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PIAA Swimming: DiClemente, Weaverling successfully weigh anchor for Garnet Valley

Posted On: Monday, March 18, 2019
By: ldevlin

LEWISBURG — Noelle DiClemente stepped up to the block in Lane 8 for the anchor leg of the 400 freestyle relay, glanced to her right and made a decree.

“I looked around to the two girls next to us and I turned around to one my teammates – I think it was Anastasia (Erley) – and I said, ‘I can get them,’” the Garnet Valley junior recalled. “And then I dove in and I went my fastest split ever.”

The Garnet Valley relay plan at the PIAA Class 3A Championships is established, and the two-headed monster of DiClemente and Catherine Weaverling ran it to perfection twice Saturday.

The early legs, by Erley and Amy Townend (or Alexa Hipp Friday), put the Jaguars in striking distance. Then Weaverling and DiClemente pounce.

In prelims, the Jaguars were seventh in their heat when Weaverling dove in. She handed off in fourth to DiClemente, who clawed back another spot as Garnet nabbed the eighth and final A championship berth.

“For my first 50, I just go out there and then I realize people are near me and I’m like, ‘Oh wait, we’ve got to go,’” Weaverling said. “And then I’ll bring us as close as I can and Noelle will finish it off.”

At night, Garnet was last when Weaverling (in a split of 51.51) handed off, but the sophomore closed the gap to the field. That allowed DiClemente to deliver a blistering 50.69-second leg for a time of 3:30.88, 1.4 ticks faster than the morning run.

“I was just doing it for my team because I felt like I owed it to them to get them a medal,” DiClemente said. “I was really excited. … It’s just something that I like to do. I like to catch people.”DiClemente caught her second individual medal of the meet, finishing seventh in the 100 free in 51.69. That’s a spot behind Penncrest’s Claire Walsh (51.42), after DiClemente had been a spot ahead in the 50. Weaverling, who took fourth in the 100 butterfly, left the field behind off her final turn to win the B final of the 100 backstroke in 56.33.

The hardware testifies to the ascent of Garnet’s young corps.

“We knew that last year we just wanted to get to states, and this year we wanted to get medals,” DiClemente said. “We definitely accomplished that goal.”

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Garnet Valley's Noelle DiClemente gets ready to take off for the anchor leg of the 400 freestyle relay as teammates Amy Townend, center, and Anastasia Erley look on. DiClemente rallied the Jaguars from eight to sixth at the PIAA Class 3A Championships.

Garnet Valley’s Noelle DiClemente gets ready to take off for the anchor leg of the 400 freestyle relay as teammates Amy Townend, center, and Anastasia Erley look on. DiClemente rallied the Jaguars from eight to sixth at the PIAA Class 3A Championships.

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