THREE-PEAT!

The Windham Boys won their third consecutive South Southwestern Championship holding off Yarmouth in the fastest, most competitive Conference Championship meet ever. The meet, held Friday, February 1, 2013 in Richards Pool at Cape Elizabeth High School, witnessed an amazing five meet records fall during the evening and had five teams take runs at the lead. The Eagles, led by by two individual wins from Nick Sundquist, a win from Joseph Paluso, a win in the 200 Medley Relay, and an astonishing 22 season-best swims, were able to edge the field. The Eagles margin over second place Yarmouth was a slim 4 points, 214-210. Massabesic finished third and Kennebunk finished fourth.
 * EAGLES WIN THIRD CONSECUTIVE SOUTH SOUTHWESTERN CHAMPIONSHIP**

Sundquist, who was named "Swimmer of the Meet" for the second time, won the 200 Free (in a meet record 1:46.00), won the 100 Free (0.02 sec off his own meet record), and swam the lead Backstroke leg for the winning 200 Medley Relay. With his three victories at this meet, Sundquist becomes the first Boy swimmer in South Southwestern Championship history to go a perfect 12 events and 12 1st Place finishes for his high school career. He ends his South Southwestern career holding three meet records.

Paluso continued his great run of swimming with a 1st Place in the 100 Breast. Joseph also had a fantastic, gutsy swim in the 500 Free finishing second and breaking the 5:00 barrier for the first time in his career. Joseph also swam a terrific Breaststroke leg for the winning 200 Medley Relay team.

Garret Fraysier had the meet of his life and came up big in all three of his events. Garret swam the Fly leg for the winning 200 Medley Relay, and had a personal best swim in the 100 Back. His third place finish in the 100 Back was his highest championship individual event finish and scored critical points.

Sam Shoberg also had his career bests in both the 200 IM and the 100 Back. Perhaps his most important swim was his lead leg in the critical 400 Free Relay that secured the victory in the meet's final event. Sam had a tremendous swim in the 200 IM with a 9 second time drop and extra points well beyond seed.

Another key was strong swims from Lyle Webster who dropped time in every event he swam. Lyle had an excellent swim in the 200 IM and also had a strong swim in the 500 Free. Lyle however, saved his strongest swim for last. He swam the anchor in the key final 400 Free Relay that secured the victory for the Eagles. His 55 sec 100 split was his personal-best by 2 seconds.

Other swimmers with key swims in the championship included John Giberti (the anchor leg in the 200 Medley Relay win, and a point scoring, state qualifying swim in the 100 Free), Cole Moran (who had better than seed swims in both the 100 Fly and the 100 Breast), Asa Reed (a state qualifying swim in the 50 Free and a key leg on two critical relays), Joe Mycock (two awesome swims in the 200 Free and the 500 Free both of which were major drops from seed time), and Josh Blake who continued his amazing run of the last month with huge time drops and major points in the 200 Medley Relay, the 200 Free, and the 100 Fly that included an astonishing 5 second drop.

Frosh Josh Labrecque, Jerimiah Merrill, and Ryan Plummer teamed up with Josh Blake to get what turned out to be critical points in the 200 Medley Relay.

The Eagles also added one more swimmer, Asa Reed (50 Free), to the group of state qualifiers, and aim toward the Class A State Championships with a team record 11 Boys qualifiers!

Here are the official results...