Swim & Dive: Cougars One Meet Away from Perfect Season

Oakton High's swim and dive team celebrated Senior Night with a win from both the boys and girls in their meet against Robinson on Friday.

The boys won 202-113 and the girls won 192-123, both maintaining an undefeated record with one meet left in the regular season.

"We are excited to have both our boys and girls' teams undefeated going into our last dual meet," said Cheryl Meltz, head dive coach. "We are hoping to finish up the season undefeated in our last dual meet next weekend and then look forward to an amazing championship season."

Last season, the girls finished the season undefeated. The boys fell short by one meet, in which they lost by seven points. So far the girls and boys have defeated opponents by an average of 93.3 and 79.5 points, respectively. The closest win margin for the boys was five points and 42 for the girls, both against Chantilly.

Oakton dive had another week of strong performances off the board, as Joe LeBerre took second for the boys.

Philip Hu placed first in both the 200-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle. Carter Sharer also took first in two events: 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard butterfly. Conor Murphy finished first in 100-yard backstroke and second in the 50-yard freestyle.

Janet Hu finished first in 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard freestyle. Julia Capobianco placed first in 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke.

Friday's sixth consecutive victory fell on Senior Night, which celebrated 20 seniors on the swim and dive team.

"We got to pay tribute to our 20 wonderful senior swimmers and divers who have done so much for our team over the last four years," Meltz said. "We will definitely miss their contributions to the team after they graduate."

Oakton will face Robinson for the last meet of the regular season 8:30 p.m. Friday at Audrey Moore Recreation Center.

-Katie Pierce contributed this report