INDIANAPOLIS – A preview of the 2016 IHSAA Girls Swimming State Finals.

DUNLAP – Paige Miller qualified for state in two events to highlight Wawasee’s day at the Concord Girls Swimming Sectional Saturday afternoon.

Warsaw and Wawasee have championship aspirations after Thursday’s sectional girls swim prelims at Warsaw and Concord.

A preview of the upcoming girls swim sectionals at Concord and Warsaw.

WARSAW – A recap of Warsaw sports action for Saturday, Jan. 23.

CULVER – Warsaw earned dual wins for both boys and girls swim teams Tuesday at Culver Academy.

DUNLAP – Brenna Morgan of Warsaw defended two titles and Northridge won the rest at Saturday’s Northern Lakes Conference Girls Swim Championships.

DUNLAP – A preview of the 2015-16 Northern Lakes Conference Girls Swimming Championships.

DUNLAP – Concord used a superior showing to best Warsaw in both the boys and girls swim duals Saturday morning at Concord.

WARSAW – The Warsaw boys and girls swim teams finished atop the standings at a mini invite Wednesday that included Rochester, Tippecanoe Valley and Huntington North.

ZIONSVILLE – Brenna Morgan won two events at Saturday’s Zionsville Swim Invite.

SYRACUSE – Lifetime bests highlighted Wawasee’s pair of huge wins against Plymouth in NLC swimming Thursday evening.

WARSAW – Both boys and girls swim teams from Warsaw earned wins against Plymouth Tuesday evening.

WARSAW – Warsaw’s boys and girls swim teams bested Goshen Saturday afternoon while Lady Tiger Brenna Morgan set a school record in the 200 freestyle.

MIDDLEBURY – A recap of Northridge double wins against Warsaw and Memorial, which had Warsaw top Memorial in the double dual swim meet Tuesday night.

WARSAW – Photos and highlights from the 2015 Warsaw Swim Invite held Saturday at WCHS.

NAPPANEE – Warsaw took care of business in the pool, beating NorthWood in both boys and girls dual action Thursday night.

NAPPANEE – NorthWood’s girls and Tippecanoe Valley’s boys won dual swim meets at NorthWood Monday night.

GOSHEN – Warsaw won six of 11 events to claim the team championship at Saturday’s Goshen Girls Swim Relays.

SYRACUSE – A preview of local girls swimming for the 2015-16 season.

GOSHEN – Nate Long was recently hired as the head boys and girls swimming and diving coach at Goshen High School. Long is a Warsaw Community High School graduate (2005) who was a four-year letter winner in boys swimming where he excelled in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles as well as the 200 and …read more.

MIDDLEBURY – The stage is officially set for Saturday’s girls swimming sectional finals at Northridge High School. 11 teams gathered at Northridge’s natatorium Thursday night for the sectional preliminaries and, as expected, Saturday’s title will come down to Wawasee and Northridge. The Warriors will enter Saturday’s finals with 15 girls racing for sectional titles and …read more.

WARSAW – Warsaw will be among the contenders in the finals of the Warsaw Girls Swimming Sectional Saturday afternoon, but so will three other teams after a balanced preliminary round Thursday night. While times are generally relative to just needing to qualify for the finals, Warsaw has just nine swimmers in the championship round along …read more.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference officially released All-NLC selections for wrestling, boys swimming and girls swimming for the 2014-15 season. It was classic NLC domination for three of the conference’s historically dominant programs in Northridge boys and girls swimming and Elkhart Memorial wrestling as the three programs ran undefeated and untouched in round robin …read more.

There will either be pure joy or pure agony this weekend for swimmers around the state. Thursday night rings in the beginning of two judgment days of girls swimming, with sectional preliminaries leading into Saturday’s championship meets. Golden tickets will be handed out for winners to advance to state, as well as those able to …read more.

WARSAW – It was another productive day Saturday for the Warsaw swim program. The Warsaw boys team collected three wins, while the girls squad went 2-1 in a four-team meet held at WCHS. The Tigers defeated Rochester 221-179, Columbia City 231-128 and Bremen 216-189 in boys’ action. The girls team topped Columbia City 206-156 and …read more.

