Swim team has great showing at Southwestern Meet

Chloe Desmond

By Matt Pascarella

The swim team travelled to Cape Elizabeth High School with the girls competing on Saturday, February 8^th and the boys competing on Monday, February 10^th for the Southwestern’s South Division meet. Windham competed against Biddeford, Bonny Eagle, Freeport, Gorham, Kennebunk, Massabesic, Portland, Sanford, Thornton Academy, Waynflete, Wells and Yarmouth.

These Eagles left it all in the pool as they put every ounce of energy they had into their events.

Girls

Windham finished fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:54.42. They came in sixth in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 2:15.61.

Katharyn Lucas finished seventh in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:13.75. She also finished seventh in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:01.44.

Chloe Desmond finished tenth in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:44.12.

Haley Theberge finished 12^th in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:12.88

Chloe Wilcox came in eighth in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 6:25.11

Windham finished seventh with a score of 93 – 20 points above where they were seeded to finish.

Boys

Windham came in third in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:57.70. The Eagles also finished fifth in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:48.43.

Sebastian Anghel finished third in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:04.10. Lyden Fogg placed eighth in that same event with a time of 1:10.38.

Evan Desmond finished first in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.11 seconds. He also placed second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.38 seconds.

Simon Gabaree finished eighth in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:07.10.

Windham finished second with a score of 169. And every single kid on the boys’ team had a hand in scoring at least one point toward that total.

“Our team chemistry has been some of the best team chemistry top to bottom that we’ve ever had. You saw that with the girls...and the way they came together and exceeded their expectations,” observed coach Pete Small. “The guys really took momentum from the girls. They were really focused. These kids worked so hard... I couldn’t be more proud of what they did.”