ALL End of Season Meets & Championship Meets Report 10 & Under New England Swimming Championships @ Upper Valley Aquatic Center, VT Thomas Barrera (8) 100 Back 1:37.02 100 Free 1:25.46 200 Free 3:15.55 25 Back 19.81 25 Free 17.82 50 Back 43.27 50 Free 38.21 Reese Baxter (8) 25 Fly 20.64 25 Free 18.88 50 Fly 51.70 50 Free 43.80 New England Swimming 11 – 14 Championships @ Boston Sports Institute, Wellesley, MA Wyatt Libby (14) 100 Breaststroke 1:11.50 100 Free 54.47 200 Breaststroke 2:35.88 50 Free 25.10 New...

New England Swimming Silver Championship @ Beverly, YMCA Friday, February 2nd – Sunday, February 4th The Maine Gator branch had a great Silver championship meet at the Beverly YMCA with many great races and a lot of cheering for teammates the other weekend, especially our young Gator swimmers! Taylan Gurcan (9) and Peyton Richards (9) recorded their first ever USA Swimming National Age Group Motivational times, and Gigi Bean (12) and Louise Davis (9) recorded their first ever ‘BB’ times! We have about a month to go in the short...

Westbrook SEALs January Specialty Meet @ Westbrook, Maine Saturday, January 20th Our Maine Gators had yet another fantastic meet, highlighted by the achievements of many of our young age groups swimmers at the Westbrook January specialty meet! Congratulations and great work to all that attended and to Anna Tzucker for competing in her first official swim meet! Individual Times Performances Anna Barrera (6) 50 Back 59.81 50 Free 54.59 Thomas Barrera (8) 100 IM 1:45.79 50 Fly 52.82 50 Free 38.23 Gavin Baxter (11) 100 Back 1:19.18 100 Fly 1:38.02...

New England Swimming Bronze Championship @ Seekonk, Massachusetts Friday, January 19th – Sunday, January 21st Our group of Maine Gators traveled to the Seekonk branch and represented themselves and our location with some great competitive efforts and notching many new personal best times for the Bronze championship meet. We even had a few new qualifications for the Silver meet which represents the next step up the ladder in the New England championship meet format. Many of our swimmers also had the opportunity to participate on relays with the other branches...

Phoenix Swim Club @ Boston University January 5th & 6th The Maine Gators did a great job getting back into the competition schedule following the holiday break at Boston University. It was great to be back at the BU pool and each swimmer did a fantastic job fitting two days worth of events into one as the meet was shortened due to weather. Congratulations to Ben Zaslavksy and Carter VerLee for competing in their first 1,650 free, and Gavin Baxter in his first 400 IM. Individual Times Performances Gavin Baxter...

Maine GATOR Swim Club Mid-season championship meets Michelle Arpin, Crimson Invite & New England Senior Championships Meet Report Our Maine Gator swimmers have had a fantastic first half of the season that culminated in a few mid-season championship meets over two weekends with many new best times and qualifying times being posted. The path to these best times and qualifying times is not always a linear, non-fortuitous path, and often times on the way to achieving a goal or milestone swimmers are met with adversity or setbacks. However, through fortitude,...

Attleboro Bluefish Trials/Finals Invite @ Bowdoin College Friday, November 17th – Sunday, November 19th At our first trials-finals meet of the season our Maine Gators swam extremely well, qualifying for many finals, posting many new personal best times and achieving many championship qualifying times in the process. It was a great experience to have all ages of our team together on the pool deck for the same session, and there was a lot of support for each swimmer in the water. Our swimmers cheered and supported one another extremely well,...

Westbrook Seals King & Queen of Sprints November 11th @ Westbrook Community Center Our 12 & under Gators did a fantastic job competing in some sprint events at Westbrook Community Center last weekend at the annual King & Queen of Sprints meet. There was a lot of cheering and best new best times for each of our swimmers! Congratulations to our first time Gator competitors: Oliver Anderson, Scarlett Bean, Bryleigh Bugaj, Shareese Campbell-Bussiere, Eliza Knowles, Mariana Maher, Thomas Stephens, Polly Stevens, and Nolan Watson! Individual Time Performances Oliver Anderson (8)...

Gator Swim Club Turkey Trot, November 10th – 12th @ Seekonk High school Our Maine Gators had a great warm up meet for the championship meets coming up in December at Seekonk, Mass last weekend. Our swimmers raced very well, some establishing new personal best times, as well as New England Championship meet qualifying times that will be coming up the second half of the season. Our swimmers also had the opportunity to hang out and make new friends with our Gator teammates from the Boston and Seekonk branches! Congratulations...

Gator Swim Club Fall Festival @ Brown University Saturday, October 21st & Sunday October 22nd Meet Report Our Maine Gators had a great first full weekend meet at Providence, RI as the southern branch hosted a great meet at one of New England’s best aquatic facilities. The swimmers had a lot of fun competing against teammates from the other Gator branches, and cheering for the swimmers from our Maine location, while also establishing some first best times of the season and beginning on the path towards the Championship meets at...