OSI News Archive - May, 2005

The qualifiers list is back online. This summer's 10 & Under and 11 & Over championships are listed.

Space is still available at the Long Course AB Meet hosted by Hillsboro HEAT on June 25 and 26 in the Mountain Park Pool. For more information contact Wendy Harvath at 503-819-3234 or carpediem3wse@aol.com.

After almost 10 years with the same URL, Oregon Swimming has launched its new website and web address, www.oregonswimming.org. Over the next couple of days we will be redirecting all traffic from the old address to the new one. Current oregonswim.org email addresses will continue to work for at least a year. However, we encourage you to start using the new addresses as soon as possible. During the transition, some disruption in email traffic may occur, however we anticipate the total disruption to be minor.

We hope you enjoy the new look of the website and as always, feel free to send your comments and suggestions to us.

Julie Carpenter will be conducting an ET clinic next Saturday May 28th at the MAC. It will be from 10am to 12noon. If you are interested contact Julie at ccarpen001@aol.com or Coby at swim@oregonswim.org. You are asked to bring a calculator & a pencil.

Athletes, Please join Olympian Tom Malchow and two national athletes for a distance camp including a question and answer session/ photo opportunity. We are now opening it to all athletes with a state qualifiying times. There are very few female spots open but plenty of male spots. Anyone interested please send an email to Heather Thomas by Tuesday, May 24 at Coach.heather@comcast.net or call 503-756-1690. This is on a first come first serve basis so please email soon.

April Robinson from the MAC has been appointed as OSI Junior Athletes Representative. Thank you to Hailey Zehner from WHAT for all her work the last two years. Welcome on board April.

Santo Condorelli swimming unattached broke a 14 year old record at the THSC Thunderbolt Spring Open meet. His time in the boys 9-10 50 breaststroke of 37.01 lowered the 1991 record of 39.71 set by Flurry Stone.

Due to a clerical error, we did not catch that record until today. We would like to extend our most sincere apologies for the oversight.

Great swim Santo.

Four swimmers set five records at the Tualatin Hills Thunderbolt Spring Open.

Taylor Lakey of THSC accounted for two of those records. She set new standards in the 11-12 girls 200 Fly and 400 IM. In the 200 fly, Taylor swam a time of 2:33.35 bettering the 2003 time of 2:34.00 swum by Kath Liggett, also of THSC. In the 400 IM, Taylor swam 5:28.08 breaking the old record of 5:28.67 set in 2004 by Sarah Cruzan.

Megan McCarroll of THSC swam a new record in the 11-12 girls 200 breaststroke. Her time of 2:50.25 betters the time of 2:56.04 swum by Rachel Lee in 2002.

In the girls 11-12 200 backstroke, Nikki Cannon of VSC bettered the 2004 record of 2:36.70 with a time of 2:36.01.

While one Vancouver swimmer gained an OSI record, another lost hers after 15 years. Prudence Rooker of FGSC set a new record in the 8 and under 50 breaststroke with a time of 45.59, lowering Minh Nguyen's 1990 record of 47.07.

Craig Martin will be conducting a Stroke and Turn Clinic at the Sweet Home H.S Pool on Wednesday, May 11, at 5:30PM for all who is interested. If you are interested to attend this clinic contact Craig at martin51011@comcst.net or 541-367-4053.

The warm-ups for the Saturday and Sunday afternoon sessions of the CAT Open will begin approximately an hour earlier at 11:30 AM on May 14th and 15th.

Oregon Swimming will host an athlete camp on Saturday May 28th in the Multnomah Athletic Club. The camp is open to any registered swimmer between 11-14 years of age with at least one sectional time. The cost is $25.00 per athlete. We will only be accepting up to 7 boys and 7 girls in each age group. First come First serve basis. Each swimmer will receive gifts for attending, a raffle will be held and lunch is included. We are holding two long course workouts and 2 speakers (Including one national swimmer)will be making presentations. Applications can be found here.

For additional information contact camp coordinator Heather Thomas or send applications to: Coach.heather@comcast.net.

Space still available in the Yawama Mama meet at Linfield College on May 14th & 15th. Contact Mark Maxwell 503 538 6862 (maxwell4@teleport.com) for meet information.

the University of British Columbia Pacific Dolphins has made the meet information for the 42nd annual Mel Zajac Jr International swim meet available on their website. Teams interested in attending can download the meet information at www.pacificdolphins.com/meets/2005/zajac/.

Congratulations to Prudence Rooker of FGSC who set a new OSI record in the 8 and Under 25 fly with a time of 14.70. She betters the old record of 15.24 set by Julia Sanders in 2004.