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1st Place at Spring Champs

A spectacular effort was put forward at the Spring Championship meet this past weekend at the Fairland Aquatic Center. As a team, we scored 1916 points placing first among 13 teams. 371 best times where achieved at the meet, which comes out to about 75% of the swims being best times.

Our high point winners by age group are: 9-10 boys - Michael Eshleman (3) 9-10 girls - Jessie Monroe (3) 11-12 boys - Conor McBride (1) 11-12 girls - Elizabeth Longosz (1) 13 & Over boys - Ryan Williams (1) 13 & Over girls - Becca Yost (2)

The following swimmers swam 6 or more best times: Erin Callahan, Annie and Martha Carro, Hazel Cimino, Shelley Collins, Alexandra Cramer, Wesley and Zachary Diener, Michael Eshleman, Tom Fenninger, Jason Fu, Hyunwoo and Minji Koo, Elizabeth Longosz, Michelle Lovering, Kaylyn Macaluso, Conor McBride, Megan McCreary, Jessie Monroe, Marilisa Morales, Theresa Neubig, Alex Pennington, Erica Shipley, Jessie Smith, Emma Tierney, Tara Ulepic, Nathan Williams, Becca Yost, and Kyle Zora...CONGRATULATIONS!!

We cheered loudly and swam fast achieving many first place finishes in individual events as well as in 9 relays. We all had a great meet. We even learned a bit about nutrition and how eating junk food can't supply you with the energy you need to compete at your highest level, especially, when you are swimming four or more events during one session. Coach Grady brought in oranges and power bars on the second day which helped us keep our energy up, so we could all keep swimming FAST and having FUN...so remember that at your next meet when packing your food.

Now it is onto the long course season, I hope everyone is looking forward to the LC Derby!!

Michael Flach - 4 Junior National cuts in 4 days !

Matthew Benecki - 2 Senior National cuts; Olympic Trials next?

Kate Ziegler - 4 gold medals in 4 days; women's high point award winner!

Take your pick for the storyline for Sectionals. Any way you look at it, the FISH swam spectacularly at Sectionals.

Thanks to contributions from Michael Flach and Matthew Benecki, highlighted above, along with Adam Pennington, the FISH placed 4th on the Men's side.

For more detailed summaries, check the daily recaps posted previously; for more detailed results, check out the times.

Onward to Ohio State!

Sectionals ended last night and culminated in the FISH winning 291 points overall without swimming any relays.Kate Ziegler won the Womens Individual High Point award and Michael Flach secured the2nd place in the Mens Individual High Point category. Congratulations!

The past three days at Sectionals have been an incredible experience for the Awesome FISH. After Saturday night's finals the FISH team had scored a total of 217 points which secured us the 4th place overall. There were a lot of best times and some incredible highlights that are worth mentioning.

The first day at Sectionals just ended and if you were part of the audience, you witnessed some fantastic swimming by the Awesome FISH.

22 FISH swam in the PVS Senior Champs last weekend. The small contingent scored heavily, with Michael Flach and Matt Benecki as double event winners. Michael won both the 200 I.M. and the 100 back, and Matt won both the 1000 free and the 500 free.

Second Place at Mini Champs...!!!

We had 29 FISH compete at MINI Championships held at the Olney Aquatic Center in Laurel, Maryland. We scored 909 points, placing us 2nd out of 14 teams!! Way to go MINIS!! Everyone swam great establishing 77 BEST TIMES and 5 TEAM RECORDS! Mini meets aren't necessarily about best times, we are looking improvement in strokes, turns, and racing; there was no shortage of this. We are very proud of each of our Mini's who competed at MINI Champs!!

The 14 and Under Potomac Valley Junior Olympic Championships held at the Fairland Aquatic Center was an exciting meet. There were 72 best times at the meet including splits which means 76% of the swims were best times. We also broke 4 TEAM RECORDS, and 220 points were scored.