Beechview Swim Club came out on top in the Farmington All-City Quad Meet on Saturday at Kendallwood Swim Club.
Beechview finished the 52-event meet with 585 points overall, besting three of its Northwest Suburban Swim League rivals in Farmington Glen Aquatic Club (533), Woodbrooke Hills Swim & Tennis (452) and Kendallwood Club (374).
“It was just a great day,” Beechview coach Driska McCullough said. “We had good swims and our kids’ flip turns are improving. Most importantly, you saw some great smiles out here.”
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Out of the 46 individual events, a Beechview swimmer took first place in 14 of them. In addition, Beechview won two of the six relay events.
“I was especially pleased with how our swimmers in the 8-and-under group did,” McCullough said.
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Even though Farmington Glen finished in second place for the day, it had the most first-place finishes of the four teams with 15 individual event wins and three relay wins. Kendallwood had 12 individual event wins while Woodbrooke Hills had five individual event wins and one relay event victory.
The event also saw 13 swimmers win more than one individual event with Madison Ruffin (Beechview), Trevor Franklin (Farmington Glen), Danny McNeece (Kendallwood), Marina Borri (Beechview), Brodeo Jamieson (Farmington Glen), Katie Romero (Beechview), Madeline Greaves (Farmington Glen), T-Bird Jones (Farmington Glen), McKenna Greaves (Farmington Glen), J.T. Gidley (Kendallwood), Lauren Folkert (Kendallwood), Emily Burnett (Beechview) and Eric Gensheimer (Farmington Glen) each earning two first-place ribbons on the day.
The meet had 359 swimmers entered, ranging in age from 6 to 18, competing in the freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and individual medley.
The meet was not the only event for the swimmers on the day, with Woodbrooke Hills hosting a dance later in the evening for all competitors and their families.
The competition also aimed to help a worthy cause with proceeds from the 50/50 raffle going to the Special Olympics.
Correction: In the initial version of this story, Beechview coach Driska McCullough's name was misspelled.