Wiscasset High School Swim Team

West swims to wins

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 7:45pm

    With the season winding down, the Wiscasset High School swim team was able to kick things into high gear when it swam at home on Friday, Jan. 23 against Cony and Hyde Academy.

    Both the boys and girls teams featured several individual wins.

    In the girls 200-yard medley relay, the Wiscasset team of Maeve Carlson, Amanda Marcus, Julia West and Jenna Bickford finished third behind two of Cony's top teams. That same team was first in the girls 200-yard freestyle relay.

    In the boys 200-yard medley relay, Wiscasset (Ridge Barnes, Sam Storer, Ryan Medina and Kyle Viele) finished fourth behind two Cony squads and Hyde Academy. The relay team finished third in the boys 200-yard freestyle relay.

    Marcus finished third in the girls 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:52.09,

    West was first in the girls 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:34.81, first in the girls 100-yard breaststroke (1:16.31).

    Carlson finished third in the girls 50-yard freestyle with a time of 32.30 seconds and was third 100-yard freestyle (1:13.72).

    Bickford was fourth in the girls 50-yard freestyle with a time of 35.66 seconds, and second by only .48 seconds in the 100-yard backstroke (1:25.68).

    Barnes was fourth in the boys 50-yard freestyle with a time of 31.35 seconds, and third in the 100-yard freestyle (1:10.34).

    Medina was fifth in the boys 50-yard freestyle with a time of 32.69 seconds, and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle (1:14.34).

    Kyle Viele was sixth in the boys 50-yard freestyle with a time of 37.30 seconds, fifth in the 100-yard freestyle (1:27).

    Storer was first in the boys 100-yard butterfly when he finished in 1:02.42, and second in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:18.17).

    The team was scheduled to swim on Friday, Jan. 30 at the PenBay YMCA in Camden, but the snowstorm forced a postponement. Instead, the meet is tentatively scheduled for Friday, Feb. 6 at the Wiscasset Rec Center.