High School Swimming

Penn Manor alum Matt Hershock moved to Seward, Alaska, in 1999. Six years later, he heard about the Seward Tsunami Swim Club. Launched in the 1970s, the club was struggling by 2005 to the point of nearly going defunct. Hershock applied to be its new head coach.

Many 13-year-olds are likely spending this summer without an alarm clock, waking up whenever they desire.

GIRLS

Although the Lancaster-Lebanon League was shut out of gold medals at the recent PIAA swimming championships, the 2020-21 campaign still has to go down as a highly successful season.

It took a national record to beat Cedar Crest’s Logan Smith at Saturday’s PIAA 3A boys swimming championships.

MECHANICSBURG — It’s hard to envision a better ending to a high school career than Cocalico’s Robert Gehman had during Friday’s PIAA Class 2A swimming championships at Cumberland Valley High School.

While this weekend’s PIAA swimming championships won’t be the same as in a typical year, expect plenty of fast swims when the state’s best converge at Cumberland Valley High School.

When Penn Manor’s Wes Kendig earned a bronze medal at the District Three Class 3A swimming championships with his time of 51.87 in the 100-yard butterfly, it capped a solid high school career in style.

MECHANICSBURG — When Henry Gingrich was a freshman at Manheim Township two years ago, he remembers watching his older brother, Charlie, win a district gold medal.