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Dave Hedden
Head Swim Coach
Smith Family YMCA
1350 S. Briggs Street
Joliet, IL 60433
Office: 815.726.3939 x412
Cell: 815.603.1114
Fax: 815.726.3968
dhedden@jolietymca.org

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2009:
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS!
Have a
Merry Christmas!

Savannah Rubocki, Angela Sims, Alex Rubocki,
Emily Thomas, and Charlene Dundek
made a snowman after Christmas Camp practice one
evening.
Update on Samantha Bulow
- Letter from Donna Bulow
Dear Family, Friends, Teachers and Coaches:
Just a quick note to let everyone know (and
those who I may not have had a chance to get to
yet) that the surgery was a complete success.
Even better, Samantha was released 2 days after
open heart surgery! We got to bring her
home Saturday afternoon. Can you believe
it? Everything went fine with the surgery
and they had her walking through the halls of
the PSHU ward by 6pm Friday night!! Of
course she still had the help of those wonderful
"pain medicines" but as of Saturday morning they
had her off those and had removed all of the
tubes and most of the IV's that she was attached
to.
She is glad to be home and seems to think she is
Wonder Woman. She seems to forget what her
body just went through but eventually it catches
up to her and she is sound asleep as I am
writing this!
Steve and I would like to thank everyone for
their thoughts and prayers. We have such a
wonderful support team and your support has
helped us through a very difficult time.
Donna

