Area swimmers compete in YMCA national competition

Eleven local high schools swimmers will represent the Lima YMCA this week for the YMCA National Competition April 3-7 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Swimmers are from Ada, Bath, Bluffton, Elida, Shawnee, Van Wert and Wapakoneta high school swim teams and will represent the Lima area.

All swimmers had to qualify with top time cuts to be invited to Nationals. The competition will include more than 325 teams with more than 1000 swimmers from YMCA teams across the United States.
This year is the 100th year of this competition and past Olympic swimmers and other professional swimmers will be in attendance. Swimmers are coached by head coach April Dorman of Bluffton and assistant coaches Jeff Bowlus, Lima; Luke Kleman, Glandorf and Scott Newman, Lima.

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