| May 24, 2013 - Coaching Jobs Available | |
 |  KEY Families, We are unfortunately in need of hiring coaches once again. Currently we are looking to hire a full-time Head Age Group Coach plus other part-time assistant coaches. One part-time coach... | |
| May 24, 2013 - Memorial Weekend Practice Update | |
| Practice Schedule Update Friday ? Normal all groups Saturday ? Normal National, Gold, Blue and Kingfish. No Red Group practice. Sunday ? NO practice for any group. Monday ? NO practice for any group... | |
| May 23, 2013 - Meet Sign Up Deadlines | |
| Meet Sign Up Deadlines Quad Meet May 26, 2013 PCY Sprint Meet May 24, 2013 KEY Pentathlon May 24, 2013 YMCA Summer Class... | |
| Apr 4, 2013 - Spring Roster Groups | |
|  Below are the roster group assignments for the Spring/Summer season. The Gold and National Groups have no changes because Coach Eric has not had time to meet with a few of those swimmers ... | |
| Feb 17, 2013 - Ohio High School State Qualifers | |
| Congratulations to all KEY swimmers who qualified for the Ohio High School State Meet being held next week at Canton. Good Luck! Kelly Drayton - Alter Mary Issenmann - Alter Jill Tankersley - Alter ... | |
| Dec 13, 2012 - 6 Nutritional Steps for a Speedy Post-Workout Recovery | |
| 6 Nutritional Steps for a Speedy Post-Workout Recovery By Madeline Romeo ? For Active.com Fruits, vegetables and fish are not the usual foods you think of after your tough workout. We often he... | |
| Oct 29, 2012 - Aerobic Development Guide for Parents | |
|  ===================================================================== Aerobic Development Guide for Parents John Leonard Otherwise known as basic aerobic fitness....how is it developed in Swimming... | |
| Oct 29, 2012 - On Holding Children Accountable | |
|  ===================================================================== On Holding Children Accountable Guy Edson A recent article, ?Self-Esteem Lie? by Laura Caler, elicited a number of replies fro... | |
| Aug 13, 2012 - 2012-2013 Season Practices | |
| 2012-2013 Season Practices Begin Tuesday, September 4th CLICK to view practice schedule. | |
| Aug 3, 2012 - Long Course Records Broken!!! | |
|  KEY SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN!!! We had 11 team records broken by 6 different swimmers this summer. Great job KEY Swimmers!!! View Long Course Records | |
| Jul 22, 2012 - Video Broadcast Link | |
| Below is the video broadcast link for YMCA Long Course Nationals. Please tune in and watch our team compete. Video Broadcast Link | |
| Jun 24, 2012 - Should My Child Swim Summer League? | |
|  ===================================================================== Should My Child Swim Summer League? By Priscilla Bettis Lynchburg YMCA Swim Team We?re in the midst of the summer league seaso... | |
| Jun 22, 2012 - Nutrition Tips for Young Athletes | |
|  ===================================================================== Nutrition Tips for Young Athletes From the American Youth Soccer Organization http://www.ayso104.org/parents/nutrition.html Nu... | |
| Jun 19, 2012 - Helping Your Child Become a Strong Competitor | |
|  Helping Your Child Become a Strong Competitor By Michael A. Taylor Gymnastics Risk Management and Consultation coacht@gym.net Visit Michael?s Website at www.gym.net You can help your child b... | |
| Apr 4, 2012 - Roster Groups | |
|  Updated Spring/Summer Roster Groups have been posted. ROSTER | |
| Mar 23, 2012 - KEY Words | |
|  ===================================================================== Key Words Guy Edson In the process of teaching swimming skills coaches often use ?key words.? Key words are a way to sum up a ... | |
| Mar 2, 2012 - Club Marinole is currently hiring for the 2012 season. | |
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| Mar 2, 2012 - The Team Culture Aspect of "Success" | |
|  February 27, 2012 ===================================================================== The Team Culture Aspect of "Success" John Leonard Think ahead to our end of season meets I would like to addre... | |
| Feb 16, 2012 - Why Swim, If You Can’t Win? | |
|  January 30, 2012 ===================================================================== Why Swim, If You Can?t Win? By Noah Whiteman, Age 11 If I was told I would never win a race again, then I wou... | |
| Jan 25, 2012 - Sending the Coach to Nationals:Thoughts for Everyone | |
