Central Maryland YMCA Masters Swim Team: Welcome

We had amazing weather and lots of swimmers for our open water swim in Centennial Lake.  We had 148 entered and 130 entered the water and 128 completed the swim.

The event ran right on our timeline and all the volunteers from the CMYM team and others pitched in to make this event a success.  I have received a lot of very positive feedback with lots of hope that we continue to do this event in the future.

I want to thank the following people (I know I will miss some):

·         Mike Stepanek for being the Safety Director this year and helping blow up buoys and test swimming the course.

·         Barbara Cooke for being our Event Starter.

·         Brian Luoma for helping set the course with me and then for checking who entered and exited the water.

·         Our kayakers safety crew: Matt Toomey, Susan Yost, Katy Cavanaugh, Patty Devanny, Tory Toomey, Rena Jacobson, Jeff Kriebel, Bruce Breon, Sue Mangan, Angie Kozlowski

·         Timing chip collectors: Tyler Yost, Mike Yost, Aaron Jacobson, Adam Jacobson

·         Dan Beisel for bring 2 kayaks

·         All the CMYM swimmers that brought items, picked up food, did registration check-in, etc….Jamie Courtney, Michael Gamazaychikov, Abby Glassberg, Stephen Hicks, Frank Krach, Scott Moffet, Stacey Moffet, Ed O'Malley, Marcos Otazo, Carole Owen, Gloria Serrao, Shay Strong, Anneliese Thomson

·         Also to Abby’s daughters that got volunteered to help with DNFs and photographing the event for us

I am sure there are others that I missed in this list. 

Thanks again for your support!

Coach Mike

   The weekend of April 13-15, Brian Hinz, Jerry Meyer, Mark Spence, and Coach Ray represented CMYM at the 2012 Colonies Zone Championships at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

     On Friday night, Jerry Meyer braved rush hour traffic on the Washington beltway to swim the 1000 freestyle.  He broke his own record of 16:38.51 in the 60-64 age group set at the 2010 UMBC Winter Meet with a time of 16:14.16.

    On Saturday, Coach Ray got into the act within the 45-49 age group by first breaking Bruce Breon's 100 backstroke record of 1:24.30 set at the January 2011 Swim Series meet at the Arundel Olympic Swim Center with a 1:18.77.   He then broke Greg Morris' 50 butterfly record of 34.98 set at the October 2006 Howard County YMCA Swim Series Meet with a 29.99.

     Although Mark Spence did not break any records in the 50-54 age group, he did win the 50 breaststroke in his age group.  Zone Champion!

     In the 60-64 age group, Jerry Meyer broke his own record in the 50 breaststroke (45.68) which was set at the October 2011 Swim Series meet at the Howard County YMCA with a 44.67.

      On Sunday, Coach Ray broke Greg Morris' 50 backstroke record in the 45-49 age group (33.96) that was set at the 2007 Colonies Zone Championship at George Mason University with a 33.40.  He also broke Morris' 100 butterfly record of 1:26.89 that was set at the January 2007 Swim Series meet at the Arundel Olympic Swim Center with a 1:11.28.

      In the 50-54 age group, although Mark Spence did not break any records, he did place second in the 100 breaststroke.

     Finally, in the 60-64 age group, Jerry Meyer broke his own 100 IM record of 1:37.36 set at the January 2011 Swim Series meet at the Arundel Olympic Swim Center with 1:33.78.

 Congratulations to all!

     On Sunday March 25th, Dan Beisel, Hannah Green, Paul Lovett, Coach Brian, Coach Ray, and Roy Troppman went to the Arundel Olympic Swim Center for the Maryland LMSC Swim Series Final Meet.

     In the 30-34 age group, Coach Brian broke John Aversa's 50 freestyle record of 23.16 set at the December 2008 Catonsville YMCA Swim Series Meet with a 23.04.  He also broke Aversa's 100 freestyle record of 52.03 set at the February 2009 SPY Swim Series Meet with a 50.80.

   In the 45-49 age group, Coach Ray broke Greg Morris' 500 freestyle record of 6:58.98 that was set at the March 2007 Swim Series Final Meet at the Talbot County YMCA with a 6:45.01.  He also broke Morris' 200 Breaststroke record of 3:19.06 set at the March 2007 UMBC Winter Meet with a 3:15.03.  And, he broke Rick Hrybyk's 400 IM record of 6:58.82 set at the December 2006 Swim Series Meet at Towson University with a 6:24.81.

     In the 65-69 age group, Roy Troppman broke his own 50 freestyle record of 27.73 set at the January 2012 Swim Series Meet at the Arundel Olympic Swim Center with a 27.51.  He also broke his own 100 freestyle record of 1:01.79 that was set at the February 2012 SPY Meet with a 1:01.63.

     Finally, in the 70-74 age group, Paul Lovett set two new team records in the 100 backstroke (1:37.90) and the 100 IM (1:42.99).

 Kudos to all!

