About The Team
This year, the Hempfield Swimming team received a new head coach, Andrew Eyster. Eyster led the team through a successful season for both the girls and boys team. The assistant coach of the swim team is Georgia Emert and volunteer coaches include Andre Fissela and Jayden Corrigan. For the diving team, the head coach is Kelsey Dilgilo and volunteer coach Cynthia Lang. The 2024-2025 season officially ended on April 6th with the swimming and diving team banquet.
The swim team has had a total of 8 dual meets, 3 of which were non-league meets and did not count towards the league records. Of the 5 league meets, the girls had a league record of 4 wins and 1 loss, and the boys won all five league meets, making them the section one champions. After the league meets the three qualifying meets there was a league meet, a district meet, and a state meet. Nearly the entire team went to the league meet as swimmers or as alternates. At districts Hempfield had 6 female swimmers, 1 female diver, and 11 male swimmers. At this meet the girls placed 8th overall and the boys placed 6th overall. Finally, at the last meet of the season 5 girls and 5 boys traveled to Bucknell University.
The 2024-2025 season was a successful season for the girls. This season the girls team had 7 girls go to the district meet. The top swims from the girls team are as follows:
Districts
- Addy Bushnell, 100 Breaststroke 4th place
- Grace Wagner, 100 Freestyle 6th place
- Addy Bushnell, 50 Freestyle 7th place
- Grace Wagner, 200 Freestyle 11th place
- Lucy Bishop, 200 Freestyle 21st place
- Lucy Bishop, 100 Butterfly 26th place
- Claire Sahd, 50 Backstroke
- 200 Freestyle Relay
The states meet the results:
- Addy Bushnell, 100 Breaststroke 20th place
- Girls 200 Freestyle Relay 22nd place
The boys team also had a very successful season, and broke multiple records which can be seen on the Hempfield Recreational score board. The top swims from the boys postseason meets are as follows:
Districts
- Kaden Fatta, 100 Breastroke 4th place
- Jackson Shirey, 100 Butterfly 4th place
- Jackson Shirey, 50 Freestyle
- Jackson Shirey, 100 Freestyle
- Ryan Taylor, 50 Freestyle 11th place
- Ivan Vitko, 50 Freestyle 12th place
- Ivan Vitko, 100 Freestyle 16th place
- Kaden Fatta, 200 Individual Medley 12th place
- Andrew Gates, 100 Backstroke
- Andrew Gates, 50 Backstroke
- Andrew Gates, 50 Freestyle
- Dean Schonour, 500 Freestyle 19th place
- Nathan Manning, 50 Freestyle 32nd place
- Alex Burdyn, 200 Freestyle 31st place
- Alex Burdyn, 500 Freestyle 29th place
- Dante Turmolo, 200 Individual Medley 24th place
- 200 Free Relay, 5th place
- 400 Free Relay, 4th place
- 200 Medley Relay, 2nd place
States
- Jackson Shirey, 100 Butterfly 19th place
- Kaden Fatta, 100 Breaststroke prelims- 14th place, finals- 16th place
- 200 Freestyle Relay, prelims-16th place, finals- 15th place
- 400 Freestyle Relay, prelims- 12th place, finals-10th place and tied with Wilson
- 200 Medley Relay, 8th place
In all, the Hempfield swimming team had a very successful season because of their swimmers and coaches. With the departing seniors and new freshmen in the coming season Hempfield is a great team and a good competitor to other teams.
