The Patriots won the National Girls Prep Team Championship for the 1986-87 season thanks to their incredible performances at the Easterns Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championships. Every year, Swimming World Magazine compares the nation’s top 12 scholastic times in every event and provides corresponding scores, similar to a meet.

The 1986-87 Patriots went 7-0 during the regular season and won the Inter-Ac League title. They finished in a tie at Easterns.

The team featured Katrina Radke Gerry '89, who was a medalist at the Pan Pacific games, a member of two World Championship teams, and a finalist at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea as well as Suzy Bukovich Courtway '87, who was a medalist at the Pan American Games in individual and relay events, and Erika Hansen, who was a gold medalist at the Pan Pacific Games, a member of the 1988 Olympic team in Korea, and a member of the 1992 Olympic team in Barcelona, Spain.

At Easterns, which featured more than 60 schools from across the country, GA’s 400-yard freestyle relay (Jennifer Greer ’88, Katrina Radke Gerry '89, Suzy Bukovich Courtway '87, Jeanne Gibbons Brophy '89) finished first with a time of 3:24.74 and broke the National Prep School record at the time. The Patriots won seven out of 10 events and set five new meet records, including Suzy Bukovich Courtway '87 (200 I.M. – 2:04.48, 100 butterfly -56.28), Erika Hansen (500 freestyle – 4:50.64), and Katrina Radke Gerry '89 (200 freestyle – 1:49.09). Jane Samuels '87 won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:07.37) for the third consecutive year. The foursome of Hansen, Jane Samuels '87, Colette Van de Berg Kozlowski '87, Jennifer Greer ‘88) won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:54.90. In the end, GA finished in a tie with Mercersberg Academy.

All-Americans - Erika Hansen, Colette Van de Berg Kozlowski '87, Katrina Radke Gerry '89, Suzy Bukovich Courtway '87, Jill Cameron Hilliard '88, Kathleen Hettche ’86, Jane Samuels ’87, Jennifer Greer ’88, Hannah Turlish ’87, Jeanne Gibbons Brophy '89, Christine Rawak '88
 

ROSTER
Amy Baron '92
Kimberly Bishop '88
Gabrielle Bodle '87
Suzy Buckovich '87
Jill Cameron '88
Esther Chang '88
Heather Cook '88
Jeanne Gibbons '89
Jennifer Greer '88
Gretchen Hambley '92
Melissa Hambley '90
Erika Hanson
Kristin Heath '90
Sarah Lawson '91
Michelle Lee '91
Kathryn Mangano '90
Patricia Markey '87
Barbara McKee '89
Adrienne Moran '88
Kristin Petrilli '91
Shannon Petrilli '89
Jennie Politz '92
Katrina Radke '89
Christine Rawak '88
Melissa Rawak '90
Laura Romeu '88
Patricia Rothenbach '87
Jane Samuels '87
Erin Stanton '89
Tara Stanton '89
Hannah Turlish '87
Colette Vandeberg '87
Jodi Woods '91
Coni Zingarelli '91

MANAGERS
Jennifer Kosek '88
Elisabeth Uffner '88

COACHES
Richard Shoulberg 1760
C. Stockman
J. Schreiber