Women’s swim team finishes up season

By Estefani Hernandez | Published March 1, 2018

After many years, the women’s swim team made a comeback. The ladies took this season as a learning experience and plan on coming back even stronger next season.

From having the pool cleaned, to ordering uniforms and finding a team, Head Coach Barbara Perkins started from scratch and was able to push the girls to do their very best.

“I give her a lot of credit we haven’t appreciated her as much as we should have, we really do appreciate her and she has been really pushing us,” Captain Molly Lasko said. “Sometimes I wasn’t sure if I could make it but she encouraged us, I don’t think I could have done the things I did without her pushing us.”

Lasko has been swimming since she was eight years old and has always had a love for the sport. Playing a huge role in helping Coach Perkins, she assisted the girls when they had any questions.

“We had a good season, a lot of best times were made,” Perkins said. “Some ladies took more than two minutes off their time, as a team and a whole we all did great.”

A few of the personal bests this season were Darlene Holmes in the 100 Free with a time of 1:03.53, Abigail Luna in the 100 Back with a time of 2:07.69, Jessica Leandro in the 100 Fly with 1:40.69, and Kelsey Rosa in the 100 Breast with 1:40.49 and the 100 Fly with a time of 1:46.75.

“The girls encourage each other and learn the meaning of working together,” Lasko said. “We all show a lot of care for one another but there is a huge influence from being a part of the team.”

Although the regular season is over, the team still has the Conference Championship on February 16-18. The girls plan on making the best out of this conference and pushing themselves to do even better than before.

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