OSI News Archive - March, 2012

There will be a stroke and turn clinic at the Lake Oswego Pool, Saturday April 7, 9:30AM.

Contact Joe Dahl at joe@tcsor.com for information and if you are interested in attending the clinic.

The Regional Coaching Clinic program brings affordable clinics directly to teams in their own LSC's. These clinics are designed for the entire coaching staff from the novice coach to the senior level coach.

We price the clinics to encourage coaching staffs to attend the clinic together.One coach can attend for $60, or an entire staff can attend the clinic for only $120

Oregon - Forest Grove,  April 27-29, 2012

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• Pacific University Campus Map - Washburne Hall (Multi-Purpose Room)

Oregon swimmers set new OSI records at the NW Section Senior Championships and the Oregon Swimming/Region XII Senior Championships. Cameron Stitt of Tualatin Hills Swim Club bettered Logan Storie's 15-16 400 meter free record of 3:59.65 swimming 3:59.50. Tommy Brewer, swimming unattached, lowered the 15-16 200 meter breast record. His 2:19.56 bettered Lee Leatherman's 2:20.79 set back in 1998. Michelle Cefal, of Tualatin Hills, lowered her own 15-16 200 meter fly record by 2.5 seconds, swimming 2:13.43 to 2:15.82.

Lake Oswego's relay of Brenda Cha, Abby Lyons, Sarah Kaunitz and Grace Carlson lowered the 15-16 200 meter free record of 1:49.08, swimming 1:47.34. The old record was held by Tualatin Hills. THSC's Prudence Rooker, Michelle Cefal, Marita Sailor and Lotta Novtony finished the race in a later heat under the old record, swimming 1:47.40. The THSC foursome bettered the 15-16 400 meter free relay and 800 yard free relay records. For the 400 free relay, they finished in 3:54.49, bettering their own record of 3:57.62. For the 800 free relay, they stopped the clock at 7:28.39, bettering a 19 year old record held by THSC which stood at 7:34.83.

THSC bettered the 15-16 400 meter medley relay. Marita Sailor, Tiffany Zhao, Michelle Cefal and Prudence Rooker combined to finish in 4:21.59, to the old record of 4:25.04. The final record set was the Open 400 medley relay. Michelle, Tiffany and Prudence combined with Kara Nelson to finish the relay in 1:57.30, bettering THSC's 2002 record of 1:58.25.

Joe Dahl will be holding a S&T Clinic March 17th 9:30 am at the Sherwood YMCA. To sign up or for more information contact him at joe@tcsor.com

John Waller will be hsoting a stroke and turn clinic on Saturday, March 17 after the completion of the VCL Swim Meet in North Bend.
Contact John Waller at johnwaller4@charter.net for more information.

Women:
Region XII: Sarah Grundman, BISC PN - 93 points
Oregon Swimming: Grace Jovanovic, SHRK - 82 points
MEN:
Oregon Swimming:Jacob Weitzel, THSC, Ian Leeming, CAT - 79 points

Team Awards:
1. Tualatin Hills Thunderbolts - 1,013 points
2. Columbia River Swim Team - 798 points
3. Maverick Aquatics - 752.5 points
4. Superior Stingray Swimming - 639.5 points
5. Mount Hood Aquatics - 550 points

Several Oregon Swimming records were lowered at the Oregon 11-14 Championships. Anthony Nosack, swimming for THSC, set the only individual record. He lowered his own 11-12 200 breast record of 2:20.17, finishing in 2:18.17.

MAC's Tristan Furnary, Grant Gooding, Tyler Soo and Bailey Pearson combined to set two 13-14 medley relay records. For the 200 relay, the foursome finished 1:41.17 to beat LOSC's 2008 record of 1:41.94. In the 400 relay, they swam 3:39.10 to MAC's 2009 record of 4:41.29. THSC's Alex La Rosa, Cortlandt Nelsen, Paolo Casas, and Myron Shen also went under the record, swimming 3:40.43.