our guys in the 400 free relay! (Franklin, Tom, Brad, Craig)

Of course they wouldn't let us forget that!

Every Shark scored a significant number of points. Even with only 11 swimmers we finished 8th overall with the women 6th.

And yes, the ladies outscored the guys.

Brad posted some great times and did a great job swimming against one of the top masters swimmers in the world who happens to be in his age group. (For you old timers, it was an Adam Mania type of situation!)

Tom, Margaret and Amy came down from Georgia with plenty of happy swimming smiles and great energy.

We had some fun team dinners and I'll for sure be looking forward to doing it again next year.

For those of you who missed this one I hope you will consider joining us next year.

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

In case you haven't yet heard we had 3 swimmerw participate in recent USMS National Championships......with great results.

At the recent Short Course Yards Nationals Mary Sullivan won the 1650!

She swam in the 50-54 age group and also placed 2nd in the 1000, 3rd in the 200 back, 4th in the 500 free and 6th in both the 400IM and 200 free.

At the Open Water 1 mile championship, Dan placed 2nd in 30-34 and Cody placed 5th in 45-49.

In the 5K Open Water event Dan placed 2nd and Cody 6th.

Congrats to each of them for some great Sharks swimming!

See You at the Pool

Franklin

All,

You must be a Dayton YMCA member by April 8 and membership must last through May 11 to swim in the meet. The meet entry deadline is April 24.

Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center
8422 International Drive
Orlando, FL 32819, Orlando, FL

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