In the aftermath of the Super Bowl, we now can set our focus on the high school swim season, because we know you all are ready for the home stretch.

It is hard to believe, however, there are only 26 days until the District 2 Championships. And, that event, which had been in peril, set a tentative site and dates with of course weather and COVID-19 permitting.

Delaware Valley High School is the host for this season. The Wyoming Valley CYC could not accommodate the event this season because of the COVID-19 restrictions, so the District 2 Committee landed Delaware Valley and its huge campus and venue.

The District 2 Diving Championships will remain at the Wyoming Valley CYC.

DATES

FEBRUARY 27: District 2 Diving Championships at Wyoming Valley CYC.

MARCH 6-7: District 2 Class 3A and Class 2A Championships at Delaware Valley High School.

NOTE: If weather impacts the dates, the meet will be conducted virtually.

District 2 Swimming Championships relocate to Delaware Valley High School

 

The District 2 Swimming Championships will have a new home this season.

During a teleconference Thursday afternoon, the District 2 Committee approved a motion to move the championships to Delaware Valley High School in Milford to help conduct the event in person while adhering to

COVID-19 guidelines for indoor activities.

Normally, the meets are held at the Wyoming Valley Catholic Youth Center in Wilkes-Barre, a public facility that withdrew from hosting this year’s event because of the pandemic. The committee also considered an offer from Keystone Aquatics Center to host the event at its facility in Carlisle.

 

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Delaware Valley’s Sierra Gillan.
TIMES-TRIBUNE FILE

A LOOK BACK

Dunmore’s Maddie Healey.
Photo by Jake Danna Stevens

MADDIE HEALEY | DUNMORE

2020 ALL-REGION SELECTION

POOL RECORDS

Then, Lakeland’s Peter Kawash set a pair of pool records at the West Scranton Intermediate School Pool. He raced past marks established by a pair of athletes who competed at the NCAA Division I level after high school.

Peter Kawash
LAKELAND

• 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: Peter Kawash (Lakeland) 1:56.47; old mark, Bill Roehl (AH), 1997 1:59.42

NOTE: Rohel went on to swim at Bowling Green.

• 100 BACKSTROKE: Peter Kawash (Lakeland) 53.13; old mark, Corey Welch (WVW), 2000, 56.36.

NOTE: Welch went on to swim at the University of Florida.

The Valley View Cougars girls team also had a pool record to their credit at the same meet. The team of Camdyn Jervis, Molly Hubal, Della Noon, Lily Nemeth set a pool record at West Scranton Intermediate School in 1:47.26 in the 200 Free Relay.

From left to right Camdyn Jervis, Molly Hubal, Della Noon, Lily Nemeth.

2021 STANDINGS

OK, we are into the meat of the schedule. And I think everyone knows what is ahead.

SCRANTON PREP AT DELAWARE VALLEY

THURSDAY, 4:30 PM

NOTE: The Scranton Prep girls have won 39 straight Lackawanna League dual meets, while the Delaware Valley boys program has a record of 108-2 in the Lackawanna League since it started in 2007.

Scranton Prep’s Lauren Schofield competes in the 100 yard breaststroke event at the annual Leslie Richards Swimming Championships at Scranton High School on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.
Christopher Dolan / Staff Photographer

LACKAWANNA LEAGUE

NOTE: Valley View Cougars girls have won 13 straight dual meets dating back to last season.

THIS WEEK

TODAY, FEBRUARY 8

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Elk Lake at Delaware Valley

West Scranton’s Victoria Watkins.
Photo by Jason Farmer

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Dunmore at Abington Heights

Holy Cross at West Scranton

Dunmore vs. Holy Cross (virtual)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Valley View at Scranton

Scranton Prep at Delaware Valley

Scranton Prep vs. Valley View (virtual)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Elk Lake at West Scranton

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

WINNING TIMES

Again, we are tracking the winning times in races from dual meets held this week. There has been some confusion. This is not a ranking of best times in the league. That would be a monumental task each week and requires all recorded times from each race, which is extremely time consuming.

These are only times from athletes who win races or swim exhibition because their teams don’t compete in the dual meet.

