Champs swim undefeated

BURLINGTON — The Vergennes Champs swim team on Thursday, July 22, swamped host Burlington Country Club, 334-131, to finish their regular Champlain Valley Swim League season at a perfect 6-0. The record is the teams’ best in at least two decades, and possibly ever.The Champs’ July 20 meet against the Middlebury Marlins, originally scheduled to be made up on July 29, has been called off after a Marlin swimmer tested positive for COVID-19 last week.Champs officials said they had already been concerned the resc … (read more)

ESSEX — The Vergennes Champs on Thursday, July 15, remained unbeaten in Champlain Valley Swim League action by topping host Essex, 278-172.The 5-0 Champs were scheduled to host Middlebury on Tuesday, but persistent thunder and lightning forced postponemen … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Marlins picked up their second summer win on Thursday, July 15, by edging visiting Winooski, 206-185, in a Champlain Valley Swim League meet.The outcome remained in doubt as the meet was nip and tuck throughout, and the score w … (read more)

VERGENNES — The Vergennes Champs picked off two more victories in recent Champlain Valley Swim League meets and improved to 4-0 with three regular-season meets to come.The Champs are scheduled to visit Essex on this Thursday; host Middlebury on this comin … (read more)

BURLINGTON — The Middlebury Marlins swim team was swamped by The Edge swim team, 302-110, in a July 6 Champlain Valley Swim League meet in Burlington. On Tuesday host Burlington Tennis Club topped the Marlins, 253-158.Those setbacks dropped Middlebury to … (read more)

VERGENNES — The Vergennes Champs claimed a pair of victories to open their Champlain Valley Swim League season.The Champs opened on Thursday, July 1, with a 243-202 victory over visiting Chittenden County team The Edge, a perennial CVSL title contender. V … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Marlins opened their Champlain Valley Swim League season on July 1 by defeating a rebuilding Burlington Country Club Team, 253-135. Older swimmers Holly Staats and Oliver Poduschnick picked up three wins apiece to pace Middlebu … (read more)

VERGENNES — The Vergennes Swim Team wrapped up its summer season Friday, Aug. 21, with an intramural meet in which 32 members between the ages of 8 and 12 competed in each of the disciplines.  The Champs had honored their senior swimmers the week before. … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Marlins swimming competitions are a tradition almost as old as Middlebury’s pool. This year the very existence of the community’s swim team was in question.  But with the engagement of a creative coach in her 6th year, Colleen Ruep … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Coaches and organizers for the Vergennes Champs and Middlebury Marlins are now planning to keep many of their young swimmers active this summer even though the Champlain Valley Swim League season was called off in mid-May. All were please … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury’s town pool will not be open to the general public this summer due to COVID-19 safety concerns, according to Middlebury Parks and Recreation Superintendent Dustin Hunt. Hunt said in an email on Thursday that pool use will be limite … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — The Vergennes Champs and Middlebury Marlins will not be hitting their pools this summer. In a league meeting on Friday, May 15, the Champlain Valley Swim League board canceled its 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting saf … (read more)

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Swimmers in the Middlebury Aquatic Club made a strong showing in the New England Regional Swim Meet. In the competition over the weekend of Feb. 7-9 at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in White River Junction, one MAC relay team and … (read more)

CORRECTION: Our Aug. 8 article on the Vermont Swim Association state championship meet in White River Junction omitted a championship swimmer from the Vergennes Champs. Adrienne Smits, 10, prevailed in the 25-yard freestyle race for 9- and 10-year-old gir … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Tuesday’s scoresheets show the visiting Vergennes Champs defeated the Middlebury Marlins, 275-203, in the annual duel between the friendly Champlain Valley Swim League rivals. Many swimmers had big days. Under-10 Champs swimmer Will Clark won … (read more)