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Meet Schedule & Results
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For schedules and results use the navigation links to the left. Procedures for Dual Meets and Inviational Meets are below. YMCA Dual Meets The KAY Swim Team competes in an independent league against other local YMCA teams. The YMCA Dual Meet season begins in late October and continues through the end of January. A dual meet is usually held on a Saturday with home meets at the Kennett Area YMCA pool and away meets at the opponent’s pool. A swimmer will swim against swimmers within his or her age group. The age group for the winter dual meet season is determined by the swimmer’s age on December 1. The coaching staff will determine what a swimmer will swim in all YMCA Dual meets with the aim of developing well-rounded swimmers in all four strokes. Parent volunteers are essential to the successful running of a swim meet. Please be sure to check the volunteer sign up sheets on the KAY bulletin board and sign up for any open jobs! All swimmers must sign up on the Sea Dragons Website to be entered into a dual meet. Sign up deadline is the Monday prior to a dual meet. If a swimmer child becomes ill or there is an emergency that occurs after this deadline. The coaching staff should be notified by telephone by calling the YMCA at (610) 444-9622 Ext 2328 or Coach Angela at 302-377-2090.
Invitational Meets The Sea Dragons also travel to a number of invitational meets, ranging in competitiveness from mini-meets to YMCA National Championships. Invitational meets typically require swimmers to either meet a qualifying time or be below a cut-off time. These meets vary in format, travel time, entry fees, and swimmer qualifications. Information on invitational meets is distributed throughout the season in the swimmer via email and on the website, and they are always optional for individual swimmers. Invitational Procedures: 1. Entry Deadlines: Please adhere to the entry deadlines in the meet announcement emails and on the meet schedule posted on the website. The entry deadline listed on the meet announcement itself is the deadline for me to submit the entries to the hosting team. 2. Entry Procedures: To enter an invitational meet complete the generic entry form with the name of the meet you are entering, the name of the swimmer and the events the swimmer wants to swim. Coaches can/will make suggestions; however, swimmers are allowed to make their own entry choices for invitational meets. Submit the entry form with payment to the black box by the emergency exit doors for the pool in the YMCA lobby. In a pinch if there you do not have an entry form or you can not make it to the Y by the deadline, email your entries to kayseadragons@verizon.net with the requested events and submit a hard copy of the entry with payment to the black box at your earliest opportunity. 3. Meet eligibility: All swimmers are eligible for invitational meets as long as they meet the meet specific entry requirements. When considering the appropriateness or eligibility for a specific meet, simply look for the age groups listed and/or any qualifying times. In the event there are specific time standards for meets a list of eligible swimmers and their qualified events will accompany the meet information and/or a coach will contact swimmers specifically to encourage them to swim in that meet.
Post-Season Competition YMCA League Championships The YMCA League Championships are held at the end of the YMCA Dual Meet season in mid-February. Our league championships include all of the teams from the YMCA of the Brandywine Valley and other local Delaware Teams. A swimmer must have participated in two YMCA Meets in order to compete in the League Championships. The championship information will be distributed via email and on the website. This information will include the date, time and place of the championships and the KAY Meet Entry form for selecting the individual events he or she wishes to swim. These events do not have to be the events that he or she will swim at Districts, States or Nationals. Each swimmer may swim a maximum of three individual events and two relay events. The coaching staff will determine which swimmers will swim in the relays. YMCA Eastern Districts The YMCA Eastern Districts are held in March at LaSalle University in Philadelphia and the Upper Main Line YMCA. The long distance events are held at the Upper Main Line YMCA on Friday with the remaining events being held at LaSalle University on Saturday and Sunday. The YMCA Eastern Districts are divided into sessions based on the age groups. Each session is either a morning session or afternoon session. To qualify for YMCA Districts, a swimmer must achieve a District qualifying time. A swimmer may swim a maximum of three events in his or her age group, of which one event must be a relay (relays will be determined by the coaching staff). The YMCA Eastern District meet entries must be completed by the due date. In addition to swimming a qualifying time, a swimmer must also meet the following criteria: - Swim a certified qualifying time in the current season in open, league, dual, or high school competitions before three official timers or electronic timing.
- Be an annual member of the Kennett Area YMCA for a minimum of ninety days prior to the YMCA Eastern Districts.
- Represented only Kennett Area YMCA, excluding school swimming, in any open or closed competition during the current season, September 1 through April 30.
- Has represented KAY Swim Team at three separate meets during the current season.
YMCA Pennsylvania East - West Championship (States) The YMCA Pennsylvania East – West Championship Meet is held usually one or two weeks after the YMCA Eastern Districts at Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. This meet is divided into sessions by age group usually from Saturday through Sunday. Medals are awarded for the 1st through 6th place and ribbons for 7th through 12th place. Any swimmer finishing in the top nine at the YMCA Eastern Districts is automatically qualified for the State Meet; however, participating on a relay team at YMCA Eastern Districts does not guarantee a spot on the relay at the YMCA Pennsylvania States, the coaching staff will determine who will swim on the relays. . Because of the time of the sessions, families usually stay overnight at a hotel. Information regarding hotel reservations will be distributed to potential state qualifiers. YMCA Nationals The YMCA holds a Short Course National Meet in April and a Long Course National Meet in August of each year. These meets consist of swimmers from around the United States that have made a national qualifying time. The qualifying times for these meets will be distributed at the beginning of the season and posted on the KAY Swim Team bulletin board. To qualify for the YMCA Short Course National meet, the swimmer must meet the following criteria: - Make a YMCA Short Course National qualifying time.
- Provide a proof of time for any qualifying time made at a High School or USA Swimming meet. The proof of time must have a meet official’s signature. Proof of time is an official copy of the meet, signed by one of the officials at the meet. The name and time must be clearly visible.
- Swimmers who make National cuts are responsible for getting their proof of times to the Head Coach.
- Compete in at least three dual meets.
- Compete in at least one nationally sanctioned meet (YMCA Eastern Districts or YMCA Pennsylvania States).
- Be a full annual member of the Kennett Area YMCA for a minimum of ninety (90) days prior to the National meet.
- Represented only Kennett Area YMCA, excluding school swimming, in any open or closed competition during the current season, September 1st through April 30th.
- Be at least twelve (12) years of age
To qualify for the YMCA Long Course National meet, the swimmer must meet the following criteria: - Make a YMCA Long Course National qualifying time from September 1st until the meet entry submission date.
- Provide a proof of time for any qualifying time made at a High School or USA Swimming meet. The proof of time must have a meet official’s signature. Proof of time is an official copy of the meet, signed by one of the officials at the meet. The name and time must be clearly visible.
- Swimmers who make National cuts are responsible for getting their proof of times to the Head Coach.
- Be a full annual member of the Kennett Area YMCA by May 1st.
- Represented only Kennett Area YMCA in any open competition during the current season, May 1st to August 31st.
- Represented KAY in at least three swim meets including YMCA Eastern Districts or YMCA Pennsylvania States from September 1st.
- Participate in at least two long course meets during the current summer season.
Relay Policy Deciding who swims on a relay is certainly not easy. There are several factors which are involved in the decision making process. Relays for YMCA Dual Meets, YMCA League Championships, YMCA Eastern Districts, YMCA East – West Championships, and YMCA Nationals will be decided by the following: - Individual times
- Past performance in meets
- Practice attendance
- Determining what is best for the team
- The coaches’ decision is final.
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Kennett Area YMCA Sea Dragons Swim Team
Kennett Area YMCA
101 Race Street
Kennett Square, PA
610-444-9622 ext. 28
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