Pine Valley’s Callen Thomas swims in the 11–12-year-old 100 m freestyle on Monday during day 1 of the Southwest Virginia Swim League Championship meet, held over two days at Pulaski County’s Randolph Park.Photos by Jon Fleming Randolph Park hosted the 2026 Southwest Virginia Swim League Championships held over two days. Swimmers of all ages from teams across Montgomery County, Radford, Giles County, and Pulaski County competed in the meet.Pine Valley Piranhas’ head coach Heather Rowland high-fives Chaiya Holliman after the 9–10-year-old 50 m backstroke event at the SVSL championships hosted by Randolph Park.Pine Valley’s Jose Cooper gets set to swim the 25-meter backstroke at the SVSL Championship meet.Pine Valley’s JT Keister was a triple champion on Monday, winning the 11–12-year-old 50 m freestyle, (30.56), the 50 m breaststroke (37.68), and the 50 m butterfly (32.72) on day 1 of the SVSL championship meet.Josie Ramsey swims in the 11–12-year-old 50 m backstroke for Pine Valley. The Shawnee swim club took the team championship with NRV second and Blacksburg third.
