Pasta Party at the Lennon’s

Thursday, December 6th from 5:30-8:30 pm.

332 Tree Haven Ave.

Coming from the Y.  Take Liberty Rd. to Powell Rd.

Turn right onto Powell Rd.

Take Powell Rd. to Sawmill Rd. (old Sawmill not the Parkway).

Turn left onto Sawmill Rd. at the UDF

Take Sawmill Rd. to Grandshire

Turn Left onto Grandshire

Take Grandshire to Tree Haven Ave which is the 5th street on the right.

Turn right onto Tree Haven Ave and we are the first house on the left.

Week-end Meet Schedule

We have a busy week-end with a dual meet at Gahanna Lincoln on Friday and the Ned Reeb Invite on Saturday at OSU.  Please note the following:

Friday, 12/7 at Gahanna YMCA
555 YMCA Place  Gahanna, OH 43230
Bus leaves the school at 3:10 pm

Warm-ups are at 4:00, the Meet starts at 4:30
All swimmers that make the line up for this meet are required to ride the bus to and from the meet.  The line up will be announced at practice on Thursday.  Due to limited entries we will not be able to take our entire girls squad.  Also there are no diving boards, thus no diving at this meet.
Due to limited seating at the YMCA, parents are encouraged to bring their own chairs.

Saturday, 12/8 Ned Reeb Invite at Ohio State
A Flight
-The bus will leave the school at 6:15 am
-Warm-ups are at 7 am, Meet starts at 8:45 am
-This is a prelim/finals meet.  Top 20 prelim swimmers in individual events AND relays return for finals in the evening.  Finals warm-ups are at 4:30 pm, the meet starts at 5:30.

B Flight
-The bus will leave the school at 10:45 am
-Warm-ups are at 11:30, Meet Starts at 12:30
-This is a timed final session.  No relays.

LINE-UP
A flight psych sheet, top 24 divers are posted here: http://cosa.clubspaces.com/pagecustom.aspx?id=11&o=571923 

All swimmers in the meet are required to ride the bus to and from their appropriate A flight or B flight session.  Divers are not required to ride the bus for this meet.  Finalists are asked to provide their own transportation back to OSU.

Divers smash 2 records

Congratulations to Junior diver Olivia Ball and Freshman diver Cameron Thatcher!  Olivia broke the girls team record by nearly 20 points on Saturday with a 289.65. Cameron smashed the team record by over 70 points with a score of 294.50.  WTG Divers!

Winter Break Training Schedule

We have been able to acquire pool time at Worthington again this year in order to maximize our swimmers day with their club training.  While the times aren't ideal  they are an improvement from the 3:00 time slot that the YMCA has made available and should help our kids get in some doubles.  Please make note of the following schedule - all practices are REQUIRED.

Wednesday, 12/26: 11:30-2:00 at Worthington
Thursday, 12/27: 11:30-2:00 at Worthington
Friday, 12/27: 3-5:30 at Liberty YMCA
Monday, 12/31: 3-5:30 at Liberty YMCA
Wednesday, 1/2: 12:00-2:00 at Worthington
Thursday, 1/3: 8-10:30 am at Worthington
Friday, 1/4: 8-10 am at Worthington

No Practice 12/24, 12/25 and 1/1.
Happy Holidays!

Swimmers of the Meet

Congratulations to our swimmers of the meet from Saturday!
Girls - Reilly Haas for stellar performances in the 50 fly, 50 free & 100 free!
Boys -Jack Saczawa with a strong showing in the 100 back.

Raffle Ticket Reminder

Raffle ticket stubs are due to Alex McCloskey no later than Friday, December 7.  Please remember to put the completed stubs along with the athlete's name in a ziplock baggie.  The Ipad drawing will be at the December 15 home meet.

Wrap up

The first meet is in the books! Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help with the meet. I will be sending out a signupgenius link for anybody who would like to help provide water, gatorade, energy bars, fruit for the team at meets. Yesterday there was a case of water, a case of gatorade, 3 bunches of bananas, a big bag of clementines, a box of clif bars, a box of Costco trailmix, and a box of Kashi trailmix bars. There were 6 waters, 3 bananas and half the Kashi bars left at the end of the meet. I'll tweak the mix a little next week to avoid leftovers. The total cost was about $60. This was not in the budget for the year so if it continues it will be because of volunteer contributions. This is a no-pressure sales pitch. Ask your swimmer/diver if they appreciated having it available and help out if you want to.

Also, if you took pictures of your athlete being woken up before the breakfast gathering last Monday (G rated only), or if you took pictures at the McConaghys pasta party, or if you took pictures at the meet on saturday, please post those pictures to the shutterfly website. Let me know if you need another link to the site (jandahiltner1@att.net). Shutterfly says you can also post pictures to the site by emailing the jpeg file as an attachment to: olhsswimdiveteam@sfly.com . The only limitations are on your outbound mail size. I have tested this function and it did work.

John Hiltner