The swim and dive team hosted the 2024 Catholic Invite on December 28. Teams traveled many miles to join in the fun.
The schools in attendance included Cardinal Gibbons High School and St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, traveling from North Carolina and Austin, Texas, respectively. Two Georgia Catholic schools, Blessed Trinity and St. John Bosco Academy, also joined.
The weekend kicked off with a service project benefitting the Atlanta-based organization The Sandwich Project. The Sandwich Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by a Marist family, the Hiles. Reliant on community volunteers, the organization aims to combat food insecurity in Metro Atlanta in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the event, groups formed of swimmers from different schools made and packaged over 1500 sandwiches. Sarah White, a junior on the varsity swim team, remarked that her favorite thing about the Invitational was “meeting so many new people from all around the country.”
Of course, the teams celebrated their hard work with a pasta dinner to pack in some carbs for the competition the next morning.
An annual event since 2013, this long-standing tradition fosters an atmosphere of friendly competition, teamwork, and the service that is so vital to the Catholic lifestyle. During such a critical time of year, this project proved especially meaningful.