WARSAW – Tuesday’s swim matchups between Culver Academy and host Warsaw provided a nice preview to the sectional tournaments in February. A 122-63 victory by the visiting Culver girls and a 138-48 whipping by Warsaw’s boys left plenty to be mulled for the coming weeks. Warsaw’s boys, having had just one meet in the past …read more.

MIDDLEBURY – It was Northridge’s day to celebrate yet another Northern Lakes Conference girls swimming team title, but the two teams from Kosciusko County had plenty to be excited about at the NLC Championships Saturday afternoon. Between Wawasee and Warsaw, the two clubs claimed eight of the 12 event titles and did so in resounding …read more.

MIDDLEBURY – A sort of order was restored to the Northern Lakes Conference girls swimming world this season. At least in terms of tradition. After Wawasee shook up the conference in 2014 with its first title in almost two decades, Northridge reloaded with a very strong freshman class and took back what its claimed for …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw girls swim team wrapped up conference competition Saturday with a home loss to Concord. The guests won all but one event en route to a 130-55 win in the Northern Lakes Conference matchup. Warsaw’s lone individual win came from standout Brenna Morgan. She took first in the 50 freestyle with a …read more.

GOSHEN – It was a cold way for Goshen to close down its swimming pool Saturday afternoon. Decades of Goshen swim history was set in the old pool, but was reduced to a drafty, chilly scene Saturday as Wawasee won both the girls and boys meets against the hosts. The Lady Warriors claimed 10 victories …read more.

The local sports schedule was pretty light Wednesday, and only got lighter with the snow and wind forcing a pair of events to go under. The Oregon-Davis at Triton girls basketball game was postponed from tonight to Saturday, Jan. 17. The JV game will begin at 2 p.m. with the varsity to follow. The Warsaw …read more.

[weaver_youtube wjp6JnFhIR4 rel=0] MIDDLEBURY – The elder members of the Northridge girls swim team remembered what it felt like last January in Syracuse. Cold. Bitter. Unhappy. There wouldn’t be any repeat performance Tuesday night. In fact, it felt like old times for the Northridge girls swim program, pounding Wawasee 108-78 to reassert itself as the …read more.

ELKHART – Another sweep for the Warsaw boys swim team, plowing past Elkhart Memorial 127-43 Thursday night. Memorial’s girls did nearly the same to Warsaw, winning 112-58. Without diving taking place, Warsaw won the 11 boys swim events and again swept several events. Zach Taylor, Josh Miller and Jayden Parrett each led sweeps of individual …read more.

WARSAW – Plymouth proved no match for either the boys or girls swim teams from Warsaw Tuesday night. The Tiger boys swept all 12 events in a 153-27 boys romp while the Lady Tigers had 10 event wins in a 122-60 triumph. Warsaw’s rolling of the boys meet had the team focused more on intra-squad …read more.

GOSHEN – Warsaw welcomed back its missing men for a big win at Goshen, 135-50, while the Lady Tigers ran into a talented Goshen team and were dealt a 116-64 loss Saturday. Dealing with program suspensions up and down the board in a lopsided loss to Northridge Thursday night, the penalties were paid and the …read more.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee girls swim team welcomed in nine other schools for the annual Wawasee Invitational Saturday morning and the Warriors were certainly not generous hosts. Wawasee, undefeated so far this season, once again put on display why it is one of the areas premier programs. The ladies finished with a total team score …read more.

[weaver_youtube _5j-fR7CziM rel=0] WARSAW – On paper, this matchup was supposed to be so much more. But reality set in Thursday in the boys and girls swim duals between Warsaw and visiting Northridge. Suspensions in the Warsaw boys program and an incredible amount of depth in the Northridge girls program made the finals scores almost …read more.

[weaver_youtube M7MOvP8Y0aI rel=0] SYRACUSE – It’s the middle of December, but it felt like the middle of January Tuesday night at the Wawasee Natatorium. In a budding rivalry between Northern Lakes Conference girls swimming powers Wawasee and Concord, it literally came down to the final points given. When the splash surged the south wall of …read more.

