Pittsford Wins Third Straight Section V Title

Convincingly!!

For the third year in a row, the Pittsford S’Women won the Section V Class A Championships. The S’Women scored 560 points with second place Fairport scoring 413. Although the S’Women are not new to winning the championship, it was the first time in the team’s history that the team has won three in a row. It was also the first time that all swimmers who qualified for the meet returned to the finals.

Junior Hailey Weniger was named Section V Division 1 Swimmer of the Year. She was the 500 yard champion and set school records in the 200 yard freestyle (1:52.44) and the 500 yard freestyle (5:03.65). Other individual champions were senior Stephanie House in the 100 yard freestyle (54.26), freshman Jenny Lewis in the 100 yard backstroke (1:01.01) and sophomore Jessie Ward in the 100 yard breaststroke (1:08.94). The 200 yard individual medley team of Lewis, Ward, senior Courtney Brayman and freshman Kelley Groves won their event with a time of 1:53.32. The 400 yard freestyle relay team of House, senior Libby Brush, Brayman and Weniger set a school record (3:38.13), finishing in 2^nd place.

As has been the case all season, it was not the first place finishes, but the depth of the team, that carried the day. The S’Women had all four entrants return for finals in every event except one. The S’Women had four swimmers in the championship heat of 4 out of 8 individual races.

In the 200 yard freestyle, Weniger finished second, sophomore Lindsay Wahl 4^th, senior Lisa Prezzano 7^th and eighth grader Alex Trobe 8^th. Brush finished 3^rd in the 200 yard individual medley with Brayman right behind her in 4^th. Junior Em Wells finished 8^th and freshman Aly Criscuolo 9^th. Groves was the top Pittsford swimmer, finishing 2^nd in the 50 yard freestyle with House and junior Jenna Arington tied for 5^th and Lewis in 8^th.

Brayman finished 2^nd in the 100 yard butterfly with Brush 4^th, Criscuolo 6^th and Wells 8^th. House won the 100 yard freestyle with Arington in 2^nd and Groves in 4^th. Weniger won the 500 yard freestyle with teammates Trobe in 5^th, eighth grader Meghan Green in 6^th and Prezzano in 8^th.The 200 yard freestyle team of House, Arington, Groves and Weniger finished in 2^nd place, just 0.16 seconds behind Fairport.

Lewis won the 100 yard backstroke with teammate Wahl just behind her in 2^nd, freshman Olivia Tylutki in 6^th and junior Amanda Lang in 9^th. Ward won the 100 yard breaststroke. Senior Becca Hazen was in 8^th, freshman Stephanie Ross in 9^th and sophomore Claire Geiser in 15^th. In the final race of the meet, the 400 yard freestyle relay finished in 2^nd securing the S’Women’s third straight title.

Previously, junior Eliza Massie finished third in the Sectional diving championships and qualified for the NY State Championships.

Joining Massie at the State Championships in Long Island, November 19^th-20^th will be ten other S’Women – Arington, Brayman, Brush, Groves, House, Lewis, Trobe, Wahl, Ward and Weniger.