Olympic Trial Cuts Posted?Williamson and Forman make the cut

Following in the footsteps of the first 2 in team history to qualify for the Olympic Trials in 2008, Cory Chitwood, now 21, and Claire Dickmann, now 20, Ellen Williamson (17) and Caitlyn Forman (16)...

 Forman Finishes 12th Overall at Jr. Pan Pacs

With it being close to midnight here in Northern Ky, Caitlyn Forman was preparing for the 200 back finals. Caitlyn qualified top 16 in the morning swim with a time of 2:16.10. At finals she pulled to...

 Forman Rebounds To Go Life Time Best Time

As many of you are probably aware by now, Caitlyn Forman is in Hawaii representing the United States Of America as a member of the Junior Pan Pac Team. She qualified for this team for finishing 2nd ...

 Clippers are Now on Twitter and Facebook

We have been asked to try and use Twitter while we are at big meets for big swim moments(Record Breaking Swims, International Swims etc. ) Coach Jason is going to attempt this and see how it works. If...

 Coach Rehkamp Invited To National Age Group Summit

This is a huge honor for the entire program to be proud of. Based on the selection process we are being considered one of the Top 12 programs in the country that have 201 -300 swimmers on the team. Ot...

 TIM CAHILL PASSED AWAY - ARRANGEMENTS POSTED

We were just informed that Tim Cahill, Head Coach of COLA, a former Northern Kentucky native and a dear friend of our program, passed away Friday morning. Visitation and funeral details are listed in ...

 Age Group Conditioning Schedule

Click here for the Age Group Conditioning Schedule. Conditioning is for those that will be going into AGD3, AGD4, AP1, and AP2 this upcoming fall. WATER BOTTLES ARE MANDATORY. If a swimmer shows...

 Records Page Updated

The Clippers Team Records are updated for the past year. Congratulations to all who broke records. You can find the page as a drop down under Documents at the top of this page or Click Here

 Forman Qualifies Jr Pan Pac & Williamson slated for National Youth Team

Caitlyn Forman qualified tonight for the Junior Pan Pacs in Maui, Hawaii(Aug 23 rd thru 30 th ) in the 100 backstroke. Her time of 1:02.21 tied for 2 nd overall and 1 st overall out of eligible s...

 Sunday Update from Zones and Juniors

Central Zone Today ended the pool events for the Zone swimmers in Wisconsin. It proved to be another successful day for the Clippers in attendance. All 5 of these swimmers are finishing off an e...

 Update From Wisconsin and Irvine

Tonight the Clippers had another strong night of swimming. Jack Johnson, Olivia Hagen and Chase Vennefron all took to the water in a busy night of final swims at the Central Zone Championships in Wi...

 Clippers Continue Successful Championship Season

Currently the Clippers have 5 swimmers participating in the Central Zone Championships in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin and 5 swimmers in Irvine, California for the USA Nationals and Junior National...

 Overcoming Conditions At Speedo Sectionals

The Clippers nearly doubled their teams score during their 3rd day of competition. With over 900 swimmers in the meet and temperatures reaching 90+ the facility at Purdue is struggling keeping fresh...

 ADDITIONAL PICTURES FROM JO'S

Polly Stringer has posted her pictures from JO's to share with you - click here.

 PICTURES FROM JO'S AND OPEN WATER

Coach Melissa has posted her pictures from JO's and from Open Water. Click to view 4. Open Water 3. JO 2. JO 1. JO

 DAY 4 BRINGS CLIPPERS A BACK-TO-BACK STATE WIN!!

Day 4 we extended our lead to win by 596.50 points. For the second time in Clippers history we won both the short course and the long course championship meets in the same year. Also this is the fir...

 Herich Wins Gold in USMS 10k Open Water

This morning Carlie Herich completed her first ever 10k Open water swim by competiting in the 2010 US Master National Open Water Championships. This 10k swim also marks a first for the Clippers as w...

 Day 3 of the Meet - Lead Extended To 572 points

When the going gets tough the Clippers Keep Going!!! After the 3 rd day of the meet, the Clippers increased their lead to 572 points. With a complete team effort the swimmers continued their rec...

 Clippers Lead Extends To Nearly 300 After Day Two

The Clippers 14&unders started the championship season off with a bang last weekend by swimming lights out at the Ohio South Regionals. This weekend they have picked up right where they left o...

 Proud Swimmers + Proud Parents + Proud Coaches = Proud Program

Last weekend, 75 swimmers from our team made the journey across the river to take part in the 2010 Ohio South Regional Championships. The coaches? goal was to avg. more points per swimmer than any oth...

 CLIPPERS FINISH 3rd at OPEN WATER CHAMPIONSHIPS

With the 5th largest team at the meet the Clippers finished a very impressive 3rd place , scoring the more points per athlete than any other team. Congratulations to Sophie Skinner and Brendan Mey...

 Mike Peppe Meet Shows Clippers Toughness

This past weekend Prep and National Group traveled to Columbus, Ohio to battle some of the toughest competition in Ohio and Michigan. Our swimmers did an extremley good job. We had a ton of best times...