JETS Christmas Training Camp
All Pre-Senior and Senior level swimmers will be
invited to do our annual Christmas Camp.
This year, it will be December 22 - January 3.
Check the calendar for the schedule.
January 3: Dual Meet vs. BR Ryall YMCA
The BR Ryall YMCA will be hosting us on
Saturday, January 3. Swimmers who have not
swam in at least 3 Y meets this season are
highly encouraged to attend some (or all) of
these upcoming YMCA dual meets so that you can
meet the requirement to participate at YMCA
Districts on March 1. It is not too late
to enter the BRRY dual meet. Please
contact Coach Dave.
January 11: Dual Meet vs. Naperville
YMCA
The Naperville YMCA will be hosting a meet on
Sunday, January 11. This meet will only be
open to swimmers who still need a Y meet.
Please contact Coach Dave to enter.
January 17: Dual Meet vs. Fox Valley
YMCA
The Fox Valley YMCA will be hosting us on
Saturday afternoon, January 17. Please
contact Coach Dave to enter.
SUMMARIES & ARCHIVED NEWS
Summary: 2008 BR Ryall Mile
Nine of our
Pre-Senior/Senior level swimmers hopped on a
YMCA bus early on Saturday morning and
headed up to UIC for the BR Ryall Mile
meet. The only event offered was the 1,650
Freestyle. We had terrific swims with 100%
best times and dropped a total of nearly 4
minutes off our best times altogether.
Charlene Dundek, Savannah Rubocki and Emily
Thomas each swam this event for the first
time. Congratulations to Savannah for
achieving a AA time and also a Regional
Championship cut. After the meet, we
stopped for lunch at Heroes West on the way
home. The kids were very unified, cheered
loudly and had a lot of fun.
Summary: 2008 Jingle Bells Swim Meet
Congratulations on another fun, safe and
fast swim meet hosted by our team! Great
job to all the parents who helped set-up and
run the meet. The meets we host are always
the best, with great food too! The kids did
fantastic. 90% of our swimmers achieved at
least one best time, and a total of 54% of
our swims were best times, which is up from
52% last year. We were giving out candy
canes for best times and the bucket was
nearly empty by the end of day one....the
coaches kept telling the kids to slow down
so we would have enough for the next day,
but they didn't listen. We dropped a total
of 19 minutes and 31 seconds, which
is roughly 135 seconds more than we dropped
at this meet last year. You might contest
that we had more swimmers compete this
year, however, our total splash count was
actually down from last year....so we
dropped more time with fewer opportunities.
We are well on our way to sail past the
total number of seconds dropped last
season. Our biggest area of improvement was
the long swims (400 IM and 500 Free). Our
improvement percentage in those events at
this meet last year was 56%, but this year
we saw 78% best times in those
events. We had 16 swimmers achieve new B
times at the Jingle Bells meet and 8 achieve
new BB standards. Congratulations to
Savannah Rubocki for achieving a new A time
in her 200 Free. We saw 6 JETS achieve new
Regional Championship cuts: Michelle
Fairbairn, Kyle Potts, Alex Rubocki,
Savannah Rubocki, Beth Senese, and Jonathon
Yanello. In addition, Michelle
Fairbairn swam under the Y Area
Champ qualifying time in the 100 Fly, as did
Savannah Rubocki in the 200 Free and
Jonathon Yanello in the 50 Free. Awesome
meet!
Summary: 2008
YMCA Thanksgiving Classic
The team did well. We had just over 50%
best times, the same improvement percentage as
we had last year at this meet. We took
home the third place trophy, which will be at
the Smith YMCA this week and Galowich next week.
We took home the third place trophy last year as
well. We had 14 swimmers achieve new B
times and 9 achieve new BB times. Michelle
Fairbairn and Youjia Wang each achieved new A
times at this meet. We also had four
swimmers achieve a new Regional Championship
cut: Kim Bernhard, Michelle Fairbairn,
Alex Rubocki and Savannah Rubocki.
Savannah also achieved a Y State standard in the
100 Free. Additional congratulations go to
Alex Rubocki and Austin Miller, who went under 1
minute for the first time in their 100 Free!
Mike Bernhard was our lone 1,650 swimmer at this
meet, and he dropped 42 seconds off his best
time! We will have roughly 8 kids swimming
the mile at the Ryall Mile meet in a few weeks.
Congratulations to all!
Summary:
2008 Ghostly Gathering
The Ghostly Gathering meet was a great success.
The meet ran very smoothly and was a lot of fun
thanks to all the great parents helping out!
Statistically speaking, the kids swam
significantly better than last year at this
meet. We had 102 JETS swimmers compete and 100
(98%) achieved at least one best time. We had
77% best times overall, with our best events
being the 200 yard events (85% BT's) and 400+
yard events (100% BT's). It's great to see us
doing well in the longer events. We had 20
swimmers achieve a new standard of some sort.
18 swimmers achieved a new B time and 10
achieved a new BB time. One swimmer achieved a
new A time: Savannah Rubocki. We had 6
swimmers achieve a new Regional Championship
qualifying time: Nathan Fairbairn, Alex
Rubocki, Savannah Rubocki, Emily Thomas, Youjia
Wang, and Jonathon Yanello. We had 2 swimmers
with a new Y Area Champs qualifying time (which
must be met at the Y District meet to qualify):
Alex Rubocki and Savannah Rubocki. Special
congratulations to all our swimmers who competed
in events for the first time! I saw a lot of
great courage and great attitudes from our
swimmers. Let's continue to work hard and have
fun and get ready for the next meet.
Summary:
2008 Tri-Meet vs KKEE & TOPS
Congratulations to all the JETS for
kicking off the season with a great meet on Sunday,
October 5. Many thanks to all the parents who
helped run the meet, and thanks again to all who
came early and/or stayed later to help set up and
clean up. This was the first swim meet
experience for many of our swimmers and hopefully
everyone had a great time. We saw some great
swims, some fantastic time drops, and awesome
courage as kids competed in events for the first
time. 89 out of 93 swimmers achieved at least
one best time, and 75% of all our swims were best
times. We had 9 swimmers achieve new B or BB
times and Youjia Wang achieved a new A time in his
50 Breast while swimming under the Y Area Champs
q-time.
YMCA Nationals
Journal
I
plan on writing some daily updates from Y Nationals
each night to share some of the stories and some of
the experiences of being at Nationals in order to
keep kids connected with what their teammates our
doing out here, to build some excitement for kids to
want to be here and to give kids some familiarity
with the meet so that, when they make the trip
themselves, they have an idea of what to expect.
Click here to read about how things are going at Y
Nationals.
Summary:
2008 ISI Long Course Senior State Championships
On July 24-27, Kaitlin Milburn competed in both the
800 Free and 1,500 Free at Senior Champs at
Northwestern University. Kaitlin swam a great
race in her 800 Free on Thursday and achieved a best
time. She also swam a strong race on Sunday,
but was just a little off her best in her 1,500.
Great job, Kaitlin!
Announcing our
2008 JETS YMCA National Team
The JETS will have three swimmers competing at the
YMCA Long Course National Championships at the
University of Maryland in College Park, MD on July
29 - August 1, 2008. Congratulations to Ben
Foreman, Murphy Hebbard, and Keegan Shepherd.
Ben will compete in the 200 Fly, 50 Fly, 50 Breast,
and 50 Free. Murphy will compete in the 50
Breast and 100 Breast. Keegan will compete in
the 50 Free. This will be Keegan's first trip
to Y Nationals and Ben's last. Ben has
graduated and will attend Wheeling Jesuit University
in West Virginia starting this fall.
Announcing our
2008 JETS State Team
Congratulations to Ben Foreman, Murphy Hebbard,
Jessica Milburn, Kaitlin Milburn, and Keegan
Shepherd for qualifying for the ISI Senior State
Championships on July 24-27, 2008. Ben,
Murphy, and Keegan will not attend as they will be
headed out to Y Nationals. Congratulations to
Carly Breitbarth, Trisha Covarrubia, Savannah
Rubocki, and Emily Thomas for qualifying for the ISI
Age Group State Championships on August 1-3, 2008.
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MEETS WE
HOST |
Ghostly Gathering
October 25-26, 2008
UIC Natatorium
Jingle Bells
December 6-7, 2008
Waubonsie Valley High School
Fabulous Fifties
(revised date)
January 23-25, 2009
Oswego East High School
IL-MO Area YMCA Champs
March 6-8, 2009
Kishwaukee YMCA |
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