Different strokes: Trinity sending many to WPIAL Swimming Championships
Trinity will be sending its largest contingent of swimmers in several years to the WPIAL Championships when the district meet is held Thursday and Friday at Trees Pool at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ten Hillers have qualified for the WPIAL meet and head coach Brian Day says the rapidly improving Trinity program might be able to advance multiple individuals to the PIAA meet.
“It hasn’t been in the last 10 years,” Day said when asked when Trinity last sent a double-digit contingent to the WPIAL Championships. “It was probably in the early 2000s.
“Last year, we had one relay team and one individual who qualified … This year, we have two kids in individual events who, if they do the times they have been swimming all year, they are likely to make states.”
Those two are senior Corbin Likar in the boys 50-yard freestyle and sophomore Paige Schott in the girls 100 butterfly. Likar has a seed time of 22.67 and Likar has swam 59.05. Both swimmers have qualified in multiple events, Likar will also compete in the 100 freestyle (50.86) and Schott in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.19).
Trinity’s girls team finished with a 4-1 record in section competition, finishing in second place behind Elizabeth Forward.
“It has been a long time since we had a battle for a section title,” Day said. “The girls swam well all year.”