 Scholastic All-American

USA Swimming recognizes swimmers every year for achieving fast times and are making the grade in the classroom. If you have a swimmer who is at least a sophomore in High School, has times faster than ...

 Golf Outing/Major Raffle Smashing Hit

The Clippers 4 th Annual Golf Outing/Major Raffle was huge success. We want to thank everybody for all of the support for the team. We sold over 700 raffle tickets for the major raffle. Thanks to a...

 Clippers Break Top 40 In USA

One of the goals going into the David Webb Meet was to improve our national ranking from our 54th ranking. We are pleased to announce that we have accomplished this goal. With the new rankings out.......

 RECORDS BROKEN AT CAC & WEBB MEETS

Our 11-12 200 free relay of Olivia Hagen, Lilly Morgan, Amanda Smith and Kat Akin set a new team record at the CAC. Records report. At the David Webb Invitational Meet Sharli Brady set a new team re...

 Krissie Brandenburg needs your vote for LaRosa's MVP of the Year

Krissie needs your vote to become the LaRosa's MVP of the year. So click here and vote for Krissie. If you read the girls profile on the website, you will see that this is a huge honor and accom...

 Records Broken at Arctic Splash

Congratulations to Sophie Skinner for breaking a 17 year old team record in the 9-10 girls 50 backstroke with a time of 36.45 Jake Lentsch and Brendan Meyer both broke the team record in the 11-12 b...

 Records Broken at Checkered Flag

Congratulations to Olivia Hagen for breaking the 11-12 girls 1500 free with a time of 21:07.92. Congratulations to Jake Lentsch and Austin Haney who went under the team record in the 11-12 boys 15...

 Two More Swimmers Will Swim In College

The Clipper's are proud to announce that Gracie Lynne and Rob Walsh have agreed to take their swimming to the next level this coming fall as they head off to college. GRACIE LYNNE Gracie Lynne...

 Day 3 of Irish Nationals

Update: 9:00pm(Ireland Time) Tonight was another good night for the Clippers at the Irish Nationals. The night was started off by Caitlyn Forman qualifying for the 50 back out of semis. Ellen Williams...

 LOOKING FOR THE POT OF GOLD

Day 1 of Competition All three girls took to the water in the 100 backstroke this morning. Krissie and Ellen were in the first of the circle seeded heats where they finished a very strong 2nd and 4t...

 CLIPPERS BANQUET WAS GREAT

Our annual banquet was another success this year with over 300 there. In 2010 we had our largest class of graduating seniors - 12 in total and everyone was in attendance. (That is also a first) . Than...

 Carlie Herich Makes College Decision

The Clippers are very proud to announce that Carlie Herich has decided to attend and represent the Thunder of Wheaton College . Wheaton College is a four year, residential, academically rigorou...

 Mescher Overcomes Knee Problems To Swim In College

Maddie Mescher finalized her college plans when she decided to sign on with Centre College. This is a very exciting moment for Maddie and the Clipper family. Many people may not know, this past Se...

 Chitwood Is Golden On Day 3 of NCAA's

Visit Swimming World's Event Landing Page for complete coverage, photo gallery and video interviews from the meet. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 28. ARIZONA's Cory Chitwood completed a remarkable comeback...

 Brady and Morgan Represent at Sectionals

Sharli Brady and Lilly Morgan are continuing to represent the Clippers to their finest at the Speedo Sectional Championships. Way to Go Girls Saturday Morning/Finals Sharli Brady and Lilly Morgan...

 Brady Takes To Water At Sectional Finals

USA LCM Sectionals Today Sharli Brady competed in her 1 st USA Swimming Sectionals finals. This morning Sharli went the 3 rd fastest time for all 14 yr olds in the meet with a time of 2:11.99. S...

 BANQUET DATED MOVED TO APRIL 18

Over the last few days we have had countless requests from our Clipper family to move the banquet because with the original date of April 25th, myself and the three girls traveling to Ireland would no...

 Clippers Qualify 3 swimmers and a Coach for All-Star Meet

It is with great Clipper Pride that we announce that Krissie Brandenburg, Caitlyn Forman and Ellen Williamson have all been selected to represent the USA, NCSA Junior National All-Star team and th...

 Junior Nationals Come To A Close

Junior Nationals Come To a Close. The Clippers shine on the final day. It included 3 top 8 finishes(Krissie Brandenburg, Caitlyn Forman and Ellen Williamson) and two bonus heat swims(Shane Coltharp an...

 Day 4 NCSA Junior Nationals

Day 4: Dusk. Friday. The mood was tense as the Clippers marched into the natatorium. With a swagger that showed everyone that we were here for business, our swimming showed the same. To help illustr...

 Swimming Strong On Day 3 Of NCSA Junior Nationals

 CLIPPERS CONTINUE RECORD BREAKING STREAK

Day 2 of Junior Nationals was another succesful day in the Clippers Championship season. The day was highlighted by 5 individual swims at finals and two scoring relays. Krissie Brandenburg - Finishe...

