<\/a>Swimmers from the Glacier Swimming Club ran roughshod over the competition at the Alaska Age Group Championships on Feb. 14-15, setting a record for the most points scored by a single team and winning the meet handily. (Courtesy photo | For Glacier Swimming Club)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
The club, which practices at both the Dimond Park Aquatic Center and the Augustus Brown Swimming Pool, has more than 200 swimmers, aged 5-18, Taintor said. Of that, roughly 20-30 travelled to Ketchikan for the meet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“There’s a lot of family support. When you have a lot of family support there’s a really positive impact,” Taintor said. “It’s a youth program that was started by parents and has really continued that tradition.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The next meet will be the Southeast Championships, hosted April 4-5 in Juneau.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The event will be one of two meets Juneau regularly hosts. There’s also a fundraiser for the club coming up in mid-March where swimmers swim laps to raise money for the club, Taintor said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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