Wheaton Swim Club Recipients of Special Awards
       
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"Jon Lederhouse" Male National Swimmer of the Year Presented to a Male National Swimmer voted by his peers. This award is named after long-time Wheaton College Swim Coach Jon Lederhouse who embodies the attributes of Love of the Sport, Enthusiasm, Leadership, Commitment, and Sportsmanship.
Year Recipient
2009 Bryant Honsa
2008 Dan Doran
2007 Jeff Depew
2006 Bryant Honsa
2005 Will Schaffer
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"Al Zamski" Female National Swimmer of the Year Presented to a Female National Swimmer voted by her peers. This award is named after long-time College of DuPage Coach and Aquatics Director Al Zamski who embodies the attributes of Love of the Sport, Enthusiasm, Leadership, Commitment, and Sportsmanship.
Year Recipient
2009 Kara Field
2008 Kara Field
2007 Elaine Wilkinson
2006 Lauren Zafir
2005 Danielle Herrmann
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"Sarah Maggio" Age Group Swimmer of the Year Presented to a male or female Age Group Swimmers. This award is named after former Wheaton Swim Club coach Sarah Maggio, also one of the coaches’ former swimmers, Collegiate swimmer, and NCAA Champion, who embodies the attributes of Love of the Sport, Enthusiasm, Leadership, Commitment, and Sportsmanship.
Year Recipient
2009 Helen Wei
2008 Emily Ward
2007 Taylor Ostrowski
2006 Julia Creswell
2005 Connie Hsu
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Spirit Award Presented to a 12 & Under male or female swimmer who consistently demonstrates team spirit at practice and at meets. Team spirit contributes to everyone’s over all success and enjoyment of the sport of swimming.
Year Recipient
2009 Joel Erickson
2009 Kirstin Erickson
2008 Joy Xue
2008 Gabbie Mathys
2007 Helen Wei
2007 Andrew Bertschy
2006 Nick Pulgine

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Sportsmanship Award Presented to a male or female swimmers who demonstrates sportsmanship consistently. The Wheaton Swim Club sees the 10 & Under swimmers as the future of the program. If sportsmanship is developed at this age, it will last a lifetime.
Year Recipient
2009 Nick Zillier
2009 Emerson King
2008 Amy Smith
2007 Aaron Santiago
2007 Amelia Suda
2006 Kelsey Ostrowski

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Olympic Trial Qualifier Presented each year to any Wheaton Swim Club swimmer who achieves an Olympic Trials Qualifying standard. The Olympic Trials is the fastest meet in the World, and occurs every 4 years. Typically, less than 10 swimmers in Illinois of all ages achieve this cut every 4 years. The coaching staff has coached over 20 Olympic Trials qualifiers since the 1984 Games.
Year Recipient Event
2008 Taylor Zafir 100 breast
2007 Taylor Zafir 200 breast
2007 Will Schaffer 200 IM
2006 Taylor Zafir 400 IM

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Graduating Seniors

The Wheaton Swim Club would like to thank all of our graduating Seniors and wish them the best of luck in the future!

Year Recipient
2009

Meridith Brichaceck

2009

Stephanie Hasenberg

2009

Josh Hasenberg

2009

Graham Risley

2009

Bryant Honsa

2009

Danielle Reminger

2009

Chris Corbett

2009 Carl Sveen
2009 Chris Depew
2009 Annastasia Hartnett
2009

Taylor Marton

2009 Annie Guraziu
2009 Megan Lapeta
2009 Chris Cimaglia
2009 Mike Brady
2009 Kevin Schuster
2009 Annie Guraziu
2009

Ryan Stanley

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