One of the less publicized sports at U. City is girls swimming. In fact, some students don’t even know the Natatorium exists.

As a third-year swimmer, junior Korinna Brandt feels the pain of the team’s small size.
“While swimming might seem like it’s an individual, swimming is actually a team sport because we all help the team score points in order to win meets,” said Brandt,.“That is why we need more members.”
Junior Alexandra Jolliff backs up Brandt’s opinion.

“The way the scoring is set up, the more races our team is in, the more we score,” said Jolliff. “However, there’s a limit to how many races a person can do, and there are some teams we can’t beat even if we win every race.”

Head Swim Coach Lhotak strongly thinks it is a necessity to increase the size of the team.
“We need more members because in order to fill out the whole roaster in a meet we need 16 or 17 swimmers, and we only have 10,” said Lhotak.

Sophomore Ericah Brown also feels that there aren’t enough swimmers when comes down to the line-up of swim meets.

“We need more people because our players usually don’t get enough rest,” said Brown. “One time I had to do two races back-to-back, which was very tiring.”

Brown believes that the team isn’t very well-known either.

“We’re an overshadowed sport,” said Brown. “Most people don’t know about us and don’t even know that we have a pool until I tell them about it.”