CORA at Old Church Meet Recap

The score breakdown by division was as follows:

• Novice: OC 473, CORA 441
• Advanced: CORA 237, OC 193
• Junior Varsity: CORA 105, OC 86
• Varsity: CORA 70, OC 59
• Senior Varsity: CORA 121, OC 105
• Combined Team Scores: CORA 974, OC 916

Harper Grace Johnson blitzed a 58.03 to break the Girls’ 11-12 100-Yard Freestyle team record, previously set at Champs last year by her current teammate, Carter Rettig (1:00.24). Nate Doran shattered two Boys’ 13-14 team records—first with a 53.81 in the 100-Yard Freestyle, breaking the 1992 mark of 55.75 set by Scott Harper, and then with a blazing 28.91 in the 50-Yard Backstroke, eclipsing the 29.22 set last summer by teammate Paolo Tique. The night ended in a flash as Carter Rettig, Avery Roberts, Maren Minor, and Nate Doran teamed up to set a new Mixed 13-14 200-Yard Medley Relay record with a clutch 1:52.03, taking down the previous record of 1:55.54 set in 2019 by Tristan Ginn, Carter French, Alex Brann, and Lexi Alligood.

Ellie Carr and Ellie Montgomery qualified for the championship meet. This brings our total to 27 swimmers, six more qualifiers than last season!

Quadruple winners were: Andrew Austin, Charlie Doran, Quinn Holt, Harper Grace Johnson, Owen Merritt, Maren Minor, Aiden Montgomery, Carter Rettig, Avery Roberts, and Cecelia Thorne.

Triple winners were: Tucker Barnes, Nate Doran, Tallulah Farnham, Oliver Merritt, Fleet Nystrom, Parker Nystrom, Sean Rettig, Diego Salinas, and Paolo Tique.

Congratulations to all of our Stingray swimmers on an incredible team victory! Many of you took on new or challenging events tonight, and your efforts undoubtedly contributed to our success. The coaches are proud of everyone’s performance and can’t wait to see you at next Wednesday’s meet at Hanover Golf Club!

- Coach Paul