Kingfish News
July 20, 2008
Hello team, the editor just got back from a week or so out of town off and on....sorry this is late!
Reminder that 13 and up have practice tomorrow morning at 7:40am due to the Pasta Party during the night practice time!
What a Blast at the Huntington Hills meet,
it was fun to get excited and show our Kingfish spirit to a rival team and we got the job done in the pool and have finished another undefeated season for 2008!!
Swimmers of the meet ....
6 and under
Medha Sinha, Justin Lavelle
7-8yrs
Rachael LeMay, Chloe Meares, Reagan Saj,
Josh Gorski, Kevin Mason, Tejas Sinha
9-10 yrs
Addy Balasooriya, Lindsay Koenig
Andrew Bartos, Nicholas Rushlow
11-12 yrs
Nicole Karavakis, Anna Bower, Anna Witosky
Matt Haggy, Josh Battiste
13-14yrs
Heather Byers, Taylor Shotwel
William Grodesky, Paul Hintz
15-18yrs
Upcoming Event MONDAY 6:30pm....... RAIN DATE is TUESDAY
Our PASTA PARTY AND PARENT RELAYS!
If we cancel Monday due to weather it will be on the website ASAP
Pasta party-A-F----some sort of pasta dish(primavera, spaghetti, linguine etc)
G-K ----------Chicken protein of some sort
L-P----------Desserts, pies, fruit,
Q-T----------Salads(greens-ex spinach leaf lettuce with dressing oil/red wine
Vinegar Italian dressing, ranch to name a few)
U-Z----------pizza(spinach pizza, regular pizza, veggie pizza, white pizza too
Name a few)
Please remember use your imagination and that this is a guideline only.
Please bring your own tableware and drinks.
Just a friendly reminder that we all need to make our dish that would
Feed both a family of 4 members and 8 members or more:)
Thanks to all you wonderful parents that have contributed to the team breakfast. They have been
Awesome! Many Blessings see you on Monday night! GO PASTA PARTY! Pandora
Championship Week is HERE!!!
Time line for champs will be emailed out MONDAY
IF YOU PLAN ON WEARING A SWIM CAP IT MUST BE A KINGFISH CAP
ANY VERSION OF A KINGFISH CAP IS FINE!
11 and older swimmers will swim in the morning, plan on arriving at the pool before 6:30am( unless otherwise informed) find parking and to set up your area.
Get rest this week eat well and stay out of the sun Wednesday please!!! We have entered you in events that you are likely to place high in. This may not be your favorite event….. But we compare your times to all of the other swimmers in the league and enter you in your best events!
Please read your email regularly this week for any changes or information about championships.
We would like to thank all of our parents who have made our season such a great experience.
Some of our parents work behind the scenes and are essential to our success!
Martha Grodesky for the hours and hours of work keeping our time data base, records and running all of our meets on the computer, we cannot thank you enough!!!!
Michelle Rushlow and Wendy Harris for coordinating our volunteer jobs and making sure our meets run smoothly
Sandy Mason for organizing her team and running our concession stand at home meets and helping our team give back to the community through the food pantry drives and recycling at our meets.
Julie Teague and Cassie Hassel and their special army of moms who created and supported our spirit items this season like the crowns inspiration notes etc.
Our fundraising and sponsorship committee
Joanne Campbell
Jane Bosworth
Christine Haeger
Amy LeMay
And our social events committee!!!!
Pandora Porcse and Mary Jane Bennett-MorganKingfish News
July 11, 2008 www.freewebs.com/chevingtonwoods

Almost undefeated, Kingfish defeat LCC in a great meet!
Swimmers of the meet
6 and under:
Emily Grube, Chase Minor
7-8yrs
Emily Borchers
Natalie Reed
Gabby Bender
Andy Donaldson
Nick Teague
9-10 yrs
Abby Grube
Anna McSurley
Hope Wulliger
Will Bosworth
Nicholas Muszynski
Brye Zunich
11-12
Kara O’ Connell
Kenzie Solon
Paige Wulliger
Connor
Benji Battiste
13-14
Ashley Malone
Ethan Kane
15-18
Erica Malone
Bob Huey
Next Dual meet is at Huntington Hills Froggers!!!
