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MHSAA 2009 DIVISION II STATE CHAMPIONS
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State Finals Meet Video
November 29, 2009
Video of the 2009 Div 2 State Finals Meet is available at MHSAA.tv: MHSAA.TV/Events/7751
Congratulations Mercy Marlins 2009 State Champs!
November 21, 2009
Mercy swimmers triumphed over close rival Holland at the Division 2 State Meet this weekend, winning their third consecutive State Title with 282 points, just ahead of Holland’s 278 points.
The Holland team provided tough competition, with overall wins in 6 events and setting two new Division 2 records. However it was the depth of the Mercy team, with multiple swimmers in many of the championship heats who tallied the additional points for the win.
The 200 Free Relay team of Taylor Steffl, Nikki Barczak, Olivia Samoray and Sato Kakihara won their event, the only Mercy first place in the meet.
The most dramatic event was the final event of the meet, the 400 Free Relay. Holland was the heavy favorite having set a new Division 2 record in the prelims on Friday. Mercy needed at least third place to win the meet, and was seeded fifth based on the Friday results. The team of Olivia Samoray, Maria Bargardi, Emily Reamer, Nikki Barczak eked out 2nd place, just eight one-hundredths of a second ahead of Birmingham Seaholm, enabling the Marlins to clasp their third straight state championship.
Congratulations to seniors Lauren Duda, Katie Patterson, and captains Kelly Karpus, Emily Reamer, and Anna Schena on a great undefeated season and good luck in your future endeavors.
Mercy swimmers poised for a three-peat in Division 2
November 19, 2009
Nikki Barczak named one of Athletes of the Week
October 12, 2009
Junior Swimmer Nikki Barczak was named one of the Sunkist Athletes of the Week in the Oakland Press this weekend:
Marlins Win Fifth Straight Oakland County Championship
October 5, 2009
The Mercy Marlins won the Oakland County meet on Saturday for the fifth consecutive year finishing with 335 points versus 245 for second place Birmingham Seaholm.
The Marlins won two events in the meet. Junior Nikki Barczak won the 100 freestlye event in 53.33, and the 400 Free Relay team of Sophomores Olivia Samoray and Sato Kakihara, and Juniors Maria Bargardi and Nikki Barczak completed in 3:38.02.
As with last year, it was the depth of the team placing enough swimmers in multiple events that earned their high point total.
The team will next face Bishop Foley High School this Wednesday at the Warren Cousino High School Pool starting at 7:00 pm.
Marlins Defeat Marian
September 28, 2009
Marlins focus on daily improvement for now, but have talent for title repeat
September 21, 2009
Mercy Marlins Help Vista Maria girls' home
August 31, 2009
On Friday, August 28th, the Mercy Marlins had a team outing to Vista Maria, a non-profit girls home in Dearborn Heights. We were on campus over 2 hours, and were able to interact with the resident girls in 2 different dorms. While this was our first team service project, it was a great opportunity for our girls and the team, and was a succesful adventure. Thanks to all who participated!
Mercy leads Oakland County's best swim teams
August 30, 2009
This Sunday's Oakland Press contained several articles featuring the Mercy Swim Team and its top swimmers:
Mercy Swimmer featured in Detroit News Article
August 19, 2009
Detroit News Optimism Abounds as Five Prep Sports Begin Practice
Mercy Swimmers at Motor City Mile Featured In Local Press
August 5, 2009
Click the link to view the article:
Swimmers show Mercy - Farmington Press Aug 5 2009
Varsity Swimming Try Outs Aug 12 to 14 - Register Aug 10!
July 23, 2009
Varsity Swimming Try Outs will be held on August 12 to 14, from 7:00am to 9:00am at the Birmingham Country Club.
All athletes planning to try-out for a fall sport MUST register. Fall sports registration is on Monday, August 10th in the Mercy gym from 9:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. August 12th try-outs will be restricted to those athletes who have registered. Athletes must bring their fully completed physical form, dated on or after April 15, 2009 to the registration. Any questions call the athletic office at 248-476-2836 or visit http://mhsmi.org/athletics.
Mercy Swimmers Support the 10th Annual Motor City Mile Swim
July 10, 2009
More than 400 swimmers entered the waters of the Detroit River on July 8th to swim the Motor City Mile for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It was a beautiful morning, and a swim team from Australia even came to swim! Big thanks go out to the Carusos for hosting our post-meet lunch at the DYC. Thanks to all the Mercy girls for a great turn out. It was nice to see Mercy alumnae as well.
