Aqualions Came Ready to Race at Arena Holiday Cup
December 11-14, 2025 McGuinness Pool at Franklin and Marshall College
Lucas Mercier, Daniel Fernandez-Murillo, and Lily Behler represented SCAY at the Arena Holiday Cup last weekend.
Mercier, in his only swim of the first prelim session, dropped 0.61 from his best 200 freestyle time this season, qualifying 7th for finals. During the evening session, he dropped another 2.21 seconds, swimming a personal best time of 1:49.92 and placing 6th.
Fernandez-Murillo swam a personal best in the afternoon preliminary session, dropping 0.11 seconds from his best time and placing 40th overall in the 9-10 boys 50 breaststroke.
Mecier returned to Saturday prelims swimming the 13-14 100 freestyle, 200 backstroke, and 500 freestyle. Lucas qualified 11th for finals in the 100 free in 51.11, a season best. He qualified 12th in the 200 back, dropping a second from his previous personal best. In the 500, he dropped .33 seconds to swim a personal best of 5:11.91, placing 13th.
During finals, Lucas swam personal bests in both the 100 free and 200 back, with times of 50.39 (10th) and 2:07.16 (12th).
During the afternoon session, Daniel swam a personal best in the 100 yard breaststroke placing 28th with a time of 1:36.47.
On the final day of the meet, Mercier was joined by Lily Behler in the morning session. Mercier swam the 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke (personal best time 59.95), and 100 butterfly (personal best 56.55) and qualified for finals in all three events. Behler swam season bests in the 50 freestyle (26.85; 62nd) and 100 backstroke (1:04.31; 41st).
During finals, Lucas dropped additional time in all three events. He placed 11th in the 50 freestyle in 23.49, right on his season best. He placed 13th in the 100 backstroke in a new personal best of 59.20, and placed 10th in the 100 butterfly in a new personal best time of 56.33
For his final swim of the meet, Daniel raced to 46th place in the 100 IM. He touched the wall in a new personal best time of 1:27.98
Congratulations, Aqualions!
