- Champaign County YMCA Heat Swim Team (HEAT)
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Champaign County YMCA Heat Swim Team (HEAT) 
Abbreviation CCYMCA HEAT Formation 2007 Purpose/focus Competitive Swim Team Headquarters Champaign, Illinois Region served Illinois Membership 100+ Head Coach Will Barker Affiliations USA Swimming, YMCA Website [7] The Champaign County YMCA Heat Swim Team (HEAT) is a competitive age group swim program that serves all ages and abilities in Champaign County and the surrounding areas. Participants attend weekly practices in Urbana and Champaign and are offered from 5 different practice levels, determined by their skill. The team is competitive at a national level for the YMCA and USA Swimming/ Illinois Swimming.
In 2007 the community worked together to unite the Champaign County YMCA Aquachiefs and Storm Aquatics, separate club teams in Champaign, to form the Champaign County YMCA Heat. Joining the teams has helped to strengthen competitive aquatics in Champaign County.
Under the current leadership of Head Coach Will Barker, Heat has become a leading force in the pool.
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Focus
HEAT focuses on forming good swimmers in and out of the pool. Coaches strive to make each swimmer reach their peak ability.
Mission statement
"To provide a competitive swim team where participants can select from several levels of competitive intensity. This program shall be safe, educational, and enjoyable while providing for the participant's personal improvement. The team will also develop within its swimmers high levels of self-discipline and fitness, and foster the character development values of honesty, caring, respect, and responsibility for the program, coaches, parents, other teams, and each other."
Affiliations
The Heat is a charter club of USA Swimming/ Illinois Swimming and a YMCA affiliated team. Swimmers are eligible to attend both USA Swimming meets and YMCA meets. The Heat is a program of the Champaign County YMCA.[1]
As a USA Swimming team, all swimmers and coaches must hold current membership. Coaches must also be certified in First Aid, CPR, and Coaches Safety Training.[2]
As a YMCA team, all swimmers and coaches must be members of the YMCA.[1]
Establishment
Heat was established in 2007 after combining Champaign County Aquachiefs and Storm Aquatics.
Competitive Success
In the Spring of 2008, HEAT sent 11 swimmers to compete at Y-Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.[3] HEAT had 4 participants at Y-Nationals in the spring of 2009.[4]
Practice Groups
Groups range in age, ability, and commitment. Group 1 is the most introductory group and grow all the way up to Group 5, the championship group. Separate practice times and workouts are made for each individual group.[5]
Group 1 is designed for beginning swimmers that can complete at least 25 yards of freestyle and 15 yards of backstroke. Practices consist of individual instruction and focus on body awareness, stroke technique, streamline, and some terminology.[5]
Group 2 is generally for athletes ages 7–11. They should be able to complete a 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard backstroke, 25-yard breaststroke, and 25-yard butterfly. The group will focus on improving technique, circle swimming, bilateral breathing, underwater fly kicks off walls, breaststroke pull outs, and introduction to starts and turns.[5]
Group 3 swimmers should be able to complete a 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke, 50-yard breaststroke, and 50-yard backstroke. This group will introduce the pace clock and sendoffs. Swimmers will focus on refining stroke technique, starts, and turns.[5]
Group 4 is the championship preparation team. Swimmers should be able to complete a 400-yard freestyle, 300-yard backstroke, 200-yard breaststroke, and 100-yard fly with little rest and confidence. The goals of this group are to continue refining stroke technique, increasing speed and endurance training, and mental training growth.[5]
Group 5 is the championship group with focus on national competition. Swimmers should have made an Age Group championship or Senior State Championship time standard. Swimmers must commit to practicing 5 times a week. The group goals include exploring advanced stroke technique, commitment to exceptional work ethic, participation in meets, performing higher levels of speed and endurance sets.[5]
Coaches
Heat has a Head Coach and many assistant coaches that help run practices and meets.
Head Coach
Will Barker has been coaching for the last 20 years and holds ASCA level 4 certification. He was the Head Coach of Storm Aquatics for 14 years, and is currently head coach for Champaign Country Club and Champaign Central High School Girls team.[1][6] Will swam competitively for 8 years and played water polo at University of Miami. Will has also coached for Aquachiefs, the Champaign Park District, and was the age group coach for Hurricane Aquatics in Miami, Florida. He was an assistant Zone coach in 1993 and 2005 and Head Zone Coach in 2009. In 2006, he was selected for the USAS Coach Mentor program and was spent three days with Richard Quick.[1] Will has coached many outstanding athletes, including Tyler McGill.
