Swimmers rally around teammate in cancer treatment

The Middlebury Aquatic Club collectively swam more than 59 miles to support their teammate Anders Pirrung, 13, who is undergoing treatment for leukemia.

As a collegiate swimmer, my body is not designed for exercise on dry land. Doing strenuous activity while supporting my own body weight? No thank you!  Bee Ecekls, an intern at the Addison Independent, got into cycling this summer. This past spring, after … (read more)

The Vergennes Champs Swim Team earned fourth place in Division I competition at the 2025 Vermont Swim Association’s state meet this past weekend, while the Middlebury Marlins Swim Team, despite its small number of competitors, found success and swam to an … (read more)

The Vergennes Champs swim team finished third and Middlebury Marlins swimmers took fifth in the Champlain Valley Swim League Championship Meet, hosted at the Middlebury town pool.

The Vergennes Champs easily swept their final two meets heading into this weekend’s Champlain Valley Swim League meet, which the Middlebury Marlins will host at the Middlebury town pool on Friday and Saturday.

ST. ALBANS — The Middlebury Marlins Swim Team fell to St. Albans, 285-147, on Tuesday in the final dual meet of the Champlain Valley Swim League season. With the regular season coming to a close, the Marlins are gearing up to host the league championships … (read more)

The official Champlain Valley Swim League record will show that on Tuesday, June 15, the visiting Middlebury Marlins edged the host Vergennes Champs, 249-234, on a steamy summer evening.

The Middlebury Marlins Swim Team topped visiting Winooski, 311-113, on Thursday, July 10, in the team’s fourth meet of the Champlain Valley Swim League season.

Vermont State Police and a variety of local emergency responders mobilized earlier this week for separate reports of swimmers in distress in Bristol and Ferrisburgh, with both cases sadly resulting in deaths.

The Middlebury Marlins Swim Team on June 24 topped visiting Burlington Country Club, 260-179, in the team’s opening meet of the Champlain Valley Swim League season.

Reporting the results of a youth state meet with hundreds of athletes in scores of competitions across 14 gender and age groups is a monumental task. Organizing those big data dumps is a big job, but we asked to do it, and we should do it well.

Vergennes Champs swimmers combined to win 27 individual titles and claim third place as a team in Division I of the Vermont State Swim Association’s championship meet, held on this past Saturday and Sunday in the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in Hartford.

Vergennes Champs swimmers combined to win 20 races and claim third place in Champlain Valley Swim League’s championship meet, hosted on this past Friday and Saturday in the Winooski municipal pool.

Scores are kept for summer swimming, and the record shows that on Tuesday the visiting Vergennes Champs defeated the Middlebury Marlins, 308-185. 

The visiting St. Albans Sharks edged the Middlebury Marlins, 263-234, on July 18 in Champlain Valley Swim League action.