Successful Swordfish Season in Review

Swordfish Swimmers and Divers Team Up for Second Place

After 7 weeks of practice, 5 dual meets, a fabulous All-Team Party, a delicious All Team Breakfast, a fun filled All-Team Outing and tons of fun times together, 155 members of the Swordfish Swim & Dive team were pumped for Championship competition followed by the annual Banquet  and season-ending  slide show.

The Swordfish Swim & Dive Team at the Wyoming Swim Club competes in the 14-team Private Pool Swim League, one of the premier summer club leagues in the area.  Once again it was a joint effort that led to an amazing and unexpected 2^nd place combined team win. At the time of the Banquet on Friday July 19^th, the Swordfish swimmers had claimed a solid third place finish behind Montgomery and Mt Lookout, with many great relay and individual performances over 2 days of competition at Keating Natatorium.  The Dive competition was not finished because of many rain delays on Thursday and Friday.  At the banquet, veteran dive coaches Shauna Tamanko and Bo Bottenhorn were reluctant to make any promises about the final outcome of the dive competition.

On Sunday July 21st, at the conclusion of the diving championships, the Swordfish divers finished a strong fourth place – only 0.5 points out of third place!  In the process they outscored the divers from Mt. Lookout, our challengers for second place overall, by 83 points and vaulted the Swordfish into second place by 6.5 points.  Another true team success for the Swordfish as they capped off an outstanding 2013 season! 

Congratulations to all the Swordfish swimmer and divers!  Many thanks to Dive coaches Shauna Tamanko and Bo Bottenhorn, Head swim coach Jonathan Profitt, Assistant head coach Sara Krueger, age group coaches Otto Warmbier, Alex Burgess, Erin Engelhardt, Caitlin Gagnon and volunteer coaching assistants Jonathan Rutter, Becky Denson, and Ellen Koesterman,  the parent committee and parent volunteers for a job well done!

Thanks to Anita Guy Burgess for the report and photo