Heat Records
All Records are shown with Yard times, revised September 2009.[7]
Boys Records
Event Time Record Holder Date 25 Freestyle 15.92 Michael Bernhardt 11/2/2007 50 Freestyle 22.05 Paul Folts 2/16/2008 100 Freestyle 48.70 L Michael Lacine 2/24/2008 200 Freestyle 1:47.31 Samuel Stewart 2/20/2010 500 Freestyle 5:06.62 Blas Garcia-Canga 3/8/2009 1000 Freestyle 11:52.21 Timothy Reardanz 11/7/2008 1650 Freestyle 20:19.03 Timothy Reardanz 2/24/2008 25 Backstroke 19.33 Alex Shilts 3/6/2010 50 Backstroke 25.77 L Jordan Branham 2/24/2008 100 Backstroke 54.91 Michael Lacine 3/15/2008 200 Backstroke 2:05.98 Jordan Branham 11/2/2007 25 Breaststroke 19.03 Michael Bernhardt 3/1/2008 50 Breaststroke 30.75 Kristopher Reeve 10/7/2007 100 Breaststroke 59.92 Michael Lacine 2/16/2008 200 Breaststroke 2:13.22 Michael Lacine 2/24/2008 25 Butterfly 15.72 Michael Bernhardt 3/1/2008 50 Butterfly 25.95 Joseph Faullin 2/28/2010 100 Butterfly 51.67 Samuel Stewart 2/20/2010 200 Butterfly 1:58.85 Samuel Stewart 3/4/2010 100 Individual Medley 59.52 Jordan Branham 10/20/2007 200 Individual Medley 1:55.19 Michael Lacine 2/16/2008 400 Individual Medley 4:27.90 Artem Rogachev 1/18/2008 Girls Records
Event Time Record Holder Date 25 Freestyle 14.45 Ema Rajic 3/7/2009 50 Freestyle 23.41 Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 100 Freestyle 50.65 Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 200 Freestyle 1:51.30 Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 500 Freestyle 5:12.40 Elizabeth Boyce 11/2/2007 1000 Freestyle 11.45.44 Mildred Nelson 3/4/2010 1650 Freestyle 18:21.45 Elizabeth Boyce 1/23/2009 25 Backstroke 18.35 Ema Rajic 1/23/2009 50 Backstroke 26.39 L Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 100 Backstroke 55.24 Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 200 Backstroke 2:02.09 Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 25 Breaststroke 19.55 Arielle Summitt 3/7/2009 50 Breaststroke 33.47 Elena Bauer 11/2/2007 100 Breaststroke 1:05.12 Athena Liao 2/28/2008 200 Breaststroke 2:19.02 Athena Liao 2/28/2008 25 Butterfly 15.52 Elizabeth Gile 3/6/2010 50 Butterfly 26.37 Elizabeth Boyce 12/6/2009 100 Butterfly 57.06 Alyssa Petruzzello 11/15/2008 200 Butterfly 2:09.83 Alyssa Petruzzello 3/14/2008 100 Individual Medley 1:02.24 Jennifer Hill 12/5/2010 200 Individual Medley 2:06.93 Elizabeth Boyce 1/22/2010 400 Individual Medley 4:39.58 Jennifer Hill 1/22/2010 Facilities
HEAT uses several pools across the Champaign-Urbana twin cities.
- Centennial High School offers a six-lane, 25 yard pool. It is located at 913 Crescent Drive, Champaign.
- Urbana Indoor Aquatic Center offers an eight-lane, 25 yard x 25 meter pool. It is located at 102 E. Michigan, Urbana.
- McKinely YMCA offers a six-lane, 25 yard pool. It is located at 500 W. Church St., Champaign.
References
- ^ a b c d [1], Heat Swim Team, September 2009, 10/28/2009
- ^ Page Name of Article, USA Swimming, 10/28/2009
- ^ [2], 2008 National Results, 2008, 10/28/2009
- ^ [3], 2009 National Results, 2009, 10/28/2009
- ^ a b c d e f [4], Heat Handbook 2009, September 2009, 10/28/2009
- ^ [5], Central Girls Swimming, 2009, 10/28/2009
- ^ [6], Heat Best Times, September 2009, 10/28/09
External links
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