George School Swimming Brings Home the Championship

The George School Boys’ and Girls’ Swimming teams delivered excellent performances on their way to winning the Friends Schools League Championships on Monday. This was the second consecutive FSL Championship win for the boys’ and the girls’ first-ever title since the FSL started having a swimming championship in 2002.

Head Coach Brandon Hullings, along with Assistant Coaches Ginna Lewing, Ted Schueller, and Will Freeman, and the student-athletes worked together, setting school, pool, championship, and All-Time FSL records. Combining dedicated, talented, and determined swimmers with excellent coaching led the teams to a successful season. Congratulations to both teams on well-earned victories!

GS FSL Championship Highlights

Girls 200 Medley Relay: FSL Champions (Freya Mottershead ’25, Jinrie Liu ’26, Gabby Karasinski ’27, and Quinn Jerardi ’27) with a time of 1:55.59.

Boys 200 Medley Relay: FSL Champions (Mikko Kuittinen ’26, Kentaro Bauer ’25, Lukas Nier ’24, and Daniel Gluschuk ’25). Their time of 1:37.48 was a school, pool, championship, and All-Time FSL record.

Boys 200 Free: Anton Beregovoi ’27 (1:46.70) bested the previous school record set by Chris Wittmer ’23 (1:46.97). However, Mikko Kuittinen ’26 (1:45.22) reset the school, championship, and All-Time FSL records in the same event. Mikko was the FSL Champion with Anton finishing third.

Girls 200 IM: Gabby Karasinski ’27 (2:18.88), FSL Champion.

Boys 50 Free: Daniel Gluschuk ’25 (22.98), FSL Champion with Jake Birnbaum ’24 (23.32) finishing second.

Boys 100 Free: GS sweeps the race with Daniel Gluschuk ’25 (50.96) winning the FSL title, Jake Birnbaum ’24 (51.53) finishing second, and Luke Linden ’25 (52.52) grabbing third.

Boys 500 Free: GS sweeps the race with Anton Beregovoi ’27 (4:53.44) claiming gold, Joey Definis ’25 (5:16.29) the silver, and Marcus Huang ’25 (5:34.60) clinching bronze.

Girls 200 Freestyle Relay: Relay team Gabby Karasinski ’27, Megan Garrabrant ’24, Freya Mottershead ’25, and Quinn Jerardi ’27 finish second, setting a new school record (1:42.06). Gabby Karasinski ’27 also set the school record in the 50-yard freestyle during the leadoff leg of this event (25.46).

Boys 100 Fly: Lukas Nier ’24 earned silver with a new school record (53.28).

Boys 200 Freestyle Relay: The team of Anton Beregovoi ’27, Jake Birnbaum ’24, Joey Definis ’25, and Kentaro Bauer ’25 took home the win (1:32.77).

Boys 100 Back: Mikko Kuittinen ’26 set the pool and championship records on his way to the individual title (52.05).

Boys 100 Breast: Kentaro Bauer ’25 earned the FSL Championship (59.32).

Boys 400 Freestyle Relay: GS’s relay team of Mikko Kuittinen ’26, Anton Beregovoi ’27, Daniel Gluschuk ’25, and Lukas Nier ’24 closed out the evening with another win in record fashion—their time of 3:18.35 bested both the pool and championship records on their way to gold.

Swimming season continues February 16–17 with the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships at Franklin & Marshall College.