This year’s swim team has found massive success.
The girls team has gone undefeated in dual and tri meets, and the boys team has not finished below third.
Factors such as swimmer presence and team spirit have been strong contributors to the team’s success.
Junior Chloe Mihaly is one of the team’s strongest swimmers. She attributes some of the success to the team spirit.
“The breakfasts together definitely add to excitement for the meet.” Mihaly said. “We’ve got great energy on the pool deck– someone is always shouting.”
Senior Otto Schonwalder attributes strong turnout at meets this year as being crucial to the team’s success.
“The attendance definitely helped,” he said, “most of the girls especially, they’ve gone to every meet and they’ve done very well.” In past years, swimmer attendance was an issue, as many swimmers wouldn’t go to all the meets.
The boys team has a smaller roster then in years past, making it more difficult to compete against the other schools with a larger roster.
Both Mihaly and Schonwalder agree that East Chapel Hill is the most difficult school to compete against. This year, the girls beat East, and are on course to have some swimmers make regionals.
“The girls don’t have a challenge,” Schonwalder said, “they are winning everything.”
Both teams faced their biggest challenge of the year on January 24 at the DAC-6 conference championship meet.
Riverside competed in the conference meet on January 24. The girls team finished in third place, while the boys finished in fourth. With that meet, the regular season has ended, and the team awaits an announcement on which swimmers made regionals.
