Buckeye Swimming

Find video of Missy Franklin's post backstroke interview from last night.  Notice what she says, share it with your kids.  No matter how fast you are (or how good you are at your job) you are always better at something that you enjoy doing.  The coaching staff works hard to impart this bit of wisdom to your children. There is even a Chinese athlete out there stating that her swim would have been faster if her country would learn how to have fun like the Australians. I believe this quote is from their butterflyer that trains part time in Australia.   Sign up for the Splash Bash. We've got a $10 per person budget for this event and are asking for $5 per swimmer to pay for half the costs.  It's minimal compared to the great time everyone will have this Friday. Bring a friend or two along too! We've got prizes donated by USA Swimming, pool games to play, contest giveaways and live streaming of the FINALS...

This Thursday practice will be held from 8-10 am for Seniors and Scarlets and 9-10 am for our Silver swimmers.  Practice is at Northland Swim Club.

Calling all swimmers! Join Buckeye Friday, August 3 at The Lakes Golf & Country Club from 2-5 for an Olympic Celebration! The details: · Any Buckeye swimmer, parent or friend of Buckeye is welcome to attend. · Cost is $5 per swimmer, $10 per adult. · Every attendee will receive one raffle ticket for great prizes and one entry into our 50/50 raffle. · We will have LIVE VIDEO STREAMING of Olympic Swimming Finals! · We are giving away prizes, having contests, games  and will hold a 50/50 raffle. · Drinks and snacks will be provided to all attendees. · The Lakes pool will be open and available for all party attendees! · ALL attendees must RSVP via Paypal by Thursday, August 2nd. RSVP Swimmer$5.00 USD Adult$10.00 USD RSVP via Paypal - follow this link:http://www.bkyswim.com/Team_Information.php

We have finished the 2012-2013 team information and have put together a schedule for starting our season at Columbus North.  We are hopeful the pool can move at a very quick pace so that we can move programs there sometime during the season.  Once we move into the new facility we will schedule most of our groups in the 5 to 7:30 time range. We will be sending emails out with group assignments and registration information ASAP. Registration will be online, suing the same system we have used for meets this summer.

We are throwing an Olympic watching party on either Thursday, August 2 or Friday, August 3 (most likely the 3rd).  Time and location are TBA.  Details will be out ASAP.

Our Buckeyes finished in 2nd place in the small team division at the Ohio Long Course Age Group Championships this past week-end.  The small team division is determined on July 1st each summer and is based on the number of 9-14 year old swimmers on our team roster.  Kudos to our swimmers and coaching staff for working hard and pushing each other to excel! You've made the Buckeye family proud! This past winter we were able to qualify about a third of our 9-14 year old team to this meet.  This summer we took 10 of our qualifiers to the meet. A special congratulations to our participants: Grace Butcher, Lauren Ertz, Natalie Hegg, Bobbi Indest, Rachel Raque, Macey Swearingen, Graham Wedienhamer, Jeremy Baggs, Ellie Nebraska & Jeremy Karr.

Our Senior team has agreed to provide timers for the Friday morning session of Senior meet this Friday.  However, we are short timers (we need 16 abut only 12 kids attending the meet).  If you can spend them morning in Kenyon this Friday and would like to see some fast swimming, please let us know. Kenyon has agreed to pay our boosters $350 for timing Friday morning. Each timer will receive a gray team t-short to wear during the meet (the tee is yours to keep after).  Your help is needed from approximately 8:30-approximately 1:10.

The psych sheet has been posted - link here:  http://swimmakos.com/realtime/ We don't have a warm-up schedule just yet.  I will post those on the website when they are available.

With competitions coming to a  close, we've made some adjustments to the schedule.  Note most the changes begin the week of July 23. Senior Scarlet 1 & 2 Silver 1 & 2 TOO Combo Thursday, July 19 LAST  SMALL GROUP DAY Friday, July 20 ALL at 10 am Monday, July 23 7-9 am, 3-5 pm 3-5 pm 3-4:30 pm 5-5:45 5:45-6:30 Tuesday, July 24 9-noon 9:15-11:45 10-11:30 Wednesday, July 25 7-9 am, 3-5 pm 3-5 pm 3-4:30 pm 5-5:45 5:45-6:30 Thursday, July 26 9-11:30 9:30-11:30 10-11:30 10:30-11:30 @Northland Last Day 10:30-11:30 @Northland Last Day Friday, July 27 NO PRACTICE ALL GROUPS Monday, July 30 3-5 3-5 3-4:30 Tuesday, July 31 9:30-12 9:30-11:45 10-11:30 ...