IF YOU WILL NOT BE AT CHAMPIONSHIPS on July 24th at Canal
Team Breakfast will be on Tuesday July 15th!
If your swimmer plans on attending team breakfast, please have them bring a food item to share!! If you can't bring the suggested food for your last name, just bring any breakfast food enough to feed six! These are only a suggestion to spur variety but not binding.
*****important , parents please bring serving utensils for your food
Please cut any coffee cakes or other items that need to be in serving pieces before you bring it to the pool.
A-D breakfast burritos/ lots because those are the Number 1 favorite
E-H Pancakes or waffles/butter or some type of potatoes
I-L fruit or muffins
M-P all kinds of fruit choose one, apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries, watermelon ( sliced) cantaloupe etc
Q-U Donuts/Muffins/bagels/butter/cream cheese- doughnuts and muffins are the most popular
V-Z white milk or chocolate milk (most popular) or Apple juice, orange juice
Upcoming Events
Heath Pool outing 5pm Wednesday July 16th… map will be on the website, come join us for some great fun on the slides, dives, splash playground and lazy river at the wonderful Heath pool!
Last day to submit photos for the DVD is Monday July 21st Everyone will receive a copy of the DVD but it will be after the banquet at the pool in your mailbox folders. Place photo cd’s in the Ross mailbox our upload onto the photo bucket account the password is in your email newsletter.

Kingfish News
July 6, 2008
Great job vs Canal Winchester Kingfish!…Parents thanks for helping the meet run smoothly by helping us out when asked!!!
Swimmers of the meet:
6 &under: Abby Grottle, Nathan Mauk
7-8 yrs: Allison Bartholow, Grace Bower, Leah Zunich
Jordan Choh-Kahng, Andrew Donley
9-10 yrs: Makenzie Knapp, Victoria Ojeda-Pesa, Olivia Boezio
Nathan Campbell, Kyle Howell, Michael Roden
11-12 yrs Rachel Klenzman, Kelly Mason, Halle Wardle
Austin Gorski, Josh Harris
13-14 Mackenzie Davison, Joe Mason, Justin Mathews
15-18 Morgan Grodesky, Jonathan Choh-Kahng
Upcoming Events
Team Breakfast food guidelines for July 09
If your swimmer plans on attending team breakfast, please have them bring a food item to share!! If you can't bring the suggested food for your last name, just bring any breakfast food enough to feed six! These are only a suggestion to spur variety but not binding.
*****important , parents please bring serving utensils for your food
Please cut any coffee cakes or other items that need to be in serving pieces before you bring it to the pool.
A-D Pancakes or waffles/butter or some type of potatoes
E-H fruit or muffins
I-L all kinds of fruit choose one, apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries, watermelon ( sliced) cantaloupe etc
M-P Donuts/Muffins/bagels/butter/cream cheese- doughnuts and muffins are the most popular
Q-U white milk or chocolate milk (most popular) or Apple juice, orange juice
V-Z breakfast burritos/ lots because those are the Number 1 favorite


Kingfish News
June 27, 2008
Where dreams begin…where champions swim!
Moundbuilders Meet cancelled due to storms…it is summer and time for those nasty thunderstorms…We try to swim every meet and wait out the weather… in this case it just did not work. Since our season is so short, we normally do not reschedule meets that are missed due to weather.
