Friday afternoon, the Lexington Minutemen girls' swim team took to Minuteman Career and Technical High School's pool for its first meet of the season, against Boston Latin, and emerged with a 83-77 win.
First was the 200-meter medley relay. Girls were at both ends of the pool screaming, crouching over the pool and waving their teammates on. Lexington finished first.
That race was followed by the 200-meter freestyle relay, the 200-meter freestyle, the 50-meter freestyle, the 100-meter butterfly, the 100-meter freestyle and the 500-meter freestyle.
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The relay was by far the most exciting for the Lexington girls, with a 4x50 freestyle relay bringing the most cheering into the echoing facility. The 100-meter backstroke, the 100-meter breaststroke, and the 4x100 freestyle relay rounded out the meet.
Coach Donna Cerrato said she was very proud of her team's performance.
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LEXINGTON GIRLS' SWIMMING
Coach: Donna Cerrato (27th season)
League: Middlesex League
Last Year: Second Place
Returning Swimmers: Mackenzie Cyr (Senior Captain), Kelsey Sym (Senior Captain), Poota Kumar (Senior Captain), Scarlett Hao (Senior Captain)
Key to Success: "Perseverance."
Game to Watch: "Reading is always a really tough meet. They're always very, very strong, they've come in first for the Middlesex League for several years now, (and) they do get a lot of sub swimmers."
Coach's Take: "I think we're doing great," Cerrato said.
Regarding the freshmen, the coach said, "I'm liking them. A couple of them are year-round swimmers, club swimmers. A couple of them have done club swimming in the past and they kind of have a good feel for it already. They seem to be hitting it off pretty fast."
