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Stingrays experience strong start to season at High Point Meet

Aberdeen Swim Club coach Neil Romney, right, gives some instructions to some of his swimmers before the start of Sundayโ€™s afternoon session of the Summer High Point Meet at the Aberdeen Aquatic Center. Photo by John Davis taken 6/18/2023
The Aberdeen Swim Club Stingrays got out of the blocks quickly as they got their summer season underway at their annual High Point Swim Meet this past weekend at the Aberdeen Aquatic Center. ASC coach Neil Romney noted that a good number of the team's swimmers clocked top times. "Nineteen of our 91 Stingrays swam 100% best times, 22 more recorded a majority of best times, and 18 were swimming in their first long-course meter meet, a considerably different challenge from swimming in short-course-yards format," Romney said. "For most of our athletes, this was the first meet of the spring/summer season and our results indicate a strong start to the next six weeks of racing, which will include meets in Huron, Webster, Bismarck, Rapid City, Fargo, and Aberdeen, when we will host the South Dakota State Championships, July 21-23." Top-3 high point swimmers from ASC included: Lennon North (third girls 6u), Ginny Peterson (second girls 8u), Logan Smith (first boys 8u), L

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