CSP Swimmers Shine at Sectionals

This past weekend, CSP took 59 athletes to the Summer Sectional meet.  This was the highest number of athletes entered in the meet, and the Tideriders made up 10% of the meet swimmers.  Our swimmers who will be competing at the NCSA Junior National Championship Meet, either did not attend Sectionals, or they competed one day only, while still training for their NCSA Meet.

With our 7th Place Finish, CSP was the highest ranked team in our Ozark LSC.  We were 7th on the Girls side and 8th on the Boys side of the meet.

Our Executive Director and Head Coach, David McCrary, was recognized by his fellow coaches as the Hank Enterline Central Section Region VIII Coach of the Year.

Austin Chu, 13, was once again the youngest male swimmer in the meet, and he broke Team Records in the 13 - 14 Boys 50 Fly, 50 Back and 100 Back, while qualifying for NCSA Junior Nationals in the 100 Back.

Avery Cunneen broke the 15 - 16 Girls 50 Back Record.

Emma Fouke, 11, was the youngest swimmer in the meet and broke her own Team Record in the 11 - 12 Girls100 Breast, while scoring in both her 50 and 100 Breast events.

Placing in the Top 8 were Nora Lee Brown and Anna Moehn.  Finishing in the Top 16 were Ella Arbeiter, Brody Blatt, Kathryn Chaves, Everdine Ferguson, Caroline Foltz, Anna-Grace Guenther, Max Marcus, Cameron McCrary, Cabot Murawski, Lee Naber, Josh Noll, Ruby Nussbaum, Cohen Osborn, Hannah Renaud, and Graham Zucker.  

Scoring in the Top 24 were MJ Bezzant, Austin, Trey Cunneen, Wills Dino, Emma, Allie Maloney, Niko Theodos, and Jaden Yarbrough.  Swimming the D Finals were Avery, Josh Denckhoff, Charlie Hill, Grace Kraeger, Mia Panic, Graham Sagel, Camden Theodos, and Emma Wisker.

In the Girls Relays, CSP placed as follows:

200 Medley - Grace, Laney Fenton, Ashlyn Canale and Ella were 16th, and Mia, Payton Robic, Ava Craig, and Anna-Grace were 20th.

400 Medley - Mia, Emma, Ashlyn and Noel Rice were 13th, Allie, Emma, Norah and Juliette Phillips were 17th, Avery, Payton, Everdine and Reilly Curry were 18th and Caitlin, MJ, Ava and Brooke Shadduck, were 25th.  

200 Free - Laney, Grace, Ella and Anna-Grace were 14th, Noel, Payton, Reilly and Mia were 33rd and Ava, Ashlyn, Ruby and Everdine were 35th.

400 Free - Anna, Caroline, Anna-Grace and Emma were 8th, Ava,  Norah Rutkowski, Avery and Ashlyn were 22nd, Kathyrn, Laney, Noel and Leah Renner were 24th and Reilly, Lindsay Naber, Nina Schuerer, and Hannah were 30th.

800 Free - Ella, Anna, Anna-Grace and Laney were 5th while Noel, Ava, Nina and were Charlotte Brown13th.   

In the Boys Relays, CSP placed as follows:

200 Medley - Cameron, Niko, Asher Cole, and Ryan were 15t, Austin, Xander Theodos, Graham and Grady were 27th and Wills, Cabot, Charlie and Camden were 38th.

400 Medley - Lee, Niko, Cameron and Ryan were 10th while Cohen, Austin, Asher and Grady were 27th.

200 Free - Grady Ashley, Niko, Cameron, and Ryan were 15th while Asher, Charlie, Camden and Jaden were 23rd.

400 Free - Josh, Lee, Graham and Niko were 3rd, Brody, Cameron, Sean McGinley, and Ryan were 11th and Asher, Trey, Charlie and Camden were 24th.

800 Free - Max, Niko, Cameron and were Ryan Mauney 6th, Cabot, Camden, Jaden and Asher Cole were 12th, and Charlie, Daniel Garza, Graham, and Wills were 24th.

Also competing at Summer Sectionals were Ben Chumley, Lily Hsieh, Jacqueline Hu, Scout Jackson, Caitlin Kuhlmann, Kate Punnewaert,  Leah Renner,  and Emma Welch.

Thanks to Ava Craig, who tookover the CSP Tideriders Instagram Page for Sunday of the meet. 

Congratulations to our parents who received a big shout out for stepping up and helping to time the meet.  We had multiple days were we supplied more timers than were needed by our team.  Stepping up to help where other teams were not able to find timers.

Also, thanks to our Officials who took of their time to help run this meet under the Rules of USA Swimming!