Craig Boys Swim Team: WIAA Sectionals

Saturday, February 15

WIAA Sectionals

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our Sectional swimmers! What an AWESOME meet!

The 200 Medley Really team of Loftus, Wojcek, Bradley and Reese had their best time of the season with a 1:45.58. They earned 8th place on the Sectionals podium.

In a sport that is often defined by hundredths of seconds, our Cougars had some AMAZING personal records at Sectionals. Sophomore Alex Condon set two PRs taking four seconds off his 200 Free and a whopping EIGHT seconds off his 500 Freestyle (that's TWENTY laps by the way). Senior Zach Boutelle left it all in the pool for the final 200 Freestyle of his high school career taking almost FOUR seconds off his previous PR. Sophomores Sullivan Bradley and Alex Goswick set PR's with their times in the 200 Individual Medley taking more than 2 seconds off their times. Senior Erik Tollefsrud turned on the jets for his final 50 yard freestyle and broke the 24 second barrier with a PR 23.90! Junior Bearach McCarthy's finished the season strong with his performance in the 100 yard Freestyle 55.52, his best time of the season. The 200 Free Relay team of Reese, Tollefsrud, Bradley and Loftus earned an 8th place podium spot with their best time of the season as did Peter Loftus with his 57.66 in the Backstroke. Craig's Breaststrokers, Evan Reilly, Zach Boutelle, Colin Wojcek and Grayson Lindau all had great swims. Junior Grayson Lindau saved up a lightning fast 1:07.30 in his 100 Breaststroke and set a PR by over two seconds.

A special congratulations goes to Peter Loftus who qualified for the State Championship Meet! Peter's 2:02.90 in the 200 Individual Medley earned him a fifth place medal at Sectionals and qualified him as the 19th seed at the state meet! Way to go Pete! Let's all get to the NAT on Saturday to cheer for PETE!