Maddie Wall is in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend for the USA Swimming Safety Education Committee meeting. Maddie is an athlete representitive for this National Committee for USA Swimming. Maddie was nominated 2 years ago as an Athlete Rep to Ozark Swimmings Board. Maddie has worked hard to advance from an Ozark Athlete Rep to a National Committee Athlete Rep. It is not only an honor for Maddie but for CSP as well. CSP has had 6 straight years of having an Athlete Member to the Ozark Board. This marks 3...

Patriot Aquatic Club Winter Invitational We took a large group of swimmers to the Patriot Aquatic Club Winter Invitational over the weekend and CSP impressed!  Chicago was cold and had snow on the ground, but that didn’t stop CSP from swimming fast.  As a team, CSP finished second in the meet, only behind the host team PAC.  The Boys scored more points than all other teams, while the girls finished third.  We also had two athletes win High Point Awards, Melissa Melnick (11 – 12 Girls) and Hunter Mehring (15...

The CSP Swim Your Own Age was a huge success!  Thanks so much to all of the volunteers, officials and Meet Directors for all of the hard work to make this meet run so well.                 In the 6 & Under Age Group, winning events are Sammie Esparza and Graham Zucker.    Placing in the Top 8 were Joseph Carmody, Luke Christmas, Ruthie Crane, Leila Fischer, Molly Kirby, Lauren Matthews, Alicia Palatt, Nathan Rosenblum, and Annemarie Sweeney.  Placing in the Top 16 were Amara Autry, Piper Hoekel, Ella Parcells, and Sophia...

 2011 USA SWIMMING SCHOLASTIC ALL-AMERICAN TEAM Congratulations to Tim Benage, Laura Bilsborrow, Annie Goessling, Alex Glogoza, Elizabeth Krane, Taylor Maurer, Morgan Mullenix, Etinosa Ogbevoen, Maddie Wall, and Nate Weiss, on being named to the 2011 USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Team. 10 CSP athletes were named to the list, while no other team in the Ozark LSC had more than 4 athletes. To make the Team athletes must be in 10th, 11th, or 12th grade and have a GPA over 3.5. They also must meet a qualifying time in at least...

Ozark A Championships   Congratulations to the CSP Tideriders on a record breaking performance at this past weekend’s Ozark A Championships, held in Carbondale, Ill.  CSP swimmers broke numerous records, earned many new Sectional Cuts and achieved over 70% best times as a team.  Melissa Melnick set three new team records, breaking the 11 – 12 Girls 50 Free, 100 Free and 50 Fly, Sarah Finlay set the 13 – 14 Girls 200 Back, and Colleen Young broke the American Record in the 100 Breast and re-broke her own 200...

The first in a series of Grand Prix meets held by USA Swimming took place this weekend at the University of Minnesota. This is the second year CSP swimmers competed in the  meet. This years meet taking place in less than a year from the Olympic Games was attended by many of the World's greatest swimmers. Michael Phelps, Ryan Lockte, Rebecca Soni, Missy Franklin, among others were competing this past weekend. Our swimmers had a great time participating in this meet. CSP was represented by Hadley Edwards, Sarah Finlay, Elizabeth...

  HEAT Swimming’s Fall Classic   What a busy meet weekend we had!  We had over 200 swimmers, 13 coaches, and too many places to be.  While swimmers were competing at Lafayette, we also had coaches splitting time between the meet and the USA Swimming Conference that was in town.  This was our largest entry for a non CSP hosted swim meet and we were proud of all of the swimmers who were in attendance.  In the 8 & Under Age Group, winning events were Anna Baur, Maya Esparza, Noa...

We had two very successful intra squad meets last week!  Thanks to the officials who came to help run the meet and thanks to the parents who helped time.  Without all of you we could not run these meets. We held a meet on Wednesday night for the Age Group, Advance Stroke, Junior Varsity, Competitive Prep, Varsity and Senior swimmers where the object was to "Get Your A."  We had 30 swimmers improve from one USA Time Standard to another, and had 12 new "A" times achieved.  Congrats to Rebecca...

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The first meet of the year was outstanding and the Tideriders made a great showing!  Congrats to all who attended this meet.  Our entry was one of the biggest we have ever sent to a meet, having 184 swimmers sign up to attend this meet.  Also, congratulations go out to Colleen Young who set the American Record for Paralympic Swimmers in the 200 Breast Stroke at the meet.  In the 8 & Under Age Group, winning individual events were Madeleine Collier and Dan Gao.  Placing in the top 8 were...