 Junior Nationals Start With Record Breaking Swim

Tonight the Northern Kentucky Clippers made team history as they put an "A" and "B" relays in the water for the first time on both boys and girls side at the Junior National Level. Also setting tea...

 CLIPPERS WIN!! CLIPPERS WIN!! CLIPPERS WIN!! (UPDATED)

The final night of swimming at the 2010 Ohio Junior Olympics was not one for those who have a nervous stomach. Last year?s meet came down to the final night of swimming and the Clippers fell 37 points...

 Clippers Take The Lead AFTER DAY 2

Two Days down and the Mighty Clippers are continuing their winning ways as they take over the lead by 13.5 points. This meet is going to come down to the final day and possibly the final events. The...

 Witkiewicz Knocks Down Her First NCSA Junior National Cut

Breaking News KayLee Witkiewicz finished watching Mikey Summe Break a State Record and figured she would get one herself. KayLee broke the one minute barrier in the 11-12 100 backstroke by going an ...

 Record Shattering Night For Clippers at JO's

Clippers are off to a very exciting start at 2010 JO Championships in Bowling Green, Ohio. After the 1 st day the Clippers are in 2 nd place by 42.5 points . The team is putting in a great team ef...

 Summe First Boy To Break 30 seconds in Ohio

Breaking News This just in from Bowling Green, Ohio. Mikey Summe(12) becomes the first boy in Ohio Swimming history to break 30 seconds in the 11-12 50 Breaststroke by going a 29.98. This time puts ...

 Thurman Makes College Choice

Melissa Thurman made her verbal commitment yesterday to attend the University of Evansville. Melissa will join fellow Clippers , Alex Spata and Kaitlyn Sluka as Lady Aces. Her decision was a ver...

 JO Timelines

Linked here are the timelines for JOs this weekend. This is an estimated timeline and is not official.

 JO Warm Up Times

Friday AM - 7:30am Saturday AM - 8:00am ***Sunday AM - 7:30am ***Make sure you adjust your clocks to an hour forward before you go to bed on Saturday night. It is that time of year.

 Another Strong Championship Meet

This past weekend the Clippers 15&overs travelled to Oxford, Ohio to swim the 2010 Tim Myers Ohio Senior Championships. This meet was highlighted by many swimmers picking up new time standards and x...

 Lentsch and Summe Break Team Records

Congratulations to Jake Lentsch and Mikey Summe for breaking two 11-12 boys team records at the Marlins Last Chance Qualifier Meet this past Tuesday night. Jake broke the 400 IM record with a 4:54....

 Top 100 ALL TIME USA HISTORY (LCM)

See how you stack up among the best athletes in USA Swimming! The All-Time Top 100 age group rankings have been updated on Febuary 25, 2010. These lists will be updated on a on-going basis once a qu...

 Top 100 ALL TIME USA HISTORY

See how you stack up among the best athletes in USA Swimming! The All-Time Top 100 age group rankings have been updated on Febuary 25, 2010. These lists will be updated on a on-going basis once a ...

 Haas ends High School Season with Big Time Results

Ryan Haas, a junior at St. Xavier in Cincinnati, finished his high school season this morning at the Ohio High School State Championships. In front of a crowd of over 2,000 people Ryan performed am...

 14&under Swimmers Show Clipper Pride

After being at 3 other pools this weekend for different meets and practice, I ended the weekend by spending the final session at the 14 & under Regional Championships. Thats right 4 pools in 4 day...

 Clippers #1 Ranked Ohio Team In Club Of Excellence

USA Swimming announced the final list of the 2010 Club of Excellence rankings. The Clippers Scored a team record 12,079 points which ranked us as the #1 team in the Ohio LSC and Silver Medal Stat...

 Silverlake Summer Job Expo

Silverlake ? The Family Place Job Expo, Saturday, March 6th, 2010 - 1:00 PM Located at 301 Kenton Lands Rd., Erlanger, KY 41018 Looking for a great summer job! Silverlak...

 Rowland Gets College Swimmers Going At Conference

Many of our college swimmers are taking to the water in Conference action. You can check out who is swimmming where by clicking here . Tonight in finals at the Sun Belt Conference, Zane Rowland ...

 SUMMER PRACTICE SCHEDULE ANNOUNED

Clippers sping/summer practice schedule has been posted - click here.

 Clippers Lose A Family Member(Arrangements Added)

Mike Meier , father of national swimmer Mallory Meier and huge Clipper fan, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. Our condolences and prayers are with Linda and Mallory at this time....

 Chitwood Swimmer of Month in PAC-10

Chitwood Named Swimmer of the Month Sophomore Cory Chitwood was named the Pac-10's Swimmer of the Month for his efforts in January < < d Share Delicious Digg Facebook Google MySpace Twitter Yah...

 Haas Wins at Ohio High School Sectionals

This past weekend while his Clipper teammates were lighting it up at the Kentucky High School Championships, Ryan Haas was getting things started in Ohio. Ryan, a member of the St. Xavier swim team,...

 Mary Lou Mini Meet Highlighted By Record Setting Relay

What a great day at the pool for the Clippers 9&unders. The day was started by our 8&under girls "A" 100 Free relay including Brooke Spritzky, Olivia Vonderhaar, Mary Hagen and Kenady Beil sma...

