••• PLEASE SEE THE EMAIL SENT FOR FULL INSTRUCTIONS •••

The 2024 Michigan YMCA 9 & Over State Championship meet held at Saginaw Valley State University on March 2-3, 2024 is now open for entries. This meet is a required meet for all swimmers who have achieved 9 & Up YMCA State Qualifying times, except for high school boys. The deadline for entry is Thursday, February 22 at 8pm. No late entries can be accepted!

If you miss the sign-up, your child will not be able to swim because there are no deck entries. I highly recommend signing up as soon as you receive this email and double check your entry. You can always adjust entries any time before the deadline if needed (don’t forget to click SAVE). Any new qualifiers from YMCA 8&under States will need to email their qualified event if they desire swimming at this meet.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY (BONUS SWIMS): If your child has at least one qualifying time, you will receive an extra email alerting you to the meet available for entry in your Parent Portal. Swimmers who have achieved only 1 or 2 individual event time standards may supplement their entry with bonus events so that the total of individual events (qualified event(s) plus bonus swims) equals 3 individual events for the meet (i.e., 1 qualified time can add 2 bonus or 2 qualified with 1 bonus).

••• Email bbdentries@gmail.com with your child’s bonus swims (event # and name) BEFORE the entry deadline on 2/22/23 at 8pm, if you want “bonus” swims added! •••

IMPORTANT ••• BBD is hosting this meet •••, therefore volunteers are needed to run a smooth, successful meet. At least one person is REQUIRED to volunteer for EACH session your child is swimming. We cannot make this meet happen without you! Please see the signup genius below for volunteer signup and please pay close attention to signing up for the correct sessions (ie 13&overs in the AM sessions and 12&unders in the PM sessions). Thank you in advance for your willingness to help out.

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VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP GENIUS
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CABA62AABFB6-47555717-2024#/

​Please review the meet packet below in full, as there are many important details in there. Y State qualifying times may be found at the end of the meet packet, on the BBD website, on your child’s BBD bag tag, and on their motivational sheets that your child was provided earlier in the season.

​2024 YMCA State Meet packet
https://www.bbdswimming.com/clubs/6769/documents/563020

The hotel block has been, listed under MEETS in the navigation above.

If you believe your child has qualified for this meet but the meet is not available in your Parent Portal, AND you have confirmed it by reviewing the qualifying time standards, please email as well.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Lisa Helmick, BBD Meet Entry Chair, at bbdentries@gmail.com

••• As always, if you have any outstanding meet fees your child will not have access to enter this meet until those fees are paid. Reminder emails have already been sent regarding unpaid fees. If this applies, you must email bbdentries@gmail.com once meet fees are paid BEFORE the entry deadline to have the Parent Portal opened for entry. •••

Good evening,

As you may know, BBD will be the host team for the upcoming YMCA 9&Up State Meet scheduled for March 2-3 at Saginaw Valley State University. Our Meet Managers have been hard at work planning to make this a fun and exciting weekend of competition for our qualifying swimmers. We wanted to share some important information related to the meet so you can plan ahead.

Meet Schedule – Following are the times for warm-ups for the sessions both days. Please see the attached document showing the order of events and qualifying times if you have any questions about whether your swimmer will be eligible.

AM Sessions – 13&Up
Warm-ups: 7:30 AM
Events: 8:30 AM

PM Sessions – 9-10 & 11-12
Warm-ups: Not before 12:00 PM
Events: Not before 1:00 PM

Volunteer Sign-Up – Parents of participating swimmers are expected to sign-up to volunteer for each session in which they have an athlete competing. We will need all hands “on deck” to make this a successful meet. Please click the Sign-Up Genius link below and reserve your spot now. It may be helpful to reference the attachment before signing up for a time slot.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CABA62AABFB6-47555717-2024#/

Apparel Store Open – Meet apparel is available for pre-order at this Online Store.
https://www.fdsportswear.com/events/2024-michigan-ymca-9--over-championship-1

Hotel Blocks – Hotel rooms are still available. Check the Meet Schedule section of our website for room block links.

Online Entry – Registration for this meet is NOT yet available. Stay tuned!

Meet Packet:
https://bbd.bbdswimming.com/clubs/6769/documents/562939

Thank you in advance for helping to make this a memorable championship meet for our hardworking swimmers!
BBD Boosters Board

We received word from the Flint Falcons that the location of tomorrow’s meet has been changed. The meet will now be held at Fenton High School. Please read below for more details.

Falcon/Otters 50s Meet
​Feb 04, 2024 – Feb 04, 2024 Fenton High School, 3200 W. Shiawassee, Fenton Michigan

EVENT INFORMATION
Event Location: Fenton High School, 3200 W. Shiawassee, Fenton Michigan
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE FROM BRANDON HS to FENTON HS
9:00 Warmup, 10:00 Start for ALL age groups

Dear Parents and Swimmers,

Congratulations on an outstanding Circle City Meet! Our team finished second overall, and our boys won their portion of the meet. We had three new YMCA National Meet qualifiers: Quinn Norlander, Calvin Meeker and Turner Worth. Two of our boys won individual high-point awards for their age group. Ozan Saraydar took the 9-10 boys, Angus MacDonald broke five Circle City meet records and collected the high-point award for the Open Boys.

Angus won the 200 and 400 IMs, the 200 free, the 100 breast and the 200 breast (Joey Stebbins was second, Charlie McCuiston third, and Nate Stebbins fourth). Ozan Saraydar took the 9-10 50 and 100 fly and the 100 free. Mary Bailey was the champion in the 9-10 50 and 100 breast and the 50 free. Other firsts came from Joey Stebbins in the Open 200 back, Nico Bonel-Muras in 13-14 100 free, Jack McCuiston in the 13-14 100 breast (Charlie Michael was second,) and Ruichen (Ethan) Xu set a new team record when he won the Open 200 fly.

All of our swimmers were busy dropping time, qualifying for various championship meets, meeting professional basketball players and dance moms—-truly a memorable weekend.

We are about to enter the exciting championship season…..we have meets and clinics etc. Our seniors are finding out where they will be next year. Everyone stay healthy and pray for good weather!

Kevin

Entries are now open for the 2024 YMCA Eastern Clusters Championship Meet being held on

February 9-11, 2024 at Waterford Kettering High School. This meet is for ALL swimmers who have attended the required 3 YMCA regular season meets. The meet packet is attached below with further information. In general, coaches expect attendance by all swimmers. The entry deadline for this meet is +Wednesday January 31, 2024 at 8pm.+ Late entries can not be accepted, so please pay attention to the fact that this is a quick turn around with the deadline being this week!!!

If your swimmer needs to still swim a 3rd meet, you have received an email regarding this. If they are entered in this meet they must also be entered and compete in the Flint Ottertastic 50s meet on Feb. 4, or their Clusters entries will be removed.

2024 YMCA Eastern Clusters meet packet:
https://bbd.bbdswimming.com/clubs/6769/documents/562700

IMPORTANT BBD must provide 3 timers PER Session for this meet (15 total). Please email bbdentries@gmail.com to volunteer. We cannot submit our team’s entry without the allotted number of timers. This will be first come first serve. Thank you in advance.*

As always, if you have any outstanding meet fees your child will not have access to enter this meet until those fees are paid. Reminder emails have already been sent regarding unpaid fees. If this applies, you must email bbdentries@gmail.com once meet fees are paid BEFORE the entry deadline to have the Parent Portal opened for entry.