Eleven Club Olympia swimmers competed in the 2022 Indiana Swimming Senior State Championships this past weekend. The meet, comprised of over 1000 of the state’s top senior swimmers (typically high school and college age) who met difficult qualifying time standards was held on the campus of Indiana University at the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center. Club Olympia men and women combined for a 16th place finish out of 60 club teams from around Indiana. The Club Olympia lady swimmers finished an impressive 14th among the state’s women’s teams. Much larger teams...

This past weekend, Columbus’ Club Olympia joined several of Greater Indianapolis’ larger swim clubs to compete in the Summer Spectacular Invitational at the historic Riviera Club near the campus of Butler University. The four day event combined one night of distance events, one night of sprint events followed by two mid-distance events, and two days of traditional invitational events in the unique 50M pool laid out in the middle of the Riviera’s recreational pool which is enjoyed by club members and their families during the competition. Club Olympia’s 40 swimmers...

During the month of June, several Club Olympia swimmers have spent time participating with Indiana Swimming in clinics and training camps and competing in Central Zones meets for Team Indiana. This past week, thirteen current and one former “unattached” Club Olympia swimmer traveled to Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin to compete as members of Team Indiana at the 2022 Central Zone Open Water Championships. Two weeks ago select Club Olympia athletes competed as members of Team Indiana in the Central Zones Multi-Cultural Swim meet in Evansville, Indiana while other Club Olympia swimmers...

This past week, Club Olympia swimmers competed in Houston, Texas, against Team Illinois and Team Gulf, as members of the Team Indiana All-Stars at the “Duel in the Pool,” as well as in a 14&U “Dual” meet with the Franklin Regional Swim Team (FRST) in Franklin, Indiana. Ashley Freel and Joshua Pendleton represented Club Olympia on the Team Indiana All-Stars. 16-year-old Freel finished 3rd in the 200 Fly, 5th in the 100 Fly, 6th in 200 Free, and 10th in the 100 Back. Freel was also part of two top-six...

This past weekend, athletes from Club Olympia swam to a second place team at the FAST 500 Invite held in Fishers, Indiana, out placing several teams from Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. Tony Machavariani placed second in Highpoint scoring in the Boys 9-10 age group, and Vivan Shah and Aahan Gupta placed second and third respectively in the Boys 8U age group. Other top performers for the weekend included Ashley Freel, Connelly Furnish, Todd Hundley, Maggie Johnson, Shreyan Kulkarni, Misha Machavariani, Emily Meek, Lane Mellencamp, Chad Pendleton, Joshua Pendleton, and Hope...

Columbus, Indiana’s Club Olympia Swim Team, with just under 50 athletes competing, opened the 2022 Long Course Season (all events are competed in a 50 meter pool during the Long Course Season) with an impressive 2nd place finish at the “Early Summer Slam” Meet hosted by the Franklin Regional Swim Team (FRST) at Franklin Community High School this past weekend. The much larger host team easily outdistanced all other clubs for first place in team scoring. Club Olympia took a closely contested 2nd place by scoring more points than teams...

This past weekend athletes from Club Olympia competed in national level championship swim meets in both Indiana and Florida. Six club swimmers, led by 15 year old Ashley Freel, competed at the Speedo Sectionals meet in Indianapolis, while Misha Machavariani competed in the Open Water Junior Nationals in Fort Myer Beach, Florida. The 2022 Central Zone Spring Speedo Sectionals was held at the Indiana University Natatorium and is considered one of the top national events as it brings many of the top swimmers from around the nation to Indianapolis to...

Thirteen Club Olympia Swim Team athletes traveled to Elkhart, Indiana this past weekend to compete in the Indiana Swimming Senior State Short Course Championship at the Elkhart Health and Aquatics Center. More than 700 of the best swimmers from Indiana representing 70 Club Teams from around the state competed in this “Open” Championship event primarily for swimmers 15 years an older who met very challenging qualifying time standards. Select Age Group level swimmers 14 years and younger could also compete provided they too met the same difficult time standards set...

This past weekend Indiana Swimming held its annual Short Course Age Group State Swimming Championships at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis. 75 teams and almost 1000 swimmers who met difficult qualifying times throughout the short course season competed in the three day event. Age Group State is segmented into 10 and Under, 11 & 12, and 13 & 14 year old groupings by gender for competition. Columbus, Indiana’s Club Olympia Swim Team, coached by Jennifer Brinegar and her coaching staff claimed an impressive 11th place...

This past weekend 50 Club Olympia athletes competed in Indiana Swimming’s Southeast Divisional Championships at Center Grove High School. Divisional meets are the first in a series of annual championship meets at the end of the Short Course season with increasingly difficult qualifying standards which progress up through Senior State Championships and, for some swimmers, the Speedo Sectionals, which are USA Swimming’s regional championships. The SE Divisional invites 20 teams from the southeast corner of Indiana, including the highly competitive teams from Franklin and Center Grove, all hoping their swimmers...