 Clippers Lead Northern Kentucky To Another Top Rate High School State Meet

 Brandenburg Larosa's MVP

NAME: Krissie Brandenburg SCHOOL: Beechwood High School SPORT(S): Swimming GRADUATING YEAR: 2010 GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT: Setting 3 state records as a junior BIRTHDATE: 5-7-92 HEIGHT: 5?9? RESID...

 Broadcasting of Mid-Winter Meet

The Mid-Winter Meet Finals of Saturday and Sunday will be shown at 7:00pm on Saturday(Jan 30th) and Sunday(Jan 31st) on TBNK Channel 22 in Boone and Kenton Counties. Spread the word and sit back and...

 Mid-Winter Prize Drawings

This past weekend at the Mid-Winter Meet we had a contest for our swimmers. Every time a swimmer went a life time best time they got to put their name in a drawing for a prize. A major prize was dra...

 The Reward For Work Well Done Is...

?The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.? ? Jonas Salk After this weekend I found this quote and felt it really described where we are as a team after this weekend. As a team ...

 35 Athletes Take on 24 Hour Practice

35 Athletes Take On Challenge of 24 Hour Practice On December 30, 2009, thirty-five Northern Kentucky Clippers ranging in age from 14-18, took on the annual challenge of the Cavalcade of Toughne...

 COLTHARP NAMED LAROSA'S MVP

NAME: Shane Coltharp SCHOOL: Beechwood High School SPORT(S): Swimming GRADUATING YEAR: 2010 GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT: Becoming a state champion BIRTHDATE: 2-16-92 HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6'2"-185 lbs. RESID...

 ANDY ROSE MEMORIAL

Below is information that was posted by Palatine Swim Team on the development of "The Andy Rose Memorial Fund". Many of Andy's former swimmers here at Clippers have expressed interest of having an And...

 BANK MAKES FINAL DECISION

The Clippers are proud to announce that senior, Mary Bank has made her decision to swim at Kenyon College starting next fall. Mary?s list of schools she decided from was a very lengthy list tha...

 Clippers Lose A Former Coach - updated

The Clippers just received word tonight that former coach Andy Rose(32), passed away early Friday morning from complications with surgery in prep for hip replacement. Andy was a friend to many pas...

 RECORDS BROKEN AT NASHVILLE MEET

Three records were broken at the Nashville Meet last weekend: KayLee Witkiewicz broke a 10 year old record in the 11-12 50 back. KayLee Witkiewicz, Sammy Huffman, Kat Akin, and Brooke Harkrade r se...

 Clippers Lose A Family Member

The Clippers received word this morning that Nancy Romer , the mother of Natalie Romer from our AGD2 group, lost a hard fought battle with ovarian cancer. We ask that the Clipper family keep the ...

 HOLIDAY PRACTICE SCHEDULE POSTED

The Holiday Practice Schedule is posted under DOCUMENTS .

 PREP AND NATIONAL GROUP SWIM STRONG IN LEXINGTON

This past weekend the Prep and National group competed in the Wildcat Invitational in Lexington, Ky. Overall the group did a nice job producing best times, especially in weak stroke events. We also ...

 AGD4 Reaches Group Goal

On Saturday Nov. 21st, 38 Clippers from the AGD4 group ran a 5k race as part of practice. So why is this noteworthy? On Sept. 15th, the first day of practice the group was informed by Coach Lisa Hark...

 Age Group Swimmers Start Putting Things Together

This past weekend our 14&unders split up and participated in two different meets. After the results are in it is great to see that our swimmers had a very successful weekend. Our AGD1,AGD2 and AGD4...

 Picking Up Where He Left Off

Swimmer Cory Chitwood is back after a year-long hiatus By Mike Schmitz Print this article a Share this article < Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009 Gordo...

 Brandenburg and Coltharp Signing Ceremony

Two Northern Kentucky Clipper Swimmers Join Previous Northern Kentucky Clipper Grad Sign Letters Of Intent to Swim in College Signing Ceremony Thursday, November 12 th , 2009 Erlanger, Kentucky,...

 Clippers Have Two Swimmers Give Verbal Commitments

The Clippers are proud to announce that Senior Krissie Brandenburg and Shane Coltharp have given their verbal commitments to swim next year in college. The Clippers would like to announce that Kriss...

 TEAM PICTURES SCHEDULE

Click here to view to complete team picture info along with pricing. Monday, Nov. 9 - AGD 2 - 4:45 PM AGD3 - 5:30 PM Tuesday, Nov. 10 National - 3:15 PM AGD1 - 5:00 PM AGD4 - 5:30 PM Wednesday, Nov...

 Count 'em 6 Academic All-Americans

Congratulations to the Clippers who achieved one of the biggest awards in the sport....Scholatic All-American. These swimmers are not just getting it done in the pool but they are also blazing it up i...

 Halloween Meet Runs Smooooooth

We would like to thank all who attended the 17th Annual Halloween Meet. This was probably one of the smoothest running meets ever. Thanks to all of the volunteers who made this meet run so great. This...

