Star Wars was released, forever changing cinema, but one might argue just as important,  Queen released their iconic tune "We are the Champions".  

Fast forward to 48 years to July 19, 2025 and that anthem rings out for your NCR Dolphins!
Not only did the Dolphins take top of the podium for the meet, but, yes indeed, we ARE the champions of Division E!  

The final score for the meet:
NCR: 277
MC: 246
RST: 233
TP: 221
NR: 186

Complete meet results (along with our win over Montpelier last week...sorry for not posting earlier!) can be found on our 2025 Meet Results page.

Given the stiff competition, it is extra special to note that two Dolphins took home Triple Blue. Congratulations go to Arianna Biondi and Xavier Bailey!
Montpelier swimmers Kaz Reeves and Carlos Idol as well as Russet swimmer Julianna Rios share this honor with our Dolphins.

That's a wrap for the regular season, but swimming has one more week.  Next week the PMSL All Star meet will be held at the Whitehall Pool and Tennis Club in Bowie.  Winners of their events at the Divisional Meet get an automatic berth, with the remaining field based on times achieved at the Divisional Meet.  Stay Tuned to see how many Dolphins get another week of practice!

NCR battled NR on a beautiful Saturday morning in July (is it really July?!!!)

The Northridge Swim Team swam well, but the NCR Dolphins came away with another win!
The final combined score:
NCR 291
​NR 235

The complete meet results are available on the 2025 Results page

As with past meets, this one had a few outstanding swimmers who took the blue ribbon home for all three of their individual events.  A special congratulations goes out to the following swimmers:

Xavier Bailey
Bella Willis
Arianna Biondi
Emma Biondi
Eleni San Juan (NR)
Micah McNeil (NR)

The season is flying by.  Four meets are already in the books. We have one more regular season meet next week before we head into the Divisional Meet.  Next week, the Montpelier Marlins come to NCR.  Let's cheer on the Dolphins for another win. Right now, the team has one loss but has won three in a row.  It would be great to go into the Divisional meet on a 4 and 0 run!

This week we traveled south to Waldorf to swim against the Bannister Barracudas.  Despite the long trip and a reduced attendance due to conflicts and illnesses, the Dolphins prevailed over the Barracudas by the score of 301 to 144.

Full results are available on the season results page

Helping us to the win were  six Dolphins bringing home the blue ribbon for all three of their individual events:

William Congdon
Sydney Hammond
Sophia Jones
Xavier Bailey
Bella Willis
Taariq Ndiaye 

Leah Smith of BNS also deserves accolades for the same feat.

Congratulations to these outstanding swimmers!

The next and final two meets of the regular season are at home at NCR, with the Northridge Swim Team traveling from Bowie to take on our Dolphins.  Lets cheer on our swimmers to another win!

So, we were supposed to be on the road again swimming against Takoma Park in DC.
But, circumstances led to the meet being held at NCR...so we swam away...at home!

It was a hot day, but our NCR Dolphins wouldn't let the "home" team win in our home pool!
NCR took the win!

NCR: 296
TP; 241

Complete results can be found on the 2025 result page.

There were three swimmers who dominated their individual events:

• Grace Lowrey (TP)
• Xavier Bailey (NCR)
• Aasim Ndiaye

Congratulations to these spectacular swimmers!

At 1 and 1, the Dolphins head on the road again next week, traveling to Bannister for our cross-division meet.  Here's to another win!

The first meet of the 2025 season is a wrap.  Your NCR Dolphins took the show on the road this week to Russett Community Center a short ride up the BWI Parkway.  It was a close for much of the meet, but the Russett Sharks edged the Dolphins out with a score of 295 to 257.  Full results have been posted.

Three swimmers took triple-blue at the meet, two Sharks and a Dolphin:
Juliana Rios and Zachary Markovitz of Russett and our own Arianna Biondi.  Congratulations!

