Champaign County YMCA Heat Swim Team (HEAT)

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.

Champaign County YMCA Heat Swim Team
AbbreviationCCYMCA HEAT
NicknameHeat Swim Team
Formation2007
PurposeCompetitive Swim Team
HeadquartersChampaign, Illinois
Region served
Illinois
Membership
100+
Head Coach
Will Barker
AffiliationsUSA Swimming, YMCA
WebsiteHeat Swim Team

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.

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 April 2017.[7]

Boys Records
Event Time Record Holder Date
25 Freestyle 14.05 Andrew Lin 11/2/2012
50 Freestyle 20.69 Payton Woods 3/20/2016
100 Freestyle 46.17 Payton Woods 2/20/2016
200 Freestyle 1:44:33 Payton Woods 2/28/2016
500 Freestyle 4:50.65 Luke Starks 2/18/2017
1000 Freestyle 10:45.97 Alex Shilts 11/6/2015
1650 Freestyle 18:02.00 Andrew Lin 1/13/2017
25 Backstroke 16.25 Andrew Lin 11/2/2012
50 Backstroke 25.00 Blake Lehman 2/9/2011
100 Backstroke 53.20 Luke Thompson 2/18/2017
200 Backstroke 1:58.64 Andrew Lin 3/9/2017
25 Breaststroke 19.03 Michael Bernhardt 3/1/2008
50 Breaststroke 28.94 Hunter Jones 3/1/2015
100 Breaststroke 58.44 Michael Lacine 2/27/2009
200 Breaststroke 2:13.03 Evan Miller 3/6/2014
25 Butterfly 14.55 Andrew Lin 11/2/2012
50 Butterfly 23.73 Payton Woods 3/15/2016
100 Butterfly 49.32 Samuel Stewart 2/25/2011
200 Butterfly 1:52.15 Samuel Stewart 3/3/2011
100 Individual Medley 57.13 Andrew Lin 3/22/2016
200 Individual Medley 1:55.19 Michael Lacine 2/16/2008
400 Individual Medley 4:23.63 Andrew Lin 2/3/2017

Girls Records
Event Time Record Holder Date
25 Freestyle 14.45 Ema Rajic 3/7/2009
50 Freestyle 23.17 Ema Rajic 3/14/2017
100 Freestyle 50.55 Ema Rajic 3/14/2017
200 Freestyle 1:49.43 Ema Rajic 2/5/2017
500 Freestyle 5:12.40 Elizabeth Boyce 11/2/2007
1000 Freestyle 10.45.44 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 19.27 Babette Bradley 3/19/2016
50 Breaststroke 27.89 Ema Rajic 3/14/2017
100 Breaststroke 1:00.77 Ema Rajic 11/19/2016
200 Breaststroke 2:14.12 Ema Rajic 2/5/2017
25 Butterfly 15.52 Elizabeth Gile 3/6/2010
50 Butterfly 25.39 Ema Rajic 3/14/2017
100 Butterfly 54.48 Ema Rajic 3/14/2017
200 Butterfly 2:07.44 Audrey Rodawig 3/3/2011
100 Individual Medley 1:02.24 Jennifer Hill 12/5/2010
200 Individual Medley 2:00.23 Ema Rajic 11/12/2016
400 Individual Medley 4:14.15 Ema Rajic 2/3/2017

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.
  • Stephens Family YMCA offers an eight-lane, 25 yard pool. It is located at 2501 Fields South Drive, Champaign.
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References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-07. Retrieved 2009-10-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Heat Swim Team, September 2009, 10/28/2009
  2. Page Name of Article, USA Swimming, 10/28/2009
  3. , 2008 National Results, 2008, 10/28/2009
  4. , 2009 National Results, 2009, 10/28/2009
  5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2009-10-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Heat Handbook 2009, September 2009, 10/28/2009
  6. , Central Girls Swimming, 2009, 10/28/2009
  7. "Heat Top 10 best times as of Apr 2017".
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