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YMCA 9&Up State Meet - March 2-3

Posted by Birmingham Blue Dolphins at Feb 9, 2024 9:26AM PST

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.

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ENTRIES OPEN: 2024 Falcon's 50s Meet

Posted by Birmingham Blue Dolphins at Jan 25, 2024 8:51AM PST

Entries are now open for the LAST regular YMCA meet of the season, the 2024 Flint Ottertastic 50s Meet. This is a one-day meet being held at Brandon High School in Ortonville, MI on Sunday, February 4th. Entry deadline is this Sunday, January 28 at 8pm (please pay close attention with the Indy meet occurring this weekend!). Late entries can not be accepted.

This meet is optional for those swimmers who have met their 3 YMCA meet requirement. For those swimmers who still need one more meet to qualify for championship season (Y Clusters, Y States, Y Zones and Y Nationals), this is their last chance and if they do not compete at this meet their season will be done. A separate email will be sent shortly to remind those swimmers who still need one more meet.

Here and on the BBD website is the 2023 Flint Ottertastic 50s meet packet which can also be found in the Documents section under Links in the navigation:
https://bbd.bbdswimming.com/clubs/6769/documents/562630

As always, if you have any unpaid meet fees from previous meets, those must be paid and you must email bbdentries@gmail.com to notify us of them being paid in order for your swimmer’s entries to be available