2025 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championships
- Feb. 14-15, 2025
- Lancaster, PA
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Central
- Results
The event regarded as the premier prep school meet in the country had familiar champions.
The Germantown Academy girls and Phillips Academy (Andover) boys once again reigned supreme, with Germantown winning its fourth straight title and Andover its third straight and fifth since 2019.
GIRLS’ RECAP
Germantown only won two events, but used its depth to score points and win going away.
It was the final Easterns for longtime coach Jeff Thompson, who will resign from Germantown in June to become the head coach of the Southeastern Swim Club in Fishers, Indiana.
Senior Libby Brewer won diving with 477.15 points and senior Karly Bowles (SMU signee) won the 500 freestyle in a personal-best time of 4:48.40 to comprise the two wins for Germantown.
The individual standouts were Phillips Exeter junior and Texas commit Mena Boardman, and Notre Dame de Namur senior and South Carolina signee Tori Abruzzo.
Boardman won the 100 butterfly in a meet record time of 51.32 and the 100 free in a time of 48.71, both of which were personal best times.
She also was on winning teams in the 200 and 400 free relays. The Exeter 200 free relay team of Chloe Meyer-Blohm, Brianna Cong, Sophie Phelps and Boardman won with a time of 1:32.09. The same four, but different order of Cong, Phelps, Meyer-Blohm and Boardman won the 400 free relay in a time of 3:20.03.
Abruzzo won the 200 individual medley in a time of 2:10.10 and the 100 backstroke in a personal-best time of 53.41.
Penn Charter’s team of Elliza Black, Lili DeMartinis, Eva McIver-Jenkins and Eila Spaman won the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:42.14.
Other individual winners were:
- Penn Charter freshman Nola Waldbuesser won the 200 free in a personal-best time of 1:48.09.
- Episcopal Academy sophomore Molly Lo won the 50 free in a time of 23.19.
- Penn Charter junior Lili DeMartinis won the 100 breaststroke in a personal-best time of 1:03.36.
Girls’ Team Standings — Top 5 teams
- Germantown Academy (PA) 693
- Willliam Penn Charter School (PA) 566
- Mercersburg Academy (PA) 557
- Phillips Exeter (NH) 547
- Peddie School (NJ) 417.50
BOYS’ RECAP
The individual standout was Germantown senior and Indiana signee Brandon Fleck. He won the 50 free in a time of 20.27 and the 100 free in a personal-best time of 43.73.
Mercersburg Academy senior Caiden Bowers was tops in the 100 butterfly with both a meet-record and personal-best time of 46.64.
Phillips Exeter won both the 200 and 400 free relays. In the 200 free relay, the team of Rudd Day, Winston Wang, Wayne Zheng and Ethan Guo swam a time of 1:21.66 to win.
In the 400 free relay, the same quartet with different order of Guo, Want, Day and Zheng won in a time of 2:59.93.
Guo, who will swim in college for Yale, also won the 200 free in a meet record and personal-best time of 1:35.74.
The 200 medley relay was won by Mercersburg Academy’s team of Jayden Kwon, Caiden Bowers, Nicholas Green and Raphael Sibuet in a time of 1:29.62.
Other individual winners were:
- Georgetown Prep sophomore Griffin Oehler won the 200 individual medley in a time of 1:47.45.
- Germantown freshman Nash Solomon won the diving event with 459.50 points.
- Brunswick School senior Rory O’Connor won the 500 free in a personal-best time of 4:23.99.
- The Haverford School senior Zack Oswald, a Notre Dame signee, won the 100 backstroke in a time of 46.38.
- Andover senior Pippin Kantakom, headed to swim in college for Pennsylvania, won the 100 breaststroke in a personal-best time of 53.97.
Boys’ Team Standings — Top 5 teams
- Phillips Academy (Andover, MA) 708.50
- Mercersburg Academy (PA) 695
- Phillips Exeter (NH) 485
- Brunswick (CT) 405
- The Haverford School (PA) 398
Go Fords!
In his last 15 years of coaching at GA, Shiulberg’s boys team won Easterns in 2000, 2005, 2006 and 2012. Shoulberg’s boys teams were in the top 3 10 times in his last 15 years. These are facts.
Also, the 1977 Bolles 400 freestyle relay (3:05.4) would have smoked the 2025 GA boys by 5 seconds. So there was some pretty fast swimming back in the olden days.
Correction:Shoulberg’s boys teams were top 3 at Easterns 11 times in his last 15 years, not 10 times.
AMF
bro yapping about 13 years ago. get over it gramps
Just responding to GowdyRaines misinformation you weirdo.
I’m sure that you have the wrong winning time for the Girls 200 IM. It should be 2:01.10.
ga wins everrrrryyyyyyyy year. let’s get some parody into this meet. other teams need to step it up
you’re clearly not from Indiana
Zack Oswald and Mena Boardman won swimmers of the meet which should be noted. Oswald also broke a meet and pool record in the 100 back.
This used to be a top tier meet. Who was the last one to win individual here and and an individual NCAA title? Reece Whitley won one NCAA relay title. Was Mel the last one? Be great to see a list of A) Gold at Easterns and NCAA and B) Gold at Easterns, NCAA and Oly
Germantown men finished 7th? If Coach Shoulberg had gone to heaven already, he’d be turning over in his grave. With the program’s decline in the last two years, it’s obvious the Assistant Coach, Donny Brush, was really the man doing the coaching before he left in 2023. It must have been hard for Thompson to leave the office during practice to actually doing on deck coaching!
Shoulberg drones always ready to bash his successor. Maybe Dick would still be there if he were not an abusive misogynist pig who dealt in fear. Check your beloved coach’s men’s record as he wound down his time at GA. Guess abuse and fear didn’t work as well with the boys, eh?
Hey Pounding Sands-In Thompson’s 10 years as head coach his boys team finished “better than 3rd” exactly one time. They were second in 2022.
Thompson’s boys teams never won Easterns and they never will. AMF