Andover posts strong third place finish after amazing season 47.
The 47th 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 The Hotchkiss School (swimming).
The times and scores listed below show only a part of what our team accomplished this season. We finished with the 3rd highest point total out of 12 teams. We lost only one league meet (Suffield) and had a truly amazing season capped by a 4th place finish at Easterns and a sixth straight win over Exeter (9 of the last 10 years). This team worked incredibly hard each day – aiming for the team to do its best during each competition along the way.
1. Greenwich Academy (377); 2. Suffield (322); 3. Andover (283.5); 4. Choate (198); 5. Loomis (165); 6. Hotchkiss (161); 7. Deerfield (152); 8. Exeter (151)
We wish seniors Claire Davis, Grace Hitchcock, and Jackie Rossi 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 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. Amy Jiang ’21 (27.03), Graeleigh Jones ’21 (29.97), Grace Hitchcock ’20 (26.05), Mary Kate Turk ’22 (24.84)
1:47.89
3rd place
B. Hailey Wadell ’21 (29.47), Emma Cheung ’23 (32.21), Gwen Empie ’21 (27.87), Jackie Rossi ’20 (26.22)
1:55.77
3rd 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
Veronika Kisova ’23 1:53.78/1:52.76 3rd place
Graeleigh Jones ’21 1:55.71/1:56.12 8th place
Ashley Vensel ’22 1:57.95/1:58.38 10th place
Sofia Smirnov ’22 2:01.01/1:59.50 12th place prelim*
200 IM
Katie Swan ’23 2:11.49/2:12.41 7th place
Alexa DiCenso ’21 2:15.93/2:16.84 11th place
Hailey Wadell ’21 2:18.96/2:19.65 21st place
(we missed our Grace Hwang ’22 today!)
50 Free
Mary Kate Turk ’22 25.34/25.56 14th place
Abby Ryan ’21 25.51/25.58 15th place
Hannah Ono ’22 26.09/26.62 28th place
Jackie Rossi ’20 28.10/27.13 36th place
Diving
Sophia Blaine ’22 356.10 points 6th place
Ingrid Appen ’22 174.15 points 19th place
Presley Kmeta-Suarez ’22 102.70 points 21st place
(we missed our Claire Davis!)
100 fly
Grace Hitchcock ’20 57.74/58.31 6th place
Katie Swan ’23 59.72/1:00.29 12th place
Gwen Empie ’21 1:02.02/1:03.34 16th place
(we missed our Grace Hwang here too!)
100 Free
Mary Kate Turk ’22 54.96/55.18 6th place
Sofia Smirnov ’22 55.50/55.38 7th place
Daphne Edwards ’23 56.38/55.98 11th place
Abby Ryan ’21 55.82/56.64 15th place prelim*
500
Veronika Kisova ’23 5:06.46/4:59.19 4th place
Ashley Vensel ’22 5:11.76/5:10.96 6th place
Grace Hitchcock ’20 5:18.26/5:15.10 10th place
Emma Cheung ’23 5:31.29/5:30.31 13th place prelim*
200 Free Relay
A. Ryan (25.61), Vensel (25.21), Smirnov (25.25), Kisova (24.84)
1:40.91
6th place
B. Hitchcock (25.85), Edwards 26.05), Ono (26.45), Rossi (25.98)
1:44.33
1st place
100 Back
Amy Jiang ’21 58.25/58.30 5th place
Hailey Wadell ’21 1:01.45/1:01.90 15th place
Hannah Ono ’22 1:05.39/1:06.13 23rd place
Gwen Empie ’21 1:05.50/1:06.87 27th place
100 breast
Graeleigh Jones ’21 1:05.52/1:05.50 3rd place
Alexa DiCenso ’21 1:09.92/1:10.20 9th place
Emma Cheung ’23 1:10.12/1:12.35 17th place
400 Free Relay
A. Swan (54.86), Turk (54.91), Jones (54.35), Kisova (53.35)
3:37.47
4th place
B. Ryan (56.62), Smirnov (54.75), Ono (58.22), Cheung (56.05)
3:45.64
1st place