NA sweeps WPIAL team titles for fourth year in a row
The North Allegheny swimming & diving team traveled to Trees Pool on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh to compete in the WPIAL Championships on Thursday and Friday. For the fourth consecutive year, the boys and girls teams both claimed WPIAL titles. It is the 18th consecutive WPIAL championship for the NA girls while the NA boys have now won 12 WPIAL championships in the last 15 years.
The North Allegheny girls finished with 495 points, 138 points ahead of second-place Fox Chapel. On day one, the quartet of Dani Hinkson, Tori Tieppo, Eva Ogden and Madden Woycheck placed second in the 200-yard medley relay. Claire Bacu took home WPIAL gold in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:50.13. Julia Tengowski took bronze in the event two seconds behind Bacu. Evey Masztak also claimed points for the Tigers with an 11th place finish. Emma Dietz, Shelby Sundgren and Eva Zilinski finished seventh, eighth and 13th in the 200-yard IM. Madden Woycheck placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle while Sydney DeHainaut and Annie Elliot finished sixth and seventh. Aubrey Constable took three points finishing in 14th. Ogden (second), Hinkson (third), Natalie Reubi (eighth) and Angelina Li (ninth) all collected points for NA in the 100-yard butterfly. The 200-yard freestyle team featuring Elliot, DeHainaut, Masztak and Woycheck won a gold medal with a time of 1:35.49.
On Friday, Woycheck placed fourth in the 100-yard freestyle with Elliot, Ogden and Masztak taking eighth through 10th respectively. Bacu won her second gold medal in as many days claiming the 500-yard freestyle. Tengowski was a second behind with a runner-up finish. Reubi and Charlotte Sunderlin took eighth and 10th. Hinkson was the bronze medalist in the 100-yard backstroke while Angelina Li finished sixth. Sophia Davidson and Macey Wenzel collected points coming in 12th and 13th. Tieppo took the silver in the 100-yard backstroke while Sundgren finished fourth. Dietz claimed eighth place while Zilinski finished in 13th. The Tigers’ 400-yard freestyle relay team of Bacu, DeHainaut, Hinkson and Tengowski finished second.
The NA boys finished with 483 points. 228 points ahead of Mt. Lebanon who finished in second. On Thursday, Danny Lesinski,
Alex Harbaugh, Mason Shantz and Zachary Totin got the Tigers off to a good start winning the 200-yard freestyle medley relay with a time of 1:31.12. Jackson Ross took home bronze in the 200-yard freestyle with Dylan Seiford in fourth. Peter Ross claimed sixth while Max Thirkell took 13th. Lesinski won bronze in the 200-yard IM while Brendan Yatchenko came in fifth. Emmanuel Chu was the eighth-place finisher while Landon Bolen took 10th. Totin was the silver medalist in the 50-yard freestyle. Odin Hsu took fifth while Talon Xing placed 10th. Shantz won silver in the 100-yard butterfly with Harbaugh a second behind in fourth place. Matthew Lindblad finished in 13th. The NA 200-yard freestyle relay team of Totin, Hsu, Shantz and Harbaugh took the the WPIAL gold with a time of 1:22.73.
On day two, Totin finished fourth in the 100-yard freestyle with Seiford, Hsu and Harbaugh finishing eighth through 10th. Jackson Ross took home bronze in the 500-yard freestyle while Peter Ross claimed sixth. Logan O’Keefe and Thirkell finished 13th and 14th for points. Lesinski was second in the 100-yard backstroke while Xing and Yatchenko claimed sixth and seventh. Ryan Crane finished in 12th. Bolen claimed bronze in the 100-yard breaststroke while Chu finished in sixth. Lindblad took points for the Tigers with a 15th-place finish. The quartet of Shantz, Seiford, Hsu and Lesinski took gold in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
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The Tigers now turn their attention to the PIAA Swimming & Diving Championships that will take place on Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12 at Bucknell University. Events are scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. on both days. The NA boys are the defending state champions.
