North Allegheny Sweeps WPIAL AAA Boys and Girls Swimming Gold Again

By: HSSN Staff
Friday, February 28, 2014 | 1:51 PM

For the third straight year and for the fifth time in six years, North Allegheny can tell a golden ‘tail’ about the WPIAL Swimming Championships. The Tigers girls teams cruised to their sixth straight WPIAL team swimming championship while the boys team edged Upper St. Clair to capture a third straight title and the teams eighth in the last nine years. Here are the final team standings and the Day Two results from Trees Pool at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday in Class AAA.

North Allegheny under first year head coach and long time assistant Patrick Wensel can not be stopped in AAA swimming. In girls it was over before it started in the second day of competition They easily defeated Mt Lebanon by 278 points. For the boys it wasn’t decided till late in the session. They would win with point on the last boys solo event the Breaststroke as Junior Casey Melzer’s Gold medal sealed the deal.

There were a few new WPIAL records set today as well. In the Girls 100 yard freestyle  North Allegheny’s Katie Ford set a new record with a 50.63. Jacquelyn Du of North Allegheny set a new record in the girls 100 yard back stroke with a 54.20 beating her record she set last year. Upper St Clair’s Ryan Dudzinski broke a record set by his brother Kyle in 2011 in the boys 100 yard backstroke with a 48.35. Finally in the Girls 400 yard freestyle relay North Allegheny set a new record with a 3:26.41 beating last years record.

FINAL GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS

1. N. Allegheny 471

2. Mt. Lebanon 189

3. Oakland Catholic 183

4. Latrobe 181

5. USC 179

FINAL BOYS TEAM STANDINGS

1. N. Allegheny 373.5

2. USC 364

3. Mt. Lebanon 235

4. Hempfield 149

5. Franklin Regional 126

GIRLS 100 YD FREESTYLE

1. Katie Ford – Mt. Lebanon 50.63 WPIAL Record

2. Monica Sowinski – Latrobe

3. Morgan Soulia – N. Allegheny

4. Lauren McGrath – N. Allegheny

5. Victoria Shaffer – USC

BOYS 100 YD FREESTYLE

1. Brian Lovasik – North Hills 45.36

2. Alex Hardwick – USC

3. Norman Gregory – Penn Hills

T4. Mitchel Stahara – Bethel Park

T4. Max Staresinic – N. Allegheny

GIRLS 500 YD FREESTYLE

1. Kathryn Painter – Norwin 4:56.48

2. Saoirse Palu-Benson – Peters Twp

3. Gianna Caputo – N. Allegheny

4. Lexi Kostelnik – Laurel Highlands

5. Jade Song – N. Allegheny

BOYS 500 YD FREESTYLE

1. Sam Rutan – N. Allegheny 4:30.33

2. Zachary Buerger – N. Allegheny

3. Fynn Minuth – USC

4. Neal Smith – Central Catholic

5. Spencer Tretter – Seneca Valley

GIRLS 100 YD BACKSTROKE

1. Jacqueline Du – N. Allegheny 54.20 WPIAL Record

2. Alyssa Ruffing – Franklin Regional

3. Kayla Churman – N. Allegheny

4. Meghan Schilken – Mt. Lebanon

5. Charlie Brickner – N. Allegheny

BOYS 100 YD BACKSTROKE

1. Ryan Dudzinski – USC 48.35 WPIAL Record

2. Greg Arnold – N. Allegheny

3. Andrei Mihailescu – Mt. Lebanon

4. Braedon Wong – USC

5. Kevin Liu – USC

GIRLS 100 YD BREASTSTROKE

1. Katie Fernander – Hampton 1:03.20

2. Kayla Owens – Latrobe

3. Erin Kuhn – N. Allegheny

4. Amanda Kedzierski – Hempfield

5. Peyton Kondis – Oakland Catholic

BOYS 100 YD BREASTSTROKE

1. Casey Melzer – N. Allegheny 56.67

2. Jack Lanphear – Mt. Lebanon

3. Tyler Stevenson – Franklin Regional

4. Brian Ramsey – Mt. Lebanon

5. Tomos Williams – USC

GIRLS 400 YD FREESTYLE RELAY

1. N. Allegheny  (Jacqueline Du, Lauren McGrath, Kayla Churman, Morgan Soulia)  3:26.41 WPIAL Record

2. Latrobe

3. Mt. Lebanon

4. Upper St.Clair

5. Peters Township

BOYS 400 YD FREESTYLE RELAY

1. Upper St.Clair  (Alex Hardwick, Patrick Lersch, Fynn Minuth, Ryan Dudzinski)  3:03.63 WPIAL Record

2. North Allegheny

3. Mt. Lebanon

4. Seneca Valley

5. Hempfield