|  December 26, 2011 ===================================================================== Sending the Coach to Nationals: Thoughts for Everyone Guy Edson, ASCA Staff* When you read the title above ... | |
| Jan 25, 2012 - Real Information | |
|  December 19, 2011 ===================================================================== Real Information By John Leonard In today?s world, information is easy to come by. Informed, educated by exp... | |
| Nov 10, 2011 - Minneapolis Grand Prix Meet | |
|  The Minneapolis Grand Prix Meet starts tomorrow morning. For anyone interested, below is a link to a live webcast of the meet. Webcast Live results | |
| Oct 30, 2011 - Swimming For Excellence | |
|  Parents, Swimmers and Coaches, Thank you for a great night at the Swimming For Excellence event at the South YMCA tonight. Everyone had a great time. Some pictures are attached. | |
| Oct 11, 2011 - Goal Thinking Versus Process Thinking | |
|  October 3, 2011 ===================================================================== Goal Thinking Versus Process Thinking John Leonard I would like to encourage parents to think about the mindse... | |
| Sep 21, 2011 - Do's and Don'ts for Sport Parents | |
|  September 19, 2011 ===================================================================== Do's and Don'ts for Sport Parents By Michael A. Taylor Gymnastics Risk Management and Consultation coacht@gym... | |
| Sep 20, 2011 - Another Reason To Love Having Your Child on the Swim Team | |
|  Another Reason To Love Having Your Child on the Swim Team [Editors note: This recent article by Nanci Hellmich in USA Today reminds us of how wonderful our sport of swimming is. Our swimmers are c... | |
| Sep 20, 2011 - Forged By Adversity | |
|  September 12, 2011 ===================================================================== Forged By Adversity Guy Edson, ASCA Staff I was following a school bus the other day when it stopped to p... | |
| Sep 20, 2011 - Kast-A-Way Swimwear Website Information | |
| South Community Family YMCA (KEY) Swim Team merchandise has been updated and is now on the Kast-A-Way Swimwear Web Site. Your swimmers can log on and purchase their already discounted team merchandi... | |
| Aug 26, 2011 - So this is Competitive Swimming: For Newer Swim Parents | |
|  August 22, 2011 So This Is Competitive Swimming: For Newer Swim Parents Russ Sampson Head Coach, Clarence Swim Club, New York First, let me start off by saying you have chosen the best sport for ... | |
| Aug 14, 2011 - TWITTER | |
|  KEY Swimming is now on Twitter. Click on the link below to follow the team. KEY Swimming | |
| Aug 13, 2011 - Congratulations Coach Eric | |
| Congratulations and good luck to Head Coach Eric. He was asked to participate and be a coach in the National YMCA's Elite Training Camp. He will be working with some of the top YMCA coaches and swimme... | |
| Aug 12, 2011 - The Beginning and End of Practice | |
|  August 8, 2011 The Beginning and End of Practice Guy Edson How we start and end practices is important. We want a happy and safe beginning and end. Many parents of newer, younger swimmers li... | |
| Aug 11, 2011 - Roster Posted | |
|  Parents and Swimmers, The roster for the 2011-2012 Fall/Winter Season of KEY Swimming has been posted at the following link. 2011-2012 Roster Thanks, KEY Coaching Staff | |
| Aug 2, 2011 - Registrations OPEN!!!! | |
|  Electronic Registration is now open! Join the fun! Whether you're a returning family or new family joining our team, the registration process is simple and takes only a few minutes. You will be reques... | |
| Jul 21, 2011 - The Day After | |
|  July 18, 2011 The Day After Guy Edson, ASCA Staff Workout on the day after a swim meet is critically important to attend. Why is it so important? 1.It?s an opportunity for the coach to recogni... | |
| Jul 11, 2011 - Eliminate Your Competition | |
|  Week of July 11, 2011 ================================================================================== ?Eliminate Your Competition? Guy Edson, ASCA Staff Here are some short vignettes of paren... | |
| Jun 23, 2011 - Hard Work | |
|  June 20 , 2011 Hard Work By John Leonard We believe hard work is its own reward. We believe that everyone benefits from hard work. It teaches all of us that nothing is given to us, it has to b... | |
| Jun 16, 2011 - Prelims and Finals Meets | |
