Parents-We have created a separate photo album for each swimmer on the shutterfly team website.  The albums are named by their graduation year, first name, and last initial.  For example, Emma Hiltner graduates in 2016 (hopefully), her album is 2016 Emma H.  We have placed a single picture in each album as a place holder because we couldn't create the albums without any pictures. 

Please feel free to copy pictures from the meet and other event folders into your athlete's album.  Our goal is to help you accumulate pictures over their career.  There are currently no separate folders for the seniors.  We can add those if there is demand for it but with the season almost over it may be kind of difficult for you to build up the album.  Shutterfly says that albums will remain on our shared website until we delete them.  Please let me know if you have any questions or need to know how to get added to the shutterfly site: olhs.swim@gmail.com

John H.

OCC Swimming Championship Schedule

O.C.C. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
CENTRAL DIVISION
January 26, 2013
C. David Howell Natatorium (Worthington)
300 West Granville Rd., Worthington, Ohio

Our bus will leave the school at 6:45 am on Saturday
Girls warm-up is at 7:30
Boys warm-up is at 8:15
The Meet starts at 9 am

Swim Psych Sheet

Pasta party this week, January 25, at the Guzzo's.  The party will start within 1/2 hour of the end of practice, so around 6pm. 

Address: 4800 Aberdeen Ave Dublin, Ohio 43016, located in Campden Lakes subdivision. 

Direction from the Y: Go south on Liberty Rd., turn right onto Seldom Seen Rd., turn left on Sawmill Parkway, turn right onto N. Hampton (next to Mt. Carmel Urgent Care), N. Hampton goes through the new section of Wedgewood subdivision and dead ends into Aberdeen Ave. (to the right) and Campden Lakes Blvd. (to the left) - turn right onto Aberdeen Ave and look for 4800 on the right, about ten houses down (house is stone and stucco with a side porch).

Phone: 614 718-0881

Are you an Impact Player?

The swimmers have heard this question quite frequently this year.  The coaching staff is working hard with the swimmers to help them understand how they can make a positive impact on the team.  Within these talks we speak about scoring more points at Districts and which events at Sectionals can help us achieve that. We have a very competitive team for spots this year and the kids are competing daily to earn spots in the line up. The coaches are all very proud of how most of our swimmers have risen to the challenges we & their teammates have placed in front of them.  Many of our kids are proving over and over that they want to make an impact on this team.

2012 District Results:

Girls 7th place, 128 points.
Boys 20th place, 20 points.

The swimmers have also received their power points tables, team attendance rankings (ranked by hours in the water) and a chart of times that have made it on to Districts, scored points at Districts, got on the podium at Districts and qualified on to States in the past year.

Parents, please help us finish this season strong by encouraging your student athletes to stay on top of homework, get plenty of rest and drink lots of water to stay hydrated.  Thanks!

Meets this week-end

Friday v. Dublin Jerome
At Dublin Recreation Center
Warm-ups are at 4:00, meet starts at 5:00
Bus leaves at 3:25
Everyone swims & dives

Saturday v. Upper Arlington
At Upper Arlington High School
Warm-ups are at 1:00, meet starts at 2:00
Bus leaves at 2:15
Everyone swims & dives, there will be 2 heats of most individual events.

Pasta Party!

This Thursday at the Haas House!

2575 Quail Crossing Dr

Starts right after swim practice ends at 8PM

Coming out of the YMCA take a right and head south for 1 mile.  Right after the speed limit drops to 35, Quail Meadows will be on your left.  White fencing surrounds the development.

Turn left into Quail Meadows, at the Stop sign make a left onto Quail Crossing.   We are on the right hand side of the street closer to the end of the street.

Look For It

We wanted to let you know about a brand new free website designed specifically to assist your high school swimmers with their college analysis and selection process. It consolidates information from hundreds of sources to provide an unmatched tool to evaluate swim performance and the potential to swim in college. We hope you will have your swimmers take a look at LookForIt (www.lookforit.com).

LookForIt compares a swimmer’s best times against the top times of virtually all of the Division I, II, III, NAIA and NJCAA colleges in the US with a swim team. You can read about the features if you go to the website and click on “I’m an Athlete”, but one of the most attractive features is a personalized dashboard that reports each college where the athlete might be the #1 (blue), #2 (red), #3 (silver), or close to the #3 swimmer (yellow) in an event at a college based on the comparison of the athlete’s time to each specific college’s times. 

Swimmers have a variety of selection criteria to narrow the colleges that appear on their dashboard (like selecting colleges by Division, by geography, etc). The athletes also have access to direct links into the swim and academic websites of virtually every college in the US simply by clicking on the college name or schoolhouse icon. If they enter the history of their times, they will also have access to graphs of their swim time improvement in each event along with an analysis of their times against a variety of time standards including age group standards, junior national/national cuts, and college Division A and B cuts.

In addition, swimmers can summarize all the results from a particular event on their dashboard to highlight by position and Division where their swim times would be competitive. For example, the swimmer can see at a glance those Division I, II, III, NAIA and NJCAA colleges where their 100 breast swim times would place them as the #1 swimmer, the #2 swimmer, the #3 swimmer, or close to the #3 swimmer. They can even enter a swim time goal to see how the list of colleges would change if their time were to improve.

This is just a small sample of the power that is now available to your swimmers. There are lots of other great features in LookForIt. Please have your swimmers try it out  – registration and access to these features are free. Just have them go to www.lookforit.com and click on “I’m an Athlete” to get started. You can also find us on Facebook – help us spread the word about LookForIt.

We hope this can save your swimmers a lot of time in their college search process.  Please let us know what your swimmers think about LookForIt, and contact us if you have any suggestions to make the website even better.

LookForIt, LLC

www.lookforit.com