OSI News Archive - March, 2011

Maria Wold of Bend broke Prudence Rooker's 2005 record in the 8 and under girls 100 backstroke at the Tigard Tualatin Season Finale. Maria finished the race in 1:19.81 to lower Prudence's record of 1:21.84.

Congratulations to the following swimmers and teams for setting new OSI records at Age Group Sectionals last weekend.

Olympian Jeremy Linn is coming to Hood River on April 16 and 17th. He is putting on a coaching clinic on Saturday, and kids swim clinics on Sunday. The Hood River Valley Swim Team in inviting any interested swimmers and coaches to come and join us for this very fun, inspiring and insightful event!

Here are the details for both events to be held at the Hood River Valley Aquatic Center:

The coaching clinic Saturday April 16th from 10am-5pm. It is $25 (includes lunch). There will be a 2 hour class room session, lunch break, then 4 hours on deck working with a couple of swimmers and talking stroke technique and training.

On Sunday April 17th he is putting on two swimmers clinics. The clinic for more advanced swimmers is from 9am-noon. The clinic for less advanced swimmers is from 1-4pm. Kids clinics are only $10! Space is limited, so send in your registration now to be assured of a spot.

We know Hood River is a bit of a drive from Portland, but thought if any swimmers were interested it would be a good excuse for their family to enjoy blossom festival in Hood River while they take in this very fun swim clinic.

To register for the clinics, please mail a check for the correct amount (coaches $25, swimmers $10, payable to HRVST ) with your name on the memo line on it to:
Shelly Rawding
6 Cedar Lane
White Salmon, WA 98672

Questions? Email Shelly at hrvst.coach@gmail.com

A Stroke & Turn clinic will be offered on Tuesday, April 5 at 6:00 pm at the Tigard Swim Center - adjacent to Tigard High School, 8680 SW Durham Rd. Please contact Tami Smith at 503.620.5317 or dtm.smith3@frontier.com for more information.

Oregon Swimming will be hosting a Navy Seals Fitness Challenge at the Mount Hood Aquatic Center on April 16, 2011.This event is open to all 13 & over USA Swimming athletes. The challenge consists of a 500-yard swim, push ups, pull ups, sit ups, and a 1.5 mile run. Registration for this event is available at the Mount Hood Aquatics Website.

Coaches if you want your athletes to compete as a team, register them together so they will go off around the same time. We will be competing against PNS Swimming, Indiana Swimming, Minnesota Swimming, Illinois Swimming, Germantown Academy and the all the Big 10 Schools. This should be an exciting opportunity to challenge our athletes and can be used a benchmark for training and fitness.

30 ahtletes were chosen to participate in the Senior Altitude Camp in Colorado Springs, April 28 - May 1. Coaching staff: Rick Guenther, Burt Stratton and Jody Braden.
Congratulations to:
Maranda Alf-Huynh - MHA
Lauren Allen - CAT
Monica Bottelberghe - PAC
Madison Brewer - BEND
Tommy Brewer - BEND
Matthew Chauvin - MSC
Brandon Deckard - BEND
Colin Eaton - MHA
Henry Fellows - PAC
Taylor Frank - HEAT
Alyssa Fuji - TTSC
Mackenzie Halligan - BEND
Carlos Hunnicutt - WSC 
Jessica James - CAT
Daniel Kelly - VSC
Curtis Klein - TTSC
Kyle Law - PAC
Connor McDonald - HEAT
Logan Parker - CAT
Jacob Pebley - CAT
Austin Ringquist - HEAT
Brandon Risley - PAC
Brandon Shreeve - CAT
Katie Spires-Robertson - MHA
Nathan Thorne - MHA
Nick Thorne - MHA
Kevin Waller - SCAT
Connor Webb - HRST
Chris Weinert - MHA
Maxim Yakubovich - PAC

The recently concluded Senior Sectionals in Federal Way saw a large number of new records.

Also, swimming at the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Indianapolis, MAC's Eetu Karvonen broke the Open 200 meter breaststroke record. His time of 2:17.38 bettered Dan Nyaradi's 2:17.71 set in 2008.

Congratulations to all the swimmers.

Swimming at the OSI Senior Championships, the MAC relay team of Andre Denegri, Kyle Dalrymple, Max Bley-Male, and Carson Brindle lowered the published 15-16 Boys 200 medley relay national age group record of 1:35.50 by finishing in 1:34.83. The old OSI record stood at 1:36.70 set by THSC way back in 1991. The foursome made a run for the 400 medley relay record but was just shy, finishing in 3:27.75. The time did shatter the 1991 record held by THSC at 3:33.50.

At the 11-14 Championships, Thomas Brewer of Bend beat Ben Brink's 13-14 200 IM record of 1:54.65, finishing the race in 1:53.12.

Tualatin Hills set two relay records at the 11-14 Championships. Jorge Casas, Sean Calkins, Joshua Yadao and Myron Shen finished the 400 free relay in 3:39.94 to beat THSC's 2010 11-12 relay record of 3:41.43. Jonathan Zoucha, Benjamin Buchalski, Andres La Rosa and Cortlandt Nelsen broke HEAT's 13-14 800 free relay record of 7:22.38 by over 11 seconds. The new record sits at 7:11.33.

Swimming at the Speedo Sectionals at Texas A&M last week, Jessie James of CAT broke Julie Moore's 1991 record in the 17-18 1000 freestyle. Jessie finished in 9:56.19 to lower Julie's old record of 10:00.04.

Oregon City Swim Team is in need of officials for their meet on March 12-13.  Please contact Debbie Laderoute at debbieladeroute@q.com if you are intrested or need information.

Applications for the Altitude Camp for athletes age 14-18, April 28-May 1 in Colorado Springs are available for pick up at the Senior Championships this weekend in Gresham or at the Senior Sectionals in Federal Way.  The applications are due in the Oregon Swimming office Monday March 14.  For more information and applications see Skip Runkle at the meets listed. 

Oregon Masters Swimming is seeking help with officiating at the 2011 State Masters Association Championships at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center April 1st through 3rd, 2011. Sessions include Friday evening April 1st, 3pm to 8pm. Saturday April 2nd 8am to 4pm. Sunday 8am to 3pm. Please email or call Meet Director Dennis Baker at bakeswim@yahoo.com, 503-679-4601 if you can help.  

The East Metro Meet at the Reynolds Pool in Gresham, March 5 and 6 is in need of officals.
If you are intested in helping contact Chris Cook at christine.m.cook@comcast.net

A stroke and turn clinic will be held Sat. March 12 at the Forest Grove Aquatic Center between sessions at the Tall Timbers Meet. For further information/details contact Tim Shiel at either 7of8oshiel@gmail.com or 503-720-3325

San Diego-Imperial in partnership with USA Swimming and the Challenged Athletes Foundation is hosting a clinic for disabled swimmers at the Wave House Athletic Club in San Diego. The clinic is open to wwimmers with physical, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities aged 18 and younger. The clinic will be held April 2 and is free of charge. For more information, view this flyer. The registration form is available here.