Congratulations to Kevin Glenn for achieving his first Olympic Trials cut in the 100 Backstroke with a 55.96 at the TYR 18 & Under Spring Cup this past weekend in Des Moines, IA! Well done, Kevin!

Spring 2021 Newsletter for Blazers team information, season highlights and additional resources. Please click here to view!

12 & Under Champs ▪︎ April 9 - 11, 2021 ▪︎ Gladstone, MO The Blazers had an outstanding meet at the MV 12 & Under Champs session in Gladstone, MO. This is the way to end a season; with strong performances and team spirit! We are excited to keep this momentum going into our summer long course season! Age Group - Coach Shawn Lynn-Bequette Age Group had ten swimmers representing the Blazers last weekend in Gladstone and they swam lights out! Three swimmers qualified for Champs during our long short...

13 & Over Champs ▪︎ March 26 - 28, 2021 ▪︎ Platte City, MO Overall the Blazers had 36 Top 8 swims with 10 podium swims a the MV 13 & Over Champs session in Platte City, MO! Way to go, Blazers! Junior I Performance Highlights Coach Andrew Schmidt Overall 43 Best Times 18 top-8 finishes 5/7 swimmers finished in top-8 (Kaya Alvegaard-Struble (2), Tess, Boyer (3), Jadyn Bruch (1), Zane Laing (6), Jack McClelland (2)) Swimmers of the Meet: Zane Laing Finals in 6/7 events, best times in all...

National Team's Alec Liu (Blue Valley North) has been named a National Merit finalist. Alec has an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered in the spring. Students were named finalists after taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Congratulations, Alec!

March 11-14th the Blazers had 14 athletes attend Region VIII Sectionals in Jenks, OK. Not only was this our first travel meet and sectionals for almost exactly a year, it was the first Long Course meet that we have attended in nearly 18 months. While this, like most of our meets, did not feel “normal” our athletes represented the Kansas City Blazers proudly and with great success. From our 72 individual events Blazers swimmers had best times in 62 of those events at 86%. Amongst our team there were 26...

The Blazers are heading to Jenks, Oklahoma, to challenge teams from all over AR, MO, OK, NE and Kansas! Our team of 14 are excited to take on the challenge of the best swimmers from the region, in this limited entry four day meet. You can follow your team via live stream, and all over social media. Comment, post and join in the fun and see what it's all about! Live Stream Links may be posted here: https://www.teamunify.com/SubTabGeneric.jsp?team=osjtsc&_stabid_=209998 Everything is going to be OK!

KSHSAA Boys State Swimming Congratulations on a job well done to all of our Blazers on their High School Season: 6A BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Blue Valley High School: Ken Drakey, Eddy Jiang, Jay Lee, Bennett Molitor-Kirsch & Ben Tieves Blue Valley North High School: Ben Ding, Alex Houts, Michael Mayo, Sam Peterson & Luke Twyman Blue Valley Northwest High School: Evan Clark & Josh Li Blue Valley West High School: Ethan Evans, Kevin Glenn, Nick Hawley, Sam Pankratz & Hunter Rey Olathe North High School: Aaden Lloyd Olathe Northwest...

Blazers Call to Action: We Need Officials!!! Families, we are in dire need of officials. We are looking down the barrel of not having enough officials to run meets in the near future. At this point, we have had only nine officials who have been working the Blazers meets this season. We have also relied on other teams to make up our shortfall. For a team our size and the number of meets we host to keep our athletes active, this is unsustainable. Our goal is to register 18 new...

USA Swimming has released the 2021 - 2024 National Motivational Age Group Time Standards! The time standards for both the traditional age group (10 & Under; 11-12; 13-14; 15-16; 17-18) and the Single Age Motivational Time standards (for each age 10 - 18) are intended to offer benchmarks for athletes, as they progress through their swimming career and work towards qualifying time standards for Districts, Champs, Sectionals and beyond! Swimmers can begin goal-setting by aiming to achieve B and BB times, using the times as markers to see progress as...