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GCSTO Nominated For NICKELODEON'S PARENTS' PICK AWARD
GCSTO's Swim School was recently nominated for this award as the best in our class in the central Ohio area. Please feel free to cast your vote amongst the 3 nominees at PARENTSSPICK and note that we are honored to have received this nomination! 
 
2008-09 Short Course Results

Team National Rankings
                                                                                                       
The Club Excellence Program: This program deals with the performance levels of the older athletes on the team in comparison to the rest of the nation. Of the thousands of clubs in USA Swimming, only 200 clubs were screened for such recognition. GCSTO was first recognized in 2007 as a Bronze Medal Club in USA Swimming and has repeated that effort this year. Click on the icon for more information about this program from USA Swimming.

USA Swimming’s Club Recognition Program: We have now qualified for level 2 in USA Swimming's Club Recognition Program! Recognition at this level deals with club administration and organization and it is no easy task to achieve. Congrats to all of our swimmers and coaches on this achievement. Click on the icon for more information about this program from USA Swimming.
 

Toyota Virtual Club Championships: This system of ranking the thousands of clubs in USA Swimming is based on overall team performance in relation to the rest of the nation. Last year GCSTO made the top 100 on this list (as 100th) with 157,104 points. This year, the team is sitting at 87th with 164,514 points.  Click on the icon for more information about this program from USA Swimming.

Meet Results
USA Swimming Sectionals: Last spring GCSTO took but 15-16 athletes to this upper level meet. This year, with 31 qualified, we ended up able to take 29 athletes to the meet and placed 6th at the meet with not many more points but a future that looks incredibly bright as, amazingly, 25 of these athletes are back next year!

Senior State Championships: We had incredible attendance at this meet this year and placed 5th overall as a team and had an excellent performance with most sectional athletes swimming their “off” events!

State Age Group Championships: With state qualifying standards that were to cut this year’s meet by 25% overall in attendance, we actually had more athletes qualified for the meet this year then we did last year. We had around 4 more individually and about 8 more for relays and had some outstanding performances.

Individual Results
World Championship Trials Qualifiers: While this meet has yet to be held it’s is simply almost as “big” a meet as is Olympic Trials and we have 2 athletes qualified for this meet to date…. Gracie Finnegan & Ashley Specht!

Patrick Kelly Chosen For USA Swimming Select Camp: Based on the IMX scores he received last year for his performance in the IMX series of events, Patrick was chosen to attend this camp in late May by USA Swimming. He was one of the 26 male athletes chosen from across the country for this elite camp.

Nationally Ranked Athletes: Here’s a list of our nationally ranked athletes to date…
Ronnie Bolden – 11th in the 50 free (21.71)
Lily Green – 6th in the 50 free (25.32), 17th in the 100 free (56.32), 10th in the 100 breast (32.74)
Andee Cottrell – 12th in the 100 breast (1:05.64)
Maddie Martin – 13th in the 100 fly (56.81), 7th in the 200 fly (2:05.29)
Sandy Whitaker – 14th in the 100 fly (48.88)
Gracie Finnnegan – 12th in the 50 free (23.14), 17th in the 100 free (50.25)
Ashley Specht – 12th in the 100 breast (1:01.89)
Andee Cottrell, Morgan Belli, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis – 11th in the 200 free relay (1:38.90)
Morgan Belli, Andee Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis – 4th in the 200 free relay (1:49.22)
Morgan Belli, Andee Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis– 3rd in the 200 free relay (3:54.17)

State Champions: 12 different swimmers combined for 15 state championship titles this year!

Ohio High School State Championships
Gracie Finnegan - State D1 Champion 50yd free, State D1 Champion 100yd free (note that Gracie's state qualifying time of 49.67 also broke the Ohio High School D1 state record)
Ashley Specht - State D1 Champion, New State Tournament Record, New State Record & NEW POOL RECORD 100yd breast
Carl Svagerko - State D2 Champion, New State Record 100 butterfly
Sandy Whitaker - State D1 Champion 100yd butterfly, State D1 Champion 100yd backstroke

Ohio Senior Championship Meet
Sandy Whitaker – Open Men’s 100 butterfly & 100 freestyle
Sam Kocher, Sandy Whitaker, Justin Shotwell & Zach Poltor – 200 free relay

