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Tweet If you were going to have to spend the day outside yesterday, about the best reason would be a swim meet, don’t you think? Dozens of young swimmers packed the pool at Homestead Country Club Thursday for the finals of the MOKAN Swim League’s 2012 championships. The City of Mission Swim Club took home [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village tradition that was in jeopardy of coming to an end has been given new life. The city’s parks and recreation department announced late last week that they’d reached an agreement with former synchronized swimming coach and team member Nancy Morgan to head up the program again this year. As of just [...]
Tweet Pembroke Hill grad and Mission Hills native Bobby Bollier is putting together quite a resume heading into next year’s Olympic swim trials. Coming off a surprise 200-meter butterfly victory at the U.S. Swim Championships in Palo Alto earlier this month, Bollier picked up a silver medal in the event at the World University Games [...]
Tweet It can’t but help to have home pool advantage. Indian Hills pulled an upset victory at the Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City’s championships yesterday, nudging off perennial favorite Leawood South 1308.5 to 1305.5. Kansas City Country Club came in third at 1010. Indian Hills’ Cailey Grunhard helped the team’s effort and secured [...]
Tweet Pembroke Hill graduate and Mission Hills native Bobby Bollier, who is currently a junior at Stanford University, made it to the final heat of the 200 meter butterfly competition at the 2010 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Dubai last week. Bollier swam a personal best 1:53.26 in the preliminaries. The 1:53.61 he [...]
Tweet Students arriving at Shawnee Mission East next week for the start of school may notice that the pool building has a new feature on the north side: a sign reading “Wiley Wright Pool.” Principal Karl Krawitz announced that the building would be named after Wright during last year’s Senior Night festivities, an honor commemorating [...]
Tweet Mission Hills native Bobby Bollier notched a fourth place finish last night in the 200 meter butterfly finals at the USA National Swimming Championships in Irvine, Cal. Bollier had put in the third fastest performance in the preliminaries for the event, but was edged down a spot in the finals after Mark Dylla of [...]
Tweet Pembroke Hill graduate and Stanford junior Bobby Bollier will hit the pool at the USA Swimming National Championships in Irivine, Cal., today as one of the top-ranked butterfliers in the United States. It just so happens that his best event is also the one that prolific Olympian Michael Phelps holds the world record in. [...]