200 Medley Relay
Valley View (Nemeth, Jervis, Chiricos, E. Hubal) 1:58.85
Delaware Valley (S. Gillan, Ristaino, Hartmann, Weinreb) 2:01.02
Delaware Valley (M. Gillan, S. Gillan, Hartmann, Corcoran) 2:04.96
Dunmore (Healey, Sheets, Aydin, Alunni) 2:08.15
Abington Heights (Bannon, Brock, Davidock, Flowers) 2:22.92
Abington Heights (Bannon, Brock, Walko, Flowers) 2:24.78

Delaware Valley’s Victoria Corcoran.
Sean McKeag / Staff Photographer

200 Free
Victoria Corcoran (DV) 2:13.26
Molly Kawash (LAK) 2:14.58
Julia Weinreb (DV) 2:16.22
Aubrey Mangan (WS) 2:16.64
Aubrey Mangan (WS) 2:19.03
Kirsten Kreiter (WAL) 2:31.76
Jessie Noldy (EL) 2:32.77
Kailey Rillstone (AH) 2:53.78

200 IM
Maddie Healey (DUN) 2:20.38
Nicole Chiricos (VV) 2:24.67
Abby Brock (AH) 2:27.96
Sierra Hartmann (DV) 2:29.04
Madison Gillan (DV) 2:30.57
Brenna Decker (EL) 2:41.12

50 Free
Sierra Gillan (DV) 25.61
Molly Hubal (VV) 26.16
Abby Brock (AH) 26.51
Katie Alunni (DUN) 29.2
Julia Weinreb (DV) 27.85
Kate Augustine (HC) 32.54

Diving
Victoria Watkins (WS) 239.9
Victoria Watkins (WS) 213.95
Victoria Willson (DV) 178.25,
Victoria Willson (DV) 172.5
Dalia Ofalt (EL) 159.6
Abigail Kirtley (AH) 138.2

100 Fly
Sierra Gillan (DV) 1:01.86
Sierra Hartmann (DV) 1:05.38
Hailey O’Leary (VV) 1:09.00
Abby Brock (AH) 1:17.07
Isabella Aydin (DUN) 1:17.29
Cadence DeGregory (EL) 1:26.81

Lily Nemeth
VALLEY VIEW

100 Free
Lily Nemeth (VV) 57.71
Julia Weinreb (DV) 1:01.14
Maura Sheets (DUN) 1:02.15
Julia Weinreb (DV) 1:02.22
Erin Voda (EL) 1:04.12
Autumn Niemic (HC) 1:09.44

500 Free
Victoria Corcoran (DV) 6:00.4
Abby Brock (AH) 6:05.05
Sarah Naylor (VV) 6:16.41
Madison O’Donnell (LAK) 6:20.47
Anaya Ruiz (DV) 6:20.74
Phoebe Davidock (AH) 7:00.33
Payton Gallagher (WS) 7:07.9
Abigail Lopez (WAL) 7:52.07

200 Free Relay
Valley View (Jervis, M. Hubal, Noon, Nemeth) 1:47.26
Delaware Valley (Weinreb, M. Gillan, Ristaino, Hartmann) 1:51.31
Delaware Valley (Ristaino, Weinreb, L. Fuchs, O’Connell) 1:53.76
Elk Lake (Noldy, Bauman, Decker, Voda) 2:00.94
Wallenpaupack (Passenti, Keane, Olsson, Peppiatt) 2:06.13
Abington Heights (Bannon, Kirtley, Davidock, Brock) 2:07.31
Dunmore (Santarsiero, Escobar, Sheets, Alunni) 2:08.13

100 Back
Maddie Healey (DUN) 1:01.11
Sierra Gillan (DV) 1:02.71
Sierra Gillan (DV) 1:03.31
Camdyn Jervis (VV) 1:08.84
Madison O’Donnell (LAK) 1:11.55
Autumn Niemic (HC) 1:19.86
Jessie Noldy (EL) 1:20.46

100 Breast
Molly Hubal (VV) 1:14.00
Alexis Ristaino (DV) 1:14.52
Alexis Ristaino (DV) 1:16.51
Aubrey Mangan (WS) 1:21.25
Rylie Heusner (HC) 1:25.13
Katie Alunni (DUN) 1:26.32
Phoebe Davidock (EL) 1:32.22

