Winter Swim Team Finds Success!

by Paul Kurtz - March 12, 2020

The winter competitive swim season started in October 2019 and will conclude on the 3rd weekend in March 2020. This is a long 22 week season where our area youth come together as members of the Wellsboro Parks & Recreation Winter Swim program by competing on the Jersey Shore YMCA competitive Swim Team. The Jersey Shore YMCA swim team has 78 male and female competing swimmers distributed across 10 age groups ranging in ages from 5 to 18 years old. The team competes in the YMCA Central district of Pennsylvania. Competitive swimming is all about setting a personal baseline time for each competitive event (measured in seconds) and then trying to better your personal best recorded time. Regular season meet scoring is determined by individual swimmers earning points for each event finishing place in an age-group. The age-group winner is awarded 1 point for each of the 10 competing age-groups. For the Season Stats:

Wellsboro P&R swimmers = 33
Jersey Shore swimmers = 45
Total team swimmers = 78

8 regular season Jersey Shore Meets:
(3 of the meets were held at Mansfield University**)

Meet 1: Jersey Shore vs. Clarion vs. State College
JS vs CLR (9-1) Win
JS vs SC (4-6) Loss
65 JS swimmers recorded 73 Individual Personal best times

Meet 2: Jersey Shore vs. Lock Haven at MU**
JS vs. LH (8-2) Win
70 JS swimmers recorded 85 Individual Personal best times

Meet 3: Jersey Shore vs. Ridgeway
JS vs RDG (6-4) Win
55 JS swimmers recorded 64 Individual Personal best times

Meet 4: Jersey Shore vs. Brookville
JS vs BRK (6-4) Win
38 JS swimmers recorded 40 Individual Personal best times

Meet 5: Jersey Shore vs. East Lycoming vs. Bellefonte at MU**
JS vs ELY (6-4) Win
JS vs BEL (7-3) Win
68 JS swimmers recorded 86 Individual Personal best times

Meet 6: Jersey Shore vs. East Lycoming
JS vs ELY (5-5) Tie
57 JS swimmers recorded 65 Individual Personal best times

Meet 7: Jersey Shore vs. Dubois vs. East Lycoming
JS vs DUB (9-1) Win
JS vs ELY (6-4) Win
69 JS swimmers recorded 92 Individual Personal best times

Meet 8: Jersey Shore vs. State College at MU**
JS vs SC (10-0) Win
68 JS swimmers recorded 80 Individual Personal best times

Regular Season Record: 9 Wins – 1 Loss – 1 Tie.
585 Regular Season Individual Personal best times.

Post Season Results:
League Championship Meet at Lock Haven University
Jersey Shore swimmers secured a 3rd Place finish out of 11 teams
55 JS swimmers recorded 98 Individual Personal best times

Silver District Meet at Lock Haven University
Jersey Shore swimmers secured a 1st Place finish out of 9 teams
45 JS swimmers recorded 91 Individual Personal best times

Central District Championship Meet (Time Qualification is required to participate)
Jersey Shore swimmers achieved a 21st Place finish out of 25 teams
27 Qualified Jersey Shore swimmers recorded 22 Individual Personal best times
13 of which are Wellsboro P&R swimmers:
Mathew Robbins (10&U boys)
Ethan Pollaro (10&U boys)
Ransom Schultz (10&U boys)
Nora Furry (12&U girls)
Makenna Robbins (12&U girls)
Izzy Anderegg (14&U girls)
Megan Robbins (14&U girls)
Madison Robbins (14&U girls)
Ethan Dick (14&U boys)
Sophia Kurtz (15&O girls)
Madison Milheim (15&O girls)
Cael Dick (15&O boys)
Hayne Webster (15&O boys)

2020 Pennsylvania YMCA State Championship Meet (top 6 finishers from East, Central & West District meets)
7 Jersey Shore Swimmers have qualified to attend this meet on Saturday March 21st
2 of which are Wellsboro P&R swimmers: Matthew Robbins (10&U boys) & Ethan Dick (14&U boys)

For information about the Summer Swim Team, visit this link: https://wellsboro.swimtopia.com/