• Friday, May 3 - Sunday, May 5: NASA Spring Blast Off. See below.
• Saturday, May 11: RISE/Kendall Pickering Meet. See below.
• Monday, May 13 - Thursday, May 16: Oz Memorial Meet. See below.
• Friday, May 17 - Saturday, May 18: 24-hour Oz Relay. See below.
• Saturday, June 1 - Sunday, June 2: LFSC Wisconsin Swim Fest. See below.
• Sunday, June 9: Last day of spring season.

You can always find more info, including the practice schedule, on the swim team page of the YWCA Evanston/North Shore website.

Attention high schoolers: If you didn't sign up for spring, but have time to swim now, we'd love to welcome you back with prorated fees.

Look for an email about your options or contact Pete directly.

Congratulations to all of our marathoners, who swam with grit and determination, like the Silverfish pictured.

Here are the top swimmers per practice group, based on lengths swum:

• Greenfish - Maddie Dietch, 57 lengths (30 minutes in small pool)
• Yellowfish - Leah Holcomb, 84 lengths
• Whitefish - Foster Haar, 112 lengths
• Bluefish - Stone Driscoll, 141 lengths
• Bronzefish - Alice Dillingham, 91 lengths
• Copperfish - Zoe Yang, 109 lengths
• Redfish - Claire Knauth and Miles Kramer, both 122 lengths
• Ironfish - Vidhya Kelly, 145 lengths
• Silverfish - Zoe Groothuis, 146 lengths
• Goldfish - Charlotte Lemmon, 165 lengths
• Diamondfish - Kieran Saszik, 193 lengths

Way to go!

NASA Spring Blast Off @ Northwestern University, Evanston (long course)

Friday, May 3 - Sunday, May 5

Registration is closed. Look for an email with meet details soon. You'll find our entry here.

RISE/Kendall Pickering Meet @ UIC Natatorium, Chicago (long course)

Saturday, May 11

11-12s in AM session; 13-overs in PM session.

Registration is closed. Look for an email with meet details soon. You'll find our entry here.

Oz Memorial Meet @ YWCA Evanston/North Shore (short course)

Monday, May 13 - Thursday, May 16

Eligible swimmers include all those in the spring season except Green and Bronze. This intra squad meet, held in honor of the late coach/instructor Oswald "Oz" Roper, will be a prelim/final format.

• Monday, May 13: ages 9-under prelims; warmups 5:15 pm (events: 25 free, 25 back, 50 free)
• Tuesday, May 14: ages 10-11 prelims; warmups 5:45 pm (events: 50 free, 50 back, 25 breast, 25 fly)
• Wednesday, May 15: ages 12-15 prelims; warmups at 5:15 pm (events: 50 free, 50 back, 50 breast, 50 fly)
• Thursday, May 16: finals for swimmers age 10 and over; warmups at 5:45 pm; top ten in each event will swim 25s of their events. (This finals date is a change from some previous emails.)

No need to email Pete. To sign up, simply go to Community Pass and add the meet fee to your account by May 10. All meet fees go to support the Oz Fund for Aquatics Scholarships.

LFSC Wisconsin Swim Fest @ RecPlex, Pleasant Prairie, WI (long course)

Saturday, June 1 - Sunday, June 2

13-overs in AM session; 12-unders in PM session.

Eligible swimmers include White, Blue, Red, Iron, Silver, Gold, Diamond and high school with away meet experience (not including Michigan Shores). Email Pete first to confirm, then add the meet fee ($45) to your account on Community Pass. Deadline to sign up is May 10.

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What's the difference between long course and short course?

Long course refers to a pool that measures 50 meters in length. The standard size for international swimming (including the Olympics) is 50 meters. Typically, swim meets conducted in the U.S. from the end of April through August are long course.

Short course refers to a pool that measures 25 yards in length. Generally, meets conducted in the U.S. from October to March are short course. The YWCA upstairs pool is a short course pool.

The Flying Fish coaches do not recommend long course meets for beginning swimmers or those with little meet experience.

Sunkissed Invitational @ Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center, Charlotte, NC

Thursday, March 21 - Sunday, March 24

Results are posted here.

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