Our last day in Montreal was as sweet as the smells from Pom's bakery with some BIG swims coming from all sides.  After rising our team point status to 15th position after day three, WSY delivered with four swims in tonight's finals, plus two more scoring swims from the morning timed finals session.  Genevieve Miller found...

A BIG congratulations goes out to Kelly Ann Baird who competed last weekend in Fort Meyers, Florida at the US Open Water Nationals.  Kelly Ann raced the best open water swimmers in the country (as well as Canda who was there for their World Championship Trials) and finished a solid 14th place among the Americans.  Her effort

Four WSY swimmers took to the (open) water last weekend at the North Carolina Swimming Open Water Championships and brought home some great results!  In the 13-14 division, Alex Fox completed the 3K distance with a second place male performance while Genevieve Miller hit dry land with a third place finish in the female

A BIG congratulations goes out to our own Kelly Ann Baird and Genevieve Miller, both of whom were named Swimmers of the Year by North Carolina Swimming!  Kelly Ann was named Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year while Genevieve was named 12 & Under Female Swimmer of the Year.  Way to represent WSY!

Congratulations to all of our National Team swimmers who just completed the YMCA Short Course National Championships last week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Fourteen swimmers endured cold mornings and spent afternoons hiding from the sun as part of the ritual of the week long event.  Our womens team finished in...

Congratulations go out to longtime WSY official Joel Black who was awarded the Conrad Carroll Officials Award during the 2009 YMCA Short Course National Championships.  This award is given in memory of Conrad “Connie” Carroll who served tirelessly for 18 years as a swimming and diving official at all levels of... 

WSY was again named a Silver Medal by USA Swimming for the second year in a row!  This exclusive list ranks WSY among the top 100 swim clubs in the country based on athlete performance as well as organizational success!  Way to go WSY!

The 4th annual Short Course Y-NOTS was a success!  A record number of swimmers and many meet records were broken; returning Y-NOTS alumnus Daniel Wendel broke the 100 Dolphin Dives record swimming a 1:04.57, Taylor Hill set the 50 Tarzan record with a 28.14 and the Gold Team A relay (Thomas Bullock...

The WSY/USA Swimming Swim-A-Thon went better than ever, raising almost three times the amount of funds from last year!  This effort will be a huge factor in our operating budget and allow our WSY program to avoid large program fee increases and offer more freedom to enhance our program even more!  The grand total raised...

In a full team electronic vote that took place over the past few weeks, WSY Swimming has decided to dissolve the WSY Parent Board by a 92% majority vote.  This decision came after a handful of minor technicalities from the YMCA encouraged the group to look at their purpose and effectiveness.  The vote was tallied as 95-8 agreeing...

Fast times were everywhere this past weekend at the USRY Championship in Cary, NC.  Many WSY swimmers posted personal best performances and big swims to help the team finish in sixth place overall.  Meet highlights include Grace Baird achieveing her first YMCA Spring National qualifying times in the 1000 and 1650...

Many WSY swimmers posted best times this past weekend at the GYSSA Championships.  The team finsihed a strong third place overall lead by event winners Henry Chen, Connor Hill, Taylor Hill, Richard Lang, Cory Pooley, Matthew Wagner and Allison Warnimont.  Complete meet results and WSY meet results by name are...

Congratulations to all our swimmers who participated at the NCS 14- Age Group Championships!  WSY had a great showing finishing ninth place overall and had many finalists, point scorers and personal best times performed!  Kudos to the following swimmers who qualified for the NCS Select Camp by finishing in the top...

Congratulations go out to our very own Kelly Ann Baird who represented Team USA at the 2009 Junior Pan Pacific Championships!  The international competition was held in Guam on January 8-11, 2009 and featured the best junior athletes from multiple Pan Pac nations including Australia, Canada, China and Japan...