Summit Family Aquatic Center is Looking for Lifeguards

The Summit Family Aquatic Center is looking for qualified lifeguards.

Editor's Note: This information was originally published on the City of Summit's website. The City of Summit’s Family Aquatic Center is in search of qualified Lifeguards for the 2013 Season. Applicants must hold current American Red Cross Certification as Lifeguard and CPR. All interested applicants must be at least 16 years of age and in possession of their certifications at time of hire. The Summit Family Aquatic Center is an award winning facility with a staff of over 50 employees. Most Lifeguards stay with the City for most of their High School and College careers and receive annual increments for each year of service. Safety is paramount at the Summit Family Aquatic Center. Drills and rescue exercises are practiced regularly. Pay …

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Bowen Sets 2 Records at UCT

Loring Bowen provided Summit with two first-place finishes and set two new records when he won the 100 back in 52.51 and the 100 butterfly in 52.07.

Boys Swimming Falls To Scotch Plains in Sectional Final

Defending champion Hilltoppers overwhelmed by Raiders' Napolitano brothers.

PERTH AMBOY–The seniors on Summit's boys swimming team have put together possibly the best four-year run in program history, including a state sectional title and two appearances in a sectional final. It was truly a remarkable run for the 12 seniors on coach Dave Pease's squad, even if the end wasn't ideal. Summit fell to Scotch Plains, 95-75, in the North 2, Public B final Friday afternoon at the Raritan Bay Area YMCA. The Hilltoppers were defending sectional champions. Fittingly, a pair of seniors, Kirby Voigtman and Kevin Ng, picked up the Hilltoppers' two race wins. Voigtman won the 100 backstroke in 56.39 seconds, beating Scotch Plains' second-place finisher, Will Benn by more than two seconds. Ng won the 100 breastroke in 1:04 flat, …

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Girls Swim Team Falls to Chatham, 117-53

Fries walks away with lone victory.

It was a rough day for the Summit High School girls swim team as they fell to a powerful Chatham High School, 117-54 on Tuesday evening at the Morris-Union Jointure pool. In fact, the day was so rough that only one Summit swimmer would walk away with a victory. After losing five straight races, senior captain Carey Fries took to the diving platform for the 500 meter freestyle. The senior looked very impressive, recording a 5:18.90 time that would be good enough for first place in the event, bettering second place Chatham by nine seconds. "Carey's going off to college next year and we're going to miss her. She's been a great leader here since she was a freshman and we really can't replace her," head coach John Ross said after the meet. …

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Boys Swimming Looks to Continue Their Winning Ways

Hilltoppers, 5-0, visit New Providence this afternoon; face Scotch Plains-Fanwood Thursday.

After a two-week layoff for the holiday break, the Summit boys swimming team returns to action this week, hoping to pick up right were it left off - winning. Summit (5-0) visits New Providence on Tuesday and returns home to face Scotch-Plains Fanwood at the Summit YMCA on Thursday. Meet time for Thursday is 3:30 p.m. Prior to the break, Summit achieved something it had not done in 25 years: beat Seton Hall Prep. Behind two individual wins by senior Kevin Ng in the 200 individual medley (2:07.99) and the 100 breaststroke (1:05.70), the Hilltoppers defeated Seton Hall Prep, 90-80, for its first victory over the school since 1984. "Randy Schweitzer does a great job as their (Seton Hall Prep) coach for so many years," said Summit coach David …

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Girls Swimming a Force to Be Reckoned With

Hilltoppers visit Elizabeth at 4:30 p.m.

Four meets into the 2009-10 season, Summit High's girls swimming squad looks like a force to be reckoned with, as it prepares for its final 2009 opponent, Elizabeth, later this afternoon. Summit continues its season at Plainfield after the holiday break on Jan. 14. Summit (3-1) opened the season with a 121-49 victory against in-town rival Oak Knoll on Dec. 1, then placed second behind host Pingry in the Big Blue Tournament with 322 points on Dec. 5. This marked the best finish for a Summit team in the short five-year history of the tournament. Summit has won its last two meets: a 100-69 victory against cross-town rival Kent Place on Dec. 7 and a 98-72 win against Mendham this past Thursday. The victory against Kent Place, combined with the…

Girls Swimming Falls to Chatham, 98-72

Carey Fries, Tasha Kewalramani, KJ Winchell, and Jackie Joffe broke school record for 200 IM relay.

Chatham defeated the Summit girls swim team Wednesday, 98- 72, in the second meet of the season. However, senior Carey Fries, freshman Tasha Kewalramani, senior KJ Winchell, and freshman Jackie Joffe broke the school record for the 200 IM relay, previoiusly set in  2003, with a time of 1:54.87.  "Kewalramani was .07 sec away from breaking the school record in the 100 breast stroke with a time of 1:10.77," said head coach John Ross in an e-mail. "This record has stood since 1978." Fries won the 200 free with a time of 1:59.99 and the 500 free with a time of 5:22.24.  Winchell, Joffe, sophomore Jayne Mandel, and Fries won the 400 free relay with a time of 3:51.88.