Tuckahoe swimmers put in strong showing at divisional meet

The Tuckahoe Tigers added to what had already been a stellar championship summer swimming season with a strong performance at the six-team Division 1 postseason divisional meet.

Tuckahoe swimmers won 11 races, placed second in eight and finished third in 12 events at the Northern Virginia Swimming League meet. The Tigers entered the meet as the 2024 Division 1 regular season champions with a 5-0 record, as well as winners of the league’s All-Star Relay Carnival and Divisional Relays, aka the NVSL’s Triple Crown.

At the July 20 divisional meet, a qualifier for the All-Star Individual Meet, featuring only individual races and no relays, held at Overlee Pool in Arlington, Tuckahoe’s leaders were two-time race winners Daniel Klett and Andrew Pelaez.

Individual winners were Grant Nielsen, Hugo Haggard, Isaac Bell, Hunter Zipperer, Isabella Cota-Robles, Majorie Masantone and Catherine Hughes.

Bell, Vittoria Passos-Androvic twice, Kailin Gorelik, Kennedy Nielsen, Bella Spignardo, Liam Laudier and Maximilian Waisberg finished second for Tuckahoe. Nielsen, Waisberg, Mateo Edmunds, Lucas Lopez, Danielle Hughes, Hugh McFalls, Cormac Misantone, Caroline Van Riper, Victor Rodriguez, Gabi Rodrigues, Kyle Koay and Bruno Haggard finished third for the Tigers.

The Overlee Flying Fish and Donaldson Run Thunderbolts of Arlington each had eight winners at the meet, the Chesterbrook Tiger Sharks of McLean had seven and the Highlands Whomping Turtles of McLean had six.

Double winners for Overlee were Abigail Hartman and William Cravens. Single winners were Samantha Bravery, Sullivan Portner, Mary Pickens and Tyler Hong.

Rachel Conley was the only two-time winner for Donaldson Run. Other winners were Charlie Greenwood, Eleanor Wertzler, Nora Sherman, Avery Wishneff, Peter Madden and Anna Eliot.

For Chesterbrook, Mara Wilson won two awards. Individual winners were Emma Maher, Lily Wilson, Catherine Talbert, Ashley Shen and Cameron Parkhomenko.

The Highland winners were Gabriel Hanson, Beckett Roth, Rio Walther, Gillian Dent, Lucas Hanson and Evan Farley.