Just Keep Swimming MRA’s High School Swim Team enjoyed a very successful 2021- 22 Campaign culminating in a State Championship. Said their coach, Erin Cummins, “Our athletes put in the “try” in the new longer season of practices and dual meets, and brought the “umph” for the triumph. Our 25 men and women competed and compiled points together to clinch the MAIS High School Overall State Swimming Championships. MRA has quality athletes, and I’m so proud of how they pulled together as a team to become victorious. MRA’s swimmers took their mark, and then made their mark, and the results are outstanding!” The 2021-2022 season was the first time for MAIS to follow National Federation of High School Swimming rules. With these new MAIS standards, our swimmers also set 19 MRA High School records and 5 MAIS records at the Overall State Swimming Championships. In the men’s division, two MAIS records were set by Thomas Dale and Josh Braman. In relays, two MRA records were set and one MAIS record set by the team of Josh Braman, Vanndel Chinchen, John Mi- chael Oliphant, and Thomas Dale. In the women’s division, seven MRA records were set in in- dividual events with one also being an MAIS record set by Hallie Dale. The girls set all new MRA records in their three relays with one of those also setting an MAIS record. That record-setting relay team consisted of Riz McBride, Mary El- lison Dale, Trilby Cummins, and Hallie Dale.
Led by team captains Josh Braman and Caroline Oliphant, the High School Patriot Swim Team is coached by Dr. Erin Cum- mins who was a Mississippi state champion in the backstroke and freestyle in her youth and was part of the Junior Olympic Team/ Zone team representing MS in Southern Swimming Association. She swam Division 2 for Delta State University and made all conference her freshman year along with aca- demic all conference the remaining years. She was part of a DSU relay that made top 16 in the nation. Coach Cummins currently maintains coaching membership and certification with USA Swimming. She is a general surgeon with Surgical Clinic Associates at Baptist Colonades and on staff at Baptist Hospital and Merit Health: River Oaks, Woman’s and Madi- son. Her son Tyler graduated from MRA in 2011, and her 7th grade daughter Trilby has been attending from K3 to present. Coach Cummins states, “I believe anybody who strives to im- prove themselves is a winner. As their coach, I am here to push athletes to their limits, and I will encourage swimmers to set goals and to be their own critic while they learn how to handle performance anxiety. This might be one’s only athletic experience, and I hope they fall in love with it.” TEAM AWARDS Patriot Award: Vanndel Chinchen
High Point Boy: Thomas Dale High Point Girl: Riz McBride Most Improved: AnnaLee Cossar
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