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The Windham Girls had 14 season-best swims, including several that featured eye-popping time drops, and swam strong at the South Southwestern Championships on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Cape Elizabeth. The Lady Eagles were led by Holly Bair who, continuing her terrific Frosh campaign, lowered her state qualifying times in both the 50 Free and 100 Free. The Girls also had several season-best time swims in the relays.

Bair dropped her 50 Free to a career-best 27.57 and her 100 Free to a best 1:01.05 both of which should help lower her seeding at the Class A State Championships. In a race that usually sees time drops in fractions, Holly's drop of over a full second in the 50 Free is amazing. She also dropped a second in the 100 Free and swam a very strong leg in the seasons-best 200 Free Relay.

Swimmers with notable swims that featured time drops included Emily Gagne (200 Free), Abbi Libby (amazing 7 second drop in the 200 Free and a 10 second drop in the 500 Free), Olivia Gilvey (5 second drop in the 200 IM), Jessica Stumper with a career-best 29.34 in the 50 Free, Taylor Colangelo (an unheard of 8 second drop in the 100 Free, wow), Phoebe Hurd (100 Back), Maelah Nadeau (100 Back), and Tali Amero (100 Breast).

The quartet of Stumper, Gilvey, Gagne, and Bair also had a very strong, season-best swim and a 4th Place finish in the 200 Free Relay with a time of 1:55.82. The 400 Free Relay unit of Morgan Dyer, Colangelo, Gagne, and Stumper also had a season-best swim with a time of 4:40.29.