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Emma Hopkinson competes for Lewisburg within the ladies 200 IM throughout a highschool swim tri-meet at Williamsport on Tuesday. Hopkinson is Lewisburg’s sole district champion back from final 12 months’s staff.
Year in and 12 months out, Lewisburg at all times has a lot of swimmers standing on the rostrum on the District 4 championships on each days of competitors.
Last 12 months was no totally different, and greater than possible, this 12 months will likely be extra of the identical. It speaks to the expertise that the Lewisburg swim program continually has developing by its youth ranges and the Green Dragons return a lot of gifted swimmers who swam at districts final 12 months.
Emma Hopkinson is a junior this 12 months and is Lewisburg’s lone gold medalist from districts back. Hopkinson received a district medal within the 100 fly with a time of 59.98, shaving off two seconds and she or he was the one swimmer to interrupt a minute within the occasion.
Hopkinson additionally was a silver-medalist within the 100 free after she swam a time of 54.87, shaving two seconds off her seeded time. She trailed solely Bloomsburg’s Lucy Diehl by simply 0.30 seconds in a terrific race that got here all the way down to the wire.
Lewisburg brings back silver medalist Colin Shannon from final 12 months. Shannon was only a freshman and had a terrific first 12 months of varsity competitors. Shannon completed with a time of 1:50.84 and was behind solely Bloomsburg’s Grayson Reck, a then-sophomore, who swam a 1:48.62.
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Morgan Shannon competes for Lewisburg within the ladies 50 Freestyle throughout a highschool swim tri-meet at Williamsport on Tuesday.
Shannon additionally took silver within the 500 free in 4:58.63 and was behind solely Central Columbia’s Connor Morgan by roughly half a second.
Both Hopkinson and Shannon are amongst Lewisburg’s swimmers who convey back a ton of precious experience and will likely be a swimmer who quite a few teammates look as much as as a pacesetter this winter.
Jillian Muchler, Hopkinson and Meg Mitchell swam on Lewisburg’s 200 medley relay staff final 12 months which took dwelling a silver medal in 1:55.96 together with then-senior Jillie Donner. That foursome was behind solely Jersey Shore’s staff that received gold in 1:54.21.
Donner, Mitchell, Muchler and Hopkinson competed within the 200 free relay as nicely and swam a 2:19.90. The Green Dragons have a pair of 200 free relay opponents on the boys aspect in Blake Gulden-Luthi and Shannon, each freshmen final season.
Mutchler took fourth within the 100 back as nicely.
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Colin Shannon competes for Lewisburg within the boys 200 IM throughout a highschool swim tri-meet at Williamsport on Tuesday.
While Lewisburg does return fairly a handful of qualifiers from districts, the Green Dragons do have some holes to fill with gifted swimmers.
That consists of Donner, who was a silver medalist final 12 months within the 200 medley relay in 1:55.96 alongside Muchler, Hopkinson and Mitchell. Miles Fasero additionally graduated after taking fourth within the 200 IM final 12 months. Fassero was a part of Lewisburg’s 200 free relay staff with Zeh, Gulden-Luthi and Shannon. The Dragons graduated Zeh, an eighth-place finisher within the boys 200 free. Zeh, Gulden-Luthi, Shannon and Fassero have been a part of the 400 free relay staff which took fourth.
Fassero will depart huge footwear to fill in addition to he was a third-place medalist within the 100 breast final winter and was behind solely Athens’ Brayden Pettitt (silver, 1:00.17) and Bloomsburg’s Chase Moore (gold, 57.70).
There’s little doubt that Lewisbrug can have a lot of district medalists this winter with just a few journeys excessive on the rostrum. And for sure, each Hopkinson and Shannon are amongst these eyeing gold this winter.