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Tiger Sharks troll for championship

Published Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:00 PM

By Roger Lee
Summerville Journal Scene ®

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Newington swimmer Donovan O’dea takes the lead in the boys’ age 9-10 freestyle race.

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Newington swimmer Tristan Telaen earned a ribbon in the boys’ age 11-12 butterfly event Tuesday.

Newington extended its winning streak in the Coastal Carolina Aquatic Association Tuesday.

The Tiger Sharks defeated the Jewish Community Center 432-93 to improve to 5-0.

Entering action July 2, the Tiger Sharks were the only undefeated team in the league.

With only two meets remaining in the regular season, the Tiger Sharks could clinch the Blue League championship July 7 with a win over Crowfield.

With a 4-2 record, the Crowfield Killer Waves are currently tied with Fort Johnson for second place in the league.

The Tiger Sharks’ faced the Federal Armed Services Team (3-3) July 2 after press time and are scheduled to swim against the Triton Force Swim Team (1-3) July 9.

Newington will wrap up its season by competing with the other 21 Lowcountry teams during the association’s annual City Meet championship to be held at the Jewish Community Center July 19-21.

This year’s race for the Red League championship, the most coveted title for the association’s three leagues, is heated.

Snee Farm, the long-time City Meet champion and perennial league power, was upset by Parkshore June 25.

That left Snee Farm, Parkshore and Coosaw Creek, last year’s Red League Champ, all with a 5-1 record and a loss in the league entering action July 2.

The Coosaw Crocs lost to Snee Farm 264-273 June 23, but won handily over Parkshore June 20 by a 373-164 margin.

Daniel Island (4-1) also only has one loss in the league, but had to face Coosaw after press time July 2 and still has a meet against Parkshore scheduled for July 6.

The Ashborough team sits at 2-4 with one of its wins coming against league opponent Shadowmoss, which is also 2-4.

Hobcaw (5-1) faced Longpoint (4-2) July 2 after press time with first place in the White League on the line. Both teams still have league meets remaining.

Pine Forest (0-6) entered action against the Country Club of Charleston (1-5) July 2 looking for its first win of the season. The team is scheduled to face Daniel Island July 7 and Hobcaw July 9.

Contact Roger Lee @ 873-9424 ext. 213 or rlee@journalscene.com.

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SWIMMING IS A SPORT!!!

Sunday, September 06, 2009 3:04 PM

Swimming is a sport. you have to work hard and nothing is handed to you in the sport of swimming. work outs are hard but the reward isn't always a medal a ribbon or a trophy. its taking of seconds tenths of seconds even hundrenths of seconds. if your saying that swimming isnt a sport then you havent ever trained the way i do. by the way is cheerleading a sport? i think not. by the way can you swim 2.4 miles under the cooper river bridge in 76 degree water tempture in under 55 mintues

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Ummmm

Friday, July 10, 2009 7:40 AM

You're right, "Athletes" probably choose the wrong example to prove a point, but he/she is correct on one fact. Swimming is a demanding sport. Swimmers train year-round without a beak to get to a competitive level. I played football at a fairly high level so I speak from experience. I have two daughters who were State Champion Swimmers and I can tell you, they worked their butts off and couldn't hide behind the rest of the team when they lost. It's just them out there on the starting blocks and they deserve alot of credit. Team sports are terrific, don't get me wrong, but swimmers should not be classified as lower class athletes by you or anyone else. To take it to the lowest level, at least they are out there doing something positive, not sitting on their ever-expanding butts playing mindless video games for hours.

Posted by:

Hey C is C

Friday, July 10, 2009 7:32 AM

Attend the Upcoming City Meet and you'll understand why numbers win Swim Meets. A high school the size of Summerville can choose to play it's best athletes on both sides of the ball if they want to and the rest of the team doesn't get their uniforms dirty. The City Meet does not permit teams to swim their best swimmers in all events. It's the limiting of the competition that gives Snee the edge with their numbers. I'll give you a pass because you are ill informed.

Posted by: The Commercial Critic

Athletes???

Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:16 PM

Re Athletes: NOT FUNNY AND UNTRUE: That was a cold response about the football players (who died by the way). I bet your 10 year old daughter would have suffered the same fate in COLD water 13 miles off the coast in heavy seas! 13 miles is a litlle farther than 2500 meters (think your daughter could make it to shore from there?, that is if she knew which way the shore was! a LOT farther than 13 miles in the other directions!). If you recall, the survivor of that horrible accident did not SWIM to safety, he was able to hold on to the capsized boat until rescued. You are a COLD person, but you defended your daughters honor!!

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athletes

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:48 PM

Re Ummmm: Funny but untrue. Swimming requires strength, agility, coordination, endurance-cardio vascular, and mental toughness. If those two football players whose boat capsized in the Gulf a while back knew how to swim better... By the way bet you couldn't swim 2500 meters in an hour like my 10 yr old daughter.

Posted by:

Ummmm

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:23 PM

Its Swimming and nobody cares! All of the Athletes are playing real sports.

Posted by:

Competition is Competition

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:21 PM

Re Commercial Critic: Under your logic, Summerville HS should also be penalized because the school is too big and their athletic programs too successful. Competition is what it is -working your tail off to be the best and compete against the best. Hats off to Snee Farm for an awesome program.

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Snee Farm is Just Toying With You......................

Monday, July 06, 2009 7:50 AM

Nice to see local swimming getting some much deserved press, now that Pinewood is closed for summer break, there's some space left in the Journal Scene for the rest of us. Congrats to Newington on their impressive record. What you don't know is that Snee Farm's only loss to Parkshore was clouded in controversy. Both teams have year round swimmers that support their strong records. Word has it that both Snee and Park Shore had swimmers away at state championships when the two teams met. Both apparently had agreed to swim their dual meet as a "fun meet" and let lesser experienced swimmers take their turn, but Park Shore stacked the deck with experienced swimmers and won a hollow victory. All this means nothing when the CCAA championships are held later this month. Snee will arrive with a monster team as usual. The championship will come down to the relays on day three and with Snee's over-abundance of swimmers, they will win again and rub the other team's noses in it. The CCAA needs to take a hard look at the teams in the association and set rules in place to limit the amount of swimmers a team can have. The complaint in the past has been that some teams stack the deck with year round swimmers. The real problem is number of swimmers competing. Snee has too many swimmers to be beaten. The CCAA is staffed with Snee Farm parents who conveniently look the other way every time competition issues come up. It's time for the CCAA to get some new blood and limit team size to make the league more competitive for all teams to compete in. Don't get me wrong, Snee Farm does deserve credit for building a very good program and their coach is excellent. But going into a championship with a team the dwarfs the others in numbers isn't fair and needs to be addressed. Will it be, probably not, 'cause after all the races have been swum and all the t-shirts and pretzels have been sold, Snee will return the first place trophy to their Country Club case and all the other teams will sit at their end of the year swim cook-outs and say: "we'll get 'em next year" and it WON'T happen.

Posted by: The Commercial Critic

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