Thanks to Coach and all the staff at Different Strokes for all of their efforts pulling off a great event!
Annual Spring Car Wash A Jumping Success!
June 1, 2009
The Mercy Swim & Dive Team held their annual Spring Car Wash on May 30. Considering the cool weather and occasional rain sprinkle the fund raiser was a success thanks to the many team supporters who came out!
Here the girls demonstrate their levitation skills which they used to clean the tops of those tall SUVs. Go Marlins!
Coach's Motor City Mile - July 8, 2009
May 2, 2009
Attention all Mercy Marlin Swimmers: Put Wednesday, July 8th on your calendar for Coach's Motor City Mile!
All proceeds go towards the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
We would like to see ALL current team members and many alumnae participate in this event.
Parents are welcome as well, let Coach know if you would like to volunteer at the meet.
The meet registration packet is now here
ENTRY FORM enter now! More information
and online registration is at different-strokes.com
See you there!
Senior Swimmers Announce College Selections
May 1, 2009
Senior Swimmers Announce College Selections
Congratulations go out to the Mercy Marlin Senior Swimmers who have announced their college selections for
2010!
- Kathryn Carey will be attending the Maryland Institute College of Art
where she has been awarded the Presidential Scholarship.
- Chandler Foster will be diving at Lake Forest College in Illinois.
- Eileen Fredendall has signed her National Letter of Intent to swim at
Wayne State University in the Fall.
- Megan Gegesky has been awarded 3 scholarships and will be swimming at Ohio
University.
- Kaitlyn Jefferson signed her National Letter of Intent to swim at the
University of South
Dakota on a swimming scholarship. She was also awarded academic and
minority scholarships.
- Alexa Milewski has selected St. Louis University where she has been
awarded an Academic Scholarship, and will be swimming.
- Mo Nicholson will be swimming at St. Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota.
- Carly Sevald has signed her National Letter of Intent to dive at Wayne
State University. She also received honors for Academic All State and
Academic All American.
- Lauren Smith, will be attending the University of Michigan and was
awarded Academic All State and Academic All American.
- Gillian Staudt will be swimming for the University of Toledo and has
received the Tower Merit scholarship, and she was awarded Academic All State.
- Alexandra Swies signed her National Letter of Intent to swim at SUNY at
Buffalo, where she received an athletic scholarship.
- Anna Vandecaveye will be swimming at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame,
Indiana, and she received the Bertrand Scholar Award.
We admire the talent and determination that these young ladies and all of the
seniors have shown as they led the team to tremendous accomplishments. We wish
them continued success in all of their endeavors!
MISCA Acadamic All State Award Winners Announced
April 20, 2009
The Michigan Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association has announced the Academic All-State Teams for 2009. The Mercy girls achieved 8th place in Division 2 with a 3.58 GPA. Way to Go!
MISCA also announced the Academic All State Individual Awards. Included in Division 2 are Mercy's own Natasha Mason, Carly Sevald, Lauren Smith, and Gillian Staudt.
The full listing of awards can be found on the MISCA web site http://www.miscaonline.net/LinkClick.aspx?link=66&tabid=36
Congratulations!
Spring 2009 Weights Program Begins
April 20, 2009
Weight training for the Mercy Marlings Swim Team resumes on Mondays and Thursdays starting April 20, from 6:00am to 7:30am. Coach Dunworth was able to spend a great deal of time with the University of Texas coaching staff as well as several current Olympians including Eric Shanteau. Many of the girls remember Eric for his remarkable story dealing with his cancer diagnosis during the time of the Olympic Trials.
As a result, Coach Dunworth has completely redesigned the 2009 weight training program to emphasize power, speed, variety, and driven be competition!
Alumni Marlin Swimmers
Alumni Mercy Marlin Group on facebook.
So if you're on facebook, join up!
The name of the group is "Mercy High School Swim/Dive - Alumni Fishies"
MARLINS WIN DIVISION II STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Division II Results
November 23, 2008
The Mercy Marlins won the Division 2 State Championship for a second straight year this Saturday at Holland, Michigan. The Marlins had a great day in the preliminary heats on Friday with all swimmers putting in great efforts to improve their times putting the Marlins in position for a run at the state championship in the finals on Saturday.
