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Perfection! Florissant Fish Win Fourth Conference Championship
The swim team beat out Ferguson and Hazelwood for the top spot for the fourth year in a row.
With the close of the summer, the close of the summer North County swim season also wrapped up recently.
The Florissant Fish had its third perfect season, going 8-0, and won its fourth consecutive conference championship at the end of July with 2,298 points. Ferguson finished in second place.
The conference championship meet included a record-setting performance by 14-year-old Annika Hofer who won the 13-14 year old girls 50-yard breaststroke in 32.66 seconds.
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The team won 32 gold medals with 119 swimmers having a personal best.
“We’ve always had a long tradition of great swimming in the Florissant area,” Fish co-head coach Jenoa Olson said in a previous Patch article. “There’s very good swimming talent here, and our coaches set a pretty high standard for our swimmers to meet.”Find out what's happening in Florissantfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
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