FORT WASHINGTON -- It took all twelve events to decide a winner when Germantown Academy's boys swimming and diving team welcomed Inter-Ac League rival Haverford School to Lavino Pool on Dec. 10. With the Patriots leading the Fords by four points ahead of the final race of the evening, the team knew they needed to either place first or touch second and third to seal a victory. The 400 Freestyle Relay team of Dylan Shapiro '25, Heston Steckel '26, Andrew Thompson '25, and Oliver Ritchey '27 finished in 3:18.66, almost four seconds faster than Haverford's second-place team, to clinch a 96.5-90.5 win.

Highlights

• Brandon Fleck '25 broke pool records in the 50 and 100 Free by going 20.48 and 44.47, respectively. Fleck broke his own mark in the 100 Free, while topping the 50 Free pool record set by David Curtiss of Pennington School, who in 2021 became the American Overall National High School (public and private) record holder by going 19.11 in 50-yard freestyle.
• Nash Salomon '28 and Gavin Zivitz '25  went 1-2 in the 1mtr Dive, with Salomon scoring 297.15 points and Zivitz scoring 231.45.
• Matthew Truong '26 won the 100 Breaststroke in 1:00.88.
• Fleck, Truong, Dylan Nier '27, and Shapiro edged out the Fords by .33 in the 200 Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:28.34. Shapiro swam the final leg in 22.50.
• GA placed second and third in the 200 Medley Relay with times of 1:36.77 and 1:43.61.
• Ritchey, Steckel, and Shapiro went 2-3-4 in the 200 IM.
• Nier placed second in the 100 Freestyle in 48.86, while Nicholas Truong '28 took fifth in 51.25.
• Andy Yu '27 took second in the 100 Backstroke in 55.51 while Daniel Dashko '28 took third in 56.27.