Banquet RSVPs due

State Champ!

Congratulations to Liberty's newest State Champion, Olivia Ball!  Our divers fought fierce competition at States on Saturday but prevailed!  Olivia was 1st, Alex 5th and Brittany 10th.  Olivia Bentley had a great prelim swim tying for 16th place but in her swim-off was unable to hold off her opponent, leaving her in 17th place.  We are so proud of all of our State competitors efforts - WTG ladies, you represent the Patriots amazingly!

Team Banquet

Our team banquet is March 5!  Click for details.

Schedule Reminders

Practices this week are for District Qualifiers only.  We swim at 3:00 at the Liberty YMCA every day (no more practices at Delaware).

Districts are at 2:00 (diving) and 2:30 (swimming), Saturday at Ohio State.  Please come down to support your Patriots!

The team banquet is March 5 at OLHS.

Winter Babysitting

It's time for winter babysitting sign ups.  We really need extra help at Liberty Tree on 2/23, Indian Springs on 2/28 & again at Liberty Tree on 2/28. Please make sure you are signed up to help by clicking the links below:

2/23:


2/28:

Pasta Party

The District Pasta Party is this Friday at the Rosi House!  We'll celebrate Alex K's diving and get fed and fired up for Saturdays swimming and diving!

District Meet Schedule

Congratulations again to all of our District Swimmers & Divers. All District Swimming & Diving is at Ohio State's McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.  The schedule is as follows:

Boys Diving, Friday 2/17; 1:00 warm-up, 2:00 start
Girls Diving, Saturday 2/18; 1:00 warm-up, 2:00 start
Boys & Girls Swimming, Saturday 2/18; 1:00 warm-up, 2:30 start

We will have a bus to Ohio State on Saturday for all swimmers and girls divers, leaving the school at 11:45.  We have decided not to provide transportation home as many of our athletes prefer to self transport after this meet.  All divers are excused after the diving awards ceremony.  All swimmers are excused after the boys 400 free relay.

Congrats Patriots on a Great Season of Improvement!

Since the start of the season our swimmers have dropped over 800 seconds from their best times.  That's an average of 3.5 seconds per 100!  This is a huge improvement for swimmers at this age and level and truly shows the high level of hard work and focus they have put into this season.  Congrats!!

Volunteer needed

I'm looking for someone that can pick up our sectional t-shirts from Ares in Hilliard tomorrow.  Last word was that they would be ready by 10 am.  I would really like to hand them out at practice on Wednesday.  Please email if you can help.

Timers Needed

We need 8-12 timers (6 for the first half of the meet and 6 for the second half) at Saturday morning sectionals.  All 3 Olentangy schools are providing timers for this meet.  In return our boosters are splitting $200.  We have 19 girls attending the meet - we need you to chip in for half of the meet.  Your admission will be free.  Please click below to sign up.

Sectionals

The sectional line up was announced at practice yesterday.  We were able to work all of our boys into the line up and all but 9 of our girls.  The kids have all worked so hard - we are looking forward to seeing some pay off over the next few weeks!  As a reminder the top 30 swimmers overall from our 3 sectionals and the Athens sectional advance to Districts at OSU on Saturday 2/18.  We will have a general idea based on your performance Saturday whether or not you will advance.  District Qualifiers are typically announced by noon on Sunday.

Bus and Meet times:
Girls 7:45 am bus, meet starts at 10:30.
Return time is 2-2:30

Boys 2:30 pm bus, meet starts at 5:00
Return time is 8-8:30.

Schedule this week

No huge changes once again.  Practices are ending about 30 minutes early each day -the kids have already been communicating this nicely to their rides.  Thursday will be time trials and our final day for our swimmers that did not make the Sectional line up.  All swimmers attending sectionals will have practice Friday from 3-4:30.  Next weeks practices will be for District qualifiers and anyone that needs to time trial.  At this time we plan to hold all practices next week at the Liberty YMCA at 3:00.

Last Call for Raffle Tickets

16 swimmers & divers have yet to turn int heir raffle tickets.  And worse -we are being outsold by tthe basketball team! Here are the current raffle stats.  please turn in your tix ASAP!

Cheer-Winter	32	85	27%
Gymnastics	20	7	4%
Basketball-Girls	23	28	12%
Ice Hockey	34	25	7%
Swim/Dive	49	270	55%
Basketball-Boys	35	309	88%
Bowling	16	162	101%

Academic All-America

Attention Graduating Seniors!  If your GPA is a 3.75/4.0 or 93.75% of a weighted scale, and you have earned a letter in swimming & diving, then you are qualified as an Academic All-American.  Your application is due March 31.  I ask that all swimmers and divers complete and turn in  their own paperwork for this application.  There is no charge to apply, simply check off that your coach is a member of NISCA and fill in my membership #:  07-6179

Application link:  http://niscaonline.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=HStiKbzI8xg%3d&tabid=66&mid=412