Ready, get set, swim!  That command starts Friday for members of the Ada/Lost Creek swim team at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool.

This year, Bluffton hosts the Western Ohio Aquatic League meet championships. The event, will bring hundreds of fans and swimmers to Bluffton for the next two days.

“Warms-up is at 7 a.m. followed by festivities at 9 a.m. and swimming beginning around 10 a.m.” said Liz Diller, one of the two Bluffton swim team coaches. “Normally we have a couple thousand fans here, so it adds up pretty quickly.”

Diller said the competition will have eight teams.  Those teams are:
• Bluffton
• Kenton
• Wapakoneta
• Westside
• Shawnee
• Van Wert
• Ada/Lost Creek
• Sherwood

“We will have about 500 swimmers all together, maybe even more than that,” she said. “Our team has about 70.”