Hello team! Below are the links to the pictures from the last home meet versus Trinity. We would like to send out a very special thank you to Ramona Neal for taking the pictures and uploading them into Shutterfly!

Trinity Shutterfly-part 1

Trinity Shutterfly- part 2

Trinity Shutterfly- part 3

This is just a reminder that the USC Swim and Dive Towel Spiritwear Sale ends on Monday, 1/22/24. Get your athlete a personalized USC Swim and Dive towel! Plus, 15% of sale goes to the Boosters!

2024 USC Swim and Dive Store

The USC swimming and diving teams beat South Fayette Wednesday night as the girls won with a score of 98-83 while the boys won 100-72. With the win, the girls improved their season record to 4-2 while the boys are 5-1.

The highlight of the meet was Senior diver Carter Richie qualifying for the WPIAL Championships. All 6 Panther divers are now qualified for WPIALS under the direction of first-year coach Todd Hillman. Way to go divers!

Event winners for the Panthers:

GIRLS

Delaney Burnette – Diving

Kaitlyn Connors – 200 IM and 100 Breast

Amanda Aidar – 50 free

BOYS

Griffin Tomsheck – 200 Free

Ben Whiteford – 200 IM

Pavel Schabanow – 50 Free and 500 Free

Nazar Zoukovski – 100 Fly and 100 Back

Matthew Fibbi – 100 Breast

The Panthers return to action next week when we face Bethel Park at home on Wednesday, January 24. This meet is Senior Recognition with the recognition starting at 4:30 and the meet starting at 5:00 pm.

The meet starts at 6pm with diving. Athletes are asked to arrive at the pool at 4:20pm and the bus departs at 4:30pm. The pool doors open at 3pm for those who will not go home. LET’S GO USC!!

HELLO TEAM! WE HOPE YOU ARE STAYING WARM ON THIS COLD AND SNOWY DAY! TONIGHT’S PRACTICES AND PASTA DINNER ARE CANCELED. THERE WILL NOT BE A MAKEUP FOR THIS PASTA DINNER. WE APOLOGIZE TO THOSE WHO WERE DONATING/HOSTING. PLEASE SEE SIGNUP GENIUS MESSAGE FROM SARAH MITTLEIDER- FOOD THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PURCHASED MAY POSSIBLY BE USED AFTER TOMORROW’S MEET.

The 2024 USC Swim and Dive store is open now through 1/22. USC Swim and Dive towels are now available!! Towels will be decorated with a digital patch and can be personalized. Orders will be ready to ship by the week of 2/5.  Please contact Megan Whiteford at MCWhiteford@gmail.com with any questions.

2024 USC Swim and Dive Store

Last Wednesday marked the half-way point of our dual meet season, and our list of WPIAL qualifiers continues to grow! We can’t wait to keep adding to this list during the second half of the season! Keep it up USC! We are proud of you!

DIVERS: Delaney Burnette, Bella Meyer, Livia Tranquilli, Carter Wells, and Kobe Yuyi

SWIMMERS: Amanda Aidar, Kaitlyn Connors, Maren Davis, Kendell Drew, Freja Kile, Lauren Mittleider, Evie Sullivan, Whit Burns, Boshi Dong, Matthew Fibbi, Pavel Schabanow, Max Shipley, Liam Tomb, Griffin Tomsheck, Ben Whiteford, and Nazar Zoukovski

RELAYS: Girls 200 Medley, Girls 200 Free, Girls 400 Free, Boys 200 Medley, Boys 200 Free, and Boys 400 Free

Written by: Megan Whiteford

Hello Team! Below are important reminders and upcoming events for the week of 1/15/24:

• The practice schedule for this week have been sent out by Coach Dave. A calendar of practices and events is also available on our website.
• The next pasta dinner will be held in the high school cafeteria this Tuesday, 1/16. Volunteers are asked to drop food off between 4:45-5:15pm. Pasta Dinner Link
• The next meet is away at South Fayette this Wednesday, 1/17. The meet will start at 6pm.
• The Fox Chapel meet date HAS BEEN CHANGED to Tuesday, 2/6.
• M & M pictures are available. Coach Dave passed them out to your athletes last week.  If you ordered them and did not receive them, please let us know!
• Senior Parents: Please send in slideshow photos by 1/17 and have your senior answer questions in the linked file, Senior IG Form and Photo. Please contact Sydna Burns at sydnaburns@yahoo.com, with any questions.

Be sure to visit our social media platforms! Links can be found under the Athletes menu item.

Both the boys’ and girls’ teams were victorious Wednesday night in their meets against Trinity. The final scores were boys: 95-35 and girls: 90-72. The highlights of the evening were when diver, Bella Meyer, qualified for WPIALS and added to our growing list of qualified divers, and when swimmer, Nazar Zoukovski, accomplished the WPIAL sweep. The WPIAL sweep is when a swimmer makes the WPIAL cut in ALL events. Nice job Bella and Nazar, and way to go USC!!

Written by Megan Whiteford

The USC Swimming and Diving team traveled to Seneca Valley on Saturday for their annual Tri Meet with Seneca Valley and Canon Mac. The girls split their meets, beating Canon Mac 139.5 to 44.5 while losing to a strong Seneca Valley team by the score of 114-71. Meanwhile the boys won both of their meets, beating Canon Mac 134-49 and Seneca 125-61. The girls record is now 2-2 on the season while the boys are 3-1.

The highlight of the meet came from our divers, with Freshmen Livia Tranquilli and Carter Wells both qualifying for WPIALs. Livia eclipsed the 190 qualifying score with a dive total of 192.8 while Carter crushed the qualifying score of 170 with his personal best total of 208.45. Four of our six divers have now qualified for WPIALs, which is the most divers we’ve qualified in at least the past 15 years—and perhaps ever. Way to go USC divers and Coach Todd Hillman!

On the swimming side strong performances were achieved by the following swimmers:

• Max Kile 32.95 breaststroke split on the 200 medley relay
• Amanda Aidar 2:12.14 winning time in the 200 IM
• Danis Vakufac and Armen Pettit in the 500 free. Danis swam a 5:44.77 and Armen broke 6 minutes for the first time with a time of 5:46.48. 

A special shout-out to Clare Larsen, who swam on 3 relays and also achieved a 28.72 time in the 50 free. after only recently returning early from knee surgery. Way to go, Clare!