Congratulations 2025 Riverwood Rays!
Congratulations to all Riverwood Rays participants this summer. It was an exciting season for all.
What a season! We had just under 90% of our swimmers drop time and long standing team records were broken. This season, we advanced into a higher division and swam against teams with more swimmers than us, but we certainly showed the improvement in the water throughout the season. Our team showed a lot of progress from the first meet to the last meet. Thanks to all of the coaching staff, volunteers, swimmers and their families the 2025 Season is one to remember!
– Thank you from HLSA and the Rays!
Season Highlights…
The Riverwood Rays 2025 season began with uncertainty and with much anticipation. Thanks to the hard work and determination of the coaching staff and TSA representatives, the swimmers were finally able to enjoy a season full of laps, ribbons, competition and fun!
Riverwood Rays Top Finishers…
The following swimmers received awards and we celebrate their success this season.
Banquet Awards:
High Point
These are the top two swimmers from both girls and boys in each age group that earned the most points for the team during the regular season meets.
6 & Under
Boys: Xander Lee
Girls: Cooper Yarborough
7 and 8
Boys: Caleb Uscio
Girls: Mackenzie Leonhardt
9 and 10
Boys: Logan Yarborough
Girls: Vera Hockman
11 and 12
Boys: Ethan Leonhardt
Girls: Carson Tilghman
13 and 14
Boys: Jayden Barkley
Girls: Carlee Davis
15 to 18
Men: Elijah Hammons
Women: Chelsea Cotham
High Point Runner Up
6 And Under
Boys: Mason Matessa
Girls: Josephine Gagai
7 and 8
Boys: Kale Myers
Girls: Halley Gagai
9 and 10
Boys: Ford Teague
Girls: Vivianna Quinones
11 and 12
Boys: Chance Glanzmann
Girls: Sage Gorlesky
13 and 14
Boys: Bradley O’Brien
Girls: Paige Walters
15-18
Men: Ben O’Brien
Women: Natalie Irish
Most Improved Swimmer
This award goes to the swimmer in boys and girls from each age group that had the most improved number of swims combined with the most time dropped in each swim.
6 & Under: Boys: Kyser Fleetwood Girls: Harper Webber
7-8: Boys: David Strunsky Girls: Eva Barkley
9-10: Boys: Asher Hans Girls: Abigail Nelson
11-12: Boys: Jacob Nelson Girls: Kameron Henry
13-14: Boys: Brody Tamaino Girls: Adair Barnes
15-18: Men: Gavin Ramirez Women: Emily McFadzean
Coaches Award
This award goes to only six swimmers that the coaches decide had the best attitude in practice, meets and towards other swimmers. Tried hard every practice and every meet. Did everything that was asked of them by the coaching staff and showed respect to all coaches, swimmers and parents alike!
Allison Payton
Corbin Cole
McKenna Cole
Hudson Willis
Josh Nelson
Brayden O’Brien
Many parents volunteered time and money to make this season and this banquet the best it could be! From Monique Jiggets with tables and decorations, Barret Teague bringing and setting up our speaker for music and speeches, and every other parent bringing drinks, desserts and sides that were enjoyed by all!
We are so proud of all our swimmers and their performances this year. I want to personally thank all the parent volunteers for donating their time while at the swim meets to make sure those meets were possible. We are also very thankful for an amazing TSA Rep in Sarah Muminovic, and Betsy Cotham who also took care of IT for all the home meets to run smoothly which is a large undertaking, and also Mackenzie Manard, Kristen Glanzmann and Tammy Franklin for working closely with them to help when needed and hopefully taking the reigns next year in 2026!
We hope everyone has a great off season and we can’t wait to see each and everyone of our swimmers next summer for another amazing summer swim team season!
Swimmingly,
Head Coach Andrew Johnson
Asst. Head Coach Jonathan Raynor
Asst. Coach Teagan Farrell
Asst. Coach Sonia Hunt
Asst. Coach Kyra Stringfield
Asst. Coach Ryan Pittman