 Parent Meeting Now Posted

The parent meeting slide show is now posted under the newsletters link. Remember you must be signed into your account to see the link at the top of the page. Coach Jason

 FINA Approved Swim Suits

FINA issues initial 2010 list of approved swimsuits (10/20/2009) FINA has issued its first list of swimsuits that have been approved for use in competition. The 2010 List of Approved Swimsuits,...

 Ohio Swimming Loses A Great One

We have just received word that former Ohio LSC Treasurer, Tim Myers , has passed away this afternoon after fighting cancer for the last couple years. Tim was so crucial in helping bringing the Ohi...

 REVISED DATE OF KY HIGH SCHOOL OFFICIALS' CLASS

We just received notice that the Kentucky HIgh School Offiicials Class is now Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 7:00 p.m. at Scott High School.

 Record Breaking Swims Continue

The Clippers are being well represented at the USA Junior National Meet in Federal Way, Washington. This is by far the fastest Junior Nationals in history with it taking at least a 2009 Olympic Trial ...

 Record Swims at Junior Nationals

Today at the 2009 USA Junior National's, Ellen Williamson finished in 12th place in the 200 backstroke. Her time from prelims(2:14.91) broke the Ohio LSC 15-16 age group record. This also broke he...

 4 Swimmers Travel To Seattle for Junior Nationals

Krissie Brandenburg, Shane Coltharp, Nick Kunkel and Ellen Williamson are the final four swimmers to finish out the summer season. They will be doing this at the Junior Nationals competition in Se...

 CLIPPERS BEGIN COMPETITION IN BALTIMORE

The Clippers begin competition tonight in Baltimore. This meet is attended by some of the best teams in the country. Follow the Clippers with live results - Click Here

 Lawson qualifies 10th at US Open

Audrey Lawson began her competition with her signature event today at the US Open in Federal Way, Washington. Lawson bettered her best time of 2:18.03(seeded 53rd) by going an amazing 2:13.88 . q...

 FALL/WINTER MEET SCHEDULE FINALIZED

2009-10 Short Course Meet Schedule - FINAL Meet Location Groups attending October 3 Katie Brandenburg Meet Versailes, ky Prep,National 24-25 Halloween Classic Erlanger, Ky Entire T...

 CLIPPERS RUNNER UP AT OHIO JO CHAMPIONSHIP MEET

CLIPPERS RUNNER UP AT OHIO JO CHAMPIONSHIP MEET Clippers were the Runner Up at Ohio JO Championship Meet, just 259.5 points behind 1 st place finisher Dayton Raiders. There were 33 teams an...

 Williamson breaks 26 year old State Record

Last Night Max Williamson won his 2nd event of the night at the Ohio Age Group JO Championships in record breaking fashion. Max broke the 200 IM state record by going 2:14.3 smashing the old record ...

 ADDITIONAL SCRIP ORDER DATES ADDED

ADDITIONAL SCRIP ORDER DATES HAVE BEEN ADDED. These are: Wednesday, July 22 Wednesday, August 19 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Monday, Sept. 21 Monday, Oct. 5 Monday, Oct. 19 Monday, Nov. 2 Monday, Nov. 16 Monda...

 13-14 Girls Shatter State Record In 800 Free Relay

On the opening night of the 2009 JO Championships at Miami University the Clippers 13-14 Girls 800 free relay team of Sharli Brady, Emily Koors, Molly Hinken and Lauren Herich smashed the stat...

 PRACTICE UPDATES FROM 7/15 NEWSLETTER

LAST PRACTICE FOR AGD1 AND AGD2 Monday, July 20 will be the last practice for AGD1 and AGD2 for the season. Maintenance practices are not offered to these groups. MAINTENANCE P RACTICES FOR AGD3,...

 FALL/WINTER PRACTICE SCHEDULE POSTED

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 CLIPPERS WIN OHIO SOUTH REGIONAL CHAMPSIONHIP MEET

Clippers won the Ohio South Regional Meet this past weekend with a score of 2,706. Place Team Points 1 NO KY Clippers 2,706 2 Cincinnati Marlins 2,628 3 Mason Manta Rays 2346.50 4 Cincinnati A...

 TEAM RECORDS BROKEN AT SENIOR CHAMPS

Clippers set 8 new team records this past weekend at Ohio Senior Meet. Krissie Brandenburg and Louis Rodgers both set set 2 team records, while Melissa Thurman and Ellen Williamson set one each...

 CLIPPERS WIN OHIO SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP MEET

The Clippers won the Ohio Senior Championship Meet this weekend with a score of 2,252, beating 22 other teams. The Clippers were the 5th largest team in attendance. Place Team Points 1 NO KY Clippers ...

 PRELIMINARY FALL/WINTER MEETS

The preliminary meet schedule with just home and champsionship meets for the fall winter season has been posted.

 WALSH MAKES FINAL DECISION!!!

After a very difficult recruiting period, Michael Walsh has decided on attending Western Kentucky University . Michael's original first choice was Western Kentucky University . Unfortunately WKU w...

