Oxford’s Voce to swim at collegiate level

MERCERSBURG – Abigail Voce of Oxford, a senior at Mercersburg Academy – a boarding school in Mercersburg, Pa. – will enroll and join the swim team at Babson College this fall.
Voce was a four-year letterwinner in swimming at Mercersburg, and swam in nine championship finals at the prestigious Eastern Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championships. She finished second twice as a member of the school’s 200-yard freestyle relay team (as a ninth-grader and 11th-grader), and placed in four Easterns finals as a senior, including third in the 200 free relay and 400 free relay and fifth in the 50 free.
Voce was a member of Mercersburg’s 2016 Easterns-champion girls’ swim team, which was the school’s first Easterns title since 1987. The Blue Storm finished second at Easterns in 2017 and third in 2018.
Over the year’s Mercersburg has produced 54 Olympians in its history; many of those have been swimmers.
Voce is the daughter of Cynthia and Matthew Voce of Oxford. She received the President’s Education Award for excellence in the classroom, also earned a varsity letter in softball, and will graduate from Mercersburg on Saturday, May 26, with the 132 members of the senior class; Academy award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro (a 1985 graduate of Mercersburg) will be the featured speaker.
Voce’s older brother, Tommy, graduated from Mercersburg in 2017.
Mercersburg Academy is located near the Pennsylvania/Maryland state line, about 45 miles west of Gettysburg, Pa. It is an independent, coeducational boarding school with students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate, and has prepared students for college and life beyond since 1893.
This year’s student body includes 435 students from 29 states (including 12 students from New York state) and 44 nations of the world. For more information, visit www.mercersburg.edu.
Babson College is an NCAA Division III school located in Wellesley, Mass., near Boston.

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