On Thursday, January 15th, Cambridge traveled to Wesleyan to take on the home team and West Forsyth. With North Georgia Regional Championships on the horizon, the team took some event risks and changed up some relays, some of which paid off and some of which opened up new state meet possibilities.
- Wesleyan 271
- West Forsyth 224
- Cambridge 178
- Wesleyan 281
- West Forsyth 203
- Cambridge 181
- Wesleyan 552
- West Forsyth 427
- Cambridge 359
In the 200-freestyle, Noah Sannes finished in 7th overall, Nick Mirchandani finished in 8th and Cole Pieroni came in 9th with a new personal best time.
In the 200-individual medley, Jake Todd finished in 4th and Tony Guerra finished in 8th overall.
In the 50-freestyle, Conor Wesolowski finished in 5th, followed by Jared Keim in 8th, Sebastian Lara in 11th, Nick Mirchandani in 16th, Noah Sannes in 18th, David Le in 25th and Nicky Northen in 26th.
In the dive event, Simon Finlayson once again took first place out of five divers. The 6-dive sequence gave Finlayson a chance to work on some of his dives for region championships and state. Teammate Jack Braglia took 5th overall with a new top score for the season.
In the 100-butterfly, Matt Hogan took 5th, followed by teammate Jason Yang in 6th, and Kyle Daniel in 7th.
In the 100-freestyle, Jason Hink took 5th, followed by Sebastian Lara in 10th, and Connor Christiansen in 12th.
In the 500-freestyle, Connor Christiansen took 6th overall, followed by Cole Pieroni in 8th.
In the 200-freestyle relay, the A-relay (Austin Daniel, Conor Wesolowski, Matt Hogan, Jake Todd) took third place overall, the B-relay (Erek Humm, Sean McGinty, Jared Keim, Jason Hink) finished 5th overall, followed by the C-relay (Nick Mirchandani, Tony Guerra, Connor Fleming, Sebastian Lara) in 7th.
In the 100-backstroke, Erek Humm took 1st place, followed by teammate Sean McGinty in 4th place.
In the 100-breaststroke, Austin Daniel took 3rd with a time of 1:05.36, which qualifies him for state. Daniel is now qualified in every individual event for state. Kyle Daniel took 7th, and Jason Yang took 8th.
In the last event of the evening, the boys' 400-freestyle relay, the A-relay (Austin Daniel, Matt Hogan, Conor Weslowski, Jake Todd) took 3rd overall. The B-relay (Erek Humm, Sebastian Lara, Sean McGinty, Jason Hink) took 6th, and the C-relay (Noah Sannes, Tony Guerra, Jared Keim, Connor Christiansen) took 7th.
Girls' Team Recap
In the first event of the day, the girls' team also had a strong showing. The A-relay (Nicole Detjen, Katie Fishman, Caley Cramer, Lauren Holliday) finished in 2nd overall. The B-relay (Katie Durden, Sydney Swenton, Angela Ho, Alex Newcomer) finished 5th.
In the 200-freestyle, Darby Goodyear finished in 5th overall, followed by teammate Sydney Anderson in 7th and Ella McIlvain in 8th.
In the 200-individual medley, Simona Cofrancesco finished in 2nd overall, followed by teammate Angela Ho in 8th and Anna Salvadori in 9th.
In the 50-freestyle, Lauren Holliday took 6th, Ashley Dale Henslee took 7th, Paula Morales took 8th, Sydney Swenton took 9th, Isabella Empoliti took 10th, Katie Fishman took 11th, Sarah Moore took 18th, Lindsey Robinson took 20th, Sophia LaMarca took 21st, Amanda Seibert took 22nd, Julia Dinardo took 27th, Ella McIlvain took 29th, and Sydney Anderson took 31st out of 39 entries.
In the girls' diving event, Maddie Chaloux was also given the opportunity to work on some state dives in a short 6-dive sequence. Her performance earned her fourth place among all Wesleyan divers.
In the 100-butterfly, Caley Cramer took 3rd overall. Teammate Amanda Seibert took 7th, followed by Anna Salvadori in 8th.
In the 100-freestyle, Katie Durden took 6th with a new individual best time of 1:00.82, followed by Paula Morales in 8th, and Sophia LaMarca in 10th.
In the 500-freestyle, Simona Cofrancesco took first place with a new season best time of 5:53.15. Julia Dinardo took 6th place.
In the 200-freestyle relay, the A-relay (Caley Cramer, Katie Durden, Lauren Holliday, Alex Newcomer) took 2nd overall with a new best time and a new school record. The C-relay took 5th.
In the 100-backstroke, Nicole Detjen took 3rd, Darby Goodyear took 4th, and Isabella Empoliti took 6th.
In the 100-breaststroke, Katie Fishman took 4th, Lindsey Robinson took 6th, and Sarah Moore took 8th.
In the 400-freestyle relay, the B-relay (Angela Ho, Lauren Holliday, Sydney Swenton, Nicole Detjen) took 4th, the C-relay (Anna Salvadori, Katie Fishman, Sarah Moore, Paula Morales) took 5th.
North Georgia Region Preview
The team is focusing their efforts and strength for the weekend's competition at Dalton in hopes of improving their overall placing from last year. In addition, the team is focusing on putting together their best relay combinations to prepare for the state competition in February.