WARSAW – Warsaw’s boys swim team made no bones it was in a class by itself at the Warsaw Tiger Invite Saturday. The girls team wasn’t that bad, either. The Tiger boys rolled to a title, scoring 763 points to blow away the six-team field that had Muncie Central second at 441 and Penn third …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw boys swim team had a relatively easy night against NorthWood, winning the Northern Lakes Conference dual, 143-41, while the Lady Tigers got a better fight from NorthWood in a 107-61 Warsaw win Thursday evening. The boys won 11 of the 12 events and almost claimed all 12 in what shaped up …read more.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee’s swim program both added Northern Lakes Conference wins Tuesday night in lopsided victories against Elkhart Memorial. Memorial was able to take three of the four speed races, otherwise, Wawasee won the other 21 of 24 events in a 119-64 boys win and 127-56 girls win at the Wawasee Natatorium. The Warrior boys …read more.

AKRON – NorthWood used the efforts of several swimmers to beat host Tippecanoe Valley in both boys and girls swim duals Monday night. The Panther boys won nine of the 12 events to claim a 90-48 win while the Lady Panthers grabbed 10 of the 12 events in a 107-72 triumph. Kate Jarvis, Megan Stankovich …read more.

[weaver_youtube i6TyAL6j8pY rel=0] SYRACUSE – Wawasee asserted itself that it’s back for another run as the Northern Lakes Conference girls swim conference season opened Saturday. Entertaining rival Warsaw at the Wawasee Middle School Natatorium, the Lady Warriors had no trouble in posting a 136-47 win over the Lady Tigers. Wawasee were victors in 11 of …read more.

KENDALLVILLE – Wawasee earned its second girls swimming team win of the season against non-conference opponents with a 124-62 win Tuesday night at East Noble. Wawasee won nine of the 12 events, but were challenged from East Noble’s frontline talent. Bre Robinson and Shelby Adams both earned a pair of wins for the Lady Warriors, …read more.

WARSAW – Warsaw opened the Tony DeBrota era in fine fashion Tuesday night, crushing Manchester in both boys and girls swimming duals. The Tiger boys swept all 12 events to post a 151-23 scoreline while the girls also swept in a 130-39 final. DeBrota took over the programs this season after serving as an assistant …read more.

WARSAW – The Northern Lakes Conference has had some outstanding young swimmers come through the ranks in recent years. Warsaw’s Brenna Morgan was one of the latest, taking the conference by storm as a freshman and only going up from there. All eyes in last year’s NLC championship series were squarely focused on what the …read more.

[weaver_youtube feL_l37rXyQ rel=0] SYRACUSE – There wasn’t any big ceremony or hoopla surrounding opening day in the Wawasee Natatorium for the Wawasee girls swim team. Just business as usual. Coming off one of the finest seasons in program history, Wawasee kept its approach simple in a 149-29 dismantling of DeKalb Saturday morning. Wawasee swept 10 …read more.

SYRACUSE – For the first time in a lifetime, literally, the target will be pinned squarely on Wawasee’s girls swim team’s swimsuits. Sectional champs for the first time since 1999. Northern Lakes Conference champions and undefeated for the first time since 1996. Drawing envy from Concord AND Northridge for the first time ever. It’s an …read more.

SYRACUSE – The ‘Little Engine That Can’ will soon graduate to a locomotive. Wawasee senior Bre Robinson hasn’t been big in stature, attitude or flash in the pool. But the superstar swimmer has made a splash decision, signing with Purdue University on a full-ride scholarship to continue her swim career as a Boilermaker. “What I …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw boys and girls swimming teams will hold a call-out meeting for the 2014-15 season Thursday. The short meeting will be held tomorrow after school in the Natatorium. Any boy or girl interested in swimming or diving should attend the meeting.  

Our final installment of the Top 10 lists features the five teams we feel had the best overall season in the 2013-14 calendar year. One just ended their season two weeks ago with one of its relay teams posting a second-place finish at the state finals while the other had an athlete take two second-place …read more.

Our look at the top 10 teams in the area actually mixes in two teams cut of the same cloth. The Wawasee boys and girls cross country teams had a historical season, checking in together at No. 10 while their classmates on the softball team had a season for the books, taking our No. 6 …read more.

