Wiscasset qualifies to swim at state
There will be plenty of Wolverines in the pool when the Maine Class B state finals commence in Orono.
Wiscasset will send three individuals and three relay teams to compete for a state title at the University of Maine campus in Orono beginning Feb. 14, when the boys have their state meet. The girls teams will have their meet at UMO as well, on Feb. 16.
Wiscasset's Julia West qualified for four events at the state meet. The senior's time of 2:34.81, which was recorded Jan. 23 against Cony, was the 34th-best time in the 200-yard individual medley.
West also holds the 14th-best time in the 100-yard breast stroke for her mark of 1:16.16, which was set Jan. 6 in Gardiner; the 17th-best time in the 50-yard free (27.32 seconds) from Jan. 9 against Lincoln Academy; and the 44th-best time in the 100-yard butterfly (1:14.34) which was also set at the Jan. 9 meet against Lincoln Academy.
But West wasn't alone: Two of Wiscasset's girls relay teams also made the cut.
In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the team of Maeve Carlson, West, Jenna Bickford and Amanda Marcus recorded the 24th-fastest time (2:08.67) during the Jan. 9 meet. The 200-yard individual medley team of Marcus, West, Carlson and Bickford was 25th overall with a time of 2:29.58, which was recorded Dec. 5 against Erskine.
The boys team also had a number of qualifying times, including five from one swimmer alone.
Junior Sam Storer not only qualified for five individual events, he also qualified with two of the relay teams.
Storer's 2:34.02 finish Dec. 5 against Erskine in the 200-yard individual medley was the 69th-best time recorded this year; he finished the 50-yard freestyle in 26.22 Jan. 9 against Lincoln Academy which was 75th; his 1:02.42 in the 100-yard butterfly Jan. 23 against Cony places him at 25. Storer also picked up a 64th-place qualifying time of 58.34 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle Jan. 6 against Gardiner and a 39th-place qualifying time Jan. 9 against Lincoln Academy when he swam the 100-yard backstroke in 1:07.94.
Also qualifying for the boys team was sophomore Colin Viele, who qualified in both the 200-yard freestyle (37th-place) with a time of 2:07.79 recorded Dec. 5 against Erskine, and the 100-yard butterfly, also against Erskine on Dec. 5. Viele's time of 1:04.35 in the butterfly places him at 34th in qualifying.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team consisting of Ridge Barnes, Aidan Carlson, Ryan Medina and Storer qualified for the state meet with a time of 2:04.72 at the Jan. 6 meet in Gardiner. Their time places them at 22.
The 200-yard medley relay team of Colin Viele, Storer, Barnes and Kyle Viele also qualified for the state meet, with a 2:13.85 finish in the the Dec. 5 meet against Erskine. Their time placed them at 20th.
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