Dolphins swim to personal bests
Dolphin Swimmers 9 & 10 year olds who attended the YMCA New England Championship Meet at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., this past weekend. Pictured from left to right, back to front: Zoe Eason, Chris Hamblett, Ella Yentsch, Ben Pearce, Rowan Kristan, Callan Eason, Jaimie Labrecque, and Maren Whitney. Courtesy of YMCA
Dolphin Swimmers 9 & 10 year olds who attended the YMCA New England Championship Meet at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., this past weekend. Pictured from left to right, back to front: Zoe Eason, Chris Hamblett, Ella Yentsch, Ben Pearce, Rowan Kristan, Callan Eason, Jaimie Labrecque, and Maren Whitney. Courtesy of YMCA
The Boothbay Region YMCA Dolphin Swimmers competed March 23 and 24 at the YMCA New England Championship Meet at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., and came away with some impressive results.
The relay team of Chris Hamblett, Ben Pearce, Jaimie Lebrecque and Rowan Kristan shattered a 16-year-old Boothbay Region YMCA record in the relay. The team swam the relay in a crisp 2:17.44, which eclicpsed the 2:25.55 mark set by the 1997 team of D. Boyd, M. Higgins, A. Dickens and D. Murray.
But, the 9- and 10-year-old Dolphin team wasn't finished.
Kristan swam in the 50-backstroke and was the second-place heat winner and took 22nd place out of a field of 45 swimmers with a time of 37.78 seconds, which marked a .58-second improvement. Kristan had the top time in the 50-freestyle heat and finished the final race in 20th place out of 44 with a time of 31.89 seconds, which represented an improvement of .38 seconds.
Ella Yentsch swam the 50-freestyle and was 19th out of 59 swimmers with a time of 31.74 seconds. Yentsch also competed in the 100-freestyle where she was 14th out of 30 swimmer with a time of 1:10.36, which was an improvement of .43 seconds.
The relay team of Zoe and Callan Eason, Maren Whitney finished with a time of 2:46.74.
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