The OSSC recently concluded its best season yet! We are now entering our eighth season, and have progressed every single season since our inaugural season in 2009-10. Our team’s competitive environment and constant desire for greatness make the OSSC a special place to be. Enjoy the fun facts below, but as always: Enjoy the journey! Remember that our team is about so much more than what happens in the water! Team Accomplishments USA Swimming’s Virtual Club Championships: We finished the season ranked 49th in the nation for the short course...

Congratulations to the following OSSC swimmers who are nationally ranked as of July 31, 2016. Enjoy the journey! 15-18 relays: Men 200 medley: Jack Saczawa, Jason Mathews, Ben Kuriger, Hans Kabelka – 2nd Men 400 medley: Jack Saczawa, Jason Mathews, Ben Kuriger, Hans Kabelka – 4th Men 400 free: Ben Kuriger, Winston Kuriger, Calvin Furbee, Hans Kabelka – 8th Men 200 free: Ben Kuriger, Hans Kabelka, Winston Kuriger, Pearson Spychalski – 20th 18 Mason Miller: 100 fly – 20th 17 Jason Mathews: 100 breast – 8th 16 Miranda Donley: 50...

Congratulations to our 79 OSSC swimmers who will compete at the 2016 Long Course Junior Olympics (14 & Under State Championships), which will be held at Miami University this weekend! You can view the psych sheet/live results here. Year Number of Qualifiers Number of Individual Swims Number of Relays Team Finish 2010 17 70 22 8 2011 30 114 22 6 2012 40 173 30 5 2013 52 205 39 4 2014 66 313 59 2 2015 77 345 50 2 2016 79 391 49 ?

Congrats to all of our age group, post-grad, and collegiate swimmers competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha June 26-July 3. With past and current swimmers combined, we have 38 swimmers with OSSC connections who are competing in Omaha. Jason Mathews, Janessa Mathews, and Miranda Donley will represent our OSSC age group program. Alex Norris is an Ohio State post-grad who will represent the OSSC. 2015 OSSC and CSG grad, Rachel Politi, will represent the University of Virginia/Cavalier Swimming in the 400 IM on Sunday. There will also be...

Below is a list of our 11 & over Ohio State Swim Club swimmers who are currently ranked Top 20 in the 2015-16 USA Swimming National Age Group (NAG) rankings in at least one individual or relay event. Although these aren't the final results for the entire season, this is still an incredible accomplishment! Special acknowledgement goes to Ava Lachey, Martina Peroni, Hannah Routh, and Riley Huddleston, who are currently ranked #1 in the country in at least one event! Spencer Aurnou-Rhees: 500 free (7), 200 free (8), 400 IM...

The Ohio State Swim Club set several new individual and relay short course records this season. You can find our updated team records here. Go Bucks!

Congratulations to our 92 OSSC swimmers who qualified for the 2016 Short Course Junior Olympics (14 & Under State Championships), which will be held at Ohio State next weekend! We have 84 individual qualifiers and 8 relay-only swimmers (92 total) at JOs this year. Last year we had 71 individuals and 7 relay-only swimmers for 78 total. Much more importantly, we have 418 individual swims compared to 352 individual swims last year. Here is the breakdown of OSSC Short Course JO qualifiers each year: Year Number of Qualifiers Number of...

Our OSSC swimmers continued their torrid swimming in the DI finals session on Saturday evening. We had a very large DI contingent, as 25 of our 36 swimmers competed at the DI championships in Canton over the weekend. In the 200 medley relay, OSSC swimmers helped their HS teams to strong results. Freshman Brenna Cooper, sophomore Lauren Cooper, and freshman Emma Mathews helped their Dublin Jerome team place 13th. For the men, senior Austin Beam swam the backstroke leadoff for St. Charles’ state runner-up relay. Seniors Colin Reardon and Ian...

The OSSC was well-represented at the DII State Championships in Canton this weekend. We had 11 swimmers compete for their respective high schools in multiple individual and relay events. In the 200 medley relay, freshman McKayla Moffat helped CSG to a third-place finish with one of the fastest backstroke splits (26.69) in the entire meet. Our men kept it going, as freshman Jacob Eismann and sophomore Max Dreisbach had huge splits to help their Columbus Academy team to a state runner-up finish. After qualifying second in the 200 free (1:50.12),...

Congratulations to all of our 2016 OHSAA State qualifiers! We had 36 swimmers qualify for 81 individual and relay events in Canton next weekend. Our swimmers and their qualifying events are below. We also want to acknowledge our 13 swimmers who were individual and/or relay Central District champions (names in red text). DIVISION I Women Ellie Nebraska (Olentangy): 100 free, 200 free, 200 free relay, 400 free relay Cecilia Moore (Watterson): 100 back Carrie Horan (Watterson): 100 breast Rachel Peroni (Liberty): 100 fly, 200 IM, 200 free relay, 400 free...