Splashing into the Postseason - Moeller Swimming
The swimming post season is coming up quick and the Moeller Swim Team is coming in hot. After the first two meets of the season being canceled due to weather, they started off with a close loss to Walnut Hills while missing Joe Gertz, Alex Held, and Gabe Trujillo, but followed it up with a dominant 101-69 win over Lakota East and a close 86-84 win over Milford during exam week. They then took a trip to Columbus for the Upper Arlington invitational where they took 2nd place out of six teams. Coming out of Christmas Break the non-club swimmers dominated in a 275-125-98 win in a tri-meet against Princeton and Fairfield. Followed two days later by a 290-204 win over GCL opponent Elder where the 200 Medley (Joe Gertz, Noah Spivery, Gabe Trujillo and Sammy Silverman) and 200 Free (Noah, Alex Held, Austin Ranly and Gabe) Relays set Princeton pool records. Varsity then took a trip to the Catholic Invitational at Keating Natatorium where they took 2nd out of twelve teams.
A week later they geared up for the Southwest Ohio Coaches Classic, widely acknowledged as the largest swim meet in the country, starting with over 10 preliminary sites with the top 16 in every event competing at finals at Keating Natatorium. Moeller placed 4th out of 39 teams featuring a 2nd place finish from Freshman Gabe Trujillo, a 7th place finish from Senior Joe Gertz in the 200 backstroke, a 5th place finish from Gabe, a 7th place finish from Joe in the 100 backstroke, a 6th place finish from Senior Noah Spivery in the 100 breaststroke, a 6th place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, and 4th place in the 200 freestyle, 200 medley and 400 medley relays.
John Ryan, Sammy Silverman, Alex Held, Joe Gertz, Noah Spivery, Nathan Hoffman, Sam Sharpshair pictured
January 29th, they celebrated their seven seniors at Keating Natatorium in a 178-105 loss to St. X. They then followed up with a second place finish at the GCL Championship highlighted by a 2nd place finish in the 200 Medley Relay, a 4th place finish by Senior Alex Held in the 200 freestyle, 3rd place for Noah and 4th place for Senior Sammy Silverman in the 50 freestyle, a 3rd place finish for Gabe in the 100 butterfly, a 2nd place finish by Sammy in the 100 freestyle, 3rd place for Junior Lukas Stueve in the 500 freestyle, 2nd and 3rd place for Gabe and Joe respectively in the 100 backstroke, a 2nd place finish for Noah in the 100 breaststroke and a 3rd place finish for the 400 freestyle relay.
In the coming weeks the team will be progressing their way to the State Meet in Canton. Coach Jon Bennett said “GCL was a mixed bag, but as a whole we did very well. We don’t have the same caliber of top guys as last year, but I’m expecting to be surprised by our guys this year. I’m excited for them to prove me wrong.” We wish our Moeller swim team luck as they make their way to state.