GOSHEN – The winter sports seasons aren’t quite finished, but the Northern Lakes Conference has released a majority of its All-NLC teams. Four of the five NLC sports lists were issued Monday from conference secretary Larry Kissinger. Teams for girls basketball, boys and girls swimming, and wrestling were formally released. Boys basketball has not officially …read more.

[weaver_youtube cDGEEFYHtys rel=0] INDIANAPOLIS – If Friday night’s preliminaries of the IHSAA Girls Swimming State Finals were any indication, those in attendance Saturday are in for a real treat. In one of the fastest prelims in state history, five event records were rewritten and seven swimmers in all broke a state record throughout the meet. …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS – All the posturing is over, for the most part. The weekend is here, and with it brings the IHSAA Girls Swimming State Championships. Several new faces will descend upon Indianapolis and the Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI with over three-dozen freshmen scheduled to race, but the veteran stars will likely shine in …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS – After a brutal winter, most everyone is thinking about migrating south in search of warmer climates. Well, given the south was hit with a foot of snow in places like Charlotte and Atlanta, maybe going south isn’t much better. In the case of several freshmen in the area, heading south to do some …read more.

[weaver_youtube NevFBnYwizs rel=0] DUNLAP – Saturday’s Northern Lakes Conference Girls Swimming Championships certainly will be remembered by Wawasee fans as a historical day. Wawasee pulled off what a dozen season’s worth of NLC teams have not been able to do, beat Northridge, and did so resoundingly by scoring 447 points to trump the field. The …read more.

[weaver_youtube QEaG66WpBGA rel=0] DUNLAP – Thursday night’s preliminary round of the Northern Lakes Conference Girls Swimming Championships provided little in the way of drama. But the sense of anticipation in what should be a very competitive final is building as the heavy hitters all are primed for Saturday’s final. Prelim swims at Concord had the …read more.

[weaver_youtube NuRyV57QsHE rel=0] SYRACUSE – The last time Wawasee had reason to cheer following a girls swim dual with Northridge, most of Wawasee’s roster were not yet born. But the echoes of 1996 were raised Monday night as the Lady Warriors broke a 16-year losing streak to Northridge in a 105-81 victory, and in turn …read more.

[weaver_youtube o8etiDRUt8g rel=0] SYRACUSE – With the Northern Lakes Conference girls swim championships just a week away, several scores still needed settling in the conference round robin. The first came Saturday morning as Wawasee hosted Goshen in a huge girls swim showdown. And the hosts stunned Goshen, 113-73, in a huge statement heading into one …read more.

It’s technically still Christmas Break in the area, and the snow has finally made winter look a little more like winter. That being said, several “Holiday” tournaments are scheduled to take place this weekend as area sports start to heat up again this first weekend of January after a rather dormant end to December. Of …read more.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee boys and girls concluded its pre-Christmas Northern Lakes Conference schedule Thursday night with a pair of big wins against visiting Plymouth. The Lady Warriors moved to 7-0 overall and 5-0 in the NLC with a 143-36 victory while the boys earned its second win in three days with a 122-37 triumph, …read more.

[weaver_youtube io_6NChv4zw rel=0] NAPPANEE – NorthWood didn’t provide Wawasee with much of a challenge in terms of competition Tuesday night in girls Northern Lakes Conference swimming. The challenge came from within, as Wawasee is looking to sharpen up for what could be a wild final week of the regular season. The Lady Warriors took care …read more.

[weaver_youtube OLlGqhkslfs rel=0] DUNLAP – The first major hurdle of the Wawasee girls swim season was cleared Tuesday night. Despite a game effort from the host Concord girls swimmers, Wawasee managed enough depth points to pull away for a 95-77 victory in a key Northern Lakes Conference showdown. Wawasee, which had not been tested in …read more.

ELKHART – The Wawasee girls and Elkhart Memorial boys had big nights in the Memorial pool Tuesday, picking up team wins in Northern Lakes Conference swims. The Wawasee girls rolled, winning all 12 events for the second time in four meets, beating Memorial 127-59. The Memorial boys won the first six events and eight overall …read more.