 High School All-Americans Final List

12 Clippers made the list for High School All-Americans from the 2008-2009 season. These 12 swimmers combined for a total of 15 individual swims and 11 relay swims . The 15 individual swims was...

 Visions of glory go down the drain

Got Your Attention. This is a report plus video put together by reporter Jeremy Peters from the Enquirer. He is travelling around this summer working out with different organizations in different spor...

 National Top 50(newspaper article)

Article from the Enquirer - Click Here or read below Good week for Clippers Nick Smith of the Northern Kentucky Clippers won the 9-10 boys' 1-kilometer competition and Lauren Herich won the 13-14 gi...

 OHIO OPEN WATER RESULTS

This past Wednesday, 23 swimmers from the Clippers traveled to Batavia, Ohio to participate in the Ohio Open Water Championships. Despite some confusion on the course shared by others throughout Ohi...

 DAVID WEBB MEET - GREAT MEET

The David Webb Meet was another great meet. Thanks to all of our parents helping put on this meet. Clippers won the meet - see team scores . Six team records were broken at this meet by Katie Sum...

 CLIPPERS GET GREAT PRESS(updated)

David Webb Meet Makes News - Click Here 7 of the 9 seniors were able to make it for the final signing ceremony. This is the largest class of swimmers that we have ever had sign on to swim college in...

 Weather Holds Out For Open Water

On Thursday, 11 brave Clippers traveled to Williamstown Lake not knowing if the weather would hold out for the first ever open water practice. Not only did it hold out but we actually caught some bl...

 TEAM RECORDS BROKEN AT FAST & ARCTIC SPLASH MEETS

Team records were not updated from the FAST Meet prior to running the report for the Arctic Meet, so we need to correct. At FAST Meet: Madeleine Vonderhaar set a new team record in the 9-10 Breast El...

 Clippers Get Season Started With A Bang

This weekend nearly 100 Clippers travelled to Fishers, Indiana to compete in the Fishers 500 closed invitational . The host club, Fishers Area Swim Team, put on a great meet at a very beautiful faci...

 Wofford Finalizes Decision To Swim At Next Level

Shannon Wofford becomes the Clippers 8th swimmer to finalize her college plans for next year. Shannon has agreed to swim at Centre College . Shannon will join former Clipper Ana-Christina Mcmur...

 Austin Brown Adds To The Deepest Class In Clippers History

Austin Brown brought great news to the pool deck this afternoon when he said he decided to continue his swimming at the next level at Transylvania University . Austin added to the already deepest cl...

 As Promised Kunkel Makes College Decision

Last night at our end of the year banquet I promised you that we would be hearing more about where Nick Kunkel would be going to swim in college. Well the wait is over...Nick has decided to attend ...

 BANQUET WAS GREAT FUN

Yesterday approximately 300 people attended our annual Clippers Banquet, where we honored our graduating seniors and all the swimmers on the team. We want to give a special thanks to Marty Haas, Paul...

 Sophomore Ellen Williamson Makes World Rankings

Ellen Williamson , a sophomore at Notre Dame Academy and member of the Clippers National Group has made the world ranking list in the 200 backstroke through April 14. Ellen is currently ranked 90th...

 JO TEAM SCORE HISTORY

Junior Olympic History(located on our history page) Over the last decade the Clippers have assisted in raising the bar in the Ohio LSC making it one of the most competitive meets in the country. In ...

 TEAM RECORDS BROKEN

Louis Rodgers broke a team record at the Junior Nationals Time Trials - click here for records report Max Williamson broke 2 records at the Sectional Meet this weekend - click here for records repor...

 COOKIE ORDER DEADLINE IS EXTENDED

We will be running the cookie sales again. Sales forms are the bulletin board. Cookie/popcorn sells for $9.50 per. Due to the price increase, families will get credit to their fundraising of ...

 Young and Inexperienced But Very Successful

This past weekend 11 Clippers took to the pool and represented the Clippers at the 2009 Speedo Sectional Championships in Indianapolis. With 2 swimmers having sectional level experience we were ver...

 JUNIOR NATIONALS WERE HUGE!!!

This past week 15 swimmers travelled to Orlando, Florida to participate in the 2009 NCSA Junior Nationals. Over 1,600 swimmers joined them in what was one of the fastest Junior meets in history. As a ...

 Junior Nationals Off To A Big Start

15 swimmers are participating in the 2009 NCSA Junior National Championships. With over 1,600 swimmers 18&under in attendance this meet is sure to bring some of the best talent from all over the cou...

 TEAM RECORDS BROKEN AT JO'S

Katie Summe broke two individual records, while Max Williamson broke one - click here for records report . Clippers also set 6 new relay records. Girls 10 & U 200 Medley - Mikayla Herich, Katie Sum...

 OHH SO CLOSE

This past weekend the qualifiers for the Ohio Junior Olympic Swim Meet travelled to Bowling Green, Ohio to pursue another title. Swimming in the closest meet in the 60 year history the Clippers fell...

