Mason Manta Rays – High School Conference Championships Once mid-December hits, our older Manta Rays go into full swing in their High School seasons. Kicking off the championship season for high school was our swimmers conference championships. Below we have included a recap of our swimmers who finished top three in their individual or relay events. This weekend these swimmers will go on to compete at the Sectional Championships, which will qualify them a spot to compete at the District Championships next weekend at Miami University. Greater Catholic League, Division...

WEEKEND PRACTICE SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR NEXT TWO WEEKENDS: There are a few changes over the nexct couble of weekends due to a few home high school meets this weekend and next. Please see the updated schedule below: Friday, 1/31: National 3:30-5:30; Platinum 4-5:30; Bronze No practice (make-up 2/2 from 1-2:30 pm); Teal No Practice (make-up Sunday 2/2, 2:15-3:30 pm); Blue 6:15-7:30 pm; Green 5:15-6:30 pm; White: normal; Pups: normal Saturday, 2/1 - Gold & Platinum 6-8; National: 7:45-10:00 am; Silver 7:45-9:30 am; Bronze 9:30-11 am; Blue 9:15-10:30 am; Teal 10:15-11:30...

With the extreme cold weather and cancellation of most of the local school districts, practices for TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 will be as follows: National - 3-5 pm Platinum - 10:30am-1:00pm Gold - 4:30-6:45 pm Silver - 6:15-8:15 pm Teal - 5:30-7:00 pm Thank you and stay warm!

Mark Daasch from NovaCare will be on the pool deck Tuesday, 2/4, from 3:45-6 p.m. If your swimmer has any aches or pains that you want him to evaluate, please see him on deck ttoday. There is no cost for the evaluation. If you have any questions for Mark, please feel free to contact him directly. Mark Daasch, PT Center Manager NovaCare Rehabilitation 1198 Smiley Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45240 phone: (513)671-6362 fax: (513)671-6368 [email protected]

CAC Distance Meet On December 21st, 45 Manta Ray swimmers made their way to compete in the CAC Winter Distance Meet. This competition was a great opportunity for all of our swimmers to have the opportunity to swim in the 500 freestyle and/or 1650 freestyle for the quest of the Manta Ray Ironman award! Our swimmers achieved 93% best times, and 20 top eight finishes by our swimmers. Of our swimmers we had three JO Qualifiers – Allison Bloebaum in the13-14 1650 freestyle, and Kierstyn Cassidy in the 13-14 500...

The Southwest Ohio Classic Swim Meet concluded following Sunday night Finals at St Xavier High School. This year's largest High School meet in the country featured more than 3,000 athletes representing 110 schools across southwest Ohio at ten preliminary sites. The Top Eight Manta Ray finishers include: Manta Ray Zoe Thatcher (Senior-Mason HS) won her fourth consective Classic title in 1650 in this fast mid-season and unrested meet. Zoe placed in the Top 8 in all of her events: 2nd 500 & 200 free, 4th 200 Back Hannah Whiteley (Sophmore-Springboro)...

MLK WEEKEND PRACTICE UPDATE: GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF OUR SWIMMERS SWIMMING THIS WEEKEND IN THE NKY CLIPPER MEET AND SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL CLASSIC! Both of these meets are great way to experience championship style meets before we head into championships season. Due to the home high school swim meet, there will be NO PRACTICE on Saturday or Sunday. Friday’s practice schedule is normal. Martin Luther King Monday Practice Schedule: National: 9:00-11:00 a.m. Platinum: 7:45-10:00 a.m. Gold: 3:45-5:45p.m. Platinum & Gold LAZER KRAZE 1:00-3:00 p.m. (See below: Gold & Platinum)...

HIGH SCHOOL SOUTHWEST CLASSIC This weekend our high school swimmers compete in the largest high school meet in the country with over 2700 swimmers representing 99 high schools. This is a great meet as it gives our swimmers a good look at the competition for the upcoming district and state championship meets. Results can be found at www.swimmeet.com.

Platinum & Gold Groups Spend your MLK day afternoon with a few games of Lazer Tag at Lazer Kraze on Monday, January 20. ARRIVE AT 1:00 for 1:30 game, second game is at 2:30. PICK UP at 3:00 pm $12 for two games (you pay when you go)

There will be an attendance party for swimmers with the top two highest percentage of attendance in each group. The party will be held Monday 1/20 at the Mason LaRosa’s on Route 42 from 11:15 am-12:15 pm. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING SWIMMERS Pups: Kavya Kudulkar, Addie Robillard, Celine Tann White: Chloe Chien, Sailee Sankhala, Bianca Jha, Sophie Wang Green: Dean Hu, Jonathan Lou, Suniska Parathipati, Sydney Richards Blue: Zach Grau, Diego Fortson Teal: Neha Patil, Nicholas Wolfe Bronze: Cameron Jones, Anna Baker, Alex Nowak Silver: Brandon Meyers, McKenzie Grau Gold:...