Congratulations to the varsity swimming & diving team for bringing home another WMPSSDL Championship! Over the weekend, the team participated in the Washington Metropolitan Prep School Swimming and Diving League (WMPSSDL) Championship and finished with a 545-point victory! Upping their score from last year by 29 points, the Panthers were 363 points in front of the second-place finisher!
In the past eight years Holton has won this event seven times, including the last four in a row! In addition to winning the championship, Holton finished first in eight events. Sophie Duncan '22 set a new school record in the 200 IM with an automatic All-American time of 1:59.56. Other first-place finishes came from Tatum Zupnik '20 (50 Free), Ella Myers '22 (500 Free), and All-American consideration times from Jillian Johnson '20 (100 Fly) and Joyce Wu '23 (100 Breast), who also set a new school record of 1:03.78.
Holton's relay teams put up big numbers with wins in all three relay events: the 200 Medley (Johnson, Rachel Blackwell '20, Wu, and Valerie Mello '21), 200 Freestyle (Courtney Watts '23, Duncan, Tatum Zupnik '20, and Myers), and 400 Freestyle (Watts, Duncan, Myers, and Zupnik), which also finished with an All-American consideration time.
Coach Westerberg commented, "I am proud of the way our team responded this weekend. We had so much fun and it was great to see all of the fast swimming. I am happy for the kids. They deserve it; they work so hard day in and day out."
For more coverage of the win, check out the story in The Washington Post. Click here to check out the varsity swimming & diving page with the full year's schedule and results. Be sure to come cheer on the Panthers at the METRO Swim and Dive Championships this weekend at the Germantown Swim Center, and come out to Holton on Tues., Feb. 11, at 4 p.m. for the final swim meet of the year against Paul VI High School!