Welcome to the 2006-2007
Short Course Yards Season.
We would like to welcome two new coaches this year. Andy Hayes is the new Head Coach of our 10 & under swimmers & Kristin MacDougall is an assistant coach for that same age group. Both coaches were officially certified in Coaches Safety & training, First- Aid, as well as CPR in early October. They have done a great job getting all of their swimmers competing in meets.
Also, this year we have had several High School swimmers help out with the younger kids' practices and it has been very successful to the RAYS swim program. A big thank you to Megan McEacharn and Nicole Charest for helping every week. The younger kids love you! Corey Birdsall and Steve Pellicia have also helped when they can.
The big buddy teamed up with younger swimmers has proved successful once again this year. Thank you to all of the swimmers who have volunteered to help. It really makes a difference to the first time swimmers.
The coaches would like to thank everyone for the Christmas gifts they received.
Congratulations to our High
School swimmers!
All RAYS swimmers who tried out for
High School teams made it. That is
very impressive. We have many top swimmers
at Pinkerton, Timberlane,
Announcing
the third annual Senior Essay Scholarship award sponsored by the NHSA,
funding provided by the now defunct Gunstock swim team.
We are asking any and all High School seniors competing in the NHSA to compose
an Essay entitled, "What Swimming In The NHSA Has Meant
To Me". A subcommittee of NHSA coaches will determine which essay
will win a scholarship cash award of $250.00 given at the NHSA State
Championship Meet. Essays should be 300 - 500 words in length and may be
submitted to David Grilli at mushield@aol.com no later than Friday,
March 9, 2007.
Thank You
David Grilli
March 16-18,2007
Mark your calendars!
This is the meet that we train for all season long. Swimmers please remember to get your 3 required meets fulfilled so that you can compete. There are as many as 1000 swimmers in this meets, and it is a lot of fun. We hope to get as many swimmers to participate as possible. We need all of you to help us to place in the top spots. There are approximately 16 teams.
If you still need 1 meet left to qualify for state champs, be sure to enter the Pentathlon on Saturday, March 10, 2007.
Swimmers must participate in 3 of the BOLD meets to be eligible for NHSA Champs (2 meets are required for High School Swimmers)
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October 29 (Sunday) |
Home vs. FINS |
7:30 a.m. Warm-up |
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November 4 |
Home vs. |
7:30 a.m. Warm-up |
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November 10 - 12 |
USS Meet @ |
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November 11 |
Distance Meet @Salem State |
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November 17 (Friday) |
Dual Meet @Manchester SNHU |
TBD |
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December 2 (Saturday) |
Home vs. Executive Club vs. |
7:30 a.m. Warm-up |
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December 8 - 10 |
USS Meet @ |
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January 12 - 14 |
USS Meet @Colby Sawyer |
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February 16 - 18 |
Regional Champs @Salem State |
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February 22-25 |
12 & Under Age Group Champs @URI |
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March 1 - 4 |
13 & Over Age Group Champs @MIT |
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March 10 (Saturday) |
RAYS Pentathlon |
7:30 a.m. Warm-up |
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March 16 - 18 |
NHSA Champs @Phillips |
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Some New swimmers who
competed in their first meet:
25
freestyle
Jordan Breault (6) 40.74
Bridget Soraghan (7) 20.81
Jenna Breault (7) 28.54
David Hume (7) 28.36
Conner
Samual
Javklyn Jenkins (8) 23.48
Elizabeth Mak (8) 26.88
Some Best times reported the
following swimmers:
There are many swimmers who have reported best times this year. Listed below are just a few of them. In the 200 free: Ashley Thrower 2:38.29, Paula MacDougall 2:30.47, Becky MacDougall 2:30.81. In the 50 free: Julia Enos 36.33, Emily Matsco 40.38, Payton Broadhurst 50.10, Kyra Angione 34.74, Stephanie Plumer 34.32, as well as, Kelly Hayes 37.74.
TOP 10 BANQUET
Olympic Gold Medalist Ed Moses was guest speaker at the New England Top
Ten Banquet held in
Every year New
England Swimming compiles a list of all swim events and comes up with the top
10 times in each event for the entire year. RAYS swim club boasts 4 top
ten swimmers in
Mandy Avella achieved 8th place ranking in
Nick Bergstrom swam into 9th place ranking on the 100 meter
freestyle in their perspective age groups. Londonderry
swimmer Andrew Willbrant and
Swimmers were presented with autographed certificates and hold top ten New
Online Times Database
Parents, ever wonder how
your child’s swim times compare to that of other swimmers in
Go to: www.neswim.com and click on the link for
Online Times Database(top left). Then, click on
“Individual event rank”. Fill in the
required information with swimmers name, select date(ex
1/1/06 to 1/1/07) select event, & click select. The swimmers name will appear with a list of
the events they have competed in.
Also, if you want to see
what times your child has achieved for the year, click on “Individual Times”,
fill in the same information as above, click search and a list of your child’s
events & times will display for you to view.
Thank you
Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to help at our meets. It would not be possible to run the meets without all of you. We still have one more meet coming in March. We look forward to seeing all of our swimmers. Please watch for signups on our website: www.rays-nh.org and regular emails from www.mushield@aol.com.
High School State
Good luck to all our High School
swimmers who will be competing in the High School Championships on February
9-10, 2007 at UNH in
Important Information
Cynthia Bushell is the Publicity liaison for the RAY’S team. If anyone has any pictures, news, etc. that
she can use for publicity please see her at the pool or put information into
her file at the pool. RAY”S news has
been placed in newspapers in Derry,
Also,
please see Suzanne Avella (team mom) to clear up any accounts for candy, meet
fees, or merchandise.
Thank you!