Skip to content

Dominion Hills, Overlee improve to 2-0 in summertime swimming

Arlington teams are tied for first in respective divisions
luca-hardin-d-hills
Luca Hardin swims the breaststroke for Dominion Hills.

With victories at home and away, the Dominion Hills Thunder Ducks and the Overlee Flying Fish improved to 2-0 on June 24 in Northern Virginia Swimming League action and were tied for first in their respective divisions.

In other NVSL meets June 24, the Donaldson Run Thunderbolts and Arlington Forest Tigers lost to fall to 0-2.

* Dominion Hills defeated the visiting Sleepy Hollow Bath and Racquet Seals, 222.5-197.5, in Division 8.

Leading the Thunder Ducks were double-race winners Beckett Langsdale, Asher Langsdale, Anna LeNard and Sarah Newman. The single winners were Arianna Potter, Matild Macskasi, Susie Richard, Sydney Corrigan, Shuai Myers, Alex Moustafa, Julie Schwarz, Lauren Fatouros, Liam Vaughan, Jericho Jones and Jancsi Aldonas.

The boys 11-12 age group swept the freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke races. Those swimmers were Moustafa, Asher Langsdale, Nicholas Clinger, Henry Smith, Davis Messman, Lorenzo Hardin, Henry Smith and Lorenzo Hardin.

The Dominion Hills relays won six races.

* In Division 1, Overlee routed the host Highlands Whomping Turtles in McLean, 269.5-150.5.

Overlee started strong when the 8-under boys swept the opening freestyle race, and the Flying Fish never looked back.

Through the backstroke events Overlee built a 131-49 lead and then coasted to victory after capping the meet by winning nine of the 12 relays.

Double-race winners for Overlee were Whit Kouhestani, Claire Cocker, Charlie Hartman, Mac Busen, Chris Kinsella, Miles Lewis, Vikas Gonzalez and Sydney Paisley.

Single winners were Samantha Bravery, Abigail Hartman, Tyler Giese, Tyler Hong, Tommy Weber, Caroline Bailey, Violet Mullen, Moira Kinsella and Hannah Williams.

In his last NVSL dual meet of his career because of his upcoming appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, Chris Kinsella won the age 15-18 free and butterfly races he entered by swimming out of lane six.

Overlee is tied for first in Division 1 with defending champion Chesterbrook and 2021 titlest Tuckahoe. Overlee visit Chesterbrook for a Saturday morning, July 1 meet.