The Rec-Plex Holiday H2O Invitational was the last swim meet of the 2012 season, and the CSP Tideriders showed up in big numbers once again.  Coming off a meet where most our swimmers were able to swim sprints at the Swim Your Own Age, it was good to see our swimmers racing some longer events. In the 10 & Under Events, winning individual events was Lauren Beard, while those swimmers who placed in the Top 8 were Koji Barrette, Anna Scott Baur, Ben Evra, Jackson Fox, Dan Gao, Olivia...

Gabriela Vieira, Sarah Finlay, Lydia Welty, and Grace Stiegemeyer swam at Junior Nationals this weekend. The meet was held at the University of Tennessee Thursday December 6th to Saturday December 8th. Gabby swam the 500 Free placing 41st, 100 Fly placing 31st, 100 Back placing 25th, 200 Back placing 42nd and the 200 Fly placing 49th. Sarah Finlay also swam individually finishing 76th in the 200 Back and 146th in the 100 Back. Gabby, Sarah, Lydia and Grace teamed up to swim the 800 Free Relay where they placed 22nd....

  As CSP is about to embark on its 75 Year of swimming, the Swim Your Own Age Meet was a great meet to end its 74th year.  We had more CSP athletes at this meet than ever before in our history, Lydia Welty broke a pool record in the 100 Back Stroke and CSP swimmers looked sharp in their new silver anniversary commemorative swim caps.  In the 6 & Under Age Group, winning events were Luke Gill, Piper Hoekel andEva Kasal.  Placing in the Top 8 were Christian Marren,...

  What an amazing weekend at the Ozark A Champs meet that was held in Carbondale, Illinois.  As a team, the CSP Tideriders walked away with the 3rd Place trophy, but that is only the start of a great team accomplishment.  CSP won all of the girl’s age groups at this meet, meaning that the 10 & Under Girls, 11 – 12 Girls, 13 – 14 Girls and 15 & Over Girls scored more points than all of the other teams in their age groups!  On the Boys side of...

  Congratulations to all the swimmers that participated in the meet this weekend.  We had numerous records, best times, over achievers, and high point winners.  As a team, CSP placed first in the girls division winning all four age groups (10 & Under, 11 – 12, 13 – 14 and 15 & Over).  The boys as a team finished third, which was a group effort and helped by those swimmers who came to the meet to help score big points as members of relays.  As a team, we finished in...

Day two of the A Champs turned in to another record breaking day for the Tideriders. Gabby Vieira established three more new records in one race, setting the 15-16 girls team and ozark record, while also setting the team record in the Open girls 100 back. Colleen Young continues to lower her own American Records in the breast stroke events in both the 100 and 200 breast. We had some great relays today as well, beginning with the 10 & Under girls team of Carly Fesler, Lauren Beard, Meg Bryan...

The CSP Tideriders conclude day one in second place! We are currently 19.5 points behind the first place team and 15 points ahead of third place team. We ended the morning session in fine fashion with the 13 - 14 Girls breaking the 800 Free Relay record that had stood since 1990! Congrats to Melissa Melnick, Lydia Welty, Erin Kelly and Lexi Daniels. Gabby Vieira set three new records in one event! She set the team record for 15-16 Girls and Open Girls, while also setting the Ozark Record for...

  The HEAT Fall Classic this past weekend was just that, classic!  This is our last meet prior to “A” Champs and the Tideriders came prepared to swim fast.  CSP picked up 65 new “A” times heading in to our big meet in two weeks.  We had the most swimmers at this meet, and more swimmers than we have had at any meet all season.  With 189 athletes, CSP looked sharp individiually as well as in the relays, winning every single relay.  Winning individual events with the 8 & Unders...

CSP Hosts Two Intra Squad Meets We had two intra squad meets this week and had some tremendous success at both. On Wednesday, October 17, we hosted the CSP Get Your A Meet at Westminster for Age Group, Junior Varsity, Varsity and Senior swimmers.  This meet was designed for our athletes to have another chance at achieving their “A” times for the Championship Meet in November, and we had a number of great swims.  Getting new “A” times in the 100 IM were Jack Bodnar, Meg Bryan, and Elizabeth Wiese. ...

  For the second meet in as many weeks, the Tideriders looked great.  Our swimmers achieved more “A” times, had 73% best times and set three new records!  Colleen Young set two American Records in one race, breaking the 50 yard breast stroke as well as setting the 100 yard breast stroke American Record.  Lydia Welty dominated the 200 IM and broke the Tiderider team record by .09, swimming to a time of 2:07.86.  That record has stood since 1988.  Way to go girls! This was also our first meet...