This past weekend 30 swimmers from our Senior Elite group represented CSP at the 2010 Long Course Speedo Sectional Championships in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Our athletes did a great job and we finished in 3rd place overall. Our men placed 3rd as a team and our women were 6th as a team. Evan Noble defended his High Point Award from last year and won the award again this year. Evan won the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Free, 200 Fly, 100 Back and placed 2nd in the 100 Free. We...

At the 2010 Ozark Short Course Champs, the CSP Tideriders finished in 4th place out of 20 local swim clubs.  In individual Age Groups, CSP finished in the Top 3 in the 13 - 14 Girls, 13 - 14 Boys, and the 15 & Over Girls.  Overall we were very pleased with all performances turned in by the CSP Tideriders!  The team spirit showed during cheers, from the posters, and from everyone wearing their meet shirts.  Swimmers winning individual events were Easton Noble and Masha Podokshik. Swimmers placing in the...

CSP was represented by Cody Adams and Evan Noble at this weekends Illinois Boys High School State Swimming and Diving Championships. Evan swam to 7th place in the 200 IM and a 4th place finish in the 100 Back. While Cody swam and placed 41st in the 100 Back. Congratulations to Cody and Evan on such good performances.

CSP was well represented at this weekends Missouri Girls State Swimming Championships held at the St. Peters Rec-Plex. We are very proud of the efforts and accomplishments by all the CSP swimmers that represented their high schools this weekend. Here are the results by event and swimmer: 200 Free         Maddie Wall sophomore Ladue - 2nd         Mary Beth Howard junior Parkway West - 9th         Claire Spradling senior Webster Groves - 16th         Merrill Thomas senior MICDS - 26th         Haley Debandt freshman Cor Jesu - 38th         Christine...

Evan just received word that he will be competing in Barcelona, Spain June 6th - 11th, 2010 with the National Youth Team. Evan is very excited about the news and  having the opportunity to represent the USA in June. Evan was named to the National Youth Team in September and has been waiting to find out when and where he would compete with the team. The meet he and the National Youth Team members will compete in is part of the Mare Nostrum series. This will be the 3rd year...

Maddie Wall of the Ladue High School Swim Team and a Senior Elite swimmer for the CSP Tideriders, was named a Post Dispatch Athlete of the Week on December 23, 2009. From the Post Dispatch: At the Lindbergh Invitational on Saturday, Wall, a sophomore, set pool and event records in winning the 200 freestyle (1:53.68) and 500 freestyle (5:09.57). In a dual with Kirkwood on Thursday, she won the 100 butterfly (59.83) and 200 IM (2:11.29). Wall's best times this season are tops in the area in four events — 100...

CSP had 4 young men named to the Post Dispatch All-Metro Swim Team. Andrew Dalton of Chaminade and Nate Weiss of Francis Howell North were named to the first team based on their state meet performances. Tim Benage of Chaminade was named to the second team and Destry Newton of Ladue was named to the third team. Congratulations to these boys for this recognition.

  For the second year in a row a male athlete of CSP has received this award. The award is given each year to a Male and Female athlete that is voted by the Ozark LSC to have been the Swimmer of the Year. Daniel Miller won the award last year. Evan will be honored at the Missouri Athletic Club's Jack Buck Sports Award Dinner on Thursday December 17th. Congratulations to Evan on such a fine year of swimming.  Cardinal pitcher, Adam Wainwright recognized at the dinner on December 17,...

For those that participated in Survivor this summer, we have the video with some highlights on the web for you to enjoy.  Congrats to everyone who participated and Congratulations to winner Haley Debandt. Click below for the link to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEXWOk4t82M

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Swim a Thon.  This year we challenged Age Group I, Junior Varsity, Competitive Prep I, and Varsity to raise more money than they did last year.  The goal was more than $14,661.  These groups far exceeded that amount, raising more than $22,500!  Because of them reaching this goal, those swimmers who brought in more than $100 got to shave Coach Mark's hair and then those swimmers who raised more than $300 were able to put tattoos on his head.  We did 1 tatttoo...