Important Swim Team updates for 2024 – including Swim Meet Schedule!

The Southampton Swordfish had a fantastically fun 2023 summer swim season! Our team continued to soar and again won all 6 dual meets, winning the regular season, and pulled off a Three-Peat, winning the JRAC Championship Meet! We couldn’t have done it with-out the 310+ strong team members. Each contributed in some manner, from swimming their hearts out at meets to cheering for teammates.

New Swim Records

Our swimmers also took down 4 of the 7 new records at champs. We wanted to acknowledge Joshua fisher and Piper Price for their individual records. We also had two record breaking relays: Senior Medley Re-lay team, (Joshua Fisher, Piper Price, John Loftin, and Charlotte Ratliff) and the 11-12 Free Relay team (Thor Akesson, Chloe Krost, Harvey Trivette, and Brantley Patterson).

Special Thanks to…

Huge THANKS to our coaches, Head Coach Mike Peters, Assistant Head Coach Skylar Mullins, Porter Hudgins, Carter Meagher, and Ann Tanner Mullins who guided our team to victory and made for a fun and safe swim season for our swimmers. We also want to thank Sierra Durrette, Sofia Fulco, Maxine Batten and Hana Walker, who assisted our coaches on deck when extra help was needed.

We want to thank everyone who supported our Summer Swim Clinics and our Clinician, Joshua Fisher, for leading these! The swimmers that took advantage of the clinics saw huge improvements and enjoyed the small group environment. We will be looking to enhance the clinics next year so feel free to provide feedback!

Lastly, thank you to all our family volunteers. No other team in JRAC has as many dedicated parents and family members, who selflessly step up to help in any capacity. A swim director of another big JRAC team referred to us as the Unicorn of teams because of our amazing parent volunteers. YOU are the reason that our team is a well-oiled machine and makes our job easy!!

New Leadership

Lastly, we want to announce our new Swim Team Co-Director, Ashley Barrett! With Cathy completing her term, Ashley is stepping in to assist Jenn. Ashley is mom to Temple, Layton and Lenna and will do a fantastic job carrying on the SRA traditions!!

New Meet Schedule

Stay tuned for an upcoming fall spirit night and look for information about our 2024 Spring Swim Clinic and 2024 team registration in February. Swim practice will begin in May. In light of schools ending and starting earliery, there will be some changes to our 2024 meet schedule as noted below to give families more vacation time before school starts.

Please mark your calendar with our 2024 meet schedule as follows:
  • Monday, June 3
  • Monday, June 10
  • Monday, June 17
  • Monday, June 24
  • Monday, July 1
  • Monday, July 18
  • Championship Meet: Wednesday, July 17 (tentative)

 

Have a great school year swordfish. Strength & Honor!

— Cathy Durrette (outgoing Director), Jenn Walker & Ashley Barrett