Berwyn – At the midway point in the Central League dual meet swimming and diving season, Conestoga’s boys and girls teams have used their depth to continue undefeated. Against the Harriton girls, Stoga ladies Nia Goddard, Bharathi Kolluru, and Tara Hughes swept the 200 yard freestyle, and Emily Booz, Julie McFadden, and Caroline Pawlow placed 1-2-3 in the 200 IM.
Female divers Julia Semmer, Leah Bernstein, and Eliza Bailey made a clean sweep off the boards, then were followed by Carolin Riggs, Janashree Jonnalagadda, and Bharathi Kolluru sweeping the 100 butterfly and a sweep of the 100 free by Madison Ledwith, Olivia Mason, and Nikki Sepahi. Courtney Sellig, Isadore Fan, and Molly Todd took the top three spots in the 100 Backstoke, while Booz got her second individual win of the night in the 100 breaststroke. 1-2 finishes by Caroline Apathy and Linda Ashmead in the 50 freestyle, and Sophia Poeta and McFadden in the 500 free help solidify the Stoga girls lead.
The girls team also showed their depth in the relays with the quad of Janashree, Booz, Ledwith, and Asmead touching first closely followed by Poeta, Pawlow, Apathy, and McFadden in the 200 Medley Relay. In the 200 Free Relay, the second place team of Apathy, Sepahi, Emily Newhall, and Lauren Diehl, was touched out by winners Jonnalagadda, Mason, Ashmead, and Ledwith. Mason, Newhall, Goddard, and Sepahi worked together to win the 400 Free Relay, while Diehl , Katherine Abele, Mia Borger, and Brooksey Perrin-Hee touched second, with the sweep completed by Hughes, Rachael Winfield, Jane Frascella, and Emma Scudder.
For the Conestoga boys squad, Kevin Ryle and Arjun Rao went 1-2 in the 200 free, while later Ryle teamed up with Ethan Sampson to take the top two spots in the 100 backstroke. 1-2 finishes were also swum by Kevin Jay and Oliver Brown in the 50 free, Leon Hagenlocher and Griffin Hamilton in the 100 butterfly, Brendan Burns and Louis Conroy in the 100 free, and Aidan McKenrick and Connor Kanto in the 500 free. Ryan Look and Aidan Hunter touched 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke, and Hunter won the 200 Individual Medley, while Devin Gaul earned top points in diving. Brown, Jay, and Hamilton joined with Bohan Song to win the 200 medley relay, with Ryle, Aidan McKenrick, Burns, and Conroy touching second. Song, Conroy, Burns, and Jay won the 200 free relay, while Stoga went 1-2 in the 400 free relay with the quads of Brown, Aidan McKenrick, Rao, and Hagenlocher winning, followed to the wall by the relay of Hamilton, Davin Nice, Owen Neuman, and David Yu.
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