The Boothbay Special Olympics Swim Team traveled to Bowdoin College on April 3 for the Sagadahoc/Lincoln Area swim meet. The athletes returned with 29 first places, 18 second places, 16 third places, six fourth places and two fifth places

The Masters relay team took a first place in the relay. The team members were Adam Jackimovicz, Ronda LeConte, Brenda LeConte and Joey Ranco.

Donny Dunning, Matt Farnham, Joey Ranco, Ronda LeConte and Brenda LeConte brought home many first places for their individual events as well. Anthony Angelico in his first meet took two first place ribbons in the 15 and 25 meter floatation races.

Valerie Giles took all first places in her events with one second place in the 50 free. Vincent Giles took a first place in the 25 free. Deshawn Averill took a first place in the 25 meter backstroke. Thomas Wilcox took the first place in the 100 free and the Sr. Relay. Kasey Grave, Logan Posey took first places in the Sr. relay, too.

Boothbay’s athletes competed against seven other teams and 100 other athletes.

On April 10, the team traveled to Bates College in Lewiston for the state Special Olympics swim meet. The competition included the entire state of Maine’s school children, adult groups, agencies and a couple of YMCA groups. There were about 50 teams. Once again, Boothbay returned with medals in the 11 and under, 12-15, 16-21, 22-29 as well as 30 and over age groups. We brought back to Boothbay 13 gold, 19 silver, seven bronze, eight fourth places, five fifth places and six sixth places.