2026 Colonies Zone Dot Donnelly Service Award to LaTonya Moyer
LaTonya Moyer grew up with a fear of the water and herself learned to swim as an adult. She joined USMS when she joined the Virginia LMSC Board. She served from 2022-2026. LaTonya became the first Virginia LMSC DEI Committee Chair with the duties of promoting Masters swimming as an activity open to all adults and helping to establish USMS programming in facilities that do not currently have such programs.
Working with the Virginia LMSC Coaches Chair helped bring a Coaches Certification Class to Virginia to not only support Coach Certification, but also Adult Learn to Swim instructor certification. As an ALTS instructor, she taught over 100 adults how to swim; primarily women swimmers of color.
LaTonya is the Director of Grown-up Swimming Richmond. She started the program in 2025 which initially consisted of 24 swimmers on two teams. This year, there are currently nine teams.
Colonies Zone salutes her dedication to Masters Swimming and her many years of volunteer service promoting and teaching swimming in the Richmond Virginia area.
Records Fall at Colonies Zone SCY Championship
The Colonies Zone Short Course Yards Championship held at George Mason University’s Aquatic & Fitness Center saw 370 swimmers attend the three-day meet in April. Numerous individual championship meet records were broken across most age groups, along with four relay records.
30-34
1000 Free 9:51.56 Arthur Conover
40-44
50 Back 26.90 Brittany Butcher
100 Back 57.36 Brittany Butcher
400 IM 4:16.12 Michael Dellanoce
50-54
500 Free 5:06.70 Santiago Lima
400 IM 4:29.73 Santiago Lima
55-59
50 Back 26.49 Greg Rees
60-64
50 Free 27.10 Susan Williams
60-64
500 Free 5:58.39 Laurie Hug
1000 Free 12:11.68 Laurie Hug
1650 Free 20:17.71 Laurie Hug
400 IM 5:30.07 Laurie Hug
100 Back 59.82 Jeffrey P Evans
50 Fly 25.82 Jeffrey P Evans
200 IM 2:14.15 Jeffrey P Evans
70-74
500 Free 6:14.32 Joan Pfinsgraff
50 Back 32.20 Joan Pfinsgraff
200 Back 2:31.77 Joan Pfinsgraff
50 Back 32.29 Geoffrey Meyer
100 Fly 1:11.97 Bruce Carter
200 Fly 3:30.38 Shirley Loftus-Charley
75-79
1000 Free 16:49.60 Judy Lim-Sharpe
80-84
50 Back 38.72 Jim Dragon
50 Breast 38.66 Jim Dragon
100 IM 1:20.27 Jim Dragon
85-89
100 Back 1:29.48 Howard Rolston
50 Breast 46.39 Howard Rolston
100 IM Howard Rolston
Mixed 200 Free Relay 1:34.47 Terrapin Masters- M Stakem, C Randolph, J De Jesus, M Smith
45-54
Mixed 200 Free Relay 1:39.57 Club Tribe- D Bell, J Ruckdeschel, S Williams, M Conze
Mixed 400 Free Relay4:00.99 Reston Masters- W Cheng, M Shapiro, A Bass, T Dion
Mixed 200 Medley Relay 1:53.82 Club Tribe- D Bell, C Hurtubise, R Williams, M Choe