The Tarheel Swimming Association has put its 41st annual summer recreational league into its history book, with the Prestonwood Piranhas again winning the overall title.

This year, the league grew to than 10,400 athletes ages 18 and younger on 78 teams from community pools around Wake County, TSA president Bob Goudreau reported.

Competition was held on Tuesday nights in June and July unless postponed to Wednesday because of storms. Nineteen teams won division championships.  

The Tarheel Swimming Association splashed into community pools around Wake County on Tuesday night, starting the 41st season for the recreational summer league.

Each Tuesday through July 19, more than 10,000 athletes ages 18 and under on 78 teams will compete in dual meets, TSA president Bob Goudreau said.

Week 1 results are below.

The Lochmere swim team overcame an 80-point deficit after the morning 10-and-Under session and surged past runner-up Shepherd's Vineyard of Apex to win the fifth-annual South Wake Invitational Meet at the Lochmere Swim and Tennis Club in Cary on Sunday.

The S.W.I.M., hosted by the Marlins of Raleigh Swim Team year-round club, drew 10 teams and almost 500 swimmers who compete in Wake County's Tarheel Swimming Association summer league. (Top finishers and record-setters are below.)

The meet was one of four championship-style meets being conducted for TSA teams by area year-round competitive clubs and community clubs. Greater Raleigh Swim Meet also was held this past Saturday, hosted by the New Wave Swim Team at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary.

With more than 10,000 youth swimmers on 78 teams this summer, the Tarheel Swimming Association long ago outgrew any single season-ending championship meet.

These days, four meets give the recreational summer league's swimmers a chance to experience a multi-team, championship-meet atmosphere.

Although the four meets being held this weekend and next in Raleigh and Cary are conducted by Wake County club teams and not the Tarheel Swimming Association, TSA teams are the invited participants.

The summer season splashed into action Tuesday evening as the Tarheel Swimming Association (www.tsanc.org) began its six-week run.

The dual-meet competition among recreational teams from community pools through the Triangle has added three new teams for a total of 78, TSA president Bob Goudreau said this week.

The number of swimmers - ages 18 and younger - should surpass 10,000 for the first time after passing 9,700 last year, Goudreau said.