Swim Sectional Preview

Swim Teams Ready for Sectionals

By: Isabel Gnagy and Jordan Pasalaqua

This weekend the first division of Northeast Ohio’s swimming teams will meet up and face off at SPIRE in the first round of sectionals. Our Madison Swim Team will be facing off against Brush, Chardon, Euclid, Kenston, Mayfield, Mentor, North, Riverside and South.
The girls' swim team have a record of 9-4 and the boys' swim team record is 13-1. The girls will be going up against Chardon, Mayfield, North and Kenston, which they have previously lost to. On the other hand, the boys have lost to only Mayfield.
To win, everyone needs to get personal records, to be on top of the ball and do the best they possibly can while cheering on their teammates through the whole meet. The expectations for this meet are to have everyone focus and get at least three to four people to advance forward to districts. The team also wants the seniors to have a good and fun time at this meet seeing as it will be their last one.
The girls' team captains, Chloe Beach and Erika Coleno, will bring a cheerful and happy feeling to this meet. The two are always there for their teammates, and they always help everyone to work with each other. Zoe Fedele, the only freshman on the team, plans to complete the 100 fly in under a minute this weekend.
While the girls work together on trying to overcome their previous loses the boys are going to try and overcome their loss to Mayfield. The boys' team captains, Joey Smith and Patrick Davis, are both hardworking and and intense swimmers says Mr. Artz. They are both inspired to meet their goals this season. Joey Smith says this season has gone really well for the boys and girls swim team. He also says there were a couple records that have been broken by both the boys and girls swim teams. He expects to see some great and intense races for this Saturday's races, hopefully a lot of personal records and maybe some broken records. For this weeks sectionals Joey Smith, Hunter Wentz, Collin Douglas, and Zac Zembower have a good chance on making it all the way to districts.
All the boys and girls are expecting to do their best at the sectionals meet this week. Everyone is preparing to take some wins and to, hopefully not, take some loses. All in all the Madison High School swim team is hoping to work on themselves and to work as a team this weekend at SPIRE.