CONGRATULATIONS 
Congratulations to former Dolphin swimmer Victoria Lederer for being named an All-American in the 200 Breaststroke and the 400 I.M. for her performance at the NCAA Division III National Championship held at Miami University of Ohio on March 13 - 15, 2008.  Victoria is a member of the Kenyon College Ladies Swim Team, Division III 2008 National Champions.
 

CONGRATULATIONS 
Gold level swimmer Danny Flynn recently signed a national letter of intent to swim his 2008 freshmen year of college at Division I Virginia Tech.  We are proud of Danny and wish him well.

Danny will be joining other recent Dolphin graduates who have gone on to swim at the college level.  Some of these swimmers include:

            Joe Maloy – Senior and swim team captain at Boston College.

            Amy Wuko – Junior at Montclair State.

            Brian Namiotka – Freshmen at University of Maryland (water polo).

            John Maloy – Freshmen at Boston College.

            Michael Tompkins – Freshmen at University of Pennsylvania.

SCHOLASTIC ALL AMERICANS NAMED
The Wildwood Crest Dolphin Swim Team is pleased to announce that John Maloy and Michael Tompkins have been named to the Scholastic All American Team by the United States Swimming Association.  John and Michael qualified for the team by achieving a qualification time and participating in the 2006 Spring Sectional Meet held at the United States Naval Academy as well as maintaining at least a 3.5 grade point average.  We congratulate these swimmers.

MA FALL CLASSIC at University of Delaware
Two ladies and four gentlemen travelled to the University of Delaware to swim in the first meet of the swim season.  Greta Reichert, Victoria Lederer, John Maloy, Danny Flynn, Matt Krobatsch, and Michael Tompkins tested the waters under the coaching skills of Mr. McGrody.  Swimmers had to achieved a qualifying time to participate.  Although few personal bests were attained at the meet swimmers give it their all and continue to train hard.

WINTERBLIZZARD 2005 Jersey Wahoos at GCIT Jan. 8-9
While a smaller contingent attended this meet those who did made up for their numbers with impressive performances. Impressive certainly describes the performance of Grace Lederer, Grace had 9 personal best times and 3 of those were her first “A” times. Nicole McCullen had 8 personal bests and averaged over 4 second drops in each of those events. Shannon McGann averaged over an 8.6 seconds drop in each of her three events. The 500 free events had our swimmers dropping major chunks of time Bethany Desmond 7.96 seconds, Christine Casiello 13.37, Kayla Reidenbach 25.07, and Kelsey Hammell 27.64 seconds.  All that distance work at practice paid off.  Overall the team registered 61% personal best times. This is all the more impressive coming quickly after the State meet showing. Great job as usual by the Dolphins.

Jersey Storm State Meet at GCIT Dec. 18-19
The State meet held at GCIT gave an opportunity for the Dolphins to register some impressive times and individual scores. Adam Vaul and Rachel Wuko placed second in their respective age groups in scoring. Adam amassed 163 points while Rachel scored  151. There were a number of other swimmers who had impressive point totals Tara Wuko 129, Bethany Desmond 113, Maddy Petersen 108, Grace Lederer 73, Aubrey Zalesny 49, Kyle Devore 44, Brian Musso 42, Kayla Reidenbach 42, Susan Boswell 41, and Kelsey Hammell 40, Patrick Namiotka 38, Jackson Rogers 38, Christine Casiello 37, Genee Voumard 26, Zach Bischoff 26, John Malloy 25, Amy Wuko 24, Nicole Mc Cullen 22, Allison Tice 18, Trevor Gehring 18, Billy Depaul 15, Billy Kelly 3, and Danielle Sharkey 3.

Overall the team had 65 percent personal best times. One of the more impressive races by Dolphin swimmers was the 9-10 year old girls 200 freestyle Rachel Wuko, Bethany Desmond, and Grace Lederer were all in the final heat with Rachel and Bethany placing first and third respectively. Coach Namiotka put in marathon days juggling swimmers in both pools. Thanks to coaches Patrice and Bobi for their efforts.

TYR Cup Trident Meet at Franklin and Marshall December 10-12
A small but powerful group of Dolphins participated in this highly competitive meet. The group made the finals in 15 events. 62 %of the races resulted in personal best times. The group was made up of Danny Flynn, Mike Tompkins, Matt Krobatsch, Greta Reichert, and Victoria Lederer. Victoria had a great performance in the 1650 free cutting 17.61 from her already impressive time. Danny Flynn made it to the finals in all 8 of his events.

Veteran’ Day A/BB/C Meet at GCIT
The team registered 52% personal best times at the meet. While this alone is an impressive number on top of the great showing in October, there were a number of double-digit second drops. Zach Bischoff 16.97 sec. in 500 free, Victoria Bischoff 14.90 sec. in 200 free, Chrissie Casiello 14.24 sec. in 500 free, Kelsey Hammel 12.48 sec. in 200 free, Marti Hammel 18.54 sec. in 200 free, William Kelly 10.58 sec. in 100 IM, Jason Krobatsch 16.55 sec. in 100 breast and 12.39 sec. in 100 IM, Greta Reichert 11.63 sec. in 200 breast, 16.82 sec. in 500 free and 31.45 sec. in 400 IM, Danielle Sharkey 43.89 sec. in 500 free, Tara Wuko 19.18 sec. in 500 free, Aubrey Zalesny 23.35 sec. in 400 IM and 26.99 sec. in 500 free. While all of these swimmers should be proud of their accomplishments the times of Aubrey Z, Danielle S and Greta R, are truly outstanding improvements. In addition to these achievements Daniel Flynn had an amazing meet. He placed first in 6 of 8 events. Greta Reichert achieved her personal best in 9 of 10 events and missed the 10^th by .25 seconds. Kyle Devore did his personal best in 8 0f 10 events and averaged improving by 3.58 seconds in each event. It was a great job again by the whole team.
 

MA Top Ten
While the Dolphins may be a relatively small team we are well represented on the MA top ten lists. Rachel Wuko 9^th, 200 Free; Greta Reichert 4th, 1650 Free; Danny Flynn 7^th 100 Back, 5^th 200 Back, 9^th 200 Breast, 8^th 200 IM; Victoria Lederer 4^th 1650 Free, Michael Tompkins 10^th 100 Fly, 10^th 200 Fly. In addition Bethany Desmond’s 500 Free time at the Storm meet would have merited 6^th place if posted. This is a great start for our swimmers. The coaches and swimmers deserve our congratulations.

OCTOBERFEST 2004 at GCIT
Although it was the first meet of the year 29 Dolphins recorded 126 personal best times. This was a rate of 57%. Nine swimmers achieved personal best in 5 or more events. (Zach Bischoff 5, Bethany Desmond 7, Kyle Devore 9, Morgan Kelly 7, Grace Lederer 9, Greta Reichert 6, Morgan Scully 7, Danielle Sharkey 5, Aubrey Zalesny 7.) Victoria Lederer and Greta Reichert dominated their respective age groups in the challenging 1650 freestyle recording AAA level times of 17:53.14 and 18:21.16. This was
Greta’s first attempt at this distance. The senior level swimmers showed they are focused toward the upcoming high school and elite meets. All of the swimmers did a great job.  Both coach McGrody and Namiotka were pleased with the results but plan on increasing the intensity and focus towards future meets.