EG Girls and Boys Place 8th at State Swim Championship

East Greenwich swimmers swam well at the boys and girls state championship swim meets this past weekend at the Brown University Pool in Providence.

The girls scored 139 points with jut 9 swimmers, finishing 8th among 23 schools.

This win came on the heels of a second place win at the Division II championships and their tie for first at Dual Meets with Narragansett and Lincoln schools earlier in the season.

The girls brought home 12 medals in all with freshman Audrey Brecher finishing as the top point scorer with 27 points.

Brecher finished fourth in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:56.80, just shy of a third place finish. She also finished 7th in the 100 yard freestyle — her second medal of the night.

The second top scorer was freshman Lauren Salvadore, who came in ninth in the 50 yard freestyle and sixth in the 100 yard breaststroke. She scored 22 points in all.

The Avengers didn’t stop there. They continued to rack up points with sophomore Meghan O’Brien. She finished eighth in the 200 Individual Medley with a time of 1:20.90 alongside Freshman Selin Marino who placed 14th with a time of 2.29.66. O’Brien continued with 9th place in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 1:03.18, individually scoring 20 points for the team.

Freshman Selin Marino took the 14th place in 500 yards freestyle with a time of 5:48.92, individually scoring 6 points for the team alongside Freshman, Sylvie Hack who came 24th place in 500 yard freestyle with a time of 6:09.77.

Senior Caroline DeCesare came in 23rd place in 100 yards freestyle with a time of 1:01.90

Sophomore Maggie Rodrigue placed 29th in 500 yard freestyle with a time of 6:26.30 and 33rd in 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:13.56 and Sylvie Hack came 25th in 200 yard freestyle with a time of 2:13.59.

As a team, the girls placed 5th in the 200 yard medley relay and 6th in the 400 freestyle relay with the same group of swimmers: Audrey Brecher, Lauren Salvadore, Selin Marino and Meghan O’Brian. They improved their time by 4.58 in the 400 freestyle as compared to their finish at Divisions. .

The 200 freestyle relay with swimmers Sylvie Hack, Caroline Quinn, Brooke Anderson and Caroline DeCesare placed 12th.

For the boys, the team scored 127 points with just 7 swimmers, finishing eighth.

It was an incredibly fast swim meet where records have been broken and East Greenwich’s top point scorer Ian MacDonald swam and fought hard for second place in 200 freestyle with a time of 1:48.22. He also had a strong swim for second place in 500 freestyle with a time of 4:58.43, individually scoring 34 points for the team.

Second top scorer Timucin Marino swam in a very difficult and close race, finishing 10th place in the 200 individual medley with an improved time of 2:08.94 . He also had a strong fifth place finish in the 500 freestyle with an improved time of 5:08.87, individually scoring 21 points for the team.

Third top scorer Stanley Chan came 13th place in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:59.95 and 13th place in 100 freestyle with a time of 53.95, individually scoring 8 points for the team.

Yash Dhuri came in 25th place in 200 yard freestyle with a time of 2:08.92, and 30th place in 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:17.20

Eli Wolfgang came 34th place in 50 yard freestyle with a time of 26.36.

Thomas Shaughnessy came 33h place in 50 yard freestyle with a time of 26.35, and 29th place in 100 yard freestyle with a time of 58.11.

Ian Lamp came in 28th place in 200 yard Individual Medley with a time of 2:31.73.

Here’s a wrap of the final scores:

Boys 400 yard Freestyle Relay
Timucin Marino 53.11
Thomas Shaughnessy 57.07
Stanley Chan 53.15
Ian MacDonald 49.78
Placed in 4th place with -1.50 improved time of 3:33.11

Boys 200 yard Medley Relay
Ian MacDonald (backstroke) 26.38
Yash Dhuri (breaststroke) 33.70
Timucin Marino ((butterfly) 26.06
Stanley Chan (freestyle) 24.70
Placed in 8th place with -3.46 improved time of 1:50.84

Boys 200 yard Freestyle Relay
Thomas Shaughnessy 25.65
Yash Dhuri 26.04
Ian Lamp 25.77
Eli Wolfgang 25.81
Placed in 11th place with a time of 1:43.27

Girls 200 yard Medley Relay
Selin Marino (backstroke) 31.07
Lauren Salvadore (breaststroke) 32.07
Meghan O’Brien (butterfly) 32.34
Audrey Brecher (freestyle) 21.71
Placed in 5th place with -0.95 improved time of 1:57.19

Girls 400 yard Freestyle Relay
Audrey Brecher 55.53
Selin Marino 59.91
Meghan O’Brien 56.97
Lauren Salvadore 56.93
Placed in 6th place with -4.58 improved time of 3:49.34

Girls 200 yard Freestyle Relay
Caroline Quinn 30.57
Brooke Anderson 28.03
Sylvie Hack 28.11
Caroline DeCesare 28.61
Placed in 12th place with -2.22 improved time of 1:55.32

Photos Courtesy: Jason Hack

Special thanks to the Hack and Beck and Marino families for compiling the information.

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