At this past weekends Central Zone 14 & Under Championship, the Tideriders helped to represent Ozark in a big way! Current CSP athletes did outstanding. It was a tough weekend with air quality issues, and while some swimmers were not able to continue due to health concerns, others were able to finish it out. Head Ozark Zones Coach, Chris Etherington, was able to lead the Team to a 3rd place finish! Emma Fouke was the 11 – 12 Girls High Point Winner (at only 11) and set a new Team...

CSP had 36 athletes compete at the 2023 NCSA Junior National Championships at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana. Overall the team placed 8th in the meet out of 83 teams entered in the meet. The Men’s team 7th and the Women’s team was 11th. The group set 4 new Ozark records and 17 new Team records. New Records are: Ozark Max Marcus 400 Free 15-16 Boys 400 A Free Relay 15-18 Boys – Josh Noll, Graham Zucker, Max Marcus, and Jaxon Bradburn 800 A Free Relay 15-18 Boys and Open Boys...

This year’s Long Course Champs meet was a rousing success! CSP went to the meet with almost 120 athletes entered, which made up about 20% of the meet. We came out on top for the 5th straight year, while also scoring the most points in the Boys and Girls section of the meet. CSP won the 10 & Under, 11 – 12 and 13 – 14 Age Groups as well as coming in 2nd in the 15 – 18 Age Group. Emma Fouke won the Penny Taylor Award as the...

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...

The 85th CSP Summer Invitational was a huge success. This is the 2nd longest running meet in USA Swimming, and the coaches spent many hours leading up, during and after the meet. From just doing entries for CSP, taking entries from other teams, scheduling workers, setting up every morning and shutting down every night, and of course working with all of our swimmers during the meet, the coaches wore many hats this past weekend. Thanks to Derek Brown, who stepped in as our Meet Referee and our Starter Chris Fox,...

CSP had 15 swimmers representing Team Ozark at this years Open Water Zones Meet, and our swimmers withstood some frigid water and strong winds! Paige Haug was 6th for the 10 & Under Girls, while Eli Voss was 8th for the Boys. Emma Fouke was 3rd, Prairey Maxwell was 7th and Kate Brinton was 14th for the 11 - 12 Girls, with Mason Voss finishing in 6th for the Boys. Marissa Kelley also competed in the 2500 swim. Keegan Brown was 14th for the 13 - 14 Boys with Brodyn...

CSP took Mother’s Day weekend to Lenexa, Kansas and competed in the Rose Memorial Swim Meet. We had over 100 swimmers attend this prelim/final meet at the pool that will host this summer’s central zones meet. We had may outstanding performances by all of our swimmers! Austin Chu broke his first 13 – 14 Team Record in the 200 IM. Winning events for the 10 & Unders were Julia Bucci, Deon Saunders, and Finn Ziolkowski. Placing in the Top 8 were Nathan Chen, Timmy Chen, Triston Cole, Anika Goettel, Harper...

Max Marcus a member of our Elite Group and a Junior at Kirkwood High School has made his verbal commitment to Princeton University. Princeton is a private Ivy League research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Max will join the Tigers in the Fall of 2024. Princeton is an NCAA Division I University that competes in the Ivy League. Please join me in congratulating Max on making such a big decision! Go Tigers!

We had a great banquet last night with many swimmers and families in attendance. Click here for the booklet with the list of all the winners from last night!

The first Long Course Meet of the Year was a record-breaking year. Emma Fouke broke the 11 – 12 Girls 50 Breast, which has stood since 1987. Then Emma teamed with Marissa Kelley, Lucy Baley and Prairey Maxwell to break the 11 – 12 Girls 200 Medley Relay. Great way to begin the Long Course Season! Winning events in the 8 & Under Age Group is Jason Lai, while placing in the Top 8 were Neve Agustin and Alexander Jin. Finishing in the Top 16 were Quinn Haug and Emelia...