Swimming alumni place at the 10th Annual Black Heritage Swimming Championship

This past weekend, three Rattler swimming alumni competed in the 10th annual Black Heritage Swimming Championship in Cary, NC. The competition was hosted by the North Carolina Aquablazers at the Triangle Aquatics Center. The annual competition attracted over 900 swimmers from the across the US.

Dennis Mobley (Class of 2010) swam the sprint freestyle and breaststroke events for the men's team. Mobley represented the North Carolina Aquablazers with a 25th place in the 50 yard breaststroke with a 34.08, 30th in the 100 yard breaststroke (1:21.55) and 59th in the 50 yard freestyle (:27.55).

Coach Gregory Lowe, representing his hometown Plainfield(NJ) Aquatic Club, started the weekend with a fifth place finish in the 50 yard breaststroke (:30.33). He ended the first day of competition as the third leg of Plainfield's 200 yard freestyle relay A team for second place.

On Sunday, Lowe finished 29th in the 50 yard butterfly (:29.08) and rounded out the day of individual events with a 29th place in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of :25.13. Lowe earned a sliver medal as the second leg of  Plainfield's 200 yard medley relay 'A' team.

As coach/swimmer of the Potomac Valley Swimming diversity swim team, Douglas Carrington started the weekend with a 12th place finish in the 200 yard freestyle with a 2:00.87. Carrington again for a second year placed eighth place in the 50 yard backstroke with a time of :28.87. On Sunday, he had a full day starting with the 100 yard freestyle. He grabbed 17th place shaving off three tenths of a second for a time of :53.40. In his second event of the morning, Carrington grabbed the bronze in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:01.48. Capping off the morning of individual events, Carrington finished 22nd with a time :24.64 in the 50 yard freestyle.

In the final event of the morning, Lowe and Carrington competed again in the coaches relay. Carrington and Potomac Valley relay team redeemed themselves from last year and grabbed the win and bragging rights until next year!

Coach Carrington and the rest of the Potomac Valley team celebrated on Sunday evening as they earned their first back to back team championship with a total of 4017 points. Coach Lowe's Plainfield team (combined  with the Metro Dynasty Swim team)was second at 2432 points. Full meet results can be found here!