caitlin marsilii

O’Connell’s Caitlin Marsilii Finds It’s Her Time to Shine

HERALD Staff Report
(From the Issue of 2/15/07)

For two years Bishop O’Connell junior Caitlin Marsilii quietly established herself as one of the Washington area’s premier high school distance swimmers. She gained little notoriety, however, thanks to the large shadow cast by fellow O’Connell teammate and American record holder Kate Ziegler.
Ziegler graduated in 2006, leaving Marsilii to carry the distance torch. She has not disappointed Head Coach Evan Stiles. Marsilii won both the 500 free (5:01.42) and 200 free (1:54.13) at last weekend’s Washington Metropolitan Prep School Swimming and Diving League (WMPSSDL) championships held at George Mason University in Fairfax. Two weeks ago she won the same events at the National Catholic High School Swimming Championships at Villanova University. She undoubtedly will be one of the favorites at next week’s Metro Championships at the Germantown Aquatic Center.
Marsilii won the individual high point award for women (40 points) at last weekend's meet. O’Connell junior Maggie Macedonia tied for second (37); Ireton freshman Alina Hall tied for ninth (32); O’Connell junior Hilary Fritz and senior Kristin Fimian tied for 13th (30); O’Connell sophomore Kayla O’Malley (24) tied for 22nd; and O’Connell junior Anna Macedonia (23) was 24th.
Marsilii also was part of the victorious 400 free relay team that helped propel the O’Connell girls to a second-place finish overall (323.5 points). Good Counsel (404) took the girls’ title once again. Bishop Ireton (126) finished seventh, while Paul VI (117) placed eighth.
On the boys’ side, Georgetown Prep (439.5) edged out Gonzaga to win the title. Ireton (184) was fourth, PVI (163) placed sixth and O’Connell (147) was seventh. Only three diocesan swimmers finished in the top 25 overall: Ireton senior Michael Dickerson (29 points) was 14th; PVI senior Thomas Hale-Kupiec (25) tied for 20th; and O’Connell sophomore Michael Flach (23) tied for 23rd.
Other individual results on the girls’ side included:
200 medley relay: O’Connell (Fritz, Macedonia, Macedonia, O’Malley), second (1:50.66); PVI (Fitz, Matheny, Hummel and Lutz), sixth (1:59.20);
200 free: PVI’s Tana King, seventh, (2:00.32); PVI’s Kat McKinstry, 13th (2:04.85);
200 IM: O’Connell’s Kristin Fimian, third (2:13.17); O’Connell’s Fritz, fifth (2:19.18); PVI’s Natalie Fitz, 12th (2:19.78);
50 free: O’Connell’s Maggie Macedonia, first (24.69); Ireton’s Hall, third (24.84); Ireton’s Lauren Gray, sixth (25.33); O’Connell’s Anna Macedonia, seventh, 25.59); O’Connell’s Lucy Tamberrino, 14th (26.69);
One Meter Diving: O’Connell’s Jackie Parker, third (319.30); PVI’s Alexa McCarthy, sixth (295.10); Ireton’s Stewart Hulfish, 12th (260.80);
100 butterfly: O’Connell’s O’Malley, fourth (59.82); PVI’s Mo Hummel, 15th (1:05.86); PVI’s Tana King, 16th (1;06.31);
100 free: Ireton’s Hall, third (54.13); Ireton’s Grace McConville, 12th (57.35); O’Connell’s Tamberrino, 13th (57.40); PVI’s Fitz, 15th (58.28);
500 free: O’Connell’s Fimian, fifth (5:16.89);
200 free relay: O’Connell (Fimian, Fritz, Tamberrino and Marsilii), fourth (1:43.29); Ireton (Gray, McConville, McHale and Hall), fifth (1:44.38); PVI (King, McKinstry, Hummel and Fitz), sixth (1:45.86);
100 back: O’Connell’s Maggie Macedonia, second (59.43, new school record); O’Connell’s Fritz, third (1:00.28); O’Connell’s Anna Macedonia, seventh (1:01.25); O’Connell’s O’Malley, ninth (1:02.43);
100 breaststroke: Ireton’s Tess Ganssle, seventh (1:11.43); O’Connell’s Elizabeth Kilgallin, eighth (1:13.28); Ireton’s Sarah Barham, ninth (1:11.03); Ireton’s Caitlin McHale, 15th (1:15.81); O’Connell’s Alexandra Van Horn, 16th (1;16.17);
400 free relay: O’Connell (O’Malley, Macedonia, Macedonia and Marsilii), first (3:39.29); PVI (McKinstry, Reed, Mallory Lutz and King), sixth (3:52.30).
Individual results on the boys’ side included:
200 medley relay: O’Connell (Matt Shannon, Brian Schmitt, Michael Flach and Sean Bourne), fourth (1:40.62, new school record); Ireton (Angus MacDonald, Jack Collins, Michael Dickerson and Patrick Clark), fifth (1:40.94); PVI (Alex Spina, Stephen Huether, Kevin Chauvin and Miguel Puentes), sixth (1:43.13);
200 free: O’Connell’s Flach, 10th (1:50.68); O’Connell’s Bourne, 13th (1:51.67);
200 IM: PVI’s Thomas Hale-Kupiec, seventh (2:02.02); Ireton’s Collins, ninth (2:03.29);
50 free: PVI’s Patrick Lytle, fifth (21.86); Ireton’s Dickerson, seventh (22.38); PVI’s Puentes, ninth (22.61);
One Meter Diving: Ireton’s Briggy Imbriglia, first (448.25); Ireton’s Jim Kuhn, third (318.45); Ireton’s Ray Curry, fourth (315.55); PVI’s James Gaughan, 15th (182.55);
100 fly: Ireton’s Dickerson, second (53.37); O’Connell’s Flach, third (53.82); O’Connell’s Shannon, ninth (54.21); O’Connell’s John Henry Meckley, 15th (57.10);
100 free: PVI’s Hale-Kupiec, sixth (49.23); O’Connell’s Schmitt, seventh (49.98); Ireton’s MacDonald, 10th (50.67); Ireton’s Patrick Clark, 13th (51.08); O’Connell’s Bourne, 15th (51.46);
500 free: O’Connell’s David Bauernfend, 13th (5:04.48); PVI’s Ben Wilson, 14th (5:05.30);
200 free relay: PVI (Lytle, Hale-Kupiec, Huether and Puentes), third (1:29.33); O’Connell (Schmitt, Flach, Bourne and Shannon), fifth (1:31.54);
100 back: Ireton’s MacDonald, sixth (55.67); O’Connell’s Shannon, seventh (56.40); PVI’s Spina, eighth (56.72); O’Connell’s Bauernfend, 11th (57.21); O’Connell’s Meckley, 16th (58.89);
100 breaststroke: Ireton’s Collins, eighth (1:02.11); PVI’s Huether, ninth (1:02.65); O’Connell’s Schmitt, 13th (1:04.19); PVI’s Lytle, 14th (1:04.27);
400 free relay: PVI (Hale-Kupiec, Chauvin, Lytle and Wilson), fourth (3:20.02); Ireton (Clark, MacDonald, Collins and Dickerson), sixth (3:26.01).