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SENIOR NIGHT 10.8.22
The Wellsville girls swim team is having a senior night honoring the three seniors who are leaving the program this year.
This will be hosted at the pool in the elementary school saturday on october 8th at 11am.
UPDATE!
The senior swim meet was a sucess.
A note they’ve now hit for a third straight season — undefeated, as they hosted their annual Senior Day meet with visiting Dansville in town for a visit, completely taking control of the first half of the meet under their own discretion by capturing six straight wins to fuel their 74-56 win over the Lady Mustangs on Saturday.
“The Senior Meet was a success. After a long night of decorating the pool to make a long-lasting memory for our seniors Isabelle (Hart), Tiernee (Brandes) and Sara (McCormick),” said Sea Lions coach Steve Hand. “The girls showed up and swam hard, and they still have a few weeks left together. We’re hoping to make the most out of it. We have a whole week of practice to keep working on things to clean up, and try to be faster. It was a great send off for our three captains, and hopefully it’s the push we need going into the LCAA meet and then Sectionals.” Five different individuals all recorded victories to pace another extraordinary day in the water for the Sea Lions (8-0), leading off the meet with a winning time from Tiernee Brandes, Hayden Waldon, Isabelle Hart and Sara McCormick in the 200 medley relay. It would begin a strand of six consecutive victories that would prove to be enough to take the winning edge when the end was reached.
Hart and Brandes both gathered up victories individually on their own after racing winning legs in their relay triumph, with Brandes placing first in the 50 freestyle, while Hart followed with a 100 butterfly win to round off their senior careers in their final regular season home meet. Other individual winners for the Sea Lions include: Morgan Mattison in the 200 freestyle, Grace Kinnicutt in the 200 individual medley and Ashley Oswald off the Diving board. Dansville would record five victories in the back half of the meet, with Kaitlyn Lee garnering a pair to go with the team’s pair of relay wins, as she medaled with winning times in the 100 freestyle and later, in the 100 backstroke. Ella Frazer added the final individual win for the Lady Mustangs with a victorious time in the 500 freestyle. Preparations for their Sectional title defense will now begin for the Sea Lions, as they now take a week off to practice before exhibition action takes place in Livonia on October 18, where they will meet both Palmyra-Macedon and the host Lady Bulldogs before taking the water for Livingston County League Championship action beginning on October 20 with Diving, and two days later, the overall Championship meet on the 22nd.
The Section V, Class C Finals meet will begin at the Webster Aquatic Center coming up on November 4 in a 5 p.m. first swim, where the Sea Lions will look to capture a third straight Sectional Championship.
Swim meet 10.5.2
Sectionals are right around the corner for the Sea Lions. Their time to officially defend their back-to-back championships is slowly but surely, cascading over the horizon.
The time to create a massive momentum shift heading into the big dance, would come on Tuesday in the first of their final two meets of the season in their home waters. It wouldn’t take long for Wellsville to make some noise right out of the gate against visiting Bath-Haverling.
Right from the start and going forward, the back-to-back champs kept setting the tone in one of the biggest ways possible — finding their way to the timing pad first, as they scored wins in the first 10 events, with Hayden Waldon and Grace Kinnicutt both heading the efforts with a pair of individual victories each to power up a seventh straight win for the Sea Lions in a 102-71 rout of Bath-Haverling. “It was another good meet and a good win for the girls. They continue to put in the hard work at practice, and it keeps paying off with another solid win,” said Sea Lions coach Steve Hand. “The girls keep getting faster and they are getting better times for Sectionals. With about a month left in the season, we’ll start to focus on gaining some more speed. Some girls are right where they need to be, and some need some extra work. A few days off will help with that before we honor our Seniors one last time this weekend.”
Waldon and Kinnicutt both paved the way towards another brilliant showing in the water with two individual victories each, with Kinnicutt recording hers in the back half of the meet with winning times in the 100 butterfly, and later on in the 100 backstroke. Waldon would get one in each half, with her first coming in the 200 freestyle and then the 100 freestyle.
Each swimmer would also race a leg in both of the winning relay teams for the Sea Lions (7-0), with Kinnicutt being part of the winning 200 medley relay squad at the very beginning of the meet, while Waldon raced the final leg in the team’s winning 200 freestyle relay.
The Sea Lions would also see four more individuals net victories of their own. Among them: Morgan Mattison in the 200 individual medley, Kaylee Oswald in the 50 freestyle, Ashley Oswald off the Diving board and Tiernee Brandes in the 500 freestyle.
-Wellsville Sun