 CLIPPERS RECORDS BROKEN

Shane Coltharp and Zane Rowland broke team records at the Ohio Senior Meet this past weekend - click here for records report .

 15&Overs Swim Strong At Senior Meet

This weekend all of the 15&overs took to the pool at Miami University in Oxford. Many swimmers participated in just a few events to get reach individual milestones. These milestones ranged from fini...

 CLIPPERS RECORDS BROKEN

Madeleine Vonderhaar, Nick Smith and Jake Lentsch recently set new team records - click here for records report.

 Age Group Regional Swimmers Shine

This past weekend, 103 Clippers took to the pool at Keating Natatorium to battle for the Cincinnati South Regional Championships. After taking an early lead on friday the clippers fell short of a vi...

 Mary Lou Mini Meet Turns 20

The Mary Lou Mini meet was started 20 years ago and it continues to run strong every year. Our program was very fortunate to have a coach like Mary Lou and to this day we all look forward to seeing ...

 Clippers Tear It Up At Kentucky State High School

This weekend the Clippers put on another show at the Kentucky State High School Championships. Below are highlights from this weekend. All swimmers did an unbelievable job. Congratulations to all No...

 TEAM RECORDS BROKEN AT MARLINS MEET

This past weekend at the Marlins TYR Meet Katie Summe, Madeleine Vonderhaar and Max Williamson broke team records - click here for records report.

 Another Clipper Continues Swimming Career

Rachel Roberts, a member of the Clippers National Team, has accepted her appointment to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rachel will be swimming for the falcons dur...

 Swimmers Perform Strong At CAC

This weekend swimmers from our Age group program participated in the TYR - CAC Mid-Winter Invitational . Overall the results were strong coming off of a meet just two weeks ago where everybody put ...

 RECORDS FALL AT MID WINTER

Some of the oldest records were broken at the Mid Winter Meet --- Zane Rowland broke Matt Dressman?s record for the 17 & older 50 free which was set in 1983. --- Alison Bomkamp broke the 8 & under 2...

 14 MEET RECORDS; 8 TEAM RECORDS

This past weekend the Clippers participated in the Clippers Midwinter Classic sponsored by Liberty Mutual. This was our swimmers first competition since early in December where we ended 2008 on a ...

 STAMM HAS WINNING DESIGN

Tristan Stamm had the winning design for our championship t-shirt. He researched that the lime green cancer ribbon represents non-Hodgkin lymphoma (which is what Jim has) and he turned that ribb...

 36 Swimmers End 2008 With The 24 Hour Practice(including 15 meter meet records)

Thirty six swimmers who are in grades 9 thru 12 participated in the 6th Annual 24 Hour Practice on December 30th. This practice has become a great tradition of team building and mental training. 14 ...

 Ryan Adams Gives Verbal Commitment

Ryan Adams, a member of the Clippers Senior Program, has given a verbal commitment to swim next year in college at Union College in Barbourville, KY. Ryan began his swimming career just three years ag...

 PLEASE DONATE TO HELP JIM CRAMPTON

Dec. 10 We are going to raise funds to help support Jim with his insurance. If you would like to donate money, you can mail your check to us (Clippers/Jim Crampton Fund, 301 Kenton Lands Rd, Erlanger...

 CLIPPERS SET THE POOL ON FIRE

This past weekend our swimmers participated in two separate meets: 1. Fishers Santa Claus Meet ? 14 & unders 2. Club Wolverine Meet ? AGP, Senior, National Prep and National In these meets our athle...

 Clippers Break 2 LSC Records during weekend meets

Congratulations to Caitlyn Forman and Sharli Brady for becoming the fastest 13-14 200 backstroker and 11-12 200 Butterflyer in Ohio Swimming History. Caitlyn's time in the 200 backstroke ties her as...

 RECORDS BROKEN AT WILDCAT

Two Clippers records fell over the weekend at the Wildcat Meet: view report Congratulations To Both Audrey Lawson for breaking a record that has been around since Ann Issacs broke it in 2001. ...

 HOLIDAY TRAINING SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED

The Clippers holiday training schedule has been posted - click here to view .

 CLIPPERS APPAREL OFFERED BY SWIMVILLE

Swimville is offering sweats and towels as Clippers apparel items. Orders are to be placed with Swimville USA. Orders received by them by Friday, Nov. 28 will be deilvered by the 3rd week in Decembe...

 SOUTH DEARBORN PICTURES AND UPDATE

Over the weekend most of our swimmers in DST, AGD1 and AGD3 travelled to neighboring South Dearborn for an excellent meet. "Our kids are looking really good technically", explained Coach Melissa. "I w...

 Chitwood Visits White House and the President

On November 12th, Cory Chitwood and the rest of his teammates from Arizona Wildcats visited our nations capital. During their visit they met President George Bush at the White House. "The Presiden...

 Breaking News!!!Relay Record Broken at South Dearborn

The Clippers 8&under Girls A and B Relays yesterday broke the team record in the 200 Free Relay. The old record was set in 1998. Congratulations to all 8 girls. B Relay - Stephanie Meyer, Meghan Gr...