The Marlins showed up focused on Saturday and the results were nothing short of outstanding as they scored 414 points to 302 points for runner-up Holland. It was a real team effort with the Mercy depth scoring multiple swimmers in almost every event which resulted in the wide margin of victory. First place trophies were won by Carley Sevald (Diving), Maria Bagardi (200 IM) and the 200 Free Relay team of Megan Gegesky, Taylor Steffl, Nikki Barczak, and Sato Kakihara. Numerous other top finishes were achieved by many swimmers (see attached finals sheet for timing details).
The Mercy Swim and Dive team should be commended on winning their second straight State Championship and having a great year that was fun for swimmers, divers, coaches, and parents. A special thanks goes out to Shannon Dunworth and Jennifer Blitz for the outstanding coaching job this year.
In closing, a special thanks goes out to our Senior Class:
Kathryn Carey, Chandler Foster, Eileen Frenendall, Megan Gegesky, Danielle Harteau, Kaitlyn Jefferson, Natasha Mason, Alexa Milewski, Mo Nicholson, Carley Sevald, Lauren Smith, Gillian Staudt, Alex Swies, and Anna Vandecaveye.
The Mercy Swim family wants to wish them good luck in the future and wants to see them at meets next year as the WINNING TRADITION continues.
Go Marlins!!!!!!!!!
Marlins Win Catholic League Meet
November 16, 2008
The Mercy Marlins were winners at the Catholic League Swim and Dive Meet that was held Friday and Saturday at the Livonia Recreation Center. Meet records were set by Marlin swimmers in winning the 200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, and 50 Free (T. Steffl) . Marlin swimmers also won the 200 Free (M. Gegesky), 200 IM (M. Bagardi), diving (C.Sevald), 100 Fly (N. Barczak), 100 Free (K. Jefferson), and 500 Free (G. Staudt). The Marlins showed great depth in having all remaining swimmers place in top 8 and exhibition swimmers improve times on Friday night.
The Marlins will be preparing this week for the State Meet next Friday and Saturday in Holland with the divers having their qualifying meet this Tuesday.
MARLINS BEAT PIONEER AND STEVENSON
October 20, 2008
The Mercy Marlins had a great weekend beating Ann Arbor Pioneer on Friday night and Livonia Stevenson on Saturday afternoon.
The atmosphere at the Pioneer meet was "electrifying" with over 300 excited fans packing the pool to watch the Marlins swim Pioneer who had not lost a dual meet in over 8 years. The Marlins won the meet 111-75 by showing strong depth (most often a 2-3-4 finish) in events Pioneer won, packing the relays by winning 2 events and always grabbing third place, and winning the distance events. It was truly a great team effort that won the meet with all swimmers and divers contributing to the win.
The Marlins will be off this week with the next meet at Grosse Pointe North High School on Tuesday, October 28.
NEW POOL RECORDS
October 15, 2008
During our last home meet of the season, five new pool records where set by our Marlins. Starting with the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:50.38 (Taylor Steffl, Alex Swies, Nikki Barczak and Kaitlyn Jefferson), old time was 1:52.29. Nikki Barczak set new time of 24.59 in the 50 Free, old time was 24.74. 200 Free Relay team of (Kaitlyn Jefferson, Taylor Steffl, Emily Reamer and Nikki Barczak) set new time of 1:38.99 beating the old time of 1:40.43. To finish the night off, the 400 Free Relay team of (Kaitlyn Jefferson, Megan Gegesky, Maria Bargardi and Nikki Barczak) went out and beat the old time of 3:38.58 with a new time of 3:36.90. Leading off the 400 Free Relay, Kaitlyn Jefferson set new pool record for the 100 Free with a time of 53.70
Congratulations Marlins!!
October 13, 2008
The Mercy Marlins swam very well at the MISCA meet this past Saturday at Eastern Michigan with Mercy winning the 200 Medley, 200 Free, and 400 Free Relays. Several swimmers were able to make state cuts and others improved on their times in the fast EMU pool.
The Marlins have a busy upcoming week with versus Livonia Ladywood at 6:00 pm on Tuesday followed by Senior Night events, an exciting dual meet at 7:00 pm on Friday at Ann Arbor Pioneer, and a big meet Saturday at noon at Livonia Stevenson. Please come out and support your Marlins at these exciting meets.
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