Successful Swim Season!

After a season filled with races, relays, splashes, and flops, the JCHS swim season has come to an end. The most remarkable part about the JCHS swim team is the effort each member put in, and each swimmer’s personal improvements throughout the season. Skill levels of each participant on the first day of practice ranged from having swam on an organized swim team their entire lives, to learning the strokes from scratch. No matter which category swimmers fell into, day one of practice was brutal, as we adjusted to the refreshingly cold pool water and tight swim caps. At least twice a week we would walk over to SF Fitness around the corner from JCHS and swim countless laps with the expert guidance of Mr. Eilath, our coach, and Ms. Sturgill, our assistant coach.

This season the swim team competed in six swim meets against several other high schools including Urban, University, Marin Academy, Athenian, Drew, Inter- national, Lick, and Stuart Hall. Although in most of the meets JCHS came in last place, our team put up a strong fight as we filled as many events as we could, at times forcing swimmers to stretch beyond their comfort zones. This year’s star athletes included the freshmen Noa Sharabi, who broke the school record for the 200 meter individual medley, and Sera Benjamin, who broke the school record swimming the 50-meter freestyle. Additionally, Mira Kittner, Maya Gross, Sera Benjamin, and Noa Sharabi crushed JCHS’s previous record for the 200-meter freestyle relay finishing with a time of 2:07.94. Senior Steven Larazensky finished third and beat his personal bests swimming the 200-meter and 100-meter freestyle in a meet against Lick-Wilmerding and Urban.

Other honorary mentions go out to all of the first-year swimmers, for their improvement throughout the season and effort put into the team. Ilana Borison, a sophomore who swam for her second year on the team, also deserves a shout out as she designed and ordered swim team sweatpants for the team.