We're on the road again next week, traveling to the District to meet the Takoma Park Allstars.  Come out to cheer on your Dolphins!

The initial seeding for next weeks All Star event has been released.  And the number of NCR swimmers on the list has increased!

The final seedings come out on Tuesday after 8pm (the scratch deadline).  So some of the alternate entries my get elevated to a spot in the meet.  Stay tuned!

 Congratulations to our All Stars!

With the 2024 Division E Divisional Meet in the books, the 2024 season is near an end.  All that remains is the All-Star meet.  But before we talk about that, let's give some results from the Divisional Meet!

The NCR Dolphins entered the meet seeded third in the division and wrapped up the meet with a third place finish, racking up 198.5 points:

PGC: 348
LC: 313
NCR: 198.5
MC: 187
PR: 125.5

Complete meet results are available on the 2024 Meet Results page
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Divisional meets often don't see individual swimmers competing in three events, but even so, there were five swimmers who not only competed in three individual events, but won all three.  Four of those swimmers were with the Laurel City Kingfish (An Bui, Allen Bui, Ari Jenkins, and Brayden Li). The fifth was our very own Dolphin, Gabriel Bailey! Congrats to all!

A crazy number of records were broken (or tied) at the divisional meet.   Twenty NCR Pool records (with the 25m Bulkhead), 13 NCR Team (bulkhead) Records, and even a couple PGC Team records.

In all 35 records were broken (well one was tied) at the meet!

Your new NCR record holders are:

Back to talking All Stars...
Event winners at the Divisional Meet automatically qualify to attend the All Star meet next week.  The NCR representatives are:

But the story isn't over...
All Stars field 3 full heats of each event, and division winners only account for one of the three...so it is possible (given some of the times achieved, likely) that more NCR Dolphins will make the cut. Stay Tuned!

Phew! That was a lot...maybe I should have made two posts...

The NCR Dolphins came to compete, but fell to Laurel City by a final score of 330 - 235.
Despite the loss, many NCR swimmers put up their best time for the season.

Complete results are available on the Meet Results page  

THere were 8 swimmers who won all three individual events:
Reese Jenkins, LC
Alexis Bushby, LC
Eliza Castonguay, LC
An Bui, LC
Ari Jenkins, LC
Brayden Li, LC
Allen Bui, LC
Gabriel Bailey,  NCR

Our first away meet of the season was against our neighbors to the north, the Montpelier Marlins.  It was a back and forth meet all morning, and in the end the Dolphins swam to a 272-272 tie with the Marlins!

By league rules for the tie-breaker (most first place finishes at the meet), NCR edged out MC with 25 first place finishes (to 24 for MC)..  Way to go Dolphins!  It was a close one, proving that every swim counts.

Detailed results are available on the Meet Results page  

Two evenly matched teams gave us a lot to cheer for during the meet.  When it was all said and done, eight swimmers went home with triple blue ribbons, four from each team!

Jameelah Ndiaye, NCR
Audrey Mima, MC
Sachi ​Reeves, MC
Arianna Biondi, NCR
Kazuki Reeves, MC
Dillon Mossman, MC
Xavier Bailey, NCR
Gabriel Bailey, NCR

Our next and final regular dual meet of the season is against another Laurel team, this time Laurel City..  Let's cheer on the Dolphins as they head north on Saturday to come home with another win!

Your NCR Dolphins notched another home win!  The final score:

NCR: 322
BNS: 139

Detailed results are available on the Meet Results page  

Saturday's meet found four NCR swimmers grabbing the blue ribbon for all of their individual events.  Congratulations go to:
Gabriel Bailey
Xavier Bailey
Sophia Jones
​Patrick Willis

The team heads out on the road for the next two meets.  Up next: Montpelier Community .  It has been a while since NCR competed against MC so next week will be a fun trip up north.  We finish the season at Laurel City.  Laurel City is one of the larger teams in our division, so the last meet will be a challenging one.  ...but we know our Dolphins are up to the task!