With multiple individual champions, the Arlington Knights of Columbus Holy Mackerels had the most first-place finishers of any team at the season-ending Cory Young Colonials Swimming League all-star meet.
The event was held at Ashburn Village pool in Ashburn.
Three Holy Mackerels were double race-winners. Aubrey Larson won the girls age 9-10 freestyle in 33.39 seconds and the butterfly in 16.64. Summer Springer was first in the girls 11-12 free (30.92) and breaststroke (38.93), and Sedona Springer won the girls 9-10 breast (43.14) and individual medley (1:25.27).
The team’s single race-winners were Zachary Black (boys 15-18 free, 24.95), Savigna Neely Martin (girls 8-under backstroke, 22.53), Elizabeth Pilot (girls 13-14 back, 33.13) and Azmera Gebre (girls 15-8 IM, 1:09.78).
Black also was second in the breast ,as was Sedona Springer in the free. William Coleman was second in the boys 11-12 breast.
Third for the Holy Mackerels were Pilot in the fly and IM, Coleman in the IM, Summer Springer in the IM, Jack Parker in the boys 8-under free, Ava Moore in the girls 9-10 back, Mary Hecmanczuk in the girls 15-18 fly and Victoria Gammell in the girls 9-10 IM.
Although the Holy Mackerels had the most winners at the all-star meet, the team finished second during the regular season with a 4-1 record in the league’s highest Red Division.
Arlington’s Fort Myer Squids had no individual champions in the all-star meet. Second were Jayden Gibbs (boys 8-under free), Drew Loughry (boys 15-18 breast) and Zach Berner (boys 15-18 IM).
Third for the Squids were Berner in the back and fly, Culhane Harper (boys 9-19 breast), Evelyn Logsdon (girls 13-14 breast), Sasha Taylor (girls 15-18 breast) and Bruce Truong (boys 8-under fly).
The all-star meet ended the summer season for the Colonial Swimming League teams.