Elon Club Swim competes at the CCS National Championships

Members of the Elon Club Swim team were selected to participate in the 2018 Collegiate Club Swimming & Diving National Championships in Atlanta, GA.

Elon Club Swim team members at the 2018 National Championships in Atlanta, GA. [Pictured from left to right (top row: Madison Clark, Jacob Whyte, Nathan Hunnicutt, Grayson Albers, Joe Stokes), (bottom row: Jen Dabrowski (advisor), Chris van Dijk, Gabby Ridge, Claire Strom, Pamela Danko, Hannah Stanicki) Matt Grinnell (not shown).]

On April 7 and 8, members of the Elon Club Swim team competed in the 2018 National Championship of College Club Swimming held at the McAuley Aquatic Center at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.

Collegiate Club Swimming is the collective organization that unifies 126 college club swim programs across the country and is backed by U.S. Masters Swimming. To qualify, students had to compete at meets and achieve qualifying times. In the pool, several student-athletes had personal bests, shaving seconds off their qualifying times. Team members in attendance included:

Individual Events

Pamela Danko (sophomore, President) – 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 100-yard IM

Claire Strom (1 year) – 50-yard butterfly, 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle

Matthew Grinnell (senior) – 50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard freestyle

Nathan Hunnicutt (Junior, co-Vice President) – 50-yard butterfly, 50-yard backstroke

Hannah Stanicki (1 year) – 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 50-yard breaststroke

Jacob Whyte (1 year) – 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle

Joe Stokes (sophomore) – 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle

Grayson Albers (sophomore, Treasurer) – 100-yard breaststroke, 100 yard IM

Christopher van Dijk (1st Year, co-Vice President) – 100-yard breaststroke, 50-yard breaststroke

Gabby Ridge (1 year) – 100-yard breaststroke

Madison Clark (senior) – team-selected volunteer (Each team is required to provide a volunteer to help time individual athletes for each event)

Relays

200-yard Medley Relay

Men – Gabby Ridge, Claire Strom, Hannah Stanicki, Pamela Danko

Women – Nathan Hunnicutt, Joe Stokes, Grayson Albers, Jacob Whyte

400-yard freestyle relay

Men – Jacob Whyte, Joe Stokes, Nathan Hunnicutt, Christopher van Dijk

Women – Gabby Ridge, Hannah Stanicki, Claire Strom, Pamela Danko

200-yard freestyle relay

Men – Jacob Whyte, Joe Stokes, Nathan Hunnicutt, Matthew Grinnell

Women – Gabby Ridge, Hannah Stanicki, Claire Strom, Pamela Danko

Elon women in the 4×50 relay were featured on the College Club Swimming Nationals Instagram page.