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,...

 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...

 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...

 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 ...

 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...

 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...

 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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 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 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...

 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...

 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...

 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...

 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...

 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 ...

 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...

 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 ...

 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...

 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...

 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 ...

 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...

 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...

 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...

 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 ...