     On Saturday March 17th, Brian Hinz, Jerry Meyer, Shay Strong, and Coach Ray traveled to the Shriver Aquatic Center (formerly the Montgomery Aquatic Center) in North Bethesda for the Albatross Short Course Meters Meet.

     On the ladies' side, Shay Strong broke Karla Mack's 50 freestyle record of 38.50  in the 30-34 age group set at the June 2008 Big Vanilla meet with a 35.20.  She also set a new record in the 50 backstroke with a 40.84.

     On the men's side,  Brian Hinz broke his own 50 breaststroke record of 39.85 in the 35-39 age group that was set at the July 2011 Talbot County YMCA meet with  a 39.36.

    In the 45-49 age group, Coach Ray broke in that record board with new team records in the 200 freestyle (2:43.50), the 200 backstroke (3:32.28), the 100 butterfly (1:20.54), and the 200 IM (3:13.94).

    In the 60-64 age group, Jerry Meyer broke his 50 backstroke record (42.83) with a 39.75, and his 200 backstroke record (3:21.16) with a 3:15.90.  Both of these backstroke records were set at the March 2010 Albatross meet.  In addition, he set new team records in the 50 freestyle  (38.17) and 50 breaststroke (50.92).

 Congratulations all!

     On Saturday March 3rd, Brian Hinz, Jerry Meyer, Shay Strong, and Coach Ray represented CMYM at the UMBC Distance meet.  Shay started things off on the ladies side with a new team record in the 1650 in the 30-34 age group with a time of 24:56.61.

     On the men's side, Coach Ray broke Rick Hrybyk's 1650 record of 25:50.89 in the 45-49 age group that was set at the February 2005 UMBC Winter Meet with a time of 25:08.63.

     In the 60-64 age group, Jerry Meyer broke his own 200 freestyle record of 3:02.88 that was set at the December 11th Swim Series meet at Washington College with a time of 3:02.72.   He also broke his own record of 27:10.20 in the 1650 that was set at the University of Maryland in College Park in May of 2011 with a time of 27:06.54.

 Congratulations!

      On Saturday February 11th, Brian Hinz, Jerry Meyer, and Roy Troppman traveled to the Woods Community Center in Severna Park for the 5th Swim Series Meet.  Roy broke his own 100 Freestyle record of 1:02.02 in the 65-69 age group that was just set last month at the Arundel Olympic Swim Center with a 1:01.79.  He also broke his own 200 Freestyle record of 2:30.16 set at the January 2011 Swim Series Meet at the Arundel Olympic Swim Center with a 2:23.78.

Great Job!

     The night of January 29th, 29 CMYM swimmers participated in the One Hour Swim with over 100,000+ yards being done in the 3 time slots and another 10,000+ being done on January 10th by three additional swimmers.  Great job everyone!  Now, you must do one final step and go to the USMS Postal Swim for 2012 and register your swim. If you are not yet a member of USMS, be sure to sign up before registering your yardage.

Here is the link to join USMS -> https://www.clubassistant.com/club/usms.cfm?club=CMYM

Here is the link to register your swim -> https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1308&smid=3291

A big thanks you to all who counted, brought food/drink!

     On Sunday January 15th, Dan Beisel, Abby Glassberg, Lori Hartle, Brian Hinz, Jerry Meyer, Carole Owen, Anneliese Thomson, Roy Troppman, and Colley Johnson Ward trekked to the Arundel Olympic Swim Center in Annapolis for the 4th Swim Series Meet of the season.

     Colley Johnson Ward started things off by setting two new team records in the Women's 35-39 age group with new standards in the 200 breaststroke (3:12.53) and 100 butterfly (1:19.58).  In addition, she broke one of the oldest records on the board.  Lauren Parson's 400 IM record of 6:28.98 which was set at the February 2001 UMBC Winter Meet fell by the wayside as Ward finished with a 6:08.81.

      On the men's side in the 55-59 age group,Dan Beisel broke his own 500 freestyle record of 6:45.32 set at the January 2009 Arundel Olympic Swim Series meet with a 6:30.91.  He also broke his own 50 butterfly record of 32.00 which was set at the October 2009 Howard County YMCA Swim Series Meet with a 31.71.

     In the 60-64 age group, Jerry Meyer broke his own 100 backstroke record of 1:20.83 which was set at the February 2009 Swim Series Meet at the Woods Community Center with a 1:19.69.  He also set a new record in the 200 breaststroke with a 4:04.27.

     In the 65-69 age group, Roy Troppman thrashed two of his own team records.  He first set his sights on his own 50 freestyle record of 29.02 which was set at the October 2009 Howard County YMCA Swim Series Meet with a 27.73.  He then targeted his 100 freestyle record of 1:04.56 set at the Howard County YMCA Swim Series just this past October with an eye-popping 1:02.02.  Mission accomplished.

    Finally the 400 Freestyle Relay team of Anneliese Thomson, Lori Hartle, Abby Glassberg, and Carole Owen set a new standard of 5:45.55.  With this record, the 45+ Women have joined the 25+ Women in having a team record in every single official Short Course Yards relay.

 Kudos to all!