Anderson Barracudas ME Lyons

One last shout for the season ‼️

Congratulations to Ali who finished up Y Nations to then head off to Irvine, California to participate in USA 🇺🇸 Junior Nationals. This is such a prestigious meet and we are so proud to have her represent ABLY❤️ Congratulations on an amazing season of swimming and we look forward to seeing what she accomplishes her Senior year!! 

That’s a wrap for USA Zones, congratulations to our athletes that participated in the meet!! We closed out the long week with some amazing finishes, time drops, and big smiles.

Yesterday we had swimmers in 50 Fly, 100 Free, 200 IM, 1500 Free, and 800 Free 🔥🔥🔥

Last day, fast day was the theme, Top 16 finishes include:

Morgan- 1500 Free 14th
Adam- 800 Free 9th
Emily- 100 Free 11th

🤩 Now enjoy some much deserved time off!!!

If you want to be part of our amazing program, 1st tryout for the season is this Thursday 5:30 at ME Lyons YMCA, come join the fun!!!

That’s a wrap for 2026 Summer Long Course YMCA Nations!!!

Night 5 highlights were Carter 10th in 200 IM, getting so much closer to his Jr. National Cut 🔥🔥 Elliot with a 27 second time drop in his 1500 Free and a 12th place finish. Then our boys 400 Medley Relay finished 18th, congrats to Elliot, Brandon, Carter, and Ben.

Congratulations to all swimmers and coaches❤️ and thanks parents and officials who help make this all possible. Now enjoy some much deserved time off!!

AB is doing a great job representing Team Ohio 🔥🔥 Scoring points and taking the top 16 places include:
Blair- 800 Free 12th Place
Adam- 1500 Free 13th Place and 400 IM 16th
Emily- 200 Free 10th Place and 100 Fly 14th

We are so proud, keep up the amazing swims!!!

Updates from Florida Night 4: We started the night off strong 💪🏻 and exciting with a tie for the Bronze 🥉 from Ali in 50 Fly!! Then we let her catch her breath before she had 400 Free dropping time and getting 13th. Great racing, 1 more day…. Go AB!

Day 3 Highlights…. We have a National Runner Up in 100 Fly 🔥🔥 Congratulations to Ali who placed second 🥈 tonight at Nationals!! Carter was also on the podium this evening in 100 Fly at 19th. Elliot finished 15th in 200 Back, yay congrats.

Highlights from Ocala, Florida with our National Team. We started the week off strong with a New Team Record 🚨 Congratulations to Ben who crush our 13-14 Team Record in 100 Free with a time of 54.6 🔥🔥Wow Ben!!!

Carter also had a great 100 Free finishing 9th!!

Ali had back to back top finishes Night 1 and 2 finishing 6th and 7th in 200 Fly then 200 Free 💪🏻

Elliot dropped over 10 seconds in his 800 and finished 15th, 👍🏻

We couldn’t make this all possible without our coaches, parents, and our favorite officials, they found one on deck… yay Hiroshi❤️

This year we had 5 swimmers representing both ABLY and Team Ohio at USA Zone. This is an honor and huge achievement considering it’s only the Top 3% of age group swimmers!!! Congratulations Adam, Blair, Abby, Morgan, and Emily, we are so proud.

More fun and fast swimming on Day 3 Prelims!!

New National Cut Alert 🚨 Congratulations Abby with an amazing swim in her 100 back not only achieving a USA Zone cut…. but a YMCA National cut!!! Wow 🤩