400 Free Relay
Delaware Valley (S. Gillan, Hartmann, O’Connell, Corcoran) 4:12.99
Delaware Valley (Weinreb, Hartmann, Corcoran, S. Gillan) 4:17.99
Valley View (O’Leary, Naylor, Connor, Zambetti) 4:38.16
Elk Lake (Decker, Bauman, Noldy, Voda) 4:34.92
Dunmore (Aydin, Marichak, Healey, Blockberger) 4:39.58
Holy Cross (Wasko, Takach, Niemic, Heusner) 4:47.48

BOYS

200 Medley Relay
Delaware Valley (Holderith, Santiago, Dong, Naturale) 1:49.5
Delaware Valley (Matyushin, Santiago, Holderith, Dong) 1:56.19
Abington Heights (Lear, Guditus, Boersma, Vale) 1:58.29
Valley View (Langel, Fontanella, Schack, Duffield) 2:03.25
Abington Heights (Brown, Lear, Boersma, Guditus) 2:04.63

Elk Lake’s Kevin Noldy.

200 Free
Kevin Noldy (EL) 1:57.59
Evan Dong (DV) 2:03.68
Robert Holderith (DV) 2:05.49
Adam Vale (AH) 2:06.22
Nathan Micknick (LAK) 2:10.32
Damian Jenkins (VV) 2:23.78

200 IM
Peter Kawash (LAK) 1:56.47
Lucas Santiago (DV) 2:12.16
Robert Holderith (DV) 2:20.38
Quinn Grosvenor (EL) 2:32.44
Aaron Fontanella (VV) 2:34.79
Geoffrey Brock (AH) 2:53.18

HUNTER VARGO
Wallenpaupack

50 Free
Hunter Vargo (WAL) 23.29
Kevin Noldy (EL) 23.49
Austin Langel (VV) 24.24
Nico Spataro (LAK) 24.59
Corey Mayer (SCR) 26.34
Will Roever (HC) 28.28

Diving
Zachary Madewell (DV) 165.55
Steven Rizzo (DV) 138.75
James Reese (AH) 133.4
Mark Nzasi (AH) 132.2

100 Fly
Robert Holderith (DV) 59.54
Robert Holderith (DV) 1:00.5
Quinn Grosvenor (EL) 1:03.24
Zachary Boersma (AH) 1:04.47
Luke Schack (VV) 1:07.15

100 Free
Lucas Santiago (DV) 51.44
Evan Dong (DV) 52.58
Austin Langel (VV) 55.97
Nico Spataro (LAK) 56.17
Nathan Micknick (LAK) 57.61
Jackson Lincoln (EL) 1:01.01
Bryan Lear (AH) 1:01.24

500 Free
Lucas Santiago (DV) 5:32.58
Kevin Guditus (AH) 6:00.92
Adam Vale (AH) 6:21.48
Alexander Corcoran (DV) 6:49.94
Luke Schack (VV) 7:24.03

KEVIN GUDITUS
Abington Heights

200 Free Relay
Delaware Valley (Naturale, Ciralli, Manning, O’Connell) 1:43.45
Delaware Valley (Santiago, O’Connell, Manning, Sussman) 1:43.97
Abington Heights (Lear, Boersma, Vale, Guditus) 1:47.1
Abington Heights (Vale, Boersma, Lear, Guditus) 1:50.6
Valley View (Langel, Schack, Jenkins, Fontanella) 1:51.21

100 Back
Peter Kawash (LAK) 53.13
Jacob Schultz (WS) 1:10.15
Dan Matyushin (DV) 1:12.41
Hudson Brown (AH) 1:15.03
Hudson Brown (AH) 1:16.97
Scott Sussman (DV) 1:20.37

100 Breast
Rory Naturale (DV) 1:08.34
Lucas Santiago (DV) 1:09.04
Luke Healey (HC) 1:12.15
Bryan Lear (AH) 1:16.68
Aaron Fontanella (VV) 1:19.58

400 Free Relay
Delaware Valley (Santiago, Ciralli, Sussman, Dong) 3:51.54
Delaware Valley (O’Connell, Sussman, Holderith, Dong) 3:51.9
Elk Lake (Grosvenor, Lincoln, Shields, Noldy) 3:58.69
Abington Heights (Takehara, Brown, Brock, Vale) 4:22.82