Michael Beard (top) was 49-0 at Malvern Prep, which finished 3rd in the National Prep Championship.
Emma Seiberlich led Episcopal Academy to the Easter Interscholastic Championship.
BISHOP SHANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL
SPRING 2017 VISIT DATES
7th Grade Visitation Day Wednesday, March 29 • 8:30 am - 1:30 pm 7th Grade Practice Test Saturday, April 1 • 8 am - Noon
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County Lines | April 2017 | CountyLinesMagazine.com
GIRLS – SWIMMING Episcopal’s girls team compiled a 7-0 record and swam to the Eastern Interscholastic championship. Senior Emma Seiberlich won the 100-yard freestyle, junior Alex Sumner won the 100-yard backstroke and freshman Hadley DeBruyn won the 500-yard freestyle. The Friend’s Central girls won 8 of 11 events at the Friends’ League championship. The foursome of Sofia Acchione, Maddie Anderson, Elisabeth Forsyth and Kate Raphaely set a league record in the 400-meter freestyle. Achione set the league record for the 100-meter butterfly and the 100-meter backstroke. Forsyth, a freshman, won the 200-yard individual medley and the 100- and 400-yard backstroke. A Wilmington Friends senior, Blair Atkins, was the Delaware Independent Schools Conference champion in the 100meter breaststroke and 50-meter freestyle. She’ll go to Franklin and Marshall next year. Ashley Chompre, a freshman, was the conference champion in the 100meter butterfly and 200-meter individual medley. Atkins and Chompre also contributed to the school’s win in the 200-meter and 400-meter medley relays. TRACK
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Bishop Shanahan’s Josh Hoey ruled middle distance: from 4.11 mile to .49 for 400 m.
ners burned up the track this year. Senior Nate Alleyne won the 400-meter in 48.21 and junior Josh Hoey ran the 800-meter in 1.52.2—both were the fastest in the state— at The Pennsylvania Track & Field Coaches Association Indoor State Championship. Then both contributed to Shanahan’s triumphal 4x400, shattering the school record at 3:21.8, again fastest in PA for 2017. Wow! Alleyne has signed a “Letter of Intent” at Georgetown University. Hoey is interested in Penn State, Oregon, Virginia, Michigan and Indiana. ♦