Ridgewood’s Graydon swim team surges toward championship meets
JULY 25, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY MATTHEW BIRCHENOUGH
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
GLEN ROCK — When Ridgewood’s Graydon swim team was in the water last year, success was always within reach. Unfortunately, it was the one time its swimmers were kept out of competition that overshadowed the team’s great season.
The squad attained some major achievements in 2013, including a dual-meet victory over Wyckoff and a second-place finish in the Lake League championship meet.
But the summer was marred when the New Jersey Pool Managers Association (NJPMA) ruled the team ineligible to compete in the county meet because a representative from the Graydon program had not attended the requisite four out of five NJPMA meetings.
The Graydon leadership has made sure no such penalty will be levied this year.
“Our head manager has gone to all the meetings,” said aquatics director Dan Burzinski shortly after his team’s 198-150 win over Glen Rock on Tuesday.
“That was a really tough thing. We were kind of penalized with our programs based on something that really sort of has to do with the lifeguarding,” he added. “I’m hoping that the kids that want to swim counties will have an opportunity this year, and we have a coaching staff to guide them and to cheer them on.”
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