With four meets already occurring in their season, the California University of Pennsylvania Women’s Swim team holds a record of 3-1. Their wins this season were against Notre Dame (Ohio), Wheeling Jesuit, and Fairmont State while losing against Shippensburg.

    One of the main attributors to the swim team’s success is junior year swimmer Jade Arganbright. Arganbright in the first meet won the 100 and 200 breaststroke race and set the pool record in each event. She also won the in the 200 individual medley (IM) and set the pool record against Shippensburg and Fairmont State. That’s only just this season. In her two years prior to this one, Arganbright has competed in the Pittsburgh Invitational, the PSAC Championship and even the NCAA Championships.

    Arganbright’s swim career started when her parents signed her up at the local YMCA when she lived in North Carolina. “I swam only in the summer until my 8th grade year when we moved here to PA.  That’s when I started swimming year round,” Arganbright recalled.

  Arganbright shined whenever she competed on the swim team at Central York High School. There Arganbright had quite the rap sheet that was contained with her being a four-year letter winner, three-time Most Valuable Swimmer, three-time all-star, two-time Most Improved Swimmer, a conference champion, and she holds six school records.

Despite the impressive success in high school, Arganbright was not recruited by Cal U. “I made the initial contact with Denny and we corresponded for over a year before I committed to Cal.  I went to Cal U swim camp the summer before my senior year and that’s when I really got to know coach and his coaching style,” Arganbright said.

     Now fast forward to this semester where Arganbright is one of the five upperclassman on the team. Being an upperclassman, Arganbright understands that there is a leadership quality that goes with it. “I always encourage and support my teammates in and out of the pool. I try to always be on time to practice, I swim and lift hard every day and try to pass on that same motivation I have to the girls on the team,” she said about how she plans to be a leader.

    Her biggest help into learning how to be a leader is going to be from her coach, Ed Denny. “I know personally I would not be where I am today without him as my coach. He has helped me improve my technique as a swimmer and he has pushed me to reach my goals and actually way beyond my goals as a swimmer. The advice that coach always gives us during practice is to focus on the little things and make yourself look effortless in the water,” she said fondly about her coach.

    Arganbright will get another chance to test her leadership skills as the team continues their season by staying in California and hosting Kutztown and East Stroudsburg on November 6 and 7. After that race they will prepare for the Pittsburgh Invitational which will be held on November 20-22.