WPIAL Swimming Championships – Class AA Day Two Results

By: HSSN Staff
Saturday, February 21, 2015 | 9:37 PM

A snow storm hit Western Pennsylvania on Saturday morning but that didn’t stop the participants in the Boys and Girls WPIAL AA Swimming Championships  at the University of Pittsburgh. In front of a packed house at Joseph C. Trees Pool the second day of the championships were held.

{Left: Members of Shady Side Academy girls swim team celebrate in pool after claiming their first WPIAL title}

Continuing with their start on Friday the Shady Side Academy Girls and the Quaker Valley boys were up to the challenge and held on to their leads to each win a WPIAL team championship. Shady Side who only led by 18 points coming into the day won going away with a dominant performance beating Derry by 92 points, 288-196. Their win in the Girls 400 yard freestyle relay capped off the afternoon.

Quaker Valley had a 22.5 point lead over Laurel Highlands entering Saturday. They ended the day setting a new WPIAL record in the boys 400 yard freestyle relay. Beating a 5 year old record the Quakers posted a 3:12.62 to put an emphasis on their title.  The Quakers beat out 2nd place West Allegheny by a score of  275- 215.5                     .

Only one other new WPIAL record was set in the AA portion of the event. In the first event of the morning Emily Zimcosky of Geibel beat her record she set last year by  2/10th’s of a second with a 50.52 in the Girls 100 yard Freestyle. She had previously set a new WPIAL record yesterday in the 50 yard freestyle.

GIRLS FINAL TEAM STANDINGS

1. Shady Side Academy  288
2. Derry 196
3. Quaker Valley 186
4. South Fayette 165
5. Indiana 149

GIRLS 100 YARD FREESTYLE

1. Emily Zimcosky, Geibel  50.52 (WPIAL RECORD)
2. Taylor Petrak, Ellwood City
3. Maddie Bartug, South Fayette
4. Allison Brownlee,  Derry
5. Lindsey Grune, Shady Side Academy

GIRLS 500 YARD FREESTYLE

1. Bailey Bonnett, Highlands 4:56.73
2. Bria Otwell, Freeport
3. Caroline Colville, Shady Side Academy
4. Amelia Besterman, Quaker Valley
5. Maddy Andrews, Quaker Valley

GIRLS 100 YARD BACKSTROKE

1. Sabrina Bowman, St. Joseph 57.79
2. Ashley Azzarello, Shady Side Academy
3. Jessica Cochran, Yough
4. Erica King, Riverside
5. Sarah Noll, Ringgold

GIRLS 100 YARD BREASTSTROKE

1. Brooke Zukowski, Knoch 1:04.59
2. Abbie Jones, Knoch
3. Anna Paccapaniccia, Indiana
4. Erin Russoniello, Quaker Valley
5. Madison Nester, Yough

GIRLS 400 YARD FREESTYLE RELAY

1. Shady Side Academy 3:35.17
2. Blackhawk
3. South Fayette
4. Riverside
5. Indiana

BOYS FINAL TEAM STANDINGS

1. Quaker Valley 274
2. West Allegheny 215.5
3. Hampton 205.5
4. Mars 163
5. Indiana 160

BOYS 100 YARD FREESTYLE

1. Matt Ramsey,  Hampton 47.52
2. Cole Tipper, Cornell
3. Matthew Kwalick, Quaker Valley
4. Francis Folz, Mars
5. Brendan Leech, Shady Side Academy

BOYS 500 YARD FREESTYLE

1. Jarod Kehl, West Allegheny 4:36.30
2. Griffin Nincke, Quaker Valley
3. Breet Scheib, Hampton
4. Dan Williams, Hampton
5. EJ Eppinger, Winchester Thurston

BOYS 100 YARD BACKSTROKE

1. Logan Palochak, Hopewell 52.19
2. Ben Kocsis, Hampton
3. David Peffer, Riveside
4. Brendan Leech, Shady Side Academy
5. Michael Kocher, West Allegheny

BOYS 100 YARD BRESTSTROKE

1. John Wilson, Knoch 59.38
2. Kyle Hrabovsky, Quaker Valley
3. Austin Wittmer, Knoch
4. Grant Hess, Indiana
5. Colliln Hurley, Springdale

BOYS 400 YARD FREESTYLE RELAY

1. Quaker Valley 3:12.62 (WPIAL RECORD)
2. Hampton
3. West Allegheny
4. Mars
5. Indiana