2022 Gator Winter Splash | Short Course

Jolanthe Erb (Director of Operations)

2022 Gator Winter Splash |  Short Course

From January 8-9, seventy-three of our swimmers welcomed the Virginia Gators of Charlottesville, Swim RVA Rapids, and the SMAC Marlins to Harrisonburg for the 2022 Gator Winter Splash - an amazing turnout for our team! This was a short course meet held at JMU's Godwin Hall.

Our team swam a total of 390 events over the course of two days; forty of these races were first time swims, and 161 were best times. In addition, a whopping total of 505.10 seconds were dropped! 

8/under Swimmers: Lucille Caldwell (8), Silas Dameron (8), Graham Ebersold (8), Camille Jerlinski (8), Huck Kann (8), Elias Kite (7), Catherine Larson (8), Bryson Long (7), Harper Mancini (6), Coleman Skelly (7), Georgia Thornton (8), and Kaimbrie Zook (8).

9-10 Swimmers: Matthew Bing (10), Igor Dmytriyev (9), Jed Gorby (9), Madeleine Gurth (10), Eliza Hewitt (10), Laci Hill (10), Isaiah Kite (9), Samuel Larson (10), Caelee Long (9), Claire Maust (9), Anna Paradise (9), McKenna Riner (9), Peter Smith (9), and Lucy Toni-Holsinger.

11-12 Swimmers: Gage Becker (11), Sadie Deeble (12), Boris Dmytriyev (12), Lila Dunham (12), Lila Gorby (12), James Hewitt (12), Keyana Holmes (11), Francis Kasten (12), Lillian Malca (11), Hayley Mancini (11), Sam Maust (11), Reese Ostlund (11), Zeke Reid (12), Shelby Riggleman (12), Naomi Shafer (12), Brandon Smith (11), Laurel Smith (12), Nora Swartley (11), Nora von Rotz (12), and Joe Yang (12)

13-14 Swimmers: Tommy Bill (14), Rachael Bing (14), Rebecca Couric (14), Isaac Eberly (13), Tessa Gorby (14), Alison Hooke (13), Jozelyn Kann (13), Madison Keller (14), and Albert Krasheninnikov (13) 

15/Older Swimmers: Molly Beckwith (15), Lydia Couric (15), Jackson Curry (16), Graham DeVito (17), Zoe Deeble (16), Sarah Dunham (16), Aiden Dupuis (18), Kaleb Erb (15), Zachary Erb (17), Mia Flory (16), Noah Gabriele (16), Phineas Kasten (17), Dylan King (16), Cole Martin (16), Marshall Smith (16), Will St. John (17), Isaac Wenger (16), and Alexia Wright (17) 

 

316 of our swimmers placed in the top ten and 152 placed in the top three - WAY TO GO!! 

There were 39 new motivational cuts achieved from B through AAA.  Those swims and swimmers are called out below.  Great job to all of our swimmers!