ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS SWIMMING AND DIVING
Sally Foley Named Easterns Women's Swimmer of the Meet Senior and Duke commit Sally Foley won the Women's Swimmer of the Meet award at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, marking the first time a PC female athlete has received the honor. Over the course of the weekend’s competition in the prestigious high school meet, Foley won the 100-meter breaststroke, setting a new pool record (1:00.81); won the 200 individual medley, breaking team, meet and pool records; and swam in two gold-medal relay teams.
Women's and Men's Swimmers of the Meet: Penn Charter's Sally Foley and Pennington's David Curtiss.
The PC girls dominated the relays at Easterns, swimming to first-place finishes in the 400 freestyle, 200 freestyle and 200 medley events. Seniors Sam Boyes and Gabby Lopez-Ona, junior Camille Weiss, sophomore Lane Murray and ninth grader Aisling Brady all shared in the victories. In individual competition, Lopez-Ona won the 100-yard butterfly, and Murray finished third in the same event. Boyes won silver in the 50 freestyle and bronze in the 100 freestyle, and Weiss won bronze in the 200 freestyle, posting a new team record in the process.
INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD
PC Runners Medal in City, State Championships The indoor track and field program wrapped up its season with several medal-winning performances in city and statewide competitions. At the PATFCA State Championships, PC’s girls distance medley relay team of (L-R) sophomore Julia Dolce, senior Sara Shipon, junior Peyton Parker and junior Emma Zwall took home the silver after finishing with a time of 12:11. Earlier in the season, the girls ran well at the Pennsylvania Public School Invitational, where the 4x800 relay team of Dolce, Shipon, Zwall and ninth grader Dani Shipon finished first with the second fastest time in the state this year (9:18). Dani Shipon also won the 800-meter outright. On the boys team, senior Patrick Fehm tied for first place in the high jump (6' 6") but won silver on misses; and senior Akeel Blake won bronze in the long jump (22' 11.25") at PATFCA. Both Quakers qualified for the state championships after finishing top-three in events at the TFCA Greater Philadelphia Meet of Champions, where Blake took bronze in the long jump and triple jump, and Fehm took silver in the triple jump and high jump.
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