From: Ohio Zone Team [mailto:bpeaden@woh.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:52 PM
Subject: Ohio Zone Team Wrap-up, 8/22/08

*** 2008 Ohio Zone Team Distribution ***

Complete Scores and Results on the Ohio website:

http://www.daytonraiders.com/zone_team/2008/2008_ohio_zone_homepage.htm

Team Finish

Team Ohio finished 3^rd out of the 15-team field in the Central Zone.  Excellent job considering we did not field a large 15-18 boy and girl age group.  The 11-12 girls won the age group.  The 10 & Under boys were second.  The 10 & Under girls and 13-14 boys were 3^rd.  Alisabeth Marsteller (12) won the individual High Point for the 11-12 girls.

Zone Gold Medalists

Congratulations to the “Mega Zone” Champions – gold medals were awarded to these individuals at this year’s USA Central Zone Championships – which is (and could be for a long time) the largest Age Group Championship in USA history:

Alisabeth Marsteller (12) – Mason Manta Rays

Gold, 200 IM (2:29.52 – 13^th in USA)

Gold, 200 Free (2:10.32 – 9^th in USA) – central zone meet record

Kendra Crew (13) – Springfield YMCA

Gold, 100 Breast (1:15.52 – 9^th in USA)

Zhada Fields (10) – Greater Toledo Aquatics Club

Gold, 50 Back (:35.11 – 11^th in USA)

Tommy Cope (10) – Dayton Raiders

Gold, 50 Breast (:38.78 – 4th in USA)

Scott Richmond (12) – Miami Valley Aquatics (Oxford)

Gold, 100 Breast (1:14.93 – 10^th in USA)

Sharli Brady (12) – Northern KY Clippers

Gold, 100 Fly (1:07.85 – 16^th in USA)

Marriott Hotel Update

The Indianapolis East Marriott has informed us that we utilized enough rooms to avoid any attrition charges for not reaching an estimate number of rooms.  As it turns out, over 100 nights of your rooms were buried in their system and not affiliated with “TEAM OHIO” – which is common nowadays since room reservations can be achieved by numerous methods over the internet.  For those of you that replied to an earlier request with your hotel information – THANK YOU as that was key for us to show the Marriott how many of us stayed at their 3-hotel complex.  As you might expect, planning for such an event is like hitting a moving target: block too few rooms and we are out of luck when we approach the event.  Block too many rooms, and the hotel could take a loss if there is under-utilization. 

Import Results Into Your Club’s Database:

If you want your team to import the results from Zones into your club’s Hy-Tek Team Manager system, your club manager or coach (whoever manages your club’s meet results) must follow the steps below.  These steps are listed on the Ohio zone page. Download the meet backup posted on the Ohio page, then perform the following steps:

1. Restore backup into your MM
2. Create your club name under "Teams"
3. Switch over all of your athletes from "OHIO" to "YOURCLUB"
under the Athletes menu.
4. Export results for "YOURCLUB"
5. Import results into your TM
Note: do not import relay splits since the meet had touchpads disabled for most of the relays throughout the meet

Thank You! Couldn’t be Done Without You…

These folks were selfless, always prepared, never had enough sleep, and would not have made this trip possible if it weren’t for their time and dedication.  Even more impressive considering many of the other teams still follow the “just show up to the meet and hope for the best” policy when organizing their LSC’s team entries:

Mike Rice – Official, acted as Ohio liason at Open Water

Margo Pocisk – Parent Chaperone

Polly Mayhew – Parent Chaperone

Tami Sickinger – Parent Chaperone

Gina Lofquist – Parent Chaperone

Diane Schaffer – Parent Chaperone

Marianne Pohlmann – Parent Chaperone

Coach Susie Tonjes – from Greater Columbus helped with deck management

Coach Charles Galvin – from MASON helped with deck management

Coach Kris Moellenburg – Head Coach

Coach Ralph Brodbeck – 13-over coach

Coach Jerry Freimuth – 13-over coach

Coach Keith Ferrara – 13-over coach

Coach Steph Waldbilling – 12- under coach

Coach Ann Brewer – 12- under coach

Coach Sara Stacey – 12- under coach

Coach JR Leahy – 12- under coach

Brent Peaden – Coordinator Coach

Kastaway Swimwear, especially “Lynn” – hundreds of hours of equipment setup and packaging, low prices

TYR – at-cost gear, goody bag donations

Philo – “bungee” straps donations

Buckeye Charters – always beats the “other company” rates by a lot with bigger, better, and newer buses, and their service is 110% - 8 years straight

In our Prayers

Please keep bus driver Jim Scott and his family in your prayers.  On trips such as this, it is easy for athletes and staff to develop relationships with our bus drivers as they become part of one, big “family”. Mr. Scott passed away on Sunday after rushing back to Ohio mid-trip while feeling ill.  We have sent the family flowers and pictures that were taken of Chris during the trip prior to returning home.

Lost and Found

If anyone has or found a cell phone, reply to this message with a description – a travel swimmer left one in the room or at the hotel.  If anyone else lost something, you can try to the hotel or Natatorium directly, but at this point all lost items may remain lost so you do not need to contact any coaches or staff. The coaches and staff only have two lost and found items that are in our possession (listed below). If the items below belong to you, reply to this e-mail with supporting details and I’ll send it to you:

*** Girls suit (describe size and type)

*** MP3 player (non iPod, not high end)

Team Pictures for Travel Team Swimmers

If you were on the Travel Team and you did not receive your Team Picture, please reply to this message with full swimmer name and we will send you one.  About 15 of your did not receive one, mostly those of you that checked out early while in Indianapolis.

2009 Zones

Ohio has been assigned Noblesville (IN) for the 2009 Central Zone Championships.  A recently renovated (and very nice) outdoor pool will be the site for next year’s event. 

Awards

The names listed at the bottom of this e-mail have ribbons to be picked up. We will distribute the ribbons to your team coaches or team representatives at the fall House of Delegates meeting or at an upcoming swim meet.  If you want your ribbons now, please send a self-addressed and stamped FULL-SIZED LETTER envelope to:

Brent Peaden
3000 Idaho falls Drive
Beavercreek, Ohio 45431
(make sure the envelop is letter-sized, typically 9”x4” or else your ribbon will be folded.)

We have ribbons for:

Thank you,
Brent Peaden
bpeaden@woh.rr.com