Depth and Dominance from Andover!
The 49th season of Girls Varsity Swimming and Diving wrapped up their year in amazing fashion at the New England Prep School Swimming and Diving Championships last Wednesday at Deerfield (Diving) and this past weekend at Phillips Exeter Academy (Swimming).
The times and scores listed below show only a part of what our team accomplished this season. We finished 2nd in New England out of 12 teams. We were undefeated in the regular season and had a truly amazing season capped by a 5th place finish at Easterns and a seventh straight win over Exeter (10 of the last 11 years). This team worked incredibly hard each day – always aiming for its best during each competition along the way.
1. Greenwich Academy (421.5 ); 2. Andover (350); 3. Exeter (341.5); 4. Suffield (214); 5. Deerfield (194); 6. Choate (180).
We wish seniors Sophia Blaine, Eliza Dow, Presley Kmeta-Suarez, Grace Hwang, Sofia Smirnov, Hannah Ono, Mary Kate Turk, Ashley Vensel, and Kayla Lang the very best in college next year. We will miss their steady leadership through many ups and downs – but mostly we will miss their care of their younger swimming and diving teammates.
Next year looks amazing as the base of this team will move onward and upward – and as we will welcome new students who are admitted this week!
We will open our new pool this summer – a very exciting new chapter for Andover Swimming and Diving.
We continue our tradition of FUN#1. We are stronger together and we saw that in full view in the past few weeks. We have our parents to thank for always cheering and supplying much needed snacks and love from near and far!
200 Medley Relay
A. Ariana Zhao ‘25 (26.58), Izzy An ‘24 (32.02), Melissa Chang ‘23 (26.84), Veronika Kisova ‘23 (24.57)
1:50.01
4th place
B. Kayla Lang ‘22 (30.84), Valencia Zhang ‘25 (35.01), Sophia Walker ’24 (29.00), Mary Kate Turk ‘22 (26.22)
2:00.86
2nd place
[prelim/final or, if > 16th place, seed/prelim]
*designates that although the fourth swimmer placed into the top 16 during prelims, they are not allowed to swim in the finals due to league rules
200 Free
Katie Swan ‘23 1:54.15/1:53.27 4th place
Veronika Kisova ’23 1:53.75/1:53.74 5th place
Ashley Vensel ’22 1:55.93/1:55.89 6th place
Molly MacKinnon ’24. 1:58.57/1:5 11th place prelim*
200 IM
Izzy An ‘24 2:13.73/2:15.39 8th place
Grace Hu ‘24 2:16.01/2:16.19 11th place
Grace Hwang ‘22 2:17.04/2:18.06 15th place
50 Free
Elissa Kim ’24 23.81/23.72 1st place
Mia Wonacott ‘24 25.27/25.61 13th place
Emma Cheung ‘23 25.44/25.69 15th place
Daphne Edwards ‘23 26.26 21st place
Diving
Sophia Blaine ’22 341.10 points 6th place
Presley Kmeta-Suarez ’22 293.45 points 9th place
Maddy Shaffer ‘23 173.10 points 21st place
Eliza Dow ’22 123.65 points 23rd place
100 fly
Ariana Zhao ‘25 57.28/57.94 5th place
Grace Hwang ‘22 1:00.10/1:00.11 10th place
Melissa Chang ‘23 1:01.30/1:00.33 11th place
Sophia Walker ’24 1:04.29 22nd place
100 Free
Elissa Kim ’24 51.55/51.48 1st place
Katie Swan ‘23 53.34/53.29 5th place
Emma Cheung ‘23 56.73/57.16 16th place
Mary Kate Turk ’22 57.65 22nd place
500
Veronika Kisova ’23 5:03.23/5:01.71 2nd place
Ashley Vensel ’22 5:08.21/5:08.40 4th place
Molly MacKinnon ’24 5:20.51/5:18.32 9th place
200 Free Relay
A. Zhao (24.71), Swan (24.32), Cheung (24.97), Kim (23.18)
1:37.18
3rd place
B. Wonacott (25.98), Edwards (26.04), Naughton (25.95), Lang (25.95)
1:43.92
1st place
100 Back
Ariana Zhao ‘25 56.52/56.60 2nd place
Mia Wonacott ‘24 1:02.26/1:01.71 14th place
Orla Naughton ‘25 1:05.54 20th place
Kayla Lang ‘22 1:05.63 21st place
100 Breast
Izzy An ‘24 1:10.24/1:10.46 8th place
Grace Hu ‘24 1:10.42/1:10.26 10th place
Lilianna Keim ‘25 1:10.67/1:10.42 11th place
Valancia Zhang ’25 1:17.60 28th place
400 Free Relay
A. Vensel (53.79), Kisova (53.66), Swan (52.80), Kim (51.32)
3:31.57
3rd place
B. Hwang (56.05), Naughton (56.63), Edwards (56.95), MacKinnon (55.96)
3:45.59
1st place