Dear CSP, As I move into my retirement, I want to thank each of you, and all the team members before you, for a very fulfilling and rewarding career as a CSP swimmer, coach and administrator. My tenure has been a treasure to me and I will cherish it always. CSP is a very special and vital organization. For the entire 85 years of its operation, CSP has stayed committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for people to grow, both in and out of the water. I feel...

HAPPY RETIREMENT! Please help us wish the very best for Dr. Terry Varney Freerks, who will be retiring from CSP at the end of this week after years of dedication. She has been with CSP since she was a tot in 1957! She started off as a CSP swimmer (still with Age Group records), moved to become a Head Coach, then Executive Director and Executive Director Emeritus. Terry has coached Junior and Senior Nationals Finalists along with Olympic Trial Qualifiers. Her love for the water and swimming has never tired,...

We took 56 qualified CSP athletes to the 2023 Spring Central Zone Region VIII Championships at the University of Missouri this past weekend. We were the biggest team at the meet with 58 teams representing Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and small parts of Iowa and Illinois. CSP won the Girl’s Championship, the Boy’s Championship and the Combined Team Championship. The last 3 Sectional meets that we have taken our whole team to we have won. Josh Noll took 2nd in the Boy’s High Point. We won the first two...

CSP went into the 8 & Under Championship this year as the defending champs. With 55 athletes entered in the meet, CSP brought more swimmers than any other team. By the end of the meet, CSP once again came out on top. Since 1996, CSP has won this meet 26 times! Deon Saunders won the Boys High Point Award at this meet, with Jason Lai finishing in 4th. Other swimmers scoring in the Top 10 were Anika Goettel (6th) and Amie Reboulet (7th) for the Girls, and Joseph Moore (6th)...

With a week left before Sectionals, CSP sent a limited number of swimmers to this year’s Senior Champs and swam to a strong second place finish. Austin Chu broke another Ozark Record, 200 Back and a Team Record, 200 Free at this meet. Winning events were Austin, Asher Cole, Charlie Hill, Cohen Osborn, Mia Panic and Noel Rice. Placing in the Top 8 were Reese Anderson, Wills Dino, Sam Ellenhorn, Cate Fear, Everdine Ferguson, Daniel Garza, Aiden Kim, Jessa Lee, Sean McGinley, Henry Mura, Brett Ninneman, Isabel Phillips, Graham Sagel,...

CSP won their 6th straight Ozark Division I Champs Meet this past weekend. We are the only team to achieve this feat twice, and one of only three teams to ever accomplish six in a row (Sugar Creek in the 80’s and Parkway in the 90’s). We also went on to win all six of the age groups at this meet, which in recent history, we don’t recall this ever being done before! Austin Chu was won the Bill Karasick Award as the Outstanding Male Swimmer of the Meet. Austin’s...

CSP traveled to Fisher’s Indiana to compete in the MLK Invite with our friends from Southeastern Swim Club and OLY. It was an incredible meet, with many new Ozark and Team Records as well as countless High Point Winners. Those winners included: 10 & Under Girls – Paige Haug (1st), Annabelle Crall (2nd) and Lucy Meyer (3rd) 10 & Under Boys – Evan Kim (1st), Dhathri Kolli (2nd) and Finn Ziolkowski (3rd) 11 – 12 Girls – Emma Fouke (3rd) 11 – 12 Boys – Austin Chu (1st) and Jacob...

Alex Snyder a member of our Elite Group and a Senior at Nernix has given her verbal commitment to Trinity College. Trinity is a private liberal arts college located in Hartford, Connecticut. Alex will join the Bantam to swim and study in the Fall of 2023. Trinity is a NCAA Division III college that competes in the NESCAC conference. Please join me in congratulating Alex on making such a big decision! Go Bantam!

Congratulations to the Swimmers in Age Group, Junior Varsity, Advanced Stroke, Varsity, Senior and Senior II who completed all of the 10 Days of Torture. We will be ordering t-shirts for these swimmers next week. If you believe your swimmer was missed, please reach out to your coach. Age Group Eric Dao Dasha Duncan Anika Goettel Katelyn Huffman Calvin Hyland Ananya Karwa Carr Michaelson Nila Patterson Jake Schilling Emma Wu Advanced Stroke Rachel Lui Austin Ma Junghaun Xu Junior Varsity Winnie Beardsley Leo Blum Raymond Blum Julia Bucci Annabelle Crall...

CSP had 6 members of our Elite Group attend Junior Nationals at the University of Texas this past week in Austin, Texas. Jackson Bradburn, Caroline Foltz, Max Marcus, Josh Noll, JD Suarez and Graham Zucker all competed at Juniors. Max Marcus set the 15-16 and Open records for both our team and Ozark in the 500 Free. He also set new 15-16 and Open team records in the 1650 Free, barely missing the Ozark records. Caroline Foltz broke her own 17-18 and Open team records in the 100 Breast. All...