Swimmers continue to make strides
By Jeffrey
Pickette
Citizen Staff
The CHS
varsity girls’ and boys’ swim teams were not able to pick up
victories last week in meets against King Philip or Mansfield,
but as has been the case throughout the course of the season,
many swimmers were able to make individual strides.
The girls lost
93-75 against KP last Wednesday and lost 91-71 against Mansfield
last Friday, falling to 2-4 on the season.
The boys lost
96-45 against KP and 97-58 against Mansfield, falling to 1-5 on
the season.
Despite the
losses, Canton still had five swimmers qualify for the sectional
championships in February.
The girls’
200-yard freestyle relay team — Alison McHugh, Andrea Konopka,
Misty King and Brianna Duserick — qualified with a time of
1:57.17. Individually, Konopka qualified in the 100-yard
freestyle event with a time of 1:01.75.
For the boys,
Chris LeDonne had already qualified in both the 200-yard and
500-yard freestyle events and is within “tenths of a second” of
qualifying in the 50-yard freestyle event, according to coach
Lori Mooney.
Meanwhile,
other swimmers were able to continue to improve their respective
times against KP and Mansfield.
On the girls’
side, Emma McHugh (no relation to Alison) improved her 500-yard
freestyle time by 15 seconds after having already dropped her
time by five seconds the week before against Sharon; Olivia
Kenyon shed eight seconds off her time in the 100-yard fly; and
Catherine Hunter improved her time in the 200-yard freestyle by
nine seconds.
On the boys’
side, John Whittemore improved his time in the 100-yard
freestyle by four seconds and his time in the 100-yard
breaststroke by three seconds. Evan Leibovitz dropped his time
in the 100-yard freestyle by four seconds, while also shedding
two seconds off his time in the 100-yard backstroke.
“They are
starting to drop more seconds than before, and we have yet to
even peak with our workouts,” Mooney wrote in an e-mail to the
Citizen.
As Mooney
explained, the team increases the distance it swims in practice
throughout the course of the season and when the team reaches
its “peak” distance, Mooney scales back the yardage each person
swims, “which should bring [further] drops in times.”
Both teams
face Foxboro and Norton in a meet at Wheaton College on Friday.
January 21, 2010
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