Meet Wrap Up: New England Senior Championships

Erin Jeffers

The final competition weekend of 2025 just completed as 14 STORM swimmers competed at Phillips Andover’s PAN Aquatic Center in the New England Senior Short Course Championships.  “Seniors” is the highest level competition that New England offers, and it never disappoints to be a very fast weekend.  Your 14 teammates from the Senior and National squads spent the four days in tough competitions requiring them to “get up” for quick morning swims as they vied for those coveted opportunities to compete in finals at night.  STORM walked away on Sunday with a 9th place combined team result - a 12 place improvement from last year’s championship meet!

The team raced a phenomenal weekend highlighted by 43 top 16 finishes, 3 podium visits (top 3), 3 new futures cuts (Izzie - 200 IM and 50 Breaststroke, Keara - 100 backstroke) and  4 new YMCA Nationals Short Course Championship Qualifiers (Hobie - 1650 freestyle, Jack - 400 IM, Paige - 100 and 200 breaststroke and Thatcher - 100 freestyle).  What a a great weekend!  Congratulations swimmers!

 

Below are some stats - the numbers don’t lie - it was a great weekend!

Triple Bests+

Congratulations go out to the following swimmers - achieving 3 or more lifetime bests in the meet this weekend.  This meet’s Triple Best Winners are:

Riley W., Izzie G., Keara W., Thatcher D., Jack W., Hobie M., Paige J.

 

A special goes out to our BIGGEST LOSER, Jack W. ,from  the Senior Squad! 

Jack had the largest percentage of time drops this weekend, averaging a 2.90% improvement per swim!  Well done, Jack!

 

TEAM RECORDS

STORM had several team records broken this weekend! Please congratulate swimmers on the following new team records!

  • Madison D., 15-18 Girls 1000Y Freestyle 10:48.20
  • Izzie G., 15-18 Girls 50Y Breaststroke, 29.26
  • Izzie G., 15-18 Girls 200Y Breaststroke, 2:15.47
  • Izzie G., 15-18 Girls 200Y IM, 2:05.56
  • Caitrin D., 15-18 Girls 50Y Butterfly, 26.43
  • Hobie M., 13-14 Boys 1650Y Freestyle, 16:35.89
  • Hobie M., 13-14 Boys 200Y Butterfly, 2:02.09
  • Riley W., 15-18 Boys 200Y Freestyle 1:42.87
  • Riley W., 15-18 Boys 500Y Freestyle 4:41.51
  • Riley W., 15-18 Boys 400Y IM 4:07.57
  • Women’s Open 800Y Freestyle Relay 7:47.35 (Izzie G., Caitrin D., Paige J., Keara W.)
  • Men’s Open 400 Freestyle Relay 3:15.33 (Thatcher D., Jack W., Galen F., Riley W.)
  • Men’s Open 800 Freestyle Relay 7:09.09 (Riley W., Thatcher D., Marcus S., Hobie M.)

 

New Barrier Breakers

Barrier Breakers are recognized when a swimmer goes under a certain time (known as a barrier time in the swimming world) for a race for the first time.  LCM Barrier breakers include breaking under :30 in a 50, under 1:00 in a 100, under 2:00 in a 200, under 6:00 in a 500 free, under 5:00 in a 500 free, under 5:00 in a 400 IM, under 10:00 and 11:00 in the 1000 and under 17:30 and under 18:00 in the 1650.  Let’s congratulate the following Barrier Breaker Swims from this meet!

  • Jack W., 500 freestyle (4:49.91)
  • Izzie G., 50 Breaststroke (29.79)

Congratulations on a great mid-season meet, swimmers!