ST. JOHN, New Brunswick — The Casco Bay YMCA Stripers of Freeport competed at the Maine Swimming Championship Meet July 25-27.
Originally there were supposed to be nine team members making the trip, but an unexpected health issue kept one member at home, leaving three boys and eliminating competing in the relay events.
At the end of the meet, the team finished 11th out of the 21 Maine and New Brunswick teams. The girls finished eighth, while the three boys were 14th.
The 10-and-under girls finished fourth in their age group, the lone 11-year old girl finished 11th in the 11-12 year-old girls age group and the lone 13-year-old girl for Casco Bay was 11th in the 13- 14 age group
In the boys meet, one 14- year old was 11th, while the two senior boys combined to place 10th overall.
“Some of the more impressive things was the amount of time that was dropped as a group,” said Casco Bay coach Dan St. Pierre. “Out of a possible 42 swims previously done by Casco Bay swimmers totaling 5,400 meters, a total of 3:38.61 was dropped by our team over 5,400 meters. That in an average drop of 2.02 seconds per length of the pool swum by each swimmer, to me, that is just incredible!
“As for the girls relays, we had a core of one 11-year old and two 10-year olds. For the 200 meter relays, we swam them as 12 and under and used our eight-year old to fill the relay.
“For the 400 meter relays we used our 13 year old and swam them as 14 and under. The girls 200 free relay finished third with a time of 2:43.30 and the 200 medley relay finished third with a time of 3:05.72. As for the 400 medley relay, they had a time of 6:07.68 and finished sixth, and the 400 free relay had a time of 5:15.83 and finished fourth. Not bad for a 14-andunder relay that was made up of one 13-year old, an 11-year old and two 10-year olds.”
Mackie Libsack (13) of Freeport finished in the topeight in five of six of her events, while Margie McLeod (11) of Durham picked up three top-three finishes in her six individual events, taking second in both the 50- and 100- backstroke events.
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