|  Prelims and Finals Meets Written by Head Coach Ray Benecki, The FISH, Fairfax, VA Every so often we are presented with the tremendous opportunity to swim in a meet that has prelims and finals sessi... | |
| Jun 10, 2011 - Championship Hotel Information | |
| Hotel Information for championships in Oxford has been posted. Only 15 rooms left. Deadline is June 20th. Click HERE for link. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 - The Awesome 8 Year Old | |
|  The Awesome 8 Year Old By Guy Edson, ASCA Staff I have never met a coach who didn?t want all their athletes to be the best they can be. I have never met a parent who didn?t want their child to be the ... | |
| Apr 19, 2011 - KEY Swimming Officially on Facebook | |
| Hello Everyone, KEY Swimming-South YMCA is now officially on Facebook. Click on the link below and become a friend. KEY Swimming | |
| Apr 16, 2011 - Congratulations to Ty Perkins | |
|  Congratulations go out to KEY Alum Ty Perkins. He now attends and swims for The Ohio State University and just received "Mike Cochran Award" which goes out to the "Most Promising Freshman" for the V... | |
| Mar 15, 2011 - Missing iPod | |
| Hello everyone. Joe Warner lost his iPod on Sunday morning of the meet this past weekend. It is in a black case and the screensaver is a firey eagle. If anyone has found it, please email Jane Warner a... | |
| Oct 7, 2010 - YMCA Championship Qualifying Times | |
| YMCA League, Zone and National Championship Qualifying Times have been posted to the website. Click HERE for the link. You can also find it under the Time Standards tab. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 - Busbey Update | |
| Everyone is swimming well and having a great time here in Cleveland, Ohio at the Busbey Meet. Drew Krueger earned his National cut in the 100 Free on Friday night by placing first in a time of 58.22. ... | |
| Jun 8, 2010 - Summer Classic Information | |
| The warm-up times and the psych sheet for the YMCA Summer Classic Meet this weekend at Miami University has been posted to the meet page. Click HERE for the Summer Classic Meet page. | |
| Jun 1, 2010 - Summer Hotels | |
| KEY Parents and Swimmers, The Hotel information for Summer Championships has been posted on the website. There is only a small window to reserve these rooms so please don't wait. Click HERE for... | |
| May 19, 2010 - South YMCA - KEY Swimming | |
|  The South YMCA - KEY Swimming program has been awarded as a Bronze Medal Team for 2010. This is part of USA Swimming's Club of Excellence Program. We scored 4,220 points and this is the 2nd year in ... | |
| May 18, 2010 - KEY Swimming Polo Shirts | |
| KEY SWIMMING POLO SHIRTS ORDER FORMS DUE BACK BY 5/28/10 PLEASE PUT IN RED BOX ATTENTION: ERIC WENTZEL SHIRTS WILL BE NAVY AND WHITE LAST NAME: _______________________... | |
| May 13, 2010 - Gold Group Practice? | |
| Check out this video of the Gold Group on May 13, 2010. They sure look like they are practicing hard. Click the link below to check it out. Gold Group Video | |
| May 4, 2010 - Five Fixable Food Errors! | |
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| Jan 29, 2010 - Coach Matt Liddy | |
| It is with great regret what we have experienced this past week. As several people know by now, Coach Matt Liddy passed away on Monday. Coach Liddy grew up in Dayton, graduated from Chaminade-Julien... | |
| Jan 27, 2010 - Siobhan's January Newsletter #2 | |
| Hi Everyone, Just another update to let you know what is happening with White and Red group. We competed at the Middletown meet and had a pretty good end result for many swimmers. I saw a ... | |
| Jan 21, 2010 - Siobhan's January Newsletter | |
| Hi Again everyone. Just a quick update on things at the pool. We are winding up the winter season. And I want to remind everyone that you must have competed in at least three meets to be eligible ... | |
| Dec 30, 2009 - 2009 Swim Camp Day 4 | |
|  2009 Swim Camp Day 4 Another Swim Camp done and everyone is home. As the coaches announced the last practice was over, the swimmers exclaimed things such as: "YES!!!! My last training trip is fi... | |
| Dec 29, 2009 - 2009 Swim Camp Day 3 | |
|  2009 Swim Camp Day 3 This is our last full day, the seniors were giving each other high fives, realizing it was their final dry land at training camp, and no more running stairs at IUP... | |
| Dec 28, 2009 - 2009 Swim Camp Day 2 | |
