Welcome Back Everybody!

And a special welcome to all of our new swimmers. As we have
said before, we also have two new workout groups. For those of you
are practicing with our Howard daytime group or the Towson group,
welcome aboard!
We already have some events on our calendar. Here is what we
have so far.


ESCAPE FROM FORT DELAWARE ONE-MILE OPEN WATER SWIM

The Escape from Fort Delaware will be held on Saturday September
13. It is a pre-registered event only. Here is the link to obtain
information.

http://deswim.tripod.com/index.htm


TEAM TIME TRIAL

We will be having a team time trial at the Catonsville YMCA on
September 14th from 6PM to 8PM. This is a great opportunity to set
set some personal benchmarks for yourself as well as meet teammates
from the other pools. To save time, please get there at 5:30 to warm
up as well as fill out event cards. Cy's swimwear will be there, so
you can pick up practice suits and goggles. They are also the
vendor for our team suit. Other team paraphanelia will also be
available for sale/order. Here is the order of events.

1) 100 IM
2) 50 Butterfly
3) 100 Backstroke
4) 50 Breaststroke
5) 100 Freestyle
6) 200 Anything
7) 100 Butterfly
8) 50 Backstroke
9) 100 Breaststroke
10) 50 Freestyle
11) 25 Anything
12) Coach's Choice Relays

Although index cards will be available that day, if you know
what you want to swim, you can fill out your cards early and hand
them to one of the coaches at practice. Please use a 3x5 or 4x6
index card, and fill it out in the following format.

______________________________________________________________________
Event # Event Name Entry Time
(optional)



Your Name as it will appear on your USMS Card

Gender Age


Your Homebase (ie. Catonsville, Howard-Day, Howard-Evening, Towson)

______________________________________________________________________

If you swim either a 25 or a 200, please specify what you are
doing in the Event Name.
Swimmers are allowed to swim up to three events. Coaches are
asked to limit themselves to one so that we can make sure things are
being run smoothly. Please consider establishing a new team record
in your age group. You can find all of our team records at our
Yahoogroups site. Here is the link.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmym/files/

If you don't have a Yahoo alias yet, follow the link from our
website to the "Join" page at Yahoogroups. Follow the directions for
creating a Yahoo alias. This alias allows you to access our
Yahoogroup site as well as the Yahoogroups site for any other mailing
list you have associated with your e-mail address. Here is the link
to our team website.

http://www.eteamz.com/CMYM

7th ANNUAL SUNFEST OPEN WATER SWIM

Ocean City will again be holding the SunFest swim on Saturday,
September 20, 2003. Race Course is one of either 1k - 3k - 5k
(straight courses parallel to the Ocean City Beach). You must be a
USMS member to participate. Check in starts at 9:30 swim starts at
11:30am. Here is a link to the entry information.

http://www.swimdcrp.org/sunfestswim.pdf


More to come soon,
Coach Ray