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Swimmers race in Saturday’s Open Water Swim Series on Auke Lake. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Open Water Swim gives swimmers strokes

Theme of no lines, no lanes, no limits inspires

Glacier Swim Club’s Valerie Peimann and Emma Fellman tied for first place for the 15-19 girls high-point award at the Alaska Swimming State Championships last weekend in Anchorage. At right is third-placer Lelaina Trembath of Chugiak Aquatics Club (Photo courtesy GSC).

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GSC places second in Alaska Swimming State Championships

Glacier Swim Club wins honors as seniors swim final meet.

Glacier Swim Club’s Amy Liddle (age 15), top, passes GSC teammate Lily Francis (16) in the girls 11 and over 1,650 freestyle during the 2025 Savannah Cayce Southeast Age Group Championships on Friday at the Dimond Park Aquatic Center. Liddle won the event. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Glacier Swim Club dominates Savannah Cayce SE swim championships

Three days of swimming fun and family, shows GSC strength across Southeast.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior swimmers Pacific Ricke and Lucia Chapell signed national letters of intent to become student-athletes at Bates College and Colorado College, respectively, Thursday at Augustus Brown Pool. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Chapell, Ricke sign to swim at Colorado and Bates

From Haines to Juneau, fast friends follow futures in the pool.

Glacier Swim Club’s Levi Phelps, center, was 1st place high point winner for 14 year old boys at the Alaska Age Group Champs in Fairbanks over the weekend. At left is third place Noah Unks of Chugiak Aquatics Club and at right is second place Haoran Zhang of Midnight Sun Swim Team. (Photo courtesy GSC)

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Glacier Swim Club thaws out Fairbanks pool with second-place team finish

Phelps, Soboleff, Woodruff pace team at Age Group Championships.

Glacier Swim Club athletes Valerie Peimann, Emma Fellman, Pacific Ricke, Lily Francis and Lucia Chapell dress for the cool pool weather at the 2025 Alaska Senior Championships in Soldotna last weekend. (Photo courtesy GSC)

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Peimann, Fellman lead GSC at Alaska Senior Championships

Glacier Swim Club brings 11 swimmers to Soldotna meet, set club record.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Emma Fellman signs a national letter of intent on Thursday at Augustus Brown Pool to attend and swim for the University of Minnesota. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Emma Fellman signs to swim at University of Minnesota

JDHS senior holds 17 high school and club records.

Glacier Swim Club members, left-to-right, Cora Soboleff, Clara Van Kirk, Natalie MacKinnon, Ellie Higgins, Leon Ward, coach Lisa Jones, Zach Holden, Josh Ely and Henry Thatcher during the 2024 November Rain swim meet at Petersburg last weekend. (Photo courtesy Glacier Swim Club)

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Glacier Swim Club competes at Petersburg’s November Rain

Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club participated in the November Rain Invitational swim meet last weekend at Petersburg’s Aquatic Center.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Amy Liddle leads Kenai junior Abigail Price and Palmer junior Kylie Benner en route to winning the girls 200 freestyle title during the ASAA Swim & Dive State Championships on Saturday at Anchorage’s Bartlett High School pool. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Liddle is big at Alaska high school state swim and dive championships

JDHS sophomore earns 200 free title, girls relay wins, Plang leads boys

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Parker Boman and sophomore Kennedy Miller swim the 100 breaststroke final at the Region V Championships last weekend in the Petersburg Aquatic Center. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Crimson Bears about to plunge into state swim championships

Girls look to defend team title behind top qualifying times, boys look to earn top-five team placing.

The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears girls swim and dive team won the 2024 Region V Championship Saturday at Petersburg. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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Crimson Bears girls swim to Region V team championship

JDHS sweeps girls relays, boys place second to Ketchikan.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé seniors Parker Boman, Lucia Chapell and Brooklyn Kanouse sport the teams new official JDHS Crimson Bears swim caps during practice Tuesday at Augustus Brown Pool in preparation for the Region V Swim & Dive Championships in Petersburg this weekend. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

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‘Water’s water’ as swim team prepares for region championships

Tapering and secrecy lead to records set and championships won

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Amy Liddle during her win in the girls 100 yard breaststroke on Friday in Sitka. (James Poulson/Daily Sitka Sentinel)

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JDHS swimmers swamp Sitka pool with fast times

Crimson Bears are in the right lanes for the region championships

Glacier Swim Club athletes Emma Fellman, Valerie Peimann and Lily Francis stand with coach Scott Griffith in a corn field after competing in a meet in Lake Oswego, Oregon, over the weekend. (Photo courtesy Glacier Swim Club)

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Glacier Swim Club trio competes in Oregon

Fellman, Peimann, Francis record first-place strokes.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s swim and dive team does a cheer before the start of the Kayhi Swim Invitational at the Gateway Aquatic Center last Friday. (Christopher Mullen/ Ketchikan Daily News)

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Crimson Bears devour Kings in Ketchikan pool

The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears swim and dive team had their second consecutive successful meet…

Juneau’s PJ Foy was named to the Junior National Team. (Alaska Sports Report photo)

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Juneau swimmer PJ Foy named to U.S. Junior National Team

Juneau swimmer PJ Foy’s big year just keeps getting better.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior swim captains Matthew Godkin, Matthew Plang, Pacific Ricke and Nova Hines were chosen by teammates to lead the Crimson Bears in the pool this season. Godkin and Hines swam last year for the now defunct Thunder Mountain High School Falcons. (Klas Stolpe/For the Juneau Empire)

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Swimmers find their lanes on combined JDHS team

Crimson Bears have 37 athletes who swim and 10 that dive, with 22 of them coming over from…

Athletes compete in a swim event at the Dimond Park Aquatic Center on Sept. 16, 2023. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire file photo)

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My Turn: It’s OK to say an athlete failed at obtaining a goal

During the telecasts of the 2024 Olympic trials commentators stated that around 1,000 athletes will be swimming in…

Lydia Jacoby, Alaska’s gold-medal swimmer, announced Tuesday she is withdrawing from the U.S. Olympic Trials. (Alaska Sports Report photo)

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P.J. Foy does not advance, Lydia Jacoby withdraws from U.S. Olympic swimming trials

First-ever Juneau swimmer to compete in trials finishes 49th among 61 competitors Friday.

Juneau’s PJ Foy, shown winning the 2023 100 yard butterfly in 48.27 for Thunder Mountain High School during the ASAA state championships at the Dimond Park Aquatics Center on Nov. 4, 2023, qualified for the 2024 June Olympic Team Trials by swimming a 100 long course meters butterfly in a personal best 53.44 on March 16, 2024, at the Speedo Sectionals in Federal Way, Washington. (Klas Stolpe for the Juneau Empire)

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Foy ‘flies’ through 100 meters to qualify for Olympic Swim Trials

“To do what nobody else can do, I need to do what nobody else will do”