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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

McSorley Siblings Don't Have to Look Far for Competition

Kelly and Matt McSorley have been a big part of the West Deptford swim team's success this season.

Kelly McSorley has competed against the best swimmers the Colonial Conference has to offer during her four-year career at West Deptford High School. As a 200 IM swimmer, McSorley can successfully execute every key style of swimming and is happy to take on all comers. This year, she found her biggest challenger yet—her brother. Freshman Matt McSorley made an immediate impact for the Eagles this season, emerging as one of the team’s top freestyle sprinters. He’s also quickly found a familiar rival. “He’s my biggest competition,” Kelly said. Because of the three-year gap in their age, the siblings rarely raced against each other competitively, but that changed when Matt came out for the swim team this year. As West Deptford competes as a co-…

Ed O'Brien SR

6:59 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Such a fantastic article about two fine young adults. Congratulations to the writer for a true, honest, respectful interview. It was such a pleasure to read this article. I wish all writers would follow your example of honest and real journalism.   more ›

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

West Deptford Swimmers Making Waves

The Eagles swim team improved to 5-0 Tuesday.

With a handful of their best swimmers having graduated last year, the veteran members of the West Deptford High School swim team weren’t exactly sure what would be in store for the Eagles this season. Once the initial shock of who wasn’t there wore off, the student-athletes started realizing that maybe things wouldn’t be so bad. “We started practicing and we realized we are not awful, so we will try,” senior captain Jack Baldwin said with a laugh. Not awful at all. West Deptford defeated Haddon Township, 109-74, Tuesday afternoon to move to 5-0 on the season. It’s safe to say that the pool at RiverWinds is overflowing with confidence. “In our first meet, we did good and then we started to do better and better, and our morale has been sky …

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