|  2009 Swim Camp Day 2 Today we had our first double and I was amazed that nobody told me that they hated me. The morning practice was a long freestyle set with the afternoon practice be... | |
| Dec 27, 2009 - 2009 Swim Camp Day 1 | |
|  2009 Swim Camp Day 1 Everyone is here at Indianapolis and doing well. There are 49 swimmers, 4 coaches and 2 chaperones which made the trip. We just finished a great dinner prepared by our chapero... | |
| Dec 15, 2009 - Siobhan's December Newsletter | |
| Hello again Just an update for the Holiday season to let everyone know what is going on over our break. There will be no practices for Red or White Dec 24-26. Practices will resume on the 27 t... | |
| Nov 24, 2009 - Kingfish November Newsletter #2 | |
| The season has been going great. Everyone swam really well at the Beavercreek meet this weekend. The pool was a meter pool, which is a little longer than the swimmers are used to, but they all adjus... | |
| Nov 23, 2009 - Thanksgiving Week Practice Schedule | |
| Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday National 9am-11am @South NO AM; OPTIONAL GOLD NORMAL NORMAL Gold 9am-11am @South NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL Blue NONE NONE NORMAL NORMAL Red NONE NONE NONE NORMAL White NON... | |
| Nov 18, 2009 - Siobhan's Newsletter #5 | |
| Wow, we?re really hitting the busy season for swimming. We have the BVCY meet this weekend and two weeks from now we are at Fishers Indiana or Springfield for the SPY Invitational. Remember it is not ... | |
| Nov 10, 2009 - Siobhan's Newsletter #4 | |
| Hello Again, Sorry for the long delay. I continue to have issues with my PC and this has delayed my ability to print out my newsletters and Swimmer of the Week pictures. Not a lot to report but some t... | |
| Nov 5, 2009 - Kingfish November Newsletter | |
| Kingfish Newsletter October 3 rd 2009 With a couple months under our belts now, Coach Mary, Lauren and Brittany want to say GREAT JOB to everyone and THANK YOU for all of your help. KEY won the mee... | |
| Nov 3, 2009 - 11-12 Year Old Bowling Party | |
| Bowling All 11 and 12 year old boys and girls from White, Red and Blue groups Sunday November 22 at 1:30 after the Beavercreek meet till 5:00 ish Cost $8.00 for 3 games and shoes Pizza and snacks ... | |
| Oct 19, 2009 - Kingfish October Newsletter | |
| Our first meet is under our belt and a big THANK YOU to the parents that volunteered their time. The Kingfish group had 16 swimmers participating over the weekend at the Key Invitational and they ... | |
| Oct 19, 2009 - Siobhan's Newsletter #3 | |
| Hello, I wanted to congratulate all the swimmers that competed in their first meet this past weekend. You all did fantastic. I hope you had fun and got a feel for winter swimming. Parents, thanks for ... | |
| Oct 11, 2009 - KEY Invitational Warm Ups | |
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| Oct 7, 2009 - Siobhan's Newsletter #2 | |
| Hello Again Everyone. Hopefully everyone is starting to get into the routine of practices and is feeling more comfortable with the schedule. We have completed our work with all the stroke techniques a... | |
| Sep 21, 2009 - Siobhan's Newsletter #1 | |
|  Hello Everyone, this is our first newsletter. We are presently working on breast stroke this week having completed backstroke and freestyle. You will note that yardage is slowly starting to increase... | |
| Sep 16, 2009 - Updated Kast-A-Way Website | |
| South Community Family YMCA (KEY) Swim Team merchandise has been updated and is now on the New Kast-A-Way Swimwear Web Site. Now all your swimmers can log on and purchase their already discounte... | |
| Sep 1, 2009 - Meet Schedule | |
| The 2009-2010 Short Course Meet Schedule has been posted to the "Meet Schedules" tab. This schedule is subject to change at coaches discretion. | |
| Aug 1, 2009 - Kettering YMCA Swim Team Tops in Nation | |
| Printed in the August 6th edition of the Dayton Daily News as "A Team for the Ages" Twenty-two swimmers from the Kettering YMCA (KEY) Swim Team competed last week in YMCA Long Course Nationals in Coll... | |
| Apr 28, 2009 - The South YMCA - KEY Swim Team | |
|  The South YMCA - KEY Swim Team has earned the right to be a Bronze Medal Club under the USA Swimming National Club Excellence Program. The team scored 859 points. You can click HERE to see the whole... | |
