YMCA Masters National Meet
May 8-11, 2025
Location: Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center
Orlando, Florida
About YMCA Masters Nationals
What we refer to as “Y Nationals” is the YMCA Masters National Championship meet, held once a year, usually in Florida. It brings together swim teams from all over the country for four days of competition. It is large (500+ participants ages 18-90+), but not overwhelming. There are no qualifying times so there is a wide range of swimmers – from former Olympians to first-time competitors. We train hard and swim our best, but our main goal is having fun.
The 2025 YMCA Masters Nationals will be held at the Rosen Aquatic Center in Orlando, Florida. The facility has a 16-lane competition course, separated into 2 8-lane pools. There will be separate warm-up/cool down lanes available throughout the meet. ​
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​​** Below is a list of items that need to be taken care of soon to register for the Meet **
1. Confirm Status – Let Coach David know if you are still intending to come to Nationals (marylandmastersspcc@gmail.com).
2. Airline reservations to Orlando – if you are comfortable sharing the flight info please let Coach David know the flight time. We can coordinate sharing transportation from the airport to hotel.
3. Hotel Reservations – We have secured a block for rooms at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Orlando International Drive/Convention Center, 8214 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819. The group rate is $119 per night for two queen beds. The link to reserve a room is here. The last day to book a room under the group rate is Monday April 7th.
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4. YMCA Membership – This year we will represent The Greater Annapolis Y in Arnold. If you are not already a member, you will have to join this Y by April 8th to swim with our team. The meet requires swimmers to be a member at least 30 days before the meet.
You will be billed a prorated amount for the month of April and the full amount month for May. Membership fees range from $56 to $25 a month plus a $25 joining fee. If you don’t want your membership to continue after the meet you will need to give 30 days’ notice to cancel.
Instructions to join the Y in Arnold.
5. Register for Meet – Once you are a member of the Greater Annapolis Y, you will be able to register for the meet. The deadline to register is April 24th. Relays will be decided by the coaches each day based on the number of swimmers available and competitions.
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6. Relay Fees – We ask each participant to send $37.50 ($7.50 for each relay) to the team to cover their participation fees in all five relays. Refunds are provided for those that don’t participate in all 5 relays. We will try to participate in as many relays as possible. Please send cash or check to Severna Park Masters and mail to:
Severna Park Masters
810 Cottonwood Drive
Severna Park, MD 21146
7. Team T-Shirt and Cap Order – We will be using the same “year-less” t-shirt as last year. We plan to continue to use this shirt for the next few National Meets. The t-shirts will be $20 per shirt and available in sizes small through extra-large. There is a team national cap available for order in either latex ($5) or silicone ($10). Please email marylandmastersspcc@gmail.com with number and size of shirts and number and type of caps you would like to order by Friday April 4th.
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YMCA Masters Nationals 2024
We had a very successful and fun YMCA Master Nationals. Our team did an amazing job taking 4th overall with 1,065.50 points. The top three teams all had double or triple the number of swimmers we had on our team. So 4th place was actually first place out of all the small teams. Going into the meet we had the sixth largest team. The women’s team got 4th overall and the men’s team got 5th overall. Congratulations to everyone at the meet.
We had a ton of new team records set and some YMCA National records along with a USMS National Record.
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YMCA Masters Nationals 2023 (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
We had a very successful and fun YMCA Master Nationals. Our team did an amazing job taking 5th overall with 1,613.50 points. The fourth place team (Rite-Hite Family YMCA) only scored 74 more points than us even though they had 20 more swimmers! Everyone swam very well at the meet and it shows in the results. The women’s team got 3rd overall with 1,066.50 points, only 53.5 points away from the second place team. Congratulations to the women’s team.
We had a ton of new team records set and the mixed 75+ relay also set a YMCA National record in the 200 Medley. The record was last set in 2004. Please join me in congratulating the record breakers on some very fast swimming.
Mixed 75+ 200 Medley Relay – 2:49.87 ** new YMCA National Record**
Christine Jorgensen, Jack Iliff, Sally Iliff and Joe Jackins
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YMCA Masters Nationals 2022 (Sarasota, FL)
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The 2022 Y Nationals team had a very fun and successful meet. Our team placed 4th overall in the combined team score, 2nd for the Women’s team and 4th for the Men’s team. Pretty good for only having 21 swimmers. There were almost 500 potential 1st place awards in the swim meet. Our team captured 51 first places. That is 10% and we had about 7 % of the total number of swimmers at the meet. Congratulations to everyone.
