Holy Cross celebrates long-awaited swimming title
NEW ORLEANS – Good things comes, as the saying goes, to those who wait.
That would seem to fit the Holy Cross swimming program, which finished second in the Division II state swimming championships for six consecutive years before capturing the state title earlier this month in Sulphur.
Not so, said Tigers coach Dale Turner.
“That … is a lie,” Turner said Friday at a school assembly celebrating the state championship. “Good things do not come to those who wait. You do not win by waiting. Good things come to those who bust their tails, who fight the good fight, who never quit.”
The Tigers easily defeated Ruston for the title, their first since 2010.
Holy Cross has one of the oldest traditions in all of Louisiana high school athletics – ringing the school’s 168-year-old Victory Bell to celebrate state championships. That capped off Friday’s assembly.
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