Personal bests

Hi guys,

I've been mentioning highlights in these posts. Personal bests deserve to be showcased too and often I miss them when looking over our meet results.

Anytime you swim a personal best please add it in the comment section of that meet's coverage!

See you Monday!

Taunton and Stoughton

Congratulations to the girls on a well deserved win against Stoughton! Final score for the girls was 51-40 Norton.

The girls posted several first place finishes against Stoughton:

Madie in the 200 and 100 free

Olivia in the 200 IM and 100 fly

Brianna in the 50 free

Both the 200 relays - Olivia, Brianna, Kayla, Madie

Congratulations to Olivia for qualifying to States in the 200 IM!

The girls set 2 new school records: Olivia in the 200 IM and the 200 free relay team of Brianna, Kayla, Olivia, and Madie

A special congratulations to Sydney for becoming our first ever recipient of....The Golden Goggles Award! As of tonight, Sydney has raced in every possible event. Congratulations Sydney!

The boys swam well and worked hard, too. Our stronger of the two meets was against Stoughton where we took home 5 first place finishes:

Peter in the 200 free

Matt in the 100 fly

Colin in the 100 free

Max in the 100 breast

Matt, Peter, Colin, and Colby in the 400 free relay

Congratulations to Matt M. on bettering his school record in the 100 fly!

A special congratulations to Anthony on a breakout performance in the 100 breast and to Colby on several outstanding sprints!

A lot of swimmers tried new events tonight - thank you for helping your team in that way! The more versatile you can be the better your team will be!

What a great meet to have leading into our last week!

Have a great weekend!

Holliston

Congratulations on a solid meet vs. Holliston! Swimming to swimming we finished pretty close together, set 3 school records, and achieved several personal bests. On top of all our hard work in the pool, the officials finished the meet by complimenting our timers, scorers, and swimmers on their positive attitude and good behavior.

Matt McPherson and Olivia Karcis set new school records in the boys and girls 100 fly!

Olivia, Max, Colin, and Spencer set a school record in the Mixed Gender 200 medley relay!

Colleen dropped 15 seconds in the 500!

Amanda dropped 17 seconds in the 500!

Chris dropped more than 10 seconds in the 500!

Colby, Hannah, Peter D., and Alex swam personal bests in the 50 free!

Connor swam a personal best in the 100 back!

Colin and Madie took home first place finishes for Norton!

We're headed in the right direction!

Middleboro Invitational

On Thursday of Christmas vacation week we participated in the Middleboro Invitational with Middleboro, B-R, Randolph, and Hanover-Rockland. Although team scores were not tallied, we had a very impressive showing.

Several swimmers swam personal best times and many swimmers tried - and found success in! - new events. Our boys dominated the sprint freestyle events and we took home 3 overall 1st place finishes.

Colin won the boys 100 free (1:01.25), Madie won the girls 100 free (1:01.87), and Olivia won the girls 100 back with a States qualifying time of 1:07.26.

Top 10 finishes:

Girls 200 MR - Olivia, Brianna, Kayla, and Madie - 6th place

Alex, Sydney, Chelsea, and Hannah - 9th place

Boys 200 MR - Colin, Max, Matt M, Drew - 4th

Connor, CJ, Tyler, Spencer - 7th

Girls 200 free - Amanda (2), Mikhala (5), Kerri (6)

Boys 200 free - Max (9), Connor (10)

Girls 200 IM - Olivia (3), Chelsea (8)

Girls 50 fr - Brianna (8)

Boys 50 fr - Spencer (2), Colin (3), Peter (6), Drew (7), Colby (9)

Girls 100 fly - Kayla (6)

Girls 100 fr - Madie (1), Cassidy (5), Hannah (7), Abby (9)

Boys 100 fr - Colin (1), Peter (2), Matt M, (4), Spencer (5), Colby (9)

Girls 500 - Mikhala (6), Colleen (7)

Girls 200 FR - Kayla, Brianna, Olivia, Madie (6)

Chelsea, Rachel, Hannah, Abby (9)

Boys 200 FR - Peter, Spencer, Drew, Colin (2)

Matt L., Colby, CJ, Tyler (7)

Dan, Anthony, Peter D, Rob (9)

Girls 100 back - Olivia (1), Madie (3)

Boys 100 back - Connor (3)

Girls 100 br - Brianna (7), Amanda (9)

Boys 100 br - Max (6), Drew (10)