Swimmers from Council Rock South, Central Bucks East & Plymouth Whitemarsh are featured in this week’s notebook.
SOL National Conference
Chloe Timet, Council Rock South
Time flew by for Chloe Timet.
“It’s really hard to believe that my swim career is coming to an end,” said Timet, a senior at Council Rock South..jpg)
“I’ve been swimming since I was in third grade so that’s a pretty long time.”
Timet is part of a Council Rock swimming family. Her uncle is Council Rock North boys head coach Brian Johnson, who swam for a unified Council Rock as did Timet’s mother Beth and aunt Terri. Terri’s twin daughters Colleen and Lindsay Robinson also swam for CR South as does Chloe’s twin sister Katie.
“Everyone swam in my family and I thought I could do it too,” she said.
The Golden Hawks finished off the dual meet season with a loss to Council Rock North.
“It’s a little sad that it was the last one but I keep telling people that when something good is ending, that means something good is coming,” she said.
The good thing for her is the beginning of her college career.
“I’m going to start off at Bucks County Community College to get my prerequisites and then I’ll transfer somewhere else but I’m not sure where yet,” she said. “My goal is to become a special education teacher, hopefully in elementary school.”
In her spare time, she hopes to learn how to play the ukulele she got for Christmas, and she enjoys ceramics.
“I’d really like to get better on the pottery wheel,” she said. “When you can’t center the clay, it’s frustrating but then again it makes you work harder to try to get it right.”
SOL Continental Conference
Erik Huuki, Central Bucks East
Erik Huuki is an ‘all or nothing’ kind of guy.
The junior at Central Bucks East gave up baseball to concentrate on swimming.
“When I was six, I started summer swimming at Fanny Chapman,” he said. “My parents just signed me up for it and I really liked it. Eventually some of my friends got me into swimming year-round at Central Bucks Swim Team.
“I was playing baseball too, but when I was 13, I made a full commitment to swimming and it was the right decision for me.”
He has high hopes for the post-season.
“I really, really want to make the automatic for states which in District One is next to impossible because you have to finish in the top five,” he said.
A backstroker by trade, he has actually targeted the 200 individual medley and 500 freestyle as his individual events.
“The 200 backstroke is really my event but they don’t swim that in high school (it’s 100 yards) so that’s not an option for me,” he said. “The IM and the 500 are the events I think I have the best chance in.
“As a freshman I didn’t even make it to districts. Last year I made it but I didn’t get to states so this year I really want to get that done.”
He would like to swim in college and has his eye on Air Force.
“I went on a training trip with CBST to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, which is really close to where Air Force is so I got to see it and it was really beautiful.”
He hasn’t chosen a major yet but is mulling the possibilities, which include engineering, computer science, or perhaps chemistry.
SOL American Conference
Nick Fiddler, Plymouth Whitemarsh
You don’t have to ask Nick Fiddler twice what the pivotal moment of his swimming career was.
“Going to states was the greatest experience of my life,” said Fiddler, a junior at Plymouth Whitemarsh. “It was the greatest atmosphere of any sporting event I’ve ever been to.”
Fiddler was the only representative for the Colonials at last year’s PIAA Class 3A championships, competing in the 100-yard butterfly.
“I really want to get back there again this year,” he said. “That’s a big motivation for me. I have times in my head and my coach has times for me to hit and that’s what pushes me every day.”
He is very focused on the 100 butterfly.
“Fly is my favorite,” he said. “But for my other event I’m looking at either the 100 freestyle or the 100 backstroke. We’ll see which one I’m closer to the district cut in. If I work hard enough I think I can get a cut in one of them.
“I’d also love for us to get our medley relay or 200 free relay to states and I think we can do that.”
He has been swimming since age six.
“My brother and sister both swam and they got me into it,” he said.
His sister Julia is a senior on the Colonials squad.
He would like to swim in college but has not picked a school yet. He is hoping to major in business or finance.
“I really like math,” he said.
He is a member of the National Honor Society.
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