Olympian Hali Flickinger gets hometown celebration
Rio Olympic swimmer Hali Flickinger talks with swimmers after practice during a homecoming at Graham Aquatic Center-YMCA Monday. Flickinger trained in the program for many years.
(Spring Grove) — A day that started with a hometown parade, a grease-stained t-shirt and, later, signing autographs for adoring fans ended with Olympic swimmer Hali Flickinger riding in a police escort to the York Revolution baseball game.
Flickinger’s Labor Day schedule on paper could be read as grueling.
It started with a parade and ceremony down main street in Spring Grove, her hometown.
Next, she drove to Kiwanis Lake in York where she shook hands and took pictures with many fans who, several weeks ago, were gripped watching her get to a culminating gold-medal race in Rio.
Later on Monday, she would throw out the first pitch at the baseball game.
Then on Tuesday, Flickinger will stop by her Alma mater Spring Grove Area High School before flying back to Athens, Georgia, where she has one year remaining to complete her degree at the University of Georgia.
Though Flickinger, 22, didn’t win the gold-medal race in Rio, her accomplishment of getting there and competing against the best in the world was not something neither herself nor her fans will forget anytime soon.
This story is part of a partnership between WITF and the York Daily Record.
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