Donegal swimmers made quite a splash at the 2021 PIAA District III Championships held at Cumberland Valley on March 6th and celebrated with a collection of a dozen medals-four of them silver.

Junior Ethan Shonk earned two of those silver medals with his finishes in the 200 free (1:45.71) and backstroke (52.36).

Jordynn Park powered her way to both a silver and a bronze with her second-place butterfly time of 58.14 and third-place breaststroke (1:06.17).

Supplying the fourth Donegal silver of the day was Grant Leibfried with a 100-fly time of 52.87, which he complemented with a fifth-place finish in the breaststroke, posting a time of 1:02.85.

Claire O'Neill picked up a fourth and fifth place finish in her two events, the backstroke (59.72), and 200 IM (2:11.05), and Sierra Houck took home the same duo of medals just in different events. Houck snagged her fourth-place medal in the 500 free (24.96) and was fifth in the 100 free (55.24).

Logan Fry cruised in at seventh in the breaststroke (1:04.06) and eighth in the 200 free (1:55.11), and Kylie Wilkinson supplied a pair of 11th place finishes in the 200 free (2:06.39) and the 500 free (5:43.47).

"We had a good showing, and I was pleased with all my swimmers," commented coach Alison Kreider.

For four Donegal swimmers the work is not done quite yet. Shonk, Park, O'Neill, and Leibfried all qualified to compete in the State Championship meet slated for Friday, March 19th.