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Meredith Griffin

Tanner Lange, of the YMCA Westside Silver Fins Diving Team (Valley of the Sun YMCA), won the USA National High Dive Championship and will compete in the World Championships in Brazil in October. Congratulations and good luck to Tanner!

Meredith Griffin

Congratulations to Coach Mary Korey, head coach of the Greater Somerset County YMCA, on being named the Head Women's Coach of the U.S. team competing in the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Canberra, Australia on Aug. 21-24. Congratulations also to Leah Shackley of the Blair Regional YMCA in Pennsylvania, and Sam Lorenz of the Schroeder YMCA in Wisconsin, for being named to the team. Leah will swim 100 and 200 Backstroke. Sam will swim 100 Backstroke.

Bob Turner

YMCA swimmers and alums have performed admirably at the U.S. Swimming time trials in Indianapolis. Several have reached the ultimate goal of making the 2024 U.S. swim team. We congratulate: Jack Alexy - Greater Somerset County YMCA (NJ) - 100 Freestyle, 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay; Hunter Armstrong - Tuscarawas County YMCA (OH) - 100 Backstroke, 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay; Matt Fallon - Greater Somerset County YMCA (NJ) - 200 Breaststroke (American record); Chris Guiliano - Pottstown YMCA (PA) - 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 4 x 100...

Martin Scheidl

Get ready for the 2024 Olympic trials in Indianapolis! It's exciting to see so many YMCA swimmers achieving this top level. For the latest information about the trials event go to this link: https://www.usaswimming.org/about-usas/resources/trials 2024 Olympic Trial Qualifiers and Paralympic Qualifiers with YMCA Roots Swimmer Name Club LSC Events Daniel Diehl YMCA of Cumberland MD 6 Brendan Burns UMLY PA 5 Thomas Heilman Cavalier Aquatics/ Piedmont Family YMCA VA 5 Ryan Held Springfield YMCA IL 5 Paige Hetrick Bradford Family YMCA PA 5 Grant House Mid-Eastern YMCA OH 5 Leah...