Our swimmers of the WEEK this week are…
6 and under
Katie O’Loughlin, Ellie Harbron, Wyatt Ross
7-8yrs
Shawna Roden, Kimmie Solon, Carolyn Haeger, James Grodesky, Brandon Hassel
9-10yrs
Abby Bowman, Hunter Lanning, Cassie Solon,
Christian Morgan
11-12yrs
Riley Campbell, Jenna Mowery, Courtney Vogel, Andrew Hassel, Joel Mathews
13-14yrs
Amber Krieger, Matt Hamrick
15-18yrs
Rachel Rowland, Matt Riordan
The Valley View Invitational is Sunday, for those who are attending; there is a map to Valley View on the website. Please be at Valley View by 7am to set up and get ready to warm up.
Practice Times Change this week!!!!!
Practice Schedule A (June 6th-13th) ( June 30th-July 23rd)
13 and Up Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 7:40-9:10 a.m.
13 and Up Monday & Thursday 7:30-9:00 p.m.
11-12 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 8:40-9:55 a.m.
9-10 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 9:40-10:55 a.m.
7-8 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10:40-11:40 a.m.
6 and Unders Monday, Wednesday & Friday 10:40-11:40 a.m.
Team Breakfast Practice Times
Thursday, July 3rd & 10th
Practice for 7 and up 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Breakfast for the whole team 10:40-11:40 a.m.
Our next weekly dual meet is at Canal Winchester on Wednesday, be at the Canal pool by 4:30pm ready to stretch. This is the Championship pool we will swim in at Champs and a great opportunity to get used to the facility and the pool. A map to the pool and the meet worker sheet will be on the website Monday.
Hula at the POOLA!!!
What a Great Party! Thanks for supporting our team!
Thank you to Bob Evans and to the Rob and Lisa Gresko and Family for donating and cooking the food for the Hula at the Poola! Thank you to Paul Mitchell the wonderful DJ who mixed the tunes for the atmosphere!!!! pmitchell@insight.rr.com Thanks to the social committee and fundraising committee for organizing this event, Pandora Porcase, Mary Jane Bennett Morgan, Joanne Campbell, Jane Bosworth, Christine Haeger, Amy LeMay !
Team Breakfast food guidelines for July 3
If your swimmer plans on attending team breakfast, please have them bring a food item to share!! We have noticed some coming without food and our food amounts are getting smaller. If you can't bring the suggested food for your last name, just bring any breakfast food enough to feed six! These are only a suggestion to spur variety but not binding.
*****important , parents please bring serving utensils for your food
Please cut any coffee cakes or other items that need to be in serving pieces before you bring it to the pool.
A-D fruit or muffins
E-H all kinds of fruit choose one, apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries, watermelon ( sliced) cantaloupe etc
I-L Donuts/Muffins/bagels/butter/cream cheese- doughnuts and muffins are the most popular
M-P white milk or chocolate milk (most popular) or Apple juice, orange juice
Q-U breakfast burritos/ lots because those are the Number 1 favorite!
V-Z Pancakes or waffles/butter or some type of potatoes
Kingfish Help the Environment....
Kingfish Give back to the community!
We have been fortunate this season to benefit from the generosity of our families and many local businesses. One of our families, The Mason Family, has made efforts to make it easy for our team to give back to the community and to help our environment. We ask that you participate!
The concession area at our home meets has recycling bins set up for cans, water bottles and cardboard. Please use these recycling bins at our home meets and do not throw your recyclable items into the trash, a few extra steps to do this will help the earth!!!
This coming week we will begin collecting items for the Pickerington Food Pantry at team breakfast!!! I will email out to you a listing of the most needed items and post this in the upcoming newsletter! Thank you to the Mason family for organizing these efforts and taking our recycled items to the drop off bins
Kingfish News
June 20, 2008
Where dreams begin…where champions swim!
Way to go Kingfish, we defeated Groveport..... Brrr…..
