2025 Tri-County Swimming Championships
- August 2-3, 2025
- Pomona Swim Club, Riverton, NJ
- SCM (25m)
- “2025 Tri-County Swimming Championships” on Meet Mobile
The Erlton Swim Club’s boys’ 15-18 relay team took down two SCM Tri-County records in the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays at the 68th Annual Burt German Swimming Championships. Their 200 medley relay time surpassed the NISCA National Public School record by more than one second.
The team of Ben Schlotterer (Loyola Maryland commit, 2025), Tre Cottrell (Georgetown commit, 2025), Ryan Quinn (Notre Dame commit, 2026), and Christian Leone touched in 1:42.60 in the 200 medley relay. This time, not only set a new Tri-County record but also was faster than the National Public High School Record.
Erlton Swim Club’s 200 Medley Relay Splits:
| Leg | Split |
| Ben Schlotterer | 26.04 |
| Tre Cottrell | 28.7 |
| Ryan Quinn | 23.81 |
| Christian Leone | 24.05 |
| 1:42.60 |
The current National Public School Record still stands, and is held by Mainland Regional High School, who swam a 1:43.99 in January of 2018, a team comprised of Destin Lasco, Erik Truong, Glenn Lasco, and Joseph Rogers.
More recently, the record was also unofficially cleared with a 1:43.85 posted by Willowdale Swim Club at the same meet in 2022.
The men also knocked over a quarter of a second off the Tri-County 200 free relay record mark (1:34.29) from 2022, touching in a final time of 1:34.00.
All four swimmers attended public schools in South Jersey: Schlotterer and Leone at Cherry Hill East, Cottrell at Haddonfield High School, and Quinn at Haddon Township High School.
I’m astounded that South Jersey produces such great swimmers with the pool situation they have. It’s bad. None of these kids’ high schools even have pools. The two club teams in the area are doing a great job.
2 club teams? You are undercounting by a fair amount, just in the tricounty (this summer league area) there are over 6 club teams that the kids swim at during the winter: SJAC, Wahoos (3 locations), BWA, ECCC, YMCA, LIFE, STRM, and probably some more. And all of those teams are there because summer swim in tricounty is so popular. You are right about the high schools not having pools which is surprise since it is such a hotbed of swimming participation.
Those other clubs do exist but nobody gets recruited from them. Whereas I counted 19 guys and 26 girls from Wahoos/SJAC in the Top 1000 on Swimcloud. It is worth mentioning GPAC used to be a competitor as well, but the Wahoos absorbed them. So the Wahoos are more or less two teams masquerading as one.
There’s also a few kids that hop the river into Philly for the Seahawks or UMLY. But they’re… exceptions.
I was at this meet, and it was impressive to watch. Ryan Quinn broke 2 individual Tri County Records, 50 Back and 50 Fly. The Tri County League has been around 68 years. It is a South Jersey Summer Swim League. Fun, Competitive and a nice break form the rigors of HS and USA Swimming. Nice Spotlight.
I believe National HS records are in SCY.
https://niscaonline.org/index.php/records
Quirky, but they keep SCM & SCY.
Reporting that they broke a high school record – unofficially even – despite them being months removed from GRADUATING high school is a poor choice in reporting news. You can do better than this!
Time for bed, grandpa.
And they all swam at different high schools! I think a lot of club teams could break high school records. Just think if Mason Manta Rays all went to the same high school. Not a big story.
Abosolutely this. The reason it’s so hard for a public high school team to put together a relay of this caliber is because coaches aren’t hand selecting their swimmers. You do the best with the talent that walks through the door.
But how many summer league teams could?
Sorry Matt but I disagree! I’m a father of a swimmer from tri county and this was awesome to watch. This swim league has 36 teams and this particular swim team is one of twelve in its town! All of these kids live within five minutes of each other. This is just a your local community swimming club kicking butt. Cheers to Erlton!!
What is the age limit for high school?
OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS!
While it’s not clearly stated in the article, I would hazard a guess that the headline was intended to provide some idea of just how fast this relay was, given that there are no SCM NAG records.
To provide additional context, the USA Swimming database appears to show it as the 13th-fastest time in US history in the event, although I doubt that list is wholly accurate.
23 fly split is moving
“E” tattoo – nice work!
I had no idea SCM High school records even existed.
Title lists MR time but says FR