WARSAW – It became a matter of depth in deciding things between Wawasee and Warsaw’s girls swim teams. A deeper Wawasee roster stole points in several areas to defeat Warsaw 118-67 Saturday morning at the WCHS Community Pool. Wawasee won eight of the 12 events, and in Warsaw taking the other four, Wawasee finished second-third-fourth …read more.

SYRACUSE – Tuesday night presented Wawasee’s girls swim program another chance to see what it was made of in the pool. And for the second time in as many meets, the very young Lady Warriors made striking impressions in a 129-57 win over visiting East Noble. Freshman Paige Miller had a huge meet for the …read more.

SYRACUSE – The expectations are always tempered with Julie Robinson on opening weekend. But her Wawasee girls swim team did its usual barnstorming of the Barons of DeKalb in a 144-32 victory Saturday morning at the Wawasee Middle School Natatorium. In a point spread that unbalanced, it was a balance from the roster that pleased …read more.

SYRACUSE – The excitement of what might be this year for the Wawasee girls swim team is only just beginning. But, please don’t try to convince head coach Julie Robinson this team is a world beater. “Every year, we just want to take things one meet at a time,” Robinson stated. “We can’t worry about …read more.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpV8q3Xu5zU]   INDIANAPOLIS — The stage is now set at the IHSAA Girls Swimming State Championships. The preliminary rounds had seven of the 11 events represented by Wawasee or Warsaw individuals or teams, but just Breanna Robinson of Wawasee will take the blocks at the IUPUI Natatorium Saturday afternoon at the state finals. Robinson, …read more.

A year ago, the Robinson name made a huge splash at the IHSAA Girls Swimming State Finals. Eyes this year will again focus on a Robinson, but with different expectations. In 2012, Brittany Robinson was the star of the show, winning the butterfly in record fashion, setting the new standard for all to chase at …read more.

The girls swim teams from Wawasee and Warsaw high schools set themselves up for big Saturday afternoons after a big night in IHSAA sectional preliminaries at Northridge and Warsaw. At Northridge, Wawasee took the top slot in six of the 11 swims, including both the 200 and 400 free relays and a pair of freestyle …read more.

It’s no secret around the state that the girls swimming sectionals are a do or die proposition. All those early morning practices. The two-a-days. The super cramped conference and invitational schedules mashed in before the holiday. Now, it’s go time. With the ushering in of the Northridge and Warsaw Girls Swimming Sectionals Thursday and ultimately …read more.

The Northern Lakes Conference issued its official lists for the 2012-13 All-Northern Lakes Conference teams for boys and girls swimming as well as wrestling. Girls and boys basketball will be released in the coming weeks. Gymnastics does not field a full compliment of Northern Lakes Conference teams, thus, no postseason conference awards. Girls Swimming Northridge …read more.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqotQwXYsWQ] MIDDLEBURY — It was a great day to be a coach at the Northern Lakes Conference Girls Swimming Championship finals held at Northridge. Coaches all over the deck were pumping fists, erasing personal best times and standing in adulation at the achievements of their respective athletes. Northridge head coach Joe Keller got to …read more.

MIDDLEBURY — Winter tournament season officially began Thursday with the preliminary round of the Northern Lakes Conference girls swim championships. The positioning at the Northridge Natatorium had all eight conference schools swimming for championship and consolation swims this Saturday also to be held at Northridge. Diving will kick off Saturday’s activity in the morning with …read more.

GOSHEN — With the swim postseason squarely on the horizon, business was still in order Saturday for a pair of very tired swim programs. Goshen hosted Wawasee Saturday morning in the final round robin meet for the two teams as the teams prepare for its respective Northern Lakes Conference swim championships. Wawasee got all it …read more.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee opened its 2012-13 swim campaign with very little opposition from visiting DeKalb, winning 148-34. Wawasee took first and second place in all 12 events, and in a half dozen cases, swept the entire event. Leading Wawasee were Kayla Hershberger, Kendra Miller and Breanna Robinson, each laying claim to responsibility of four wins. …read more.