Swimmers of the meet:
6 and under Lily Wittman, Kayla Solon, Zane Wulliger
7-8 yr olds Shannon Dornfeld, Elizabeth Sandhofer, Emily Gresko
Gabe Harbron, Anthony Ojeda-Pesa, Jesse Krieger
9-10 yr olds Sara LeMay, Abby Scherer, Tori O’Laughlin,
Noah Hazlerig, Eric Terry, Camron Birtcher
11-12 yr olds Jessica Crawford, Selena Dornfeld, Beth Haggy
Derek Haggy, Durkin Ross, Austin Mauk
13-14yr olds Katie Hunt, Julia Justice, Jimmy Ross, Ben Witosky
15 -18 yr olds Jessica Vogel, Kevin Solon
Next Meet is Home vs Moundbuilders Country Club, this is a smaller team but they have some very talented swimmers! We look forward to great races!
Team Breakfast food guidelines for June 26th
If your swimmer plans on attending team breakfast, please have them bring a food item to share!! We have noticed some coming without food and our food amounts are getting smaller. If you can't bring the suggested food for your last name, just bring any breakfast food enough to feed six! These are only a suggestion to spur variety but not binding.
*****important , parents please bring serving utensils for your food
A-D Pancakes or waffles/butter or some type of potatoes
E-H white milk or chocolate milk( most popular)or Apple juice, we have orange juice already this week
I-L fruit or muffins
M-P breakfast burritos/ lots because those are the Number 1 favorite!
Q-U all kinds of fruit choose one apples /bananas/oranges/strawberries/grapes/watermelon/cantaloupe/etc
V-Z Donuts/Muffins/bagels/butter/cream cheese- doughnuts and muffins are the most popular
Kingfish Spirit Week!!!
Special events during this week to get fired up!!
June 23rd…Free Meal at Chipotle for swimmers!!!
All Kingfish swimmers can get a free meal at Chipotle on Tussing Road at Brice Road on Monday June 23 between 11am -10 PM. Swimmers will give their name at the register and you will be checked off the roster, family members may eat for menu price.
Thanks to our fundraising committee for securing this special event!!!
Bowling Party June 24th
Our annual bowling party will be held at Eastland Lanes between 2-4 PM Arrive at 1:40 PM to get your shoes and balls. Cost is $6.00 per swimmer includes slice of Pizza, pop and Shoes. Of course our special prize patrol will be at the lanes providing prizes for everyone!!!
June 27th HULA at the POOLA 
RSVP NOW TO pporcase@setonparish.com deadline Saturday June 21st
When Friday June 27th
8:15-10:15pm
Cookout diner provided
20$ per family
8$ for individuals swimmers attending 12 and over without a family member
All Swim Team Families are encouraged to attend. Swimmers 12 and older may attend the party without a parent present if they wish, cost for them is $8 each.
All proceeds go to purchase of new lane lines and needed equipment for our team.
Seeking Donations…. The Mathews family has located a fairly inexpensive sound system with a microphone on EBay similar to the one we used at team breakfast last week. They are seeking families who would consider donating some money to purchase this for our team to use, it is around 200$ The more families who would do this the less cost per family!
Please email Elizabeth Mathews at emathews@insight.rr.com if you are interested in helping support his purchase. Thank you to the Mathews family for this idea and being willing to step up to organize this.
Help Wanted….
Stephanie is seeking two parents to do two smalls job for the team….
With so many things going on in our heads as coaches on meet days, these are things we sometimes forget about…. Or lose track of…. And we need your help to keep us on track and for us not to lose important team items!!! Email lross@insight.rr.com to volunteer or talk to Stephanie after practice! Thanks!
Kingfish News
June 13, 2008
Kingfish Splash Bexley!
Congrats Kingfish on the victory over Bexley! Thank you parents for hosting such a nice meet and stepping up to help run the meet smoothly!
