Anna Klug, new college-commit, helps lead the Park City High School Swim Team to another win

Anna Klug, PCHS Swimmer whose going to University in Wisconsin to swim. Photo: TownLift // Michele Roepke

PARK CITY, Utah — On Wednesday, the Park City High School swim team beat South Summit and Cottonwood at a home meet at the Park City Aquatics Center. 

Park City High School senior Anna Klug contributed to that win. She’s been swimming in this pool, which is located inside the Ecker Hill Middle School, since she was a student there, and her passion for the sport started even before that while she attended Trailside Elementary School where her mom Amy worked.

After graduating this June, she has signed and is committed to continue swimming in college at the University of Wisconsin, Au Claire and plans to declare a major in psychology.

Another Miner senior and captain on the swim team, Kathryn Schofield, is in talks with UCLA and UCSD or somewhere else in So Cal, fabulously figuring out her future. She swam the 200 Free and the 100 Back on Wednesday with good results. Schofield works at the Aquatics Center as a lifeguard supervisor and swim lesson teacher. Schofield is pictured in the slideshow below

Teammates Axel Solander, Harrison Bae, and Josh Ostrovsky — a junior and sophmores, respectively — also pictured below in the slideshow, competed in the winning home meet. Ostrovsky told TownLift this isn’t his only extracurricular activity citing Jazz Band which, along with swim practice, happens before school, getting him up and at ’em each morning at 6 a.m.

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All photos: TownLift // Michele Roepke

Belle Malpede is a former teammate having graduated from Park City High Class of ’21. She also works at the Ecker Hill Pool, as a lifeguard and supervisor, and has worked there since she was a PCHS student-athlete and juggles time matriculating at the University of Utah.

Assistant coach of the swim team Alec Goldfield told TownLift, “I’m really proud of how all the athletes, including Anna, performed so well on Wednesday, especially coming off of a long holiday break, racing fast and and training hard towards our upcoming meets.” 

The coach of the South Summit team from Kamas, which finished in second place, is Leigh Anderson, a Park City native who was a student and swimmer in the Park City School District. 

Next up, the Park City team swims at an away meet on Wednesday at Salt Lake City’s Highland High School. That’s one of four meets remaining prior to regionals, then if past is prologue for this prolific, perennial squad, it’s on to the state championships.