WHS Girls Swim Into Third at CIACs

Defending a title is never easy, but it's even harder when you're missing some of your top swimmers.

Nevertheless, the WHS girls swim team had a strong showing at the Class M CIAC championships Monday night, finishing in third place behind eventual winner Darien and second-place New Canaan.

The Wet Warriors were missing K.C. Moss, their top swimmer, who was competing in her own international pursuits, and the lost several other team leaders to graduation and injury.

But all that aside, finishing third in a strong 21-team field is nothing to shake a kickboard at. Caroline O'Brien had the Warriors' top individual finish of the day, placing fifth in the 100m butterfly, and she, Caroline Higgins, Megan Latimer, and Emily Healey set a new school record and finished third in the 200m freestyle relay.

The results are listed below:

1. Darien 873.5
2. New Canaan 840
3. Wilton 517
4. Branford 415
5. East Lyme 343
6. Brookfield 286.5
7. Wethersfield 286.5
8. Torrington 236
9. Sacred Heart A. 187
10. Hand-Madison 184.5
11. E.O. Smith 171
12. Ledyard 161
13. Berlin 150
14. W. Locks/Ellington 99
15. Foran 90
16. Platt 88
17. Lyman Hall 78
18. Rham 60
19. Waterford 58
20. Jonathon Law 17
21. Guilford 13