OSI News Archive - June, 2006

The record breaking performances keep coming. At the Pacific Rim Classic, Tualatin Hills 13-14 Boys 200 free relay team of Steven Ung, Brian Stocks, Jonathan Yuan and Brendan Liu broke the old record of 1:48.37 when they swam 1:47.73. The old record was held by THSC as well and set in 2005.

At the MHST Invitational, Taylor Scroggy of THSC bettered her own 1500 meter freestyle record with a time of 18:34.40, bettering her old record by over 20 seconds.

Great job swimmers.

Gene Mielke will be conducting a stroke and turn clinic at the Hood River Aquatic Center, July 6th from 5-7PM. Contact Shelly Rawding at hrst.coach@gmail.com for more information.

Yesterday, June 26, we posted an events file for Team Manager for the 11 & Over Championships. We found an error in the file and will be posted a corrected one tonight. If you have already downloaded this file, please remove it and download the corrected one when it is posted.

At the Pacific Rim Classic, this past weekend, LOSC swimmers set several new OSI records, including one individual record.

Karen Turner set a new individual record in the 11-12 girls 200 IM by swimming 2:28.31. The time was good enough to better former national team member Lauren Thies's time of 2:28.91 set back in 1992.

The team of Brenda Cha, Celia Keany, Brie Balsbough, and Abby Lyons broke 29 year old record when they swam 2:13.81 in the 10 and under 200 freestyle relay, bettering the old time of 2:15.60 set by THSC in 1977. The same set of swimmers lowered the OSI record of 2:33.67 in the 200 medley down to 2:30.98. The old record was also held by THSC and set in 1992.

In the 11-12 age group, Karen Turner, Kemy Lin, Cassicy Robinson and Sherry Zhang combined to set two new records. For the 200 freestyle relay, they swam 1:58.05, bettering the old record of 1:59.50 set in 2004. Then in the 200 medley realy, they swam a time of 2:10.90. The old time was 2:11.48 held by THSC from 2005.

Not to be outdone by the girls, the 11-12 boys 200 medley relay team of Daniel Chen, Luke Marshall, Alex Lyons and Nike Bode combined to better a 20 year old record, swimming 2:12.36, good enough to beat the 1986 record of 2:14.57 set by THSC.

Great job swimmers.

The 2006 Mini Expo will be in the Inn of Seventh Mountain in Bend, September 30 - October 1. Reservations can be made by using the group code 1048C3, through the website www.seventhmountain.com or call 1-800-452-6810.

Gene Mielke will be conducting a stroke and turn clinic at the Hood River Aquatic Center, July 6th from 5-7PM. Contact Shelly Rawding at hrst.coach@gmail.com for more information.

Please note that Thursday evening's AB session (1,500's) will start 1 hour earlier than previously stated in the meet information. This means that warm-ups will be at 4 p.m. with timed finals at 5:00 p.m.

The TTSC Patriot Meet scheduled for June 17th in Tualatin has been cancelled.

Tualatin Hills Swim Club travelled to Arizona for the Cactus Classic. At the meet, Taylor Scroggy and Neil O'Halloran set 11-12 records in the 800 freestyle. Taylor swam 9:50.50 breaking Lauren Allens dripping wet record of 9:59.69 set a few weeks ago at the Hyack Invitational. Neil swam 9:33.15, dropping almost 20 seconds off the old record which stood at 9:51.36 set in 2003 by Connor McCarroll.

Woodburn's meet scheduled for this Saturday night, June 3rd, has been cancelled due to pool problems.