November tune up sign up on online forms
November 2, 2009 - 03:00 PM
Our objective is to provide a challenging multi-sport swimming training and conditioning program. The program is available to swimmers of all ages (middle school, high school, adults) who are able to endure a rigorous, high-school geared swim practice.
Practices will be held Mondays – Fridays from November 2 to 20th (3 weeks) 3pm to 530pm at the Wissahickon Middle School pool.
The program will be $25 for one week or $40 for the full three weeks. For liability reasons, you must also be a member of American Water Polo (“AWP”): $30 each for first two individuals in each family or $75 for a family registration. Please contact us if you are not already an AWP member. Click on the link to the right to access on-line registration. The form allows one athlete to register and provide contact and parent/guardian information. Get strong - go fast - go Wissahickon! Sign up today.
State Championship and Top Times
Wissahickon's 200 free and medley relays traveled to Bucknell University Thursday to compete in the PIAA Championship. The relays consisted of Andrew Nagelberg, Chris Chiodo-Ortiz, Erik Waechter, and Adam Bossert. Nagelberg and Bossert also swam individual events. See paswimming.com for results.
February 28, 2009
Boys who have qualified for District Championships include Adam Bossert, Sean High, Carl Krause, Andrew Nagelberg, Chris Ortiz, Craig Shapiro, Ian Smith, and Eric Waechter. Girls swimming at Districts include Becky Gilpin, Lizzie McKenna, Whitney Walsh, Carrie Johnson, Rachel Bohr and Lori Jefferson.
Friday night report from the meet - The boys are doing great and are currently in 6th place in a field of 64 teams! The Wissahickon 200 Medley relay of Nagelberg, Bossert, Ortiz and Waechter took 6th place with a time of 1:39.28 bettering their previous best time by more than 2 seconds. Carl Krause and Eric Waechter next swam a very competitve 200Free event, and both boys improved by 2 and 4 seconds respectively. Craig Shapiro swam a strong 23.53 50Free and Andrew Nagelberg placed 9th with an outstanding 21.97! The winning time for the 50Free was 21.41 - that's sooo close! Next up was Chris Ortiz in the 100Butterfly with a 56.52 a new best time. The final event for the night was the 200Free Relay. Nagelberg, Ortiz, Waechter and Bossert were smoking, taking another 6th place with a time of 1:28.56 - 2 seconds faster than their previous best! This was a very fast meet with several new District record times.
Saturday night at the Races - Well sports fans it was a great finish for the Wissahickon Swimming season. Girls finished districts dropping times in all 3 relays and some personal bests in individual events. Congratulations girls! Our guys came out to do battle with some very powerful swimming programs, 64 teams in total. When the roar of the crowds finally subsided, Wissahickon earned 10th place - an outstanding showing. Top ten final results were:
Men - AAA BOYS - Team Rankings
1. West Chester B. Reed Henderson 231.5 2. Boyertown High School 225.5
3. Upper Dublin High School 208 4. North Penn High School 199
5. Downingtown West High School 133 6. Central Bucks East HS 128.5
7. Radnor High School 113 8. Downingtown East High School 110
9. Unionville High School 89 10. Wissahickon High School 84
Chris Ortiz and Eric Waechter started off the 100Free event with more than 1 second improvements on their best times. Adam Bossert's 48.80 100Free time earned a 12th place finish. Next up was Carl Krause (5:05.08 ) and Ian Smith (5:04.28), who both crushed their previous best times in the 500Free by almost 12 seconds. Andrew Nagelberg was having another great day, this time in the 100Back event. Andrew's time of 54.90 took 11th place in a very close contest. Adam Bossert swam the 100Breast in 1:00.71 winning 7th place. The Wissahickon Boys ended the night with 4 fine performances in the the 400Free Relay. Craig Shapiro, Sean High, Carl Krause and Ian Smith finished in 3:31.00 shaving more than 7 seconds from their seed time.
Click here for complete results for the boys. Click here for complete results for the girls. Great job guys and girls.Go Wissahickon!
