Bishop Moore Men’s and Woman’s Swimming came together on Saturday October 31^st  at Trinity Aquatic Center for their District Championship Meet.  Loading the bus before the sun came up they headed to the pool ready to show us fast swimming. Members on both the men’s and woman’s team showed us in the morning some great swims and it showed going into finals.

Finals started with the 200 Meadly Relay.  The girls were led off by senior Christina Garcia in the backstroke, Callie Rosemeyer (So) in the breastroke, Alison Herlitzka (So) in the Fly and Morgan Moriarty (Jr) in the freestyle and finished 4^th with a time of 2:12.07.  The boys team also put up a great swim and finished 6^th in the same event.  Daniel Guzman(Sr), Daniel Craig (Jr), Henry DeMaso (Sr) and Ryan Huhn (Jr) swam the relay in a time of 2:00.85.

            The 200 freestyle was the next event and Callie Rosemeyer (So) had an personal best with a time of 2:22.98 and ended up touching out the swimmer next to her and moved up one spot to finish 15^th overall.  Ilya Monico (Jr) and Colin Osterndorf (Jr) also had personal bests in the event and finished with a time of 2:08.5 and 2.11.9 respectively.  Ilya finshed 13^th and Colin finished 15^th overall in the 200 yard freestyle’s.

            The woman’s 200 IM was lead by sophomore Joyce Zabala, and juniors Jake Valley and Gavin Oakley.  Even though Joyce looks like she in slow motion when she is swimming, she led her heat the entire way!  She finished 11^th overall with a best time of 2:46.00.  Jake also had a great race during his head and touched out the competitor in the lane next to him to win his heat.  He finished 9^th overall with a time of 2:20.08.  Gavin finished 6^th overall and qualified for district while swimming his race in a time of 2:16.8.

            The fastest event in swimming is the 50 freestyle and the fastest Hornets swam it in style.  Morgan Moriarty (Jr) and caption Christina Garcia (Sr) both had great times and finished 12^th and 16^th overall.  Morgan finished her race in a time of 28.8 and Christina snuck in there with a time 31.2.  Seniors Will Sovern and Daniel Guzman swam next to each other and push themselves to finish in 26.10 and 26.96 and finished 13^th and 14^th respectively.  Ben Mix, a senior and caption, swam the 50 free with HORNET pride and finished his race six tenths of a second ahead of everyone else in a time of 23.25 and exited the water as a DISTRICT CHAMPITION.

            The HORNETS continued swimming fast times as the meet went on.  Madison Faller (Jr) swam a best time in the morning during the 100 fly in a time of 1:20.40 and placed 15^th overall after her evening swim in the finals.  Sophomore Alison Herlizka was ready swim when she stepped on the block and showed us an impressive swim of 1:03.57 which placed her forth overall and qualified her for regional champs next weekend at Lake Highland!  Seniors Peter Simon and caption Henry DeMaso also swam impressive times in the 100 fly.  Peter finished 11^th overall with a time of 1:04.5 and Henry finished 13^th with a time of 1:08.0.

            The second fastest event in swimming was lead by many of the swimming Hornets.  The lady Hornets swam with grace and Amanda LaPorte (Jr) impressed us all by swimming a 1:06.59 and finishing 16^th overall.  Morgan Moriarty (Jr) had a good swim by finishing 15^th with a time of 1:05.78 but Sophomore Callie Rosemeyer took them both by surprise and touched them out from the other side of the pool.  Callie finished 14^th at the district championships by swimming a 1:05.7.  The boys were Ryan Huhn (Jr), Gavin Oakley (Jr) and Ben Mix (Sr) that made waves in the 100 freestyle.  Ryan swam his race in a time of 57.28 seconds and placed 12^th overall.  Both Ben and Gavin qualified for districts in the event by placing 3^rd and 7^th overall in the times of 52.2 and 54.81 respectively.

Everyone’s favorite event, the 500 free was next and freshman Stephanie Zwicker was super excited to represent the girls.  Even though we couldn’t find the lap counter for the first half of her race, she swam her best time by over 9 seconds!! She finished 16^th overall with a time 6:42.6.  Juniors Ilya Monico and Jake Valley represented the boys. Jake placed 10^th with a time of 5:32.05 and after swimming a best time in the morning of 5:44.32, Ilya finished his second event of the day 14^th overall.

The HORNETS were getting excited for the 200 freestyle relay.  The ladies finished 6^th with a time of 2:00.02.  They ladies who swam were Alison Herlitzka (So) lead of the team followed by Christina Garcia (Sr), Madison Faller (Jr) and Morgan Moriarty(Jr).  The boys were pumped up and ready to swam fast.  Junior Gavin Oakley lead off the team followed by Peter Simon (Sr), Jake Valley(Jr) and Ben Mix (Sr) had the entire team standing at the end of the lane for their swim.  They finished 3^rdoverall, our highest placing relay, and swam it in a blistering time of 1:37.60.

The 100 yard backstroke was swam by Christina Garcia (Sr) and Joyce Zabala (So) who raced next to each other and placed 10^th and 11^th respectively.  Christina swam her backstroke in a time of 1:15.32 and Joyce was right behind her with a 1:16.31.  The boys were represented by Daniel Guzman (Sr) and Ryan Huhn (Jr) who placed 13^th and 14^th in their events also with close times.  Daniel swam his race in 1:10.05 and directly behind him Ryan finished his race in a time of 1:10.81.

Breastroke has many HORNETS representing.  Junior caption finished her 100 breastoke 15^th in a time of 1:29.22 and Alison Herlitzka qualified for regional team with her 5^th place swim of 1:14.91.  The boys were lead by Junior Daniel Craig and Sophomore Blake Wagner in this event.  Daniel had another best time of 1:12.45 and placed 11^th and Blake 15^th place swim was a 1:18.47.

The most exciting relays of the evening were at the end of the long, hot day. Ashley Schafer (Fr) lead off the girls 400 freestyle relay with a time of 1:10.4 and Madison Faller (Jr) followed her into the water and finished her leg of the relay in a time of 1:08.2.  Amanda LaPorte (Jr) was 3^rd off the blocks and swam 1:07.3 during her leg.  Even though she was last, she was not the least, Callie Rosemeyer (So) had the fastest leg of the day with a time of 1:06.84 and the relay finished 4^th overall at districts with a time of 4:31.7 bettering their morning swim by 15 seconds.  The last swims of the day were by Ben Mix (Sr), Jake Valley (Jr), Peter Simon (Sr) and Gavin Oakley (Jr).  Ben started the relay off with a great time of 51.9, Jake followed that up with a 54.5, Peter was third off the blocks and swam a 55.6 and Gavin finished it off with a time of 52.95.  They finished 3^rd overall in this relay with a time of 3:35.21 bettering their morning swim by over 4 seconds!

 Bishop Moore Swimming represented themselves well at the 2009 District Championships with many great swims in both the prelims and finals.  When the final results posted the boys swim team was 4^th with 211 points behind Lake Highland, Trinity Prep and Cocoa Beach. The girls were 5^th with 153 points behind Cocoa Beach, Trinity, Lake Highland and Edgewood.  We have all of our relays and many individual events moving onto regional champs this weekend at Lake Highland Prep School.