Dear Coach, Hope this email finds you well and enjoying the summer. We are writing today on behalf of the upcoming feature film COACH OF THE YEAR: an independent, kid-friendly sports comedy feature film based on the inspiring true story of a rag tag swim team that tries to win a state championship…without a pool to practice in. Director Dave Stott, who has coached swimming for twenty years, hopes that with this film, we will entertain and inspire kids all over the country to learn to swim. Another goal of this film is to raise awareness about drowning as the leading cause of accidental deaths and to help kids all over the country learn to swim safely. The underdog story has been told before, but not for our sport. This is a movie for swimmers (and would-be swimmers), made by people who know the sport intimately and love it passionately, and we’d love for you to be involved. We wanted to ask you and your team to help spread the word about COACH OF THE YEAR, and get you & you...

Regional Champs are this week-end in Bowling Green.  If you entered you received an email confirming your events.  Day 1 is Friday - events are numbered in the 100's, day 2 Saturday events are 200's.... Friday and Saturday 8:10 am warm-ups Sunday 7:25 am warm-ups Psych sheets are posted! Notes from the meet host: 1.) The rec center doors will open each day at 7:15 for prelims and 4:15 for finals. The building will be closed between prelims and finals.   Friday, if parents or coaches wish to work out, you will be able to purchase a day pass from the rec center for $7.  The facility is closed on Saturday and Sunday. 2.) Here's a link to a parking permit that everybody will need to have for Friday's session.  Email this to your families or print and pass them out.  We will have extras at the admissions table. 3.) We will be doing fly-over starts. 4.) There will be positive check in for the following events:     127 - 128:  11...

Here's a great post swim season triathlon at Zoombezi Bay!  I encourage all of our 15 & unders to particiapte and then stay for the day and play :) Date Start: Saturday, August 4, 2012 Registration Closing Date Wednesday, July 31, 2013 @ 11:59 PM US/Eastern Description What better place for kids to participate in a triathlon than at the Zoo's Zoombezi Bay in Powell, Ohio. The event begins in the awesome water park and the fun keeps going from there! RACE CATEGORIES Ages 7 - 10: competitive, timed race Ages 11 - 15: competitive, timed race Ages 6 - 15: clinic for beginners without timing http://www.active.com/triathlon/columbus-oh/kidsroll-zoombezi-bay-triathlon-and-fitness-race-festival-presented-by-mcdonalds-of-central-ohio-2012

Friday – Timed Finals 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – warm-up 4:10 p.m. – Meet start Saturday & Sunday – Prelims 6:30 – 7:30 a.m. – warm-up 7:40 a.m. – Meet start Saturday & Sunday Timed Finals 1:00-1:30 p.m. – warm-up 1:40 p.m. – Meet Start Saturday & Sunday – Finals 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – warm-up 5:40 p.m. – Meet Start

Just a few reminders to help us finish the season strong: Please be at practice ready to begin at least 5 minutes before the start of swimming.  Ready means swimmers are in their suits, have their cap and goggles in hand and have their equipment bag behind their lane. Parents, please save questions for coaches for either before or after practice.  All of our coaches stay after practice to answer questions.  Many coaches are at practice 15 minutes early. Please do not bring glass into the pool area. Please be patient with the new online entry system. We are learning the system as well, and as such there will be glitches. We continue to evaluate whether we will utilize this system in the winter season. Thank you and GO BUCKS!

This year we sent 7 swimmers to the Ohio Open Water Championships and had a very successful day at the beach!  Our 15-18's raced the 4k, 13-14's swam a 3k and our 10 & unders swam a 1k.  Congrats to Grace Weidenhamer and Grace Butcher on their 14th and 16th place finishes! Senior open water swimmers prior to the race: Kyle, Jeremy, Skyler, Keanan & Eliza

All practices this Wednesday are cancelled.  Please have a safe and fun 4th of July!