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End-of-Summer Pool Closings (and Savings) Announced

It’s August already, which is totally freaking your webmaster out. But of greater importance is that August heralds the annual late-summer schedule changes, when our many of our host pools close for maintenance prior to the start of the school year. Here’s what we know:

John Jay College: No pool closings. All workouts as scheduled.
Columbia University: Closed August 16-22
Baruch College: Closed August 16-30
LIU: Closed August 19-September 7

Bear in mind also that there will be no workouts on Labor Day weekend (Sep 4-6).

To reflect the closings, and the closings of John Jay College for so much of July, the subscription rates for the month of August have been cut in half.

One final thing: To reflect late-summer drops in attendance, there will be no workouts at LIU on Wednesday mornings during the month of August, i.e. August 4 and 11.

posted Wednesday, Aug 18

No More Sunday PM Practice at Baruch

In response to dwindling subscription numbers, we’re no longer holding the Sunday afternoon practice at Baruch College, effective immediately.

posted Friday, Aug 06

The Community List and You

TNYA offers, in addition to the official news broadcasts sent via email, an unofficial mailing list for members to publicize whatever they have handy: apartments sought/offered, things for sale, social events, and whatever. Sort of like our own personal Craigslist.

Swimmers are not automatically signed up for the Community list. To sign up — or to unsubscribe — log into your member account and use the form you’ll find on the main page. To post to the list, see the instructions on our mailing list page.

posted Thursday, Mar 25

Help the Fortoul Fellowships Help Your Teammates

As the economy continues to tank, TNYA is seeing an increasing number of swimmers swim less — or stop swimming altogether — because they have become unemployed. The team’s Fortoul Fellowship program is there to help prevent that from happening; but for it to do so, it needs your help.

If you still have a job, please consider making a donation to the Fortoul Fellowship. Perhaps a bit of that tax refund, the savings from a few bypassed cosmos or the proceeds from your recent eBay sale could be directed to this worthy cause. Please bear in mind that decreased attendance at practices could cause our current luxurious schedule of 19 swim workouts per week in 4 pools to undergo downsizing. And nobody wants that, do they?

The board is currently making plans to raise funds for the Fellowship in new, long-term ways. Stay tuned for future developments. But until that produces some revenue, we are asking for your help to see us through the next couple of quarters. Contributions to the Fellowship go 100% to helping swimmers and are fully tax-deductible. There are no administrative costs.

To make a contribution, e-mail Team Admin Mark D’Ambrosi and let him know how much you’d like to donate — it will be charged against the credit card we have on file. You can also hand a check made out to TNYA, with “Fortoul Fellowship” in the memo line, to a gatekeeper to send in for you, or snail-mail a check to Mark at the address listed on the contacts page

posted Friday, May 15

More Upcoming Events

Can be found on the calendar page. Check it out, why don't you? It includes team social and athletic events as well as selected local and national meets.