TNYA

TNYA News and Updates

Have You Renewed Your National Membership?

Because the time for procrastination has passed, folks. If you do not have a valid 2012 USMS membership you will not be allowed to swim. But there’s a solution! Renew online right now. Polo players need to renew online through USA Water Polo as well.

posted Wednesday, Jan 04

Upcoming Basic Skills Clinics

Our Basic Skills Clinics are back up and running. As before, they’ll be on selected Saturdays at Baruch, 3:30-4:30PM, coached by the fabulous Susan Murray, and space will be limited. Be aware of one change, though: Miriam Tuliao, for years our tireless clinic registrar, got a promotion at work and has stepped down, so to reserve a spot, you’ll need to contact Susan directly.

Here’s the schedule:

  • Feb. 4: Freestyle
  • Feb. 18: Backstroke
  • March 3: Breaststroke
  • March 17: Butterfly
  • March 31: Flip turns
  • April 4: Starts
  • April 28: Butterfly

posted Tuesday, Jan 31

Schedule Changes for Spring

Two changes affecting workouts at John Jay College will take effect over the next week or so:

  1. Double Fridays return starting Jan. 27, with workouts from 6-7:30PM and 7:30-9PM.
  2. Later Wednesday workouts begin on Feb. 1 because of a class using the pool, meaning workouts will be 7-8PM and 8-9:30PM. This will continue until sometime in May.

posted Monday, Jan 23

Aquapalooza II is March 10

TNYA is hosting its first ever Swim and Dive Invitational on Saturday, March 10 at the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Aquatic Center. The contract is signed, the organizational committee is formed, and registration will be up shortly. Christopher Politan, Warren Perry, Josh Judge, and Croft Vaughn are leading the march. Mark your calendars and keep a lookout for further information in your inbox. We will be seeking both volunteers and members who can host out-of-towners on the couch or in a spare bed.

posted Saturday, Dec 31

Annual Meeting is Feb. 6

Mark your calendars: we’re meeting from 6 to 7:30 PM at the AIDS Service Center NYC, located at 41 East 11th Street, 5th Floor. We’ll review 2011, look forward to 2012, elect our Board of Directors, and mingle and have snacks. Your participation is important to the functioning of the team, and we hope you’ll be there.

posted Saturday, Dec 31

A Friendly Reminder

Please remember that the only diving that should happen at a swim practice is off the blocks, under direct coach supervision. In other words, never, ever dive off the deck into the pool. Doing so violates our contract with our host facilities and also voids our liability coverage with USMS. Both of these things are bad and could put this team in serious hot water. So please — don’t. Yes, even you.

Diving at diving practice is, of course, encouraged. But even then you have to do it off the boards.

posted Tuesday, Nov 29

The TNYA Board Wants You

All members are hereby invited to consider a run for the Board of Directors. The Board is the group of volunteers that makes the day-to-day decisions that keep the team working and it’s important. Board members attend a monthly meeting, do a little specialization (lead a committee, write up the news bulletins, something), and take part in e-mail conversations when decisions need to be made in a timely fashion. If you have enthusiasm and opinions on how things should be done around here, and an interest in working with others to keep the team running, we want you. Watch for a formal call for candidates soon, but start considering it now; and if you want to talk to any board member, we’re all happy to answer your questions.

posted Tuesday, Nov 29

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.