Continue Your Child’s Love of Swimming by
Joining a Competitive Team Today
Press Release 8/19
PERTH AMBOY – Known as “America’s Swim Instructor,” more than a million children and teens learn to swim every year at the Y. Once completing swim lessons, many kids enjoy the water recreationally for the rest of their lives. For those who want to take their swimming to an even higher level, the RARITAN BAY AREA YMCA offers three competitive swim teams.
Competitive swim at the Y includes the Tsunami Swim Team, the Perth Amboy Piranha’s Special Olympics Swim Team and the RBAY Masters’ Teams. Programs vary in size but typically include swimmers from age 6 to 18. Masters programs begin at age 19 and have no age limit.
“YMCA competitive swimming and diving teams are the natural progression from Safety Around Water and Y Swim Lessons, encouraging children and teens to continue their love of swimming while providing an ideal environment for cognitive, physical and social-emotional development,” said, Steve Jobin, CEO, RARITAN BAY AREA YMCA. “Through competitive aquatics programs, participants experience achievement, feel a sense of belonging and build supportive relationships.”
The Tsunami Swim Team is holding open tryouts on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH and WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for anyone interested in becoming a part of the team.
Nationally, the Y is a leader in competitive swim and has been for more than 100 years when the first national YMCA swimming records were filed in 1907. Today, over 60,000 athletes, 2,100 registered coaches and 5,100 trained officials are part of competitive swimming and diving at the Y. Additionally, 1,200 Ys have a competitive aquatics programs and more than 250 YMCAs have a Masters Swim Program
Each year, swimming and diving culminates in four national events. Including the 2019 YMCA Short Course National Championship, 2019 YMCA National Diving Championship, 2019 YMCA Masters National Meet and the 2019 YMCA Long Course National Championship.
To get involved in competitive swim, contact Coach Darian Russell, drussell@rbaymca.org.
About the Y The Y is one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the U.S., 2,700 Ys engage 22 million men, women and children – regardless of age, income or background – to nurture the potential of children and teens, improve the nation’s health and well-being, and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. Anchored in more than 10,000 communities, the Y has the long-standing relationships and physical presence not just to promise, but to deliver, lasting personal and social change. www.rbaymca.org
