IRSC’s swimming, diving groups chase historic title streaks in nationwide championships

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — Indian River State College’s swimming and diving groups are poised to make historical past once more as they chase what might be the longest championship streaks in collegiate sports activities.

Both the lads’s and girls’s packages have dominated the National Junior College Athletic Association championships for many years. This yr, the lads’s crew is aiming for its 52nd consecutive NJCAA title, whereas the ladies’s squad is chasing its forty eighth straight crown.

If profitable, these streaks would prolong marks that already stand among the many most exceptional in all of sports activities — far surpassing the present recorded totals for faculty packages.

IRSC is internet hosting the NJCAA Swimming National Championships via Saturday, March 7, which it has accomplished each different yr for greater than 24 years.

“Hosting the nationals is a pretty nice little tradition, because we have managed to do it every other year for well over 24 years,” mentioned Sion Brinn, Head Swimming Coach at Indian River State College and former Olympic competitor. “It’s a good home competition. It’s nice for the kids to stay in their own environment, and we get probably a little bit more friends, family, spectators that come down to cheer for them.”

The championships will characteristic preliminary competitors starting at 9:30 a.m. every day, with finals beginning at 5:30 p.m. A brief diving session will comply with preliminaries, lasting about an hour between 11 a.m. and midday.

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This yr’s nationwide championships are a pivotal second because the groups race towards high NJCAA competitors to increase their legendary runs.

Locally, the continued success brings pleasure to Fort Pierce and the broader Treasure Coast neighborhood, the place supporters comply with each meet and cheer on the Vikings at regional and nationwide occasions.

For the student-athletes, the possibility to compete for a nationwide title — and so as to add one other chapter to a historic streak — is each a problem and a reward for years of arduous work within the pool.