Ohio State Age Group Championship Meet
Andrea Cottrell - 13-14 Girls 100 breaststroke (1:06.15)
Maddie Martin - 13-14 Girls 100 butterfly (56.81) and 13-14 Girls 200 butterfly (2:05.29)
Morgan Belli, Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis - Girls 13-14 400 medley relay (3:54.17)
Ronnie Bolden - Boys 13-14 50 freestyle (21.82) and Boys 13-14 100 freestyle (48.52)

Team Record Breakers: With only 20 team records broken last short course season we had 43 team records broken so far this season! Here is a listing of those athletes…

13-14 Age Group
Ronnie Bolden - Male 50yd freestyle (21.71), Male 50M freestyle (25.68), Male 100yd freestyle (48.52) & Male 100M freestyle (57.33)
Aly Francis - Female 50M free (27.87)
Maddie Martin - Female 100yd butterfly (56.81), Female 100M butterfly (1:06.39), Female 200M butterfly (2:26.88), Female 200yd freestyle (1:56.41), Female 400yd IM (4:36.87) & Female 200yd butterfly (2:05.29)
Nick McKinley - Male 100yd breaststroke (1:01.84) & Male 200yd breaststroke (2:19.97)
Morgan Belli, Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis - Female 200yd free relay (1:38.90)
Suzanne Hrabowy, Aly Francis, Maddie Martin & Morgan Belli - Female 400yd free relay (3:42.61)
Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis & Morgan Belli - Female 800yd free relay (7:56.24)
Morgan Belli, Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis - Female 200yd medley relay (1:49.22)
Morgan Belli, Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis - Female 400yd medley relay (3:54.17)
Morgan Belli, Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis - Female 400M medley relay (4:37.79)

15-16 Age Group
Emily Boone - Female 100yd butterfly (56.08) & Female 200yd IM (2:05.10)
Gracie Finnegan - Female 50yd freestyle (22.89), Female 100yd freestyle (49.67), Female 200M freestyle (2:11.83/tied the record) & Female 200yd freestyle (1:54.19)Sam Kocher - Male 100yd free (46.64), Male 200yd free (1:41.70) & Male 100yd back (52.47)
William Rosler, Patrick Kelly, Tyler Simonton & Zach Poltor - Male 800M free relay (8:23.44)

17-18 Age Group
Jenna Lindner - Female 200yd freestyle (1:53.16) & Female 400M freestyle (4:33.66)
Ashley Specht - Female 100yd breaststroke (1:01.89) *New State Record
Sandy Whitaker - Male 100yd butterfly (48.88)

15-18 Age Group
Gracie Finnegan, Suzanne Hrabowy, Jenna Lindner & Rachel Chickerella - Female 400yd free relay (3:34.78)
Jenna Lindner, Gracie Finnegan, Tiffany Aeling & Emily Boone - Female 800M free relay (8:50.70)
Sandy Whitaker, Corey Taylor, Carl Svagerko & Sam Kocher - Male 200yd medley relay (1:35.53)
Sandy Whitaker, Carl Svagerko, Sam Kocher & Zach Poltor - Male 400yd free relay (3:10.55)
Sandy Whitaker, Sam Kocher, Carl Svagerko & Patrick Kelly - Male 800yd free relay (6:58.24)

Open Age Group
Gracie Finnegan - Female 100yd freestyle (49.67)
Ashley Specht - Female 100yd breaststroke (1:01.89) *New State Open Record Sandy Whitaker - Male 100yd butterfly (48.88)
Morgan Belli, Andrea Cottrell, Maddie Martin, Aly Francis - Female 400yd medley relay (3:54.17)
Jenna Lindner, Gracie Finnegan, Tiffany Aeling & Emily Boone - Female 800M free relay (8:50.70)

Announcements  

Creekside Blues & Jazz Blast Swim Meet - WHAT A MEET!!!! We want to thank everyone who came to the meet and also send a special thanks to whoever it was that paid off the weather monsters to make it such a beautiful weekend! Too, we would like to thank everyone who helped worked the meet especially those from other teams. Your entry fee refund check for that day is coming home shortly. It was an incredible weekend and everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves. It very, VERY much looks like this meet will close out next year so we are now coming up with a plan to accept entries based on the number of years the teams have been coming to the meet. We'll base it on meet attendance loyalty and not entry dates so be prepared for that next year. Click here to get your meet results or click here for a meet back-up file...

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Two Local Swimmers Crossing The English Channel For Peace
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