Girls Swim Team And Wrestling State Champ Recognized

The Shawnee High School Girls Swim Team was recognized during the Shawnee Public Schools Board of Education March 4 meeting for winning at the State Championship Swim Meet for the third year in a row, even without the YMCA pool for practice this year.
The Shawnee High School Girls Swim Team was recognized during the Shawnee Public Schools Board of Education March 4 meeting for winning at the State Championship Swim Meet for the third year in a row, even without the YMCA pool for practice this year.

The nay-sayers said it couldn’t be done. This season, the Shawnee Girls Swim Team was without their record-breaking swimmer, Piper McNeil, who graduated last year. After the April 2023 tornado, they also lost their pool, when the Shawnee YMCA was struck.

And yet, they won the State Championship for the third year in a row on Feb.16.

Last summer, they trained at the Shawnee Splash Water Park and the …