Kingfish swimmers set marks on opening day
Published: September 9, 2012
Danielle Davis, Connor Davis and Bobby Gaston won their inauguaral European Forces Swim League 200-meter short-course backstroke races Saturday and set team records in the process, according to Kaiserslautern Kingfish publicity chair Jodi Johnson.
Danielle Davis set the Kingfish's team mark in the girls’ 13-14-year-old division with a time of 2:49.95. Gaston placed the boys’ 15-16-year record at 2:37.46, and Connor Davis established the boys’ 17-19 record in 2:25.32 as the EFSL opened another season. Their performances in the event, being contested for the first time this season, helped the Kingfish edge Stuttgart 592-565 in the three-team meet. Vilseck-Grafenwoehr was third with 42 points.
Triple individual winners at the season opener were Danielle and Connor Davis, Sam Bassett, Joshua Choi and Elizabeth Gorske of Kaiserslautern and Austin Sojourner, Melissa Call and Rose Richardson of Stuttgart.
The EFSL season runs through February.
