Metros swimming

O'Connell Girls Finish Second at Metros to Good Counsel

Herald Staff Report
(From the Issue of 3/1/07)

Senior swimmers dominated the 2007 Metros Swimming and Diving Championships held last weekend at the Germantown Aquatic Center. A total of 10 records were shattered at the annual meet, which brings together some of the top high school swimmers in the Washington area.
The girls’ teams from Good Counsel and Bishop O’Connell finished first and second again, just as they did at the National Catholic High School Championships in January and the Washington Metropolitan Prep School Swimming and Diving League (WMPSSDL) championships two weeks ago.
Paul VI High School from Fairfax placed 14th (90), Bishop Ireton High School from Alexandria was 20th (42) and Oakcrest School from McLean was 32nd (13).
Good Counsel’s two senior stars, Megan Waters and Colleen Haase, were joined by senior Katura Harvey from Richard Montgomery High School as double winners (48 total points). O’Connell junior Caitlin Marsilii tied for 10th (39), while teammate Maggie Macedonia was 13th (38). PVI’s Tana King was 18th (35).
The results on the boys’ side also had a familiar ring. Georgetown Prep dominated the field with 460.5 points. The Prep’s 200 medley relay team (Josh Hafkin, Andrew Relihan, Brady Fox and Adam Spencer) broke the meet record with a winning time of 1:34.04. The Prep (Robert Grimmett-Norris, Fox, Relihan and Hafkin) also broke the meet record in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:09.76.
Gonzaga finished a distant second (310). Bishop O’Connell placed eighth (136.5), Bishop Ireton was ninth (131.5) and Paul VI was 10th (131).
Georgetown Prep senior Josh Hafkin produced two meet records in winning both the 50 free and 100 back. Walter Johnson junior Eric Friedland was the other double winner on the boys’ side. PVI sophomore Pat Lytle finished 27th (30).
Other individual results included: PVI’s Tana King was fifth in the 50 free (24.78) and sixth in the 100 free (55.01); O’Connell’s Marsilii was fifth in the 200 free (1:56.01) and second in the 500 free (5:0390); O’Connell’s Kayla O’Malley was eighth in the 200 free (1:56.79) and seventh in the 100 fly (59.58); O’Connell’s Maggie Macedonia was fourth in both the 100 back (59.48) and 200 IM (2:09.13); and O’Connell’s Hilary Fritz was eighth in the 100 back (1:00.28).
O’Connell’s 200 free relay team (Kristin Fimian, Fritz, Marsilii and Anna Macedonia) placed fourth (1:42.01). Ireton (Lauren Gray, Grace McConville, Caitlin McHale and Alina Hall) finished eighth (1:44.38) and PVI (King, Natalie Matheny, Mo Hummel and Melissa Bartoletta) was ninth (1:44.55). In the 400 free relay, O’Connell (O’Malley, Marsilii, Anna Macedonia and Maggie Macedonia) finished third (3:39.21). In the 200 medley relay, O’Connell (Fritz, Maggie Macedonia, O’Malley and Fimian) placed second (1:49.13).
On the boys’ side, O’Connell’s Brian Schmitt was sixth in the 50 free (22.04), while PVI’s Lytle was eighth in both the 50 free (22.14) and 100 free (50.08); O’Connell’s Sean Bourne was ninth in the 100 free (50.41); O’Connell’s Matt Shannon was ninth in the 100 back (55.84); Ireton’s Angus MacDonald was 10th in the 100 back (55.95); PVI’s Thomas Hale-Kupiec was eighth in the 100 breast (1:00.65).
In the 200 free relay, PVI (Hale-Kupiec, Stephen Huether, Miguel Puentes and Lytle) finished seventh (1:30.31), while Ireton (Patrick Clark, MacDonald, Jack Collins and Michael Dickerson) finished eighth (1:31.46).
The O’Connell boys (Bourne, Shannon, Schmitt and Michael Flach) set school records in both the 400 free relay (3:16.20) and 200 medley relay (1:39.83). They finished seventh overall in the 400 and fourth in the 200 medley. Ireton (MacDonald, Collins, Dickerson and Clark) finished fifth in the 200 medley (1:40.85), while PVI (Joe Clarke, Huether, Puentes and Kevin Chauvin) was eighth (1:42.67).