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Ridgewood’s Graydon swim team unified and unbeaten
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012
BY ANTHONY LOCICERO
CORRESPONDENT
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
RIDGEWOOD — No longer is there a separation among the Graydon Pool lifeguards, Learn to Swim instructors and Graydon swim team. Ridgewood Parks and Recreation has put together a new regime and unified the program as a whole. Swim team coaches are also members of the lifeguard staff and/or Learn to Swim staff.
“Parks and Recreations wanted to bring the whole program under one umbrella,” said aquatics director and assistant pool manager Dan Burzinski. “The change was done to kind of streamline things. A lot of the stuff is more integrated.”
The new swim team head coach is Barbara Farrell — who goes by B. Leigh — who recently graduated from Kent State. Farrell worked with the American Red Cross along with Burzinski, who swam collegiately at the University of Massachusetts and the Learn to Swim program. She also oversees Learn to Swim, which has 95 kids in the program.
Former Ridgewood High School and current University of Richmond swimmer Megan Morales coaches the swimmers 11-and-up. She’s also been a lifeguard at Graydon Pool for the past four years.
Mark Farrell — no relation to the new head coach — is in his first year coaching the nine and ten year olds. He is a Washington Township resident and Westwood High School and Ramapo College graduate.
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