Congratulations to the Swimmers of the Meet:
6 & under: Olivia Haeger, Lindsay Keaton, Jon Mason
7-8yrs Josie Balasooriya, Alicia Donley, Janessa Mathews, Stuart Decker, Ryan DeGeeter, Ryan Francis
9-10yrs Brittany Bartholow, Miranda Donley,Breanna Donnelly, Bryce Keaton, Jason Mathews, Hunter Minor
11-12yrs Shelby Meyerrose, Ellie Jo Strickler, Meghan Terry, Jerod Decker,
13-14yrs Marissa Fracassa, Daniel Riordan
15 &up Carlie Focke, Billy Ross
25 Breast 19.44 Janessa Mathews; Alicia Donley and Josie Balasooriya also broke this record
100Free Relay 1:14.44 Emily Borchers, Leigha Zunich, Janessa Mathews, Alicia Donley
25 Fly 14.56 Miranda Donley
25 Breast 17.15 Jason Mathews
100 Free Relay 1:01.90 Jason Mathews, Nicholas Rushlow, Zach Donley, Kyle Howell
100 IM 56.82 Billy Ross
200 Free Relay 1:34.88 Jay Schuh, Bob Huey, John Choh-Kahng, Billy Ross
.
Practice Schedule Times Change Next Week!!!
We move to practice Schedule B due to swim lessons in the pool after our time…
Practice Schedule B (June 16th-27th)
13 and Up Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 7:15-8:45 a.m.
13 and Up Monday & Thursday 7:30-9:00 p.m.
11-12 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 8:00-9:15 a.m
9-10 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 8:45-10:00 a.m.
7-8 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 9:45-10:40 a.m.
6 and unders Monday, Wednesday & Friday 9:45-10:40 a.m.
Team Breakfast Schedule for Thursday
Thursday, June 19th & 26th
Practice for 7 and Up 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Breakfast for the whole team 9:40-10:40 a.m.
Team Breakfast food guidelines for June 19th
Here is a suggested breakfast food listing. If you cannot bring the food suggested for your name, please bring any breakfast food item to serve at least 6. The suggestions are as a guide to help bring a variety of foods.
*****important , parents please bring serving utensils for your food
Team Pictures
Team Pictures at the pool Thursday, June 19th 6-7pm for Individual Pictures, Team Picture will be a 7:15pm
There will be 13 and up practice following pictures
Kingfish Spirit Week!!! Special events during this week to get fired up!!
June 23rd…Free Meal at Chipotle!!!
All Kingfish swimmers can get a free meal at Chipotle on Tussing Road at Brice Road on Monday June 23 between 11am -10 PM. Swimmers will give their name at the register and you will be checked off the roster, family members may eat for menu price.
Thanks to our fundraising committee for securing this special event!!!
June 24th...Bowling Party
Our annual bowling party will be held at Eastland Lanes between 2-4 PM Arrive at 1:40 PM to get your shoes and balls. Cost is $6.00 per swimmer includes slice of Pizza, pop and Shoes. Of course our special prize patrol will be at the lanes providing prizes for everyone!!!
June 27th.... HULA at the POOLA
Team Party supporting fundraising!
When Friday June 27th
8:15-10:15pm
Cookout diner provided
20$ per family
8$ for individuals swimmers attending age 12 and over only without a family member
All Swim Team Families are encouraged to attend. Swimmers 12 and older may attend the party without a parent present if they wish, cost for them is $8 each.
All proceeds go to purchase of new lane lines and needed equipment for our team!!!
RSVP by JUNE 20th to
pporcase@setonparish.com or drop a note in the “Ojeda-Pesa” mailbox.
Please thank and patronize our sponsors!!!
Sponsors
Patrons
Business Partners
June 8, 2008
Hello Kingfish! Welcome to the 2008 Season! We would like to thank all
of our parents and volunteers for making our team a success, for providing us
with our pool and equipment to train with and stepping up to help where needed.
Without you we could not have such a great team. The kids are doing great in
practices and we are very impressed with the level of swimming we are seeing so
early in the season!
Our
sponsors
Our
fundraising committee has been hard at work getting donations and sponsorships
for our team. Thank you to Joanne Campbell, Jane Bosworth and Christine Haeger
for their efforts to support our team in this manner. Their efforts this season
help lift some of the necessary fundraising burden from our families and
provides additional funds to support our team, please thank and patronize our
sponsors!
