The Stroudsburg swim team had a majorly successful end to a full season, with the last four meets having wins on both girls’ and boys’ sides.
Senior Night was against East Stroudsburg on Jan. 29, the boys’ side crushed with 66-28, and the girls dominated with 58-36 points. Seniors were able to pick which events they wanted to compete in to have an ideal meet.
After feeding them a well-deserved senior night potluck, the team went against Dieruff, a postponed meet due to bad weather, the very next day, on Jan. 30.
Dieruff has an incredibly small swim team, and no matter how determined they were, Stroudsburg had an easy win with the boys side of 78-10 and the girls 83-3 points.
Northampton, on Feb. 3, turned out to be one for the books because not only did the boys win 58-36 and the girls 55-39, but Alfred Zheng set an impressive record for the little pool.
In the 200 IM, Zheng managed to drop a whole three seconds from his previous best and dropped over one second off the record established in 2020.
This incredible achievement fueled the whole team to end strong against Pocono Mountain West on Feb. 5, with a boys score of 65-29 and a girls score of 61-33.
This last meet ended an eventful season for some fast seniors; however, it’s not quite over for the swim team, as their next goal is set for districts.
During the last chance meet at Emmaus, the meet that decides the district team, Zheng managed to take down another school record. The record that has been standing for 21 years in the 100 free was lowered from 48.99 to 48.53 seconds.
After last chance, the district team line-up was decided to be: Piper Coffman, Mallory Eberz, Kayla Exil, Ashlee Fehnel, Cate Hoffman, Brooke Henning, Tali Nicholson, Lila Smedley, Hayden DePete-McMahon, Matteo Maccarrone, Chudi Ogbolu, Aidan O’Toole, Lucas Pelaez, Jason Pritchard, Kacper Soja, Brett Svensson, and Alfred Zheng.
Although the regular season is now over, the team is vigorously training to be at its very best for districts, which are set for Feb. 20 and 21.