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MCC Daily Tribune

A great Weekend for the Monroe Swimming and Diving Teams as they wrapped up Regional Championship action

This weekend's Region III Championship Meet saw the Monroe Swimming and Diving teams get started to their post-season play. The Men secured the Team Championships by accumulating 538 points while the women had a hard-fought meet placing third overall with 332 points. The Monroe Coaching won staff of the year honors for the Men's side as well. Aidan Ferguson had a great meet winning Athlete of the Meet and Athlete of The Year for Region III. The Men also were given the first ever Daniel Dubois Championship Award (WNYAC) that is given to the Region III Team with the most overall in-season meet points. 

The men demonstrated their dominance over the Region by winning all events with the exception of 1M and 3M Diving, 100 Breaststroke and the 200 Backstroke. Meet records were established by Cameron Goodspeed in the 50 Breast and the 100 IM where him and teammate Callum O'Neil engaged in a great battle. Ferguson stared in the sprints winning the 100 back, 50 back, 50 free and 50 Fly setting a new meet record. Mike Laviani dominated all of the distance events remaining undefeated in the region in the 500, 1000 and 1,650 Freestyle (Event he all won at this meet). He added the 400 IM too as well. Callum O'Neil continued to show great leadership on deck while winning the 200 IM, 200 Freestyle and putting up a solid performance in the 200 Fly. Nolan Shelmidine joined in the fun by winning the 100 Fly and Alex Scaglione won the 100 freestyle as well. Carson Coleman punched his ticket to the NJCAA meet with a dramatic start to the 200 Free in where he qualified for nationals in the first 50 splitting a 26.97. The Men won all 5 relays in dominating fashion as well. 

The MCC Women had some great swims. They lead the meet off with an upset win in the 800 Freestyle relay. Kara Williamson had fierce competition the entire meet battling the Regions top swimmers in all of her events finish second in the 50 free and 50 Fly. McKenna Briggs anchored the winning 800 relay and also won the 200 Free and had a lifetime swim in the 100 freestyle finishing second. Violet Jarreau-Landers had a lifetime meet as well as she qualified for nationals in the 1,000-yard free and set a personal best in the 200 free and 100 free in relays at the meet. Emma Preski had her hands full in the distance free events placing second in the 500, 1,000, and 1,650 hitting lifetime bests in all.

The next meet will be the National Tournament hosted by Indian River State College in Ft. Pierce Florida on March 2nd through March 5th. Over the next 3 weeks the Teams will be tapering for this highly competitive meet against some of the best scholarship teams in the country. MCC Swimming and Diving is a Non-Scholarship Program and looks to perform in the Non-Scholarship Categories at Nationals. 

 

Kaci Chiappone
Athletics
02/16/2022