North Penn Boys’ Swimming and Diving Team repeat champions, Faikish sets Girls' Swimming school record at PIAA States

Tony Di Domizio | North Penn Now•

Last year, the North Penn Knights Boys’ Swimming and Diving Team brought home gold to their Towamencin school after a 20-year drought at the PIAA-3A State Championships.

Last week, at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium, they made sure it stayed there for another year.

The invincible natators finished their PIAA championship meet with 204 points, beating out second place Conestoga by 21 points, according to The Reporter. La Salle (157) and Central Bucks West (149) were fifth and sixth, respectively.

Here is the breakdown of the North Penn championship team:

Mason Potts, 4th, 100 yard butterfly
Brendan Lao, 9th, 100 yard butterfly
200 yard freestyle relay, 5th
200 yard medley relay, 2nd
Mason Potts, 2nd, 100 yard freestyle
Macek Vandermolen, 11th, 100 yard freestyle
Alexander Burns, 11th, 500 yard freestyle
Brayden Kemezis, 12th, 500 yard freestyle
Nevin Shaw, 8th, 100 yard breaststroke
400 yard freestyle relay, 4th
Joshua Gratton, 4th, 1 meter diving
David Dian, 5th, 1 meter diving

Furthermore, North Penn Knights Girls’ swimmer Maddie Faikish captured gold two years in a row at the PIAA meet as well, setting a new North Penn High School record for the 500 free.

Finally, Rep. Steve Malagari recently welcomed and honored the North Penn High School Boys’ and Girls’ water polo teams for their state championship wins, according to his Facebook.