Swimmers from CR South, CB South and Upper Moreland are featured in this week’s notebook.
National Conference
CR South’s Huh looking for variety - Yuna Huh has been expanding her horizons.
The Council Rock South junior has been noted as a freestyler in the past but this season she’s been swimming a variety.
“Last year toward the end of the season I swam a little bit of breaststroke but mostly I just did freestyle,” said Huh, a junior.
“I like swimming diverse strokes. I don’t like swimming the same thing over and over again so I like having this variety.
“I kept bugging my coach to put me in a different event because all I was swimming was freestyle and it was getting boring. You can definitely get stale swimming the same things.”
She swam at the District One Class AAA meet last year as part of a relay.
“That was a good experience and very motivating,” she said. “I really want to go back and swim in an individual event.”
The Golden Hawks are having a good season.
“I’m very excited for our team,” she said. “We have a lot of good swimmers and divers and I can’t wait to see what we can do.”
She hasn’t made a college decision yet but is considering Delaware.
“I have a friend who goes there, and right now it might be my number one choice,” Huh said. “I’m really not quite sure where I want to go but I know I want to go somewhere close to home and I’d like to swim.”
She is keeping her options open as far as choosing a major.
“Maybe something in the science field,” she said. “I’m considering being an engineer or a doctor maybe but I have time to figure that out.”
When she isn’t in the pool, Huh plays the piano and is very active in her church.
Continental Conference
Swimming a family affair for CB South’s Matsick - Caleb Matsick was looking for a sport, and his .jpg)
cousin had the answer.
“I have an older cousin, Nick Stachel, who was already swimming and he suggested it to me,” said Matsick, a sophomore at Central Bucks South. “I gave it a try and I’ve loved it ever since so swimming is definitely a family thing for us.”
Stachel swam at La Salle and is now a freshman breaststroker on the swim team at Pitt.
“He’s done really well and I’d like to follow in his footsteps,” Matsick said.
Matsick was six years old when he began swimming in the summer, and he began swimming year round two years later.
Swimming high school has been a learning experience for him.
“Last year was really an eye-opener,” he said. “Swimming at a club is a lot of work and relatively few meets, but swimming in high school you have a lot of meets, which I enjoy. You like to reap the rewards of practice and meets are a lot of fun.”
His top events are the 200-yard freestyle and 100 backstroke.
“I’m working hard to get to districts,” he said. “Our goal as a team is to qualify as many people as we can.”
He is not sure what his college plans are yet, but is keeping an open mind.
“Right now I’m focusing on high school,” he said. “I’m not sure what my major will be but I’m thinking about aeronautical engineering or just engineering in general. I’ve always liked planes.
In addition to swimming, he a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
American Conference
UM’s Coleman looking to get back in pool - If only Brennan Coleman could stay healthy.
It’s just been one thing after another for the Upper Moreland junior.
Last year he was warming up for a soccer game and took a kick - his calf muscle ripped off a part of his femur, called an avulsion fracture.
“I was out of the water from the beginning of November to the middle of January,” Coleman said.
He still made cuts in the District One Class AA meet in the 50, 200 and 500-yard freestyles. He chose the 50 and 500 and also swam in a relay.
“Last year was the first year I really swam the 200 so I wasn’t comfortable with it,” he said. “I swam it all this year so I’m more comfortable with it now.”
This year while playing goalie in an indoor soccer game for his club team, FC Bucks, he dove for a save and the ball pushed his finger and the ligament fractured the bone on the middle knuckle of his left finger, which then needed to be wrapped and rested.
“I’ll just jump right back in,” Coleman said. “After last year I feel good about my ability to get back in the water and make my cuts.”
He would like to major in chemical engineering and is considering Northeastern, Lehigh and the Naval Academy.
“It would be fantastic if I could swim in college,” he said.
He is a member of Upper Moreland’s Key Club and is on the committee for the Mini-thons. He is also a member of Boy Scout Troop 254.
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