Sponsors
Gary Gibson - Nationwide Insurance
Drug Mart,
for us to sell or use for our team
Beef O Bradys - for hosting our "after
meet" gatherings and for donating a % of sales back to the team
Donley Homes
Patrons
Rutherford Auto Body
Violet Family
Dental
Dana Bower - Massage Therapy
OP Aquatics
Team suits and apparel
Greenhouse delivered the apparel to the pool Friday. You can pick it up in the at practice this week. Some suits are still backordered we are hoping to get a delivery before the first meet. If you need to order a suit or apparel please call Greenhouse at
Greenhouse Aquatics
Swim Shop & Team Outfitter
Our First Swim
Meet
Our first home meet is Wednesday, June 11th
vs Bexley If you need to sign up to work at meets contact Michelle Rushlow 863-0447.
The worker list will be posted on the website soon.
We
assume all swimmers will swim in our meets, if you cannot
attend a meet please sign up on the swim team office door or put a note in the coaches’
mailbox folder at the pool. Or email Stephanie or Seth at sdonley@insight.rr.com or sethimage@gmail.com
Please wear you team suits or competition swim
suits to the swim meets. The kids look great in the new team suits. Lycra suits
can fade, to keep them looking nice wear them less frequently and not to
practice everyday and save them for meets. If you choose to wear a swim cap, during meets
we require that it is a Kingfish Cap.
Kingfish Caps are available for sale, Latex caps 6$ Silicone caps 12$
Last year’s Kingfish Cap is fine also.
Meet Start times:
Kingfish in the water to Warm UP at 4:30pm
Visiting Team warm up 5:00pm
Meet Starts promptly at 5:30pm
After
Meet Gathering!!!!
A Kingfish Tradition will
continue!!! We have arranged with Beef O Brady’s to host our after meet get togethers!
They have agreed to stay open for us and donate a portion of the sales from our
visit back to the team!! So Kingfish after the meets lets head to Beef O
Brady’s on
Team Breakfast
Our first Team Breakfast will be
held on Thursday June 12th. Here is the schedule:
Practice for 7 and Up
9:30-10:30
a.m.
Breakfast for the whole
team 10:40-11:40 a.m.
Our team
breakfast practice hour will focus on starts and turns for all swimmers age 7
and up. Swimmers age 6 and under are asked to attend the team breakfast portion
of this event to receive their awards and share breakfast with the team.
Consult the website for the team breakfast schedule for each Thursday.
Here is a
suggested breakfast food listing. If you cannot bring the food suggested for
your name, please bring any breakfast food item to serve at least 6. The
suggestions are as a guide to help bring a variety of foods.
parents
please bring serving utensils for your
food*****important
A-D Donuts/Muffins/bagels/butter/cream
cheese
E-H
breakfast burittos/ lots because those are the Number 1 favorite!
I-L
all kinds of fruit apples-sliced/bananas/oranges/strawberries/grapes/watermelon/canteloupe/etc
M-P
Napkins/white milk/chocolate milk/
Q-U Pancakes/wafffles/syrup/butter/potatoes
V-Z Plastic forks,spoons, paper cups
Pandora
talked to a mother who volunteered to bring paper products at the Pot Luck but
did not get your name in her memory!!! We need your name and contact info
please email lross@insight.rr.com so
that Pandora can call you to make an arrangement!
Practice Notes
Help wanted:
Contact Lisa
Ross if you can help. lross@insight.rr.com
or 868-1459.
Private Lessons
The coaches are available for private lessons if you
wish.
The coaches feel
as though all swimmers get the training and instruction they need to be
successful in practices; but if some would like to work on specific things or
areas of concentration, the coaches can help if you wish and we have had
requests for this service. If you not a member of the pool you must pay the
guest.
Rates for 30 minutes:
Stephanie $25
Seth $20 (Seth is very busy this season and may not
be able to do lessons)
Ghengis $15
Lisa $15
Justin $15
Morgan $10
Erika $10