The Upper St. Clair Swimming and Diving team hosted Montour on Wednesday night. Both the boys and girls swimming and diving teams defeated the Spartans moving the boys raised record to 6-3, while the girls moved to 2-7. The highlight of the meet was recognizing all of our Seniors at our Senior Recognition night, the last home meet of the season. The Senior swimmers and divers include Maren Davis, Hasan Alhajhusain, Brady Bernard, Armen Pettit, Hunter Talai, Liam Tomb, Griffin Tomsheck and Kobi Yuyi. Congratulations to Sophomore diver Carter Wells. His winning score of 296.40 established a new pool and school record. What an accomplishment! We’d also like to congratulate Freshman swimmer Maddie Dow for achieving her first WPIAL Championship qualifying time in the 500 freestyle. Additional outstanding performances include Griffin Tomsheck achieving the WPIAL “Sweep” (qualifying for the WPIAL Championships in every swimming event) by virtue of his achieving the QTs in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. Event winners for the meet were: Girls 200 Medley and 200 Free Relays, Maren Davis – 50 free, Delaney Burnette – Diving (personal best score of 273.25), Gaja Kopera – 100 free and 100 back, and Maddie Dow – 100 breast. On the boys side, USC won the 200 Medley, 200 Free, and 400 free relays, Tom Howard – 200 free, Nazar Zoukovski – 200 IM and 50 free, Hasan Alhajhusain – 100 free, Jack Whiteford – 500 free, Griffin Tomsheck – 100 back and Liam Tomb – 100 breaststroke. The team will conclude its dual meet schedule at Canon Mac on Thursday, February 13 at 5 p.m.
The Upper St. Clair Swimming and Diving team hosted Montour on Wednesday night. Both the boys and girls swimming and diving teams defeated the Spartans moving the boys raised record to 6-3, while the girls moved to 2-7. The highlight of the meet was recognizing all of our Seniors at our Senior Recognition night, the last home meet of the season. The Senior swimmers and divers include Maren Davis, Hasan Alhajhusain, Brady Bernard, Armen Pettit, Hunter Talai, Liam Tomb, Griffin Tomsheck and Kobi Yuyi. Congratulations to Sophomore diver Carter Wells. His winning score of 296.40 established a new pool and school record. What an accomplishment! We’d also like to congratulate Freshman swimmer Maddie Dow for achieving her first WPIAL Championship qualifying time in the 500 freestyle. Additional outstanding performances include Griffin Tomsheck achieving the WPIAL “Sweep” (qualifying for the WPIAL Championships in every swimming event) by virtue of his achieving the QTs in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. Event winners for the meet were: Girls 200 Medley and 200 Free Relays, Maren Davis – 50 free, Delaney Burnette – Diving (personal best score of 273.25), Gaja Kopera – 100 free and 100 back, and Maddie Dow – 100 breast. On the boys side, USC won the 200 Medley, 200 Free, and 400 free relays, Tom Howard – 200 free, Nazar Zoukovski – 200 IM and 50 free, Hasan Alhajhusain – 100 free, Jack Whiteford – 500 free, Griffin Tomsheck – 100 back and Liam Tomb – 100 breaststroke. The team will conclude its dual meet schedule at Canon Mac on Thursday, February 13 at 5 p.m.
The Upper St. Clair Girls and Boys Swimming and Diving Team hosted Peters Township earlier this week and split their dual meets. The boys won by a score of 105-78 to improve their record to 5-2, while the girls fell by a score of 116-70 dropping their record to 1-6. Sophomore diver Carter Wells led the charge for the boys by virtue of his victory in diving, in which he smashed the pool record by over 10 points with a personal best score of 291.75. He was followed in 2nd place by Senior Kobe Yuyi, who also scored a personal best with 249.00 points. Additional event winners for the boys include the 200 Medley, 200 Freestyle and 400 Freestyle relays, as well as individual event winners Nazar Zoukovski (100 and 200 free), Griffin Tomsheck (50 free, 100 breaststroke) and Ben Whiteford (100 fly, 100 back). The girls started the meet with a 1-2-3 finish in the diving event. Junior Bella Meyer won the event with a personal best score of 237.70, followed closely by Junior Delaney Burnette (236.80) and Sophomore Livia Tranquilli (202.95). Additional event winners for the girls include Maren Davis in the 200 IM (with a season best time of 2:22.41) and Gaja Kopera in the 100 breast (1:09.48). The girls quartet of Maren Davis, Clare Larsen, Maddie Dow and Gaja Kopera also won the 200 Free relay with a time of 1:48.37. The team's next meet is at Section rival Mt. Lebanon on Wednesday, January 29 starting at 5 p.m.