 BREAKING NEWS!! Rowland Commits to Hilltoppers

The Clippers are proud to announce our third senior to give a verbal commitment to swim in college. Zane Rowland, a senior swimmer from Covington Catholic has verbally agreed to swim for Western Ken...

 BREAKING NEWS!!! Lawson Commits to LSU

We just received word that Audrey Lawson, a member of the Clippers National Team, has commited to Louisiana State University(LSU). Audrey makes the second Clipper to give a verbal commitment this se...

 Records From 84' and 02' Fall at Halloween Meet

The Halloween Meet proved to be a very succesful meet for swimmers of all ages. Most swimmers were anxious to get in a meet for the first time this season. We appreciated all our parents and visiting ...

 Team Picinic Brings All Clippers Together

On Saturday the Clippers came together for a great afternoon of fun and socializing at the annual fall family picnic. Swimmers from every training group were represented in the pumpkin game run by b...

 USA Swimming Scholastic All-American

USA Swimming names Scholastic All-America Team USA Swimming has announced the selection of its Scholastic All-America Team for 2007-08. This year our Clippers had five swimmers make the list. Congrat...

 Sherrard Makes Verbal Commitment To Louisville

The Clippers are proud to report that Jackie Sherrard, a senior member of our National group, gave her verbal commitment to the University of Louisville. Jackie is the first of many swimmers to gi...

 Team Records Broken

Ellen Williamson and Cole Garriott set new team records. Ellen broke the 15-16 200 back at Speedo Junior Nationals with a 2:19.12 and Cole set the new 13-14 200 breast at the Central Mega Zone...

 Clippers Swim Strong At Ohio Senior Meet

This past weekend 13 Clippers made the trip to Bowling Green, Ohio to swim in the 2008 Ohio Senior Championships. Top swims of the weekend came from many swimmers dropping time. Congrats to the fol...

 CLIPPERS WIN OHIO JO/STATE CHAMPS!

Congatulations CLIPPERS! - 2008 Ohio JO Champs!! We had a blast swimming fast! Good Sportsmanship and cheering-see picture :) 2008 Ohio JO Championship Team Scores 1. Northern Kentucky Clippers 2,6...

 Sectionals End With Top 8 Relays

The 2008 Summer Sectionals were one of the fastest sectionals in Central Zone history. With more than 800 swimmers in attendance and the finals being filled with mostly college swimmers, our team swam...

 JO Championships Update

WOW....WOW...WOW Going into the last day of competition our age group swimmers are holding onto a 350+ lead for the overall team title. "Fun Place, Fun Times", coach Jim Crampton explained. "Our kid...

 Great Regional Meet

Clippers had an exceptional Regional Meet with lots of our swimmers gettng to return to finals. The girls had 54% best times, while the boys had 62% best times. Clippers also got 26 new JO cuts. Tha...

 Cory Chitwood Swims Prime Time

Last night Cory Chitwood celebrated his Fourth of July with a very special group of swimmers. In the fastest 200 backstroke heat in history, Cory finished a very impressive 7th place going his bes...

 Chitwood Qualifies Top 8 at Trials

Cory Chitwood continued his perfect meet last night in the semi-finals of the 200 back going a 1:59.35. This time was strong enough to qualify him 8th for tonights big show down at finals. Only the ...

 Olympic Trials - Claire Dickmann

Claire Dickmann ended her competition at her first Olympic Trials on a great note. She swam her signature event, the 200 Fly, and moved up seven spots from 59th to 52nd. Claire?s comment to coach Jas...

 David Webb - Great Meet

The Northern Kentucky Clippers Swim Team hosted the David Webb Invitational Swim Meet last weekend at Silverlake, The Family Place, in Erlanger, Kentucky. Over 500 swimmers, ages six through 20 year...

 NKSL Link Added To Website

We have added the NKSL Link To Our Links Page. Check out this website to keep tabs of all of the great things going on in Northern Kentucky Summer Swimming. You Can clink link below as well to go t...

 Arctic Splash Highlights

The Clippers-hosted Arctic Splash ran flawlessly as we all pitched in to provide a quality meet for over 500 swimmers from13 clubs in Ohio and Kentucky. Thanks to all our parents and all visiting par...

 Clipper Alum Receives Big Honor

Clipper Alum and current team record holder, Jason Vadney , ended his swimming career on a big note this season at the Michigan State Swimming Banquet. Jason was honored by having the Spartan Of T...

 Clippers Represented At Nashville Marathon -update

Congratulations to all of the coaches and parents that ran the Country Music Marathon today in Nashville. We are very proud of all who took on the challenge of running this big race. Everybody that we...

 Results of Sectional Meet and New Team Records

This past week 22 Clippers represented us in the Central Zone Speedo Sectional Champsionship. There were approximately 600 swimmers from over 100 different USA and college teams competing. Clipper...

 Forman Ranks Among The Best 13-14 Year Olds In History

This past weekend at the JO Championships 13 year old, Caitlyn Forman , swam one of the fastest times in USA Swimming history in the 100 back for 13-14 year olds. Her time of 56.03 would place her ...