On Jan. 14, in a rivalry match against Male, the girls’ and boys’ swim teams won by 1,100 points. The meet was also the team’s senior night.
During the middle of the meet, there was a short pause for the senior night ceremony. Navarre Wiese Baharestan (12, J&C), Hayden Beckley (12, HSU), Andrew Harrison (12, HSU), Maxwell Moss (12, HSU), Kotaro Schweinhart (12, HSU), Evan Owens (12, HSU), Vivian Do (12, MST), Allison Koronkevitch (12, MST) and Caitlyn Staebler (12, HSU) were all celebrated as they walked alongside their family and friends.
“You know, this is definitely one of my favorite meets of the year, senior night. I’ve been on this team for four years and it’s just great seeing all my fellow seniors grow up and just a great way to cap off the regular season,” Beckley said.
The first event of the night was the girls’ 200-yard medley relay, in which Manual took first place with a time of 2:04.62. Linnea Shapero (11, VA), Jamie Lewis (9, HSU), Lana Shapero (9, HSU) and Zoe Ziegler (11, HSU) were the winning team.
Following that was the boys’ 200-yard medley relay. Manual took first and second place with a winning time of 1:43.50. On the winning team was Beckley, George Deal (9, MST), Forrest Thompson (11, HSU) and Harrison Li (10, MST).
The third and fourth events of the evening were the 200-yard freestyle. Ziegler set the girls’ fastest time with 2:12.42. For the boys’, Baharestan had the fastest time with 2:04:32.
The Lady Crimsons took second place in the 200-yard individual medley, with Lewis making a final time of 2:26.04. In the boys 200-yard individual medley, Li won with a final time of 2:05.33.
Manual’s boys and girls team swept the top six places of the 50-yard freestyle, with Lewis, Linnea Shapero and Nora Wolf (11, HSU) in the girls’ top three and Beckley, Owens and Moss in the boys’ top three.
In the girls 100-yard butterfly, Linnea Shapero scored the highest time, 1:03.43, and Li had the highest time for the boys, 57.39. Following that was the 100-yard freestyle, in which Abigail Coty (11, J&C) took second place and Henry Lin (11, MST) took first.
The Lady Crimsons did not compete in the 500-yard freestyle. However, in the boys 500-yard freestyle, Adam Burt (11, MST) took second place.
In the girls’ 200-yard freestyle relay, Manual’s highest team placed third. In the boys’ 200-yard freestyle relay, Manual took the top three places, their fastest time being 1:40.22.
Wolf won the girls’ 100-yard backstroke, with a final time of 1:13.85. Manual, once more, swept the competition, taking the top six places in the boys 100-yard backstroke.
Coty scored the highest in the 100-yard breaststroke, taking second place with a time of 1:21.48. In the boys’ 100-yard breaststroke, Moss took first place with a time of 1:16.45.
The final event of the night was the 400-yard freestyle relay, but because the Crimsons changed the order of the swimmers, their times were disqualified.
“They beat Male first and foremost. It’s a good team. They like to support each other. they’re just a bunch of good kids to be around, to be honest,” president of the swim booster club, Tony Raluy said.
The teams next meet is Saturday, Jan.17 at St. X. The time is to be determined.
