Swimming: USSA Meet

The swim season has started with a rush of practices, meets and best times.  The first weekend in January the team attended a USA IMX swim meet at Smith College. The highlights were David Cho winning a fourth place overall trophy for the 11-12 boys age group and setting a new meet record in the 100 yd. freestyle event with a time of 57.66, RJ Finlay earning fifth place in the same age group,  Wilson Wang earning a trophy for fourth place 13-14 boys age group and Ben  Wood coming in seventh in the same age group. Next was the team’s first dual meet of the season with Deerfield Academy JV in which everyone on the team at least one personal best time and notched the teams first win. David Cho earned swimmer of the meet. The next competition was another duel Meet at Phillips Exeter Academy against their JV team. Tied after the conclusion of event 9 the competition came down to the last three events which the Eaglebrook swimmers dug down and came in first and second in each event thanks to the fantastic swims from Captains Wilson Wang in the 100yd. backstroke and Ben Wood in the 100 yd. Breaststroke. Swimmer of the meet was John Miller for swimming his first 500 yd freestyle event and taking 12 seconds off his 50 yd. freestyle event. You can view full results at NEPSSA.org.