LOSC earns Olympic development status

By Matthew Sherman

The Lake Oswego Review, Apr 24, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009

Bob Steele gives some pointers to Lake Oswego Swim Club members during his recent visit as part of the USA Swimming’s Olympic Development program.

The Lake Oswego Swim Club has steadily been approaching world-class status in recent years. With swimmers smashing national records and winning prestigious meets, the club currently features some future Olympic hopefuls.

And the nation is starting to take notice.

Recently, the LOSC was selected as one of about 50 swim clubs around the nation to participate in USA Swimming’s Olympic Development Camp/Master Coach program.

For four days last week, Master Coach Bob Steele visited the club, working with coaches and swimmers in an enormous honor for the program.

According to Steele, the club was selected because of its “exceptional young coach” (Coley Stickels) and because of the multiple national age group records that it has set in recent meets.

“The have a fine young coach who is on the cutting edge. They’ve set something like 35 records since he’s been here and that’s what builds a team is great coaching,” Steele said.

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