USA Swimming’s 2013 Speedo Winter Junior National Championships starts up on Thursday, December 12 in Greensboro, NC. The Mason Manta Rays will be represented by National group swimmers Zoe Thatcher (17), Sydney Lofquist (16), Hannah Whiteley (16), and Ashley Volpenhein (15). You can follow along live via webcast by going to www.usaswimming.org. Good luck RAYS!

All practices for today, Friday, December 6 are cancelled due to the pending snow storm.

Practices for Friday, December 6 are cancelled due to the incoming snow storm.

If we need to cancel practices due to weather, we will email, facebook, tweet, and post the information to the web site as soon as possible. As always, please use your best judgement when determining to come to practice! OFFICIAL POLICY FROM CITY OF MASON WEB SITE: Rain and snow...how will you know if your program is running? Here's our weather policy. Programs at Mason Community Center (includes swim team practices) If Mason City Schools are on a 2-hour delay: All scheduled programs and activities will generally run as scheduled,...

Mark Daasch from NovaCare will be on the pool deck Wednesday, 12/4, from 3:45-6 p.m. If your swimmer has any aches or pains that you want him to evaluate, please see him on deck this Wednesday. There is no cost for the evaluation. If you have any questions for Mark, please feel free to contact him directly. Mark Daasch, PT Center Manager NovaCare Rehabilitation 1198 Smiley Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45240 phone: (513)671-6362 fax: (513)671-6368 [email protected]

There are two changes to the practice schedule this week. The first is on Wednesday, December 4. That day the schedule will be as follows: National: 3:40-6:45 Plat: 4:00-6:45 Gold 6:15-8:30 p.m. Bronze: 7:15-9:00 p.m. Blue: 6:15-7:45 p.m. Green: 5:45-6:45 p.m. White: 5:00-6:00 p.m. Pups: 4:30-5:15 p.m The second change is on Saturday, December 7 when there will be no practices (except National 3-5) due to a high school swim meet. Thank you

Twenty-six Manta Rays headed to Indianapolis, IN this weekend to participate in the IMXtreme Games at IUPUI. The team captured a second place finish and walked away with twenty individual awards. The IMXtreme Games awards individuals on their total IMX score for the meet versus awarding each individual event. In order to be eligible for this meet swimmers needed to acquire an IMX score of at least 1500 over the past year. Click on the link if you are not familiar with USA Swimming's IMX program. http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1720&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US. Individual awards went...

Freshman players Camille Nguyen and Caroline Wolf (Platinum/Varsity) and Senior players Megan Wolf, Maureen Sullivan, and Maddie Franzoni (National) competed and helped win the first ever State Water Polo Title in the teamýs 10 year history at Mason City Schools.ý On October 26, 2013, the girls competed against rival school Sycamore defeating them 11-7 for an overall season 34-7. ý

The City of Mason’s Manta Ray Swim Team is proud to announce that the following four 2014 seniors have committed to swim at the following colleges this fall: Casey Frazier –Lakota West -- Miami University Alisabeth Marsteller – Ursuline -- Princeton University Maureen Sullivan – Mason High School -- Miami University Zoe Thatcher – Mason High School -- Auburn University FOUR SWIMSWAM.COM ARTICLES FROM OUR OWN COACH AMANDA SMITH ABOUT THESE FOUR SENIORS Ohio’s No. 1 and Top 40 recruit Zoe Thatcher commits to Auburn Auburn’s Brett Hawke and new...

CORRECTION: Mark Daasch from NovaCare will be on the pool deck Wednesday, 11/13, from 3:30-6 p.m. If your swimmer has any aches or pains that you want him to evaluate, please see him on deck this Wednesday. There is no cost for the evaluation. If you have any questions for Mark, please feel free to contact him directly. Mark Daasch, PT Center Manager NovaCare Rehabilitation 1198 Smiley Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45240 phone: (513)671-6362 fax: (513)671-6368 [email protected]