Swimming & Diving News

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 third consecutive season, the boys and girls teams both took home WPIAL gold. It is the 17th consecutive WPIAL championship for the NA girls while the NA boys have now won 11 WPIAL titles in the last 14 years.

The North Allegheny girls finished with 415 points, 109 points ahead of runner-up Fox Chapel. The quartet of Dani Hinkson, Tori Tieppo, Eva Ogden and Madden Woycheck claimed WPIAL gold in the 200-yard medley relay to get things going with a time of 1:45.40. Claire Bacu was the silver medalist in the 200-yard freestyle with Julia Tengowski coming in fourth. Hinkson would collect her second gold medal of the day winning the 200-yard IM with a time of 2:07.72 while Tieppo was fifth in the event and Emma Dietz finished in ninth. Woycheck finished in fifth place in the 50-yard freestyle. Ogden placed fifth in the 100-yard butterfly while Angelina Li was the seventh-place finisher. The North Allegheny 200-yard freestyle relay consisting of Julianne Weaver, Ogden, Woycheck and Bacu won the silver medal. In the 100-yard freestyle, Ogden finished in sixth place with Woycheck right behind her in seventh. Bacu claimed the 500-yard freestyle title in 4:54.94 with Tengowski taking silver. Li and Hinkson placed sixth and seventh respectively in the 100-yard backstroke. Tieppo was fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke with Sundgren taking sixth in the event. Bacu, Evey Masztak, Hinkson and Tengowski finished the day as silver medalists in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

The NA boys ended the event with 395.50 points, defeating second-place Upper St. Clair by 168.5 points. The Tigers started the day with a silver medal in the 200-yard medley relay. Danny Lesinski, Gus Miller, Mason Shantz and Dylan Seiford composed the team. Lesinski won bronze in the 200-yard IM while Emmanuel Chu placed ninth. Grant Regule was the third-place finisher in the 50-yard freestyle. Seiford finished in 10th place in the event. Gus Miller claimed 100-yard butterfly gold with a time of 49.71. Zachary Totin and Mason Shantz came in fifth and 10th place respectively. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Regule, Miller, Shantz and Totin won the WPIAL title with a time of 1:23.01. Regule and Totin put together good performances in the 100-yard freestyle taking silver and bronze respectively while Seiford came in ninth place and Shantz finished 10th. Miller placed second in the 100-yard backstroke with Lesinski finishing fifth, Brendan Yatchenko came in seventh and Odin Hsu placed 10th. Chu finished seventh in the 100-yard breaststroke. NA finished the day with Lesinski, Regule, Alex Harbaugh and Totin claiming WPIAL gold in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

For complete meet results, click here.

The Tigers now turn their attention to the state level as they will travel to Bucknell University to compete in the PIAA Swimming & Diving Championships. This will take place Wednesday, March 12 through Saturday, March 15 with events beginning at 8:00 a.m. each day.