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Erie’s aquatic community gathered today to celebrate some of its most accomplished athletes and coaches as the Erie County Aquatic Hall of Fame honored its 2026 induction class.<\/p>\n
The ceremony took place at the Kahkwa Club, where swimmers, divers and families filled the room for this year’s induction dinner.<\/p>\n
The honorees included All-Americans Doug Bennink, Adam Fish and Mike Squeglia, along with standout performers Kelly Elliot Dine and Conrad Kubaney.<\/p>\n
The hall also honored the 2009 McDowell men’s 400-yard freestyle relay, celebrated for its District 10 championship and All-American finish.<\/p>\n
Organizers and athletes say the event is a reminder of the legacy Erie continues to build in the water.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty surreal, to be honest with you. Pretty humbling. Back then, I didn’t think I’d be here at the Hall of Fame, so it’s pretty cool, especially with the guys I get to share it with. It’s special.” Kyle Lazenby, an athlete who got inducted for outstanding relay 400 free relay commented.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had Olympians. We’ve had many high school state champions, All-Americans, officials, coaches and people from across the aquatic community.” John Myrica, the President of Erie County Aquatic Hall of Fame said.<\/p>\n
The Hall of Fame says it plans to continue expanding its archives and outreach efforts to preserve Erie’s aquatic history for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot Erie’s aquatic community gathered today to celebrate some of its most accomplished athletes and coaches as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109543,109544,136,109542,138,137,8980,62794],"class_list":["post-257907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-all-american","tag-diving","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-aquatic-hall-of-fame","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-induction","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}