Hill teams place 11th at Easterns
EASTERN INTERSCHOLASTIC SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS >> The Hill School came away from a busy weekend of competition with a number of high-placing swim and diving competitors.
The Hill School boys and girls both placed 11th overall
The girls’ 200 medley relay squad of Mallory Horner, Kamilia Barkasi, Ella Scott and Reese Catron made it to B finals and finished in 16th place with a time of 2:00.78. The boys’ medley relay of Michael Wong, Captain Matt Kenvin, Tristan Hertzog and Parker Miles made it to the “B” finals and finished in 11th place, bettering its morning time and posting a 1:37.42.
In the 200 free, Kiersten Dagg made it to the “A” finals and took eighth place in a new team record time of 1:55.2. AJustin Toomey dropped five seconds from his seed time in the 200
Free to make it to the “C” finals and finish with a 1:45.88. Captain Alex Zelinske made it to the “B” finals in the 200 IM and took 14th place in a time of 2:11.43, moving up to the second spot on the Hill’s Top 10 times list. Matt Kenvin made it to the “B” finals in the 200 IM and finished 12th with a 1:56.58 to move to the second spot on the Hill’s Top 10 times list for the 200 IM as well.
Michael Wong followed him in the 100 fly “B” final, taking 10th with a 51.48.
The Hill finished the night with two fantastic 200 free relay finishes. The girls’ squad of Alex Zelinske, Kiersten Dagg, Maddy Lewis and Maddie Green made it to “A” finals and took sixth place with a time of 1:40.41, bettering its morning swim by a half-second. The boys’ squad of Michael Wong, Parker Miles, Matt Kenvin and Tristan Hertzog made it to the “B” finals and blew the competition to win its heat and place ninth with a 1:27.70, with all the boys posting personal best relay splits.
Kiersten Dagg registered a four-second drop from the morning in her 500 Free with a time of 5:07.76 and broke her own 500 Free team record set last year at Easterns and finished in 11th place.
The next swimmer to race was Alex Zelinske (6F) who had something to prove to herself and clocked her best time of a 58.00 finishing in 10th place. Not to be outdone, Michael Wong (5F) psyched himself up for his 100 Back and finished in 7th place breaking his own school record with a time of 50.55, a second drop from last year’s time.
Matt Kenvin knew three new school records broken was not enough, so he charged off the block to break the 1982 100 Breast school record of 59.10 with a blistering time of 58.59, which earned him 11th place. The 400 freestyle relay team (Maddie Green, Kiersten Dagg, Maddy Lewis, Alex Zelinske) was not quite satisfied with its morning swim, even though it had dropped five seconds. So it went out and dropped five more seconds, blowing away its “B” final heat and finishing in ninth place with a 3:38.96, three seconds ahead of the 10th place team.
The Hill’s 400 freestyle relay squad of Justin Toomey, Quinton Tang, Nathan Duchez, and Jordan Corpuz finished the night off well for the team , taking 12th and shaving 6 seconds of its morning swim time with a 3:17.53.
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While the swimmers were competing at F&M, the Hill boys’ diving squad was competing at Germantown Academy. Four divers represented Hill this year: the best were PG Nathan Duchez, who finished in sixth place to make it to the podium, and Robert Twombly in 14th place,
In the morning, the Blues’ female divers competed at Germantown Academy and brought home some great finishes. Heading the list was Olivia DeVol, who finished in ninth place.