Rich area for the throwers
Kyle Long and Kyle Felpel are the latest in a long line of top-shelf Lancaster County exports:Men and women who are really good at throwing heavy and/or cumbersome things a long way.The...
View ArticleSigning day is a good day for college athletics
So you're thinking that college sports are one big cesspool of greed and hypocrisy. You're thinking National Signing Day was nothing more than an ESPN-fueled festival of excess.You should have been...
View ArticleFamily's tragedy results in goal to educate about impact of traumatic...
Family's tragedy results in goal to educate about impact of traumatic brain ...Altoona MirrorDevin stayed busy, joining the Cambria Heights High School swim team during his freshman year, serving as a...
View ArticleRava rally lifts BBC to five straight wins - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Wilkes Barre Times-LeaderRava rally lifts BBC to five straight winsWilkes Barre Times-LeaderMarywood University, a first-year conference member in swimming only, will host the men's and women's...
View ArticleFresh talent keeps P-T swimmers afloat
Penn-Trafford's boys swimming and diving season perhaps could be summed by one record-breaking swim. Before the meet, coach Dave Babik gathered his team and declared that Christian McCurdy, his star...
View ArticleHigh-diver Tobias never afraid to freelance with other pier acts - Press of...
High-diver Tobias never afraid to freelance with other pier actsPress of Atlantic City"They had fashion shows by the swimming pools, and we'd entertain in between when the girls were off changing...
View ArticleEachus still harboring his own NFL dreams - Standard Speaker
Standard SpeakerEachus still harboring his own NFL dreamsStandard SpeakerA National Honor Society member and two-time Scotty Roman Award winner for the area's top scholar-athlete, Eachus was also a...
View ArticleWMPSSDL Championship: Katie Ledecky stars for Stone Ridge
“She’s on her way.” That’s how Bob Walker, the head coach of Stone Ridge’s swim team, describes his star freshman, Katie Ledecky. Instead of swimming at the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic...
View ArticleA Look Ahead to Olympics for Water Polo in February Issue of Swimming World...
Video Preview of February Issue PHOENIX, Arizona, February 5. IN the February issue of Swimming World Magazine, Emily Sampl previews the water polo action for the 2012 London Olympics. This su...
View ArticleNational Open of Montpellier: Femke Heemskerk Breaks Into Top Five in 100 Free
MONTPELLIER, France, February 5. THE final day of the National Open of Montpellier, a long course meter format meet this weekend, a handful of top swims went up on the scoreboard. Femke Heemskerk m...
View ArticleSwedish Grand Prix, Uppsala: Sarah Sjostrom Closes Strong Meet; Jennie...
UPPSALA, Sweden, February 5. THE two-day long course meter Swedish Grand Prix came to a close in Uppsala with another run of top five times in the early world rankings. Sarah Sjostrom started the s...
View ArticleTexas Bounces Back with Big Swims Against Aggies After Tornado Delay
After a scary start to the meet in College Station, with a tornado sighting near town delaying the meet for half-an-hour, the teams were able to hop in and swim the final Texas-Texas A&M...
View ArticleBattlefield defends Cedar Run titles
[Complete meet results available here] The Battlefield High School girls and boys successfully defended their Cedar Run District titles Friday night at the GMU-Freedom Aquatic Center in Manassas....
View ArticleBusy Weekend in Big 12 Swimming
By Lauren Sampl BOULDER, Colorado, February 5. MANY college teams closed out their dual meet schedules this weekend with a flurry of meets, as several Big 12 schools competed in multiple meets. Mea...
View ArticleMuffat Skips 100 Free, Foreshadows Trials Schedule, on Final Day in Montpellier
Most of the team from Olympic Nice, including Cammile Muffat, Yannick Agnel, and Clement Lefert, sat out the final day of the meet on Sunday presumably as a travel day home from the National circuit...
View ArticleManley goes out on top
Lucky 21 Not by a long shot. Watching Alyssa Manley play — and how she handles opponents — and you quickly realize that there is a lot of skill involved, and very little luck. Anchoring the center...
View ArticleNFHCA honors Bojanic
Julianne Bojanic said she was never an award-winning person. She said didn't earn all-state honors when she played at Hempfield. Even during a solid career at the University of Virginia, Bojanic added...
View Article24 players from L-L League earn statewide accolades
Lancaster-Lebanon League field hockey players continue to earn statewide recognition. A total of 10 players in Class AAA and three in Class AA were named to the 2011 Pennsylvania High School Field...
View ArticleHeated rivalry isn't cold yet
The Game of the Year in the Lancaster-Lebanon Boys' Basketball League had ended just minutes earlier Friday night, and McCaskey coach Steve Powell was not discounting the possibility that the Red...
View ArticleLance Armstrong to Swim at Spring Masters Nationals
The 2012 United States Masters Swimming Spring National Championships in April will be the first major, National swimming event to be hosted at the massive